The House Intelligence Committee plans to vote tomorrow on making public transcripts from interviews conducted during the course of its prematurely ended Russia probe.
Interviewees include a who's who of the investigation.
The transcripts, from interviews primarily conducted between June 2017 and March 2018, include testimony from Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Hope Hicks, Roger Stone and other longtime Trump allies and associates, as well as his current campaign manager, Brad Parscale and former campaign leaders Corey Lewandowski and Steve Bannon. Trump’s longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller interviewed as well.
The list also includes prominent intelligence community figures and Justice Department officials from the Obama administration, like Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates and James Clapper. Interview transcripts from Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions would be released as well.
Committee Chairman and Trump transition advisor Devin Nunes (R-CA) had resisted Democratic members' calls to release the transcripts until very recently.
He now says they should be revealed before the election, introducing thousands of pages of potentially explosive new material in the final weeks of campaign season.
The Friday vote won’t result in the immediate release of the transcripts but rather a referral to the intelligence community to review and redact them to protect classified information. The process could take days or weeks and it’s unclear if they’ll be released on a rolling basis throughout October. That possibility has led some Democrats to worry about selective releases of information during sensitive weeks in the election cycle.
The list also includes a handful of figures who attended to the June 9, 2016, Trump Tower meeting between top Trump campaign officials ... and a lawyer connected to the Russian government.
House Intel Committee tees up release of Russia probe transcripts (Politico)