Rhona Graff, Donald Trump's longtime personal assistant, is meeting with a handful of House Intelligence Committee members Friday at an undisclosed location in New York.
It is an unusual move since most witnesses have traveled to DC to testify in a secure location at the U.S. Capitol before at least a majority of the committee.
NBC News reports committee staff, as expected, also interviewed Felix Sater, former Trump business associate and convicted criminal, in New York on Wednesday.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the committee, questioned the need to schedule so many interviews in such a short period of time and hold out-of-state interviews with witnesses who were willing to appear in Washington next month, saying these were just the latest indications “that there’s going to be an effort to shut us down.”
“In several cases we’ve only received hundreds of pages of documents the day of the interview, or the majority has received hundreds of pages of documents without informing the minority,” he said. “It’s no way to conduct an investigation. Not if you’re serious about getting to the truth. It is a way to conduct an investigation if you want to give the appearance of legitimacy or you want to bring things to an end.”
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