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CNBC reports:
The bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday they cannot yet conclude whether President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia, adding that their teams are “within weeks” of finishing reviewing thousands of documents related to alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
In a news conference, Republican Chairman Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Democratic Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia aimed to show their probe as a measured, bipartisan effort amid recent turmoil in the House intelligence panel. The senators said they wanted to finish the probe in a “timely” fashion but stressed they did not want to rush it, steering clear of drawing conclusions about possible ties between Trump associated and Russia. “We would be crazy to try to draw conclusions from where we are in the investigation,” Burr told reporters.
The pair will interview Trump’s son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner about his contacts with Russian officials, but Burr said they have not yet set a date. While former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and associates Carter Page and Roger Stone have also volunteered to testify, according to NBC, the senators did not say yet if they will interview them.
More from CNN:
“To date, we have made 20 requests for individuals to be interviewed by the committee,” Burr said. “As we stand here today, five are already scheduled on the books, and probably within the next 10 days the remaining 15 will have a scheduled date for those individuals to be interviewed by our staff. We anticipate inviting additional individuals to come and be interviewed, and ultimately some of those interviewed individuals may turn into private or public hearings by the committee, but yet to be determined.”
Among those the committee appears to have talked to: Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned after he misled administration officials regarding his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States. “It would be safe to say we have had conversations with a lot of people, and it would be safe to say Gen Flynn is a part of that list,” Burr said.
Interesting that Sen. Mark Warner just cut in to underscore a call for Trump to release his tax returns vis-a-vis the Russia investigation
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) March 29, 2017
.@MarkWarner: I said it’s the most important thing I’ve taken on in my public life. I believe that more firmly now than when we started. pic.twitter.com/3dKtkPLySB
— Shepard Smith (@ShepNewsTeam) March 29, 2017
.@MarkWarner: Some reports, and we've got to get to the bottom of this, that there were upwards of 1,000 paid internet trolls…in Russia pic.twitter.com/h84YN8iUup
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 29, 2017
.@MarkWarner: "Outside foreign adversary effectively sought to hijack our most critical democratic process – the election of a president." pic.twitter.com/sPEAJIL2Ti
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 29, 2017
Richard Burr, chair of Senate Intelligence committee, definitively states "the Russians are actively involved in the French election"
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 29, 2017