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Report: Jared Kushner had
undisclosed meeting with head of Russian bank under sanctions
Updated: MARCH 27, 2017 — 1:07 PM EDT
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| White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner (right) listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a breakfast with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017 (Pablo Martinez Monsivals/AP Photo) |
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump,
will be questioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of the panel's
investigation into Russia’s interference during the 2016 election.
"Mr. Kushner has volunteered to be interviewed
as part of the committee's investigation into the Russian activities
surrounding the 2016 election," Sens. Richard Burr (R, N.C.) and Mark
Warner (D, Va.), the committee's chairman and vice chairman, told The New York Times in a
statement.
According to the Times, the questions for Kushner
will focus on two meetings he had with Russian agents in December, prior to his
father-in-law's inauguration as president.
The first took place with Russian ambassador Sergey
Kislyak, alongside ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn, at Trump
Tower.
The second was a previously undisclosed meeting
between Kushner and Sergey Gorkov, the head of Russia’s state-owned
Vnesheconombank, which has been under sanctions since the annexation of Crimea
in 2014.
White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks confirmed both
meetings, telling the Timesthat
nothing of consequence was discussed and that the meetings went nowhere. The
White House had previously only acknowledged the first meeting between Kushner
and Kislyak.
A White House official told CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller that
Kushner was the Trump campaign's "primary point of contact" with
foreign governments and officials.
The disclosure of the Vnesheconombank meeting
and Kushner's expected testimony comes on the day the president plans to unveil a new White House office, to be led
by Kushner, that will be charged with overhauling the federal
bureaucracy.
So far, seven associates of the president have been
asked to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. In addition to
Kushner and Flynn, the list includes Attorney General Jeff Sessions, campaign
adviser Roger Stone, campaign manager Paul Manafort, policy advisor Carter Page
and J.D. Gordon, who was the Trump campaign’s director of national security.
So far, Kushner is the closest advisor to Trump to
be caught up in ongoing invesigations over Russia's attempts to influence the
2016 election.
The White House did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
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