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thank god we have Mueller!
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politics/congress-papadopoulos-interview/index.html?sr=twCNNp103017congress-papadopoulos-interview0436PMVODtop&CNNPolitics=Tw
Neither Hill intel committee has interviewed Papadopoulos
By Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb, CNN
Updated 4:55 PM ET, Mon October 30, 2017
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The House intelligence committee also has not spoken with him, CNN reported earlier Monday. The Senate panel had made an effort to secure an interview with Papadopoulos, the source said, and the committee's Russia investigators have viewed the emails that were included in the court documents unsealed.
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North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, the committee's Republican chairman, told CNN he didn't think that the guilty plea from Papadopoulos or the 12-count indictment of Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates would change the course of his committee's probe.
"I'm not sure that it changes anything for our investigation," Burr said. "We certainly know a lot about Papadopoulos' role in the campaign, as we do Manafort, and Gates."
"We've always said there are two lanes, there's one that looks at the potential of collusion of either campaign, and there's a criminal pathway that we assume the special counsel is focused on pursuing," Burr added. "And this is an example that they are focused on it."
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Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the panel, told CNN that Papadopoulos was "direct evidence that someone with the campaign was being contacted by Russians with information they had lots of, so called 'dirt,' emails on Hillary Clinton." He added, "There's more questions to be answered."
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BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)commission to investigate this. It would be fully funded, couldn't get derailed by the GOP like Nunes and Grassley, no one could be fired, it would be relatively quick and the public would be informed on the findings (very similar to 9/11 Commission). Dems introduced it several times in the Congress but the GOP naturally didn't sign onto it.
wishstar
(5,268 posts)He speculated today that if Papadopolous was bold enough and willing to lie to FBI, others on Trump campaign may have lied to Congress.