Manafort testifies to Senate Intelligence Committee, turns over notes from Trump Tower meeting...
Source: The Washington Post
Manafort testifies to Senate Intelligence Committee, turns over notes from Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer
By Rosalind S. Helderman and Karoun Demirjian July 25 at 4:13 PM
Paul Manafort, a top campaign aide to President Trump, appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee early Tuesday morning to answer questions about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Before his voluntary interview, Manafort submitted to the committee notes that he took at a meeting with a Russian lawyer he and other campaign aides attended during the presidential campaign, a person familiar with the investigation said.
The notes could provide a key contemporaneous account of a meeting that has emerged as a focus of investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 campaign by both Congress and Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Manafort’s testimony had been widely anticipated but took place without prior announcement early Tuesday, hours before senior White House adviser Jared Kushner appeared before the House Intelligence Committee.
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