Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Tuesday predicted former President Barack Obama will be called to testify about how his administration handled internal reports about Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election.
“The Congress is about to have to call Barack Obama in to testify under oath about when he knew about Russia meddling,” Gingrich told Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”
“How can you be told the president of the U.S. knew last August the Russians were, in fact, involved in this and not ask him and ask him under oath? I mean, how can you be so irresponsible?” Gingrich added. “The House and Senate are going to have to call Obama in and say, ‘who told you?’ ‘When did you have the meetings?’ ‘Who advised you?’ ‘Why did you not decide to do anything? ‘And then, ‘why did you keep quiet for six months while everybody looked at the Russians and Trump when you, in fact, had this information last August?'”
Gingrich proposed the “big Russian story” will be about Obama, not President Trump, who federal investigators and congressional committees are looking at for possible collusion with Moscow during last year’s campaign.
Last Friday, a Washington Post report stated Obama and his senior intelligence officials found out in August that Russia was trying to interfere in the election, but did not share that knowledge with the public until October.
