White House senior adviser Jared Kushner plans to testify in a private session before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week, according to a report Wednesday.
An attorney for Kushner confirmed the meeting, scheduled for Monday, July 24, to ABC News.
“As Mr. Kushner has been saying since March, he has been and is prepared to voluntarily cooperate and provide whatever information he has on the investigations to Congress,” the attorney, Abbe Lowell, told ABC News. “Working with and being responsive to the schedules of the committees, we have arranged Mr. Kushner’s interview with the senate for July 24. He will continue to cooperate and appreciates the opportunity to assist in putting this matter to rest.”
Congressional committees and special counsel Robert Mueller are believed to be focusing on Kushner’s interactions with Russian officials as part of investigations into Moscow’s election interference.
Investigators are also likely to focus on Kushner’s failure to initially disclose some of these conversations on his security clearance application.
Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, participated in a meeting last June with a Russian attorney promising damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
Two of the other participants in that meeting, Donald Trump Jr., the president’s oldest son, and Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, are scheduled to testify in a public hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Thursday.
