Donald Trump Jr. will meet with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to address any contact the Trump campaign had with Russia during the 2016 election, according a report Tuesday.
The meeting will allow members of the Judiciary Committee to ask detailed questions for the first time from one of the people present at the June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.
In July, it was revealed Trump Jr. planned a meeting at Trump Tower in 2016 with a Russian lawyer affiliated with the Kremlin just after his father received the Republican nomination. Trump Jr. tweeted the emails related to the meeting after The New York Times revealed it would published the chain in an upcoming report, following the publication that the encounter had occurred.
President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner and former campaign manager Paul Manafort were also in attendance at the meeting. Criminal and congressional probes are currently investigating the role Russia played in the 2016 election.
Judiciary Committee members are hopeful they will interview Kushner and Manafort as well, according to The Washington Post. Both men have already conducted interviews with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
However, Manafort has not been cooperative with the Judiciary Committee and does not currently have an scheduled interview with them.
“Manafort has been resistant, to be very blunt. Certainly much more resistant than Trump Jr. Perhaps surprisingly but not really so much because Manafort probably is confronting some fairly serious criminal charges,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told The Washington Post.
Blumenthal suggested Manafort could be concerned about the fact “we can elicit information from him.”
He said the committee would not grant Manafort immunity.
