Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to the President Trump, participated in another closed-door interview with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Kushner was first interviewed by panel staff in 2017 as part of the committee’s Russia investigation. On Thursday he returned, a senator on the committee confirmed to CNN, because committee members want to re-interview key witnesses.
His latest interview comes on the heels of the release of Attorney General William Barr’s summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on the federal Russia investigation.
During Mueller’s 22 months investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, he “did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” Barr’s summary said.
After Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, Mueller also began investigating whether Trump obstructed justice. Mueller declined to make a determination in the obstruction inquiry, and Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to show the president committed a crime.
Mueller’s report, which has not been shared with the public or submitted to members of Congress, is more than 300 pages long, the New York Times reported Thursday.
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