‘The president wants transparency’: Mark Meadows says more Russia investigation documents will be released soon

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A top White House official signaled on Wednesday that more declassified documentation related to the Russia investigation will soon be released to the public with less than a month until the election.

Less than 24 hours after President Trump announced that he authorized the declassification of all documents pertaining to the investigation and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said in an interview with Fox & Friends that there will “hopefully be more documents in the coming days.” The top aide to the president also discussed documents declassified Tuesday afternoon, which included handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan about briefing former President Barack Obama in 2016 on an unverified Russian intelligence report about Clinton approving a plan to tie Trump to Russia.

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