washington who oversees gradually investigations directed mr. trump s lawyers essentially to search more carefully for any remaining documents. the discovery of the documents at the storage unit maintained by the federal general services administration, came during a series of wider searches that were completed around thanksgiving and conducted at mr. trump s golf club in bedminster, new jersey, at trump tower in new york, and in a storage closet at mar-a-lago according to two people familiar with the events. , so donald trump s lawyers have just spent months arguing in court that they need a special master in that documents case to evaluate all the documents because the documents taken by the fbi and a search warrant at his florida residence this summer should never have been taken by the fbi and should be returned to donald trump immediately. that was donald trump s legal argument which the 11th circuit
turned over to the fbi, according to those people. newark time reports that the search for those documents happened recently after, quote, chief judge barrel a howell of federal district court in washington who oversees gradually investigations directed mr. trump s lawyers essentially to search more carefully for any remaining documents. the discovery of the documents at the storage unit maintained by the federal general services administration, came during a series of wider searches that were completed around thanksgiving and conducted at mr. trump s golf club in bedminster, new jersey, at trump tower in new york, and in a storage closet at mar-a-lago according to two people familiar with the events. , so donald trump s lawyers have just spent months arguing in court that they need a special master in that
so there sore many other areas of inquiry such as what happened with t trump tower in russia, there are so many areas of inquiry especially after michael cohen s testimony. so it is our responsibility to investigate and to be oversee what the administration is doing. so if they don t want to give it to you, what next. ? i think there s going to be some discussions, but frankly they still have the house chairs have the right to issue subpoenas. but, frankly, the administration has too co come up with a legal argument saying executive privilege or something. they can t say this is a fishing extradition. that s a legal argument. i want to so ask you about the hearing you re holding today about the two children who died in the custody of customs and border protection. from what you re seeing, did cbp
post when the post received an intriguing letter about something that had just happened in new york city. december 2016, this was right after the presidential election, the previous month trump had won the presidential transition was underway and according to adam entis this anonymous letter showed up at the washington post in mid-december and it made a couple of serious but sort of hard to believe claims. first, the letter claimed that jared kushner and mike flynn had met secretly with the russian ambassador, sergey kislyak, at trump tower at the start of december, 2016. at that meeting, the letter said, jared had asked the russian ambassador if there could be some sort of secret means of communication set up maybe involving russian diplomatic facilities a secret means of communication so trump folks could stay in communication with the russian government without the u.s. government knowing about it. jared kushner wants a secret way to communication with the russian government that
the bottom of. it doesn t excuse what the russians did. you don t blame the victim for the hack, no matter what kind of security precautions the dnc took or what they did afterwards. this was still an orchestrated effort by an adversary of the united states. congressman, i want to ask about something the new york times is reporting this morning, that donald trump jr., paul manafort and jared kushner met at trump tower, during the campaign, with a lawyer who is a high-professional russian national. the president s eldest son told the newspaper that the meeting was primarily about an adoption program. does this story raise questions for you? it certainly raises questions for a variety of reasons, of course. the president s son had denied having any kind of meetings like this. they claim that this meeting had nothing to do with the campaign and yet the trump campaign