and russians to try to impact the election and may get to some reason or explanation of why there was this cozying up between the campaign, trump himself and russia generally. jim, do you have any sense what investigators will do with this new information after there was more follow-up than previously disclosed? we know they would be pressing rob goldstein. he will appear before the senate and house intelligence committees next week. we know they will be pressing him. with each of the interviews, they will take that account and then press the next interviewee, kushner, donald trump jr., to see if the accounts match up. as the stories have changed about the trump tower meeting, the initial explanations were flat-out misleading. the president himself was involved in putting what was essentially a misleading story out there.
that tweet you see there. but next week, the russian investigation will hit very close to home. son-in-law jared kushner will be interviewed by both the senate and the house intelligence committees next week. and his son don junior and former campaign manager manafort will be interviewed by the senate judiciary staff. we don t know when but we do know they won t testify publicly yet. this as two former intelligence chiefs just last night blasted the president over his handling of the russia investigation so far, at the ideas conference in aspen. i sometimes wonder whether what he s about is making russia great again. i think russia is an existential threat to this country. if he s fired by mr. trump or attempted to be fired by mr. trump, i really hope our members congress, our elected representatives, will stand up and say enough is enough. it s one thing for officials
down. roughly 60 people have been killed in the protests against maduro s government. the white house look to go down play after the trip overseas. speaking yesterday, sean spicer described the relationship between the two as fairly unbelievable, adding they, quote, get along very well. merkel suggested that europe s relationship with the u.s. has shifted following the visit. the ties between russia and president trump s 2016 campaign appear to be expanding as the president s personal attorney michael cohen tells nbc news he will testify if subpoenaed to appear. cohen said he received requests for information from the senate and house intelligence committees, but wouldn t comply because the request was overly broad and not capable of being answered. adding he was waiting for a subpoena. quote, i have nothing to hide. cohen claims a does yar put
important things still going on in the world. there s north korea, there is the aggressiveness of vladimir putin in eastern ukraine, a whole list of other things i m afraid we ve been distracted with as we ve spent so much time on this one issue. and congressman stewart, your understanding now is the work of your committee in this area, do you just cart your files and what you ve learned across town to wherever muller sets up shop? you know, i would suppose that s the case. but honestly this is just so new that i don t think we know the answer to that yet. we re going to facilitate anyway we can. obviously we want this to be done as quickly as we can. i think the american people want it to be done as quickly so we ll help in any way that s appropriate. congressman quigley, the reaction from the other side of the aisle, the minority party, the democrats? evidence that bipartisan cooperation and agreement can exist, i completely agree with my colleague. there is critical work to
intel committee, that s a bipartisan committee. it always has been. we try to do that. part of the reason is we can do it behind closed doors. we don t have cameras in our face all the time. it allows us to do the work we think is so important. i think the president should take much the same view. this will allow him to move forward knowing that there is an investigation going forward that will get to the bottom of this. and i think it will do that hopefully very quickly. and allows him to concentrate on the work that he needs to do as well. i would add staff tweeting stop tweeting, let the investigation take its course and do your normal work. we know you keep secrets for a living on the intelligence committee. but now it can be told. did either or both of you know this was coming at 6:00 eastern time today? no clue. i found out just before we came on the air with you. i ve been busy with other folks so it s very new to me. congressman stewart, is another way to put what y