Correct. You found in your investigation july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack Hillary Clintons email for the first time they did about five hours later, correct . Thats correct. You found august 2 that mr. Manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence, mr. Kilimnik, gave him internal Campaign Strategy where russia was intending to do a misinformation campaign. Im not certain of the tie. The fact of the meeting yes, that is accurate. Your investigation as i understand it also found that in late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around Wikileaks Releases of materials that were stolen from the Democratic National committee, correct . Is that from the report . Yes. According to mr. Gates. Yes. Thank you. You also talked earlier about the finding in your investigation in september and october of 2016, donald trump jr. Had email communications with wikileaks now indicted about releasing information damaging to the clinton c
assume, even to him. do you think he ll respond to a subpoena or will relish the fight? he enjoys being in the spotlight. one of the reasons i think he was looking forward to serving on the select committee he can treat it as he quoted it as impeachment round three. i think in certain ways he may respond to a subpoena as saying this will be a stage where i can deliver my message and for the people who love him which includes many people in his district, i ve been there many times, they will enjoy seeing him fight back. the question is when you bring a subpoena into the situation, you bring in a lot of potential legal consequences for things that are said or that are not said or things that are not said accurately and i think that s where jim jordan may have to decide what makes sense for him going forward. is donald trump going to call him up and say of course i want to you sit before the committee and defend me and our messaging, which jim jordan is stow good at putting out there, o
on this. i believe she s referring to something that he said monday night which real infuriated democrats. he said if democrats were series about political violence, it would be hundreds of political riots last summer, that speaker pelosi created this committee solely to malign conservatives and then saying, referring to the biden administration, he will do everything and responses from capitol leadership and the biden administration, saying i had not allow this committee to be turned into a forum for condemning millions of americans because of their political beliefs. speaker pelosi is pointing to that statement as well as others to say no, you cannot be on this committee. congressman jordan called this impeachment round three, if you will. sahil, she said it s not how they voted on the certification of the election.
capitol, there is a new battle over the fate of a select committee established to investigate the attack. read my statement. reporter: in a bold move, house speaker nancy pelosi rejected two of the five republicans on the panel: ohio s jim jordan and indiana s jim banks. the speaker suggested the two staunch allies of the former president, who voted against certifying the election, would jeopardize the integrity of the investigation. house minority leader kevin mccarthy shot back immediately, threatening to pull all five members. it s an egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. reporter: but congressmen jordan and banks had both criticized the panel yesterday, calling it another attempt to impeach mr. trump. this is impeachment round three for t dra reporter: wyoming republican liz cheney, appointed by democrats, remains on the committee. the rhetoric around this, from the minority leader and from those two members, has been disgraceful. this must
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