House Intel Chair Schiff on the public release today of 57 transcripts as well as additional material from the cmte's investigation in 2017 and 2018 into Russia’s interference campaign targeting the 2016 US election.
Schiff: "These transcripts should have been released long before now, but the White House held up their release to the public by refusing to allow the Intelligence Community to make redactions on the basis of classified information, rather than White House political interests."
Schiff: "Only now, and during a deadly pandemic, has the President released his hold on this damning information and evidence."
Schiff: "Like the Ukraine investigation that would follow it, the investigation into the Trump campaign’s effort to seek and utilize Russian help in 2016 and to obstruct justice, reveal a President who believes that he is above the law."
Schiff concludes: "But we are a country where the truth still matters and where right still matters. Our investigation into the Trump campaign, and the evidence we uncovered despite formidable obstruction, affirms that.” intelligence.house.gov/news/documents…
The transcripts of 57 witness interviews included Dan Coats, Michael Cohen, Jared Kushner, Corey Lewandowski, Andrew McCabe, Carter Page, Jeff Sessions, Roger Stone, and Donald Trump, Jr. in December 2017 intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
