NBC: Kushner To Meet With Senate Intelligence Committee Staffers In June

Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, listens during a county sheriff listening session with U.S. President Donald Trump, not pictured, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tues... Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, listens during a county sheriff listening session with U.S. President Donald Trump, not pictured, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. The Trump administration will return to court Tuesday to argue it has broad authority over national security and to demand reinstatement of a travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries that stranded refugees, triggered protests and handed the young government its first crucial test. Credit: Andrew Harrer / Pool via CNP - NO WIRE SERVICE- Photo by: Andrew Harrer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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Senior White House aide Jared Kushner is scheduled to meet in June with Senate Intelligence Committee staffers, NBC News reported late Thursday.

NBC News’ Kasie Hunt cited two unnamed sources who said the meeting is set for mid-June but did not name a specific date.

According to Hunt, the meeting is a first step toward Kushner providing documents to the panel and answering its questions.

The Washington Post reported in May that Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, spoke in December to Russia’s ambassador to the United States about setting up a communications backchannel between Trump’s transition team and Moscow.

Reuters reported the same day that on his application for a security clearance, Kushner failed to disclose at least three contacts he had with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak.

Kushner’s meetings with a Russian banker are also under scrutiny, according to a report by the New York Times, and the congressional committees investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election — including the Senate Intelligence Committee — reportedly want to question Kushner about whether he sought Russian financing for his family’s Manhattan tower from the banker.

Trump said in May that he had “total confidence” in Kushner, but appeared to joke in June that he was less than pleased with Kushner’s increased visibility.

“Jared’s actually become much more famous than me,” Trump said, to laughter. “I’m a little bit upset about that.”

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  1. Prince Valium thinks he can snow job the Senators. Bless his heart.

  2. WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The White House was on lockdown Thursday morning after a television was hurled out of a window, the Secret Service reported.

    The incident, which occurred shortly after 10 a.m. E.S.T., caught the attention of the Secret Service after agents heard the sound of smashing glass emanating from the Oval Office.

    “The sound was consistent with that of a large object, such as a television set, being thrown through a closed window,” a Secret Service spokesman said.

    The television, which crashed to the ground outside the Oval Office, injured no one, the Secret Service confirmed.

    A group of fourth-grade students from Bethesda, Maryland, was on a White House tour when the incident involving the television occurred.

    “I heard someone screaming lots of swear words and then, like, this big crash,” Zach Dorrinson, a student on the tour, said. “It was messed up.”

    @irasdad

  3. He can certainly snow job Johnny Mac who thought today’s hearing was on Clinton’s email. He’ll blame it on the aides. “They directed me to the wrong hearing room, dang nab it.”

  4. Headline from London: "Hung Parliament"

    Ivanka and Malaria leave DC

  5. Avatar for krux krux says:

    I’m guessing the staffers themselves may be sharper than he thinks.

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