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After Trump’s son in-law, 20 others set for probe over Russia ties

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After Trump's son in-law, 20 others set for probe over Russia ties

Two days after one of President Donald Trump‘s son in-law’s and his most senior advisers Jared Kushner was questioned over his ties with Russia, the US Senate Committee has revealed that 20 others will be questioned over the issue.

According to the Republican chairman of the committee, Richard Burr, who declined to identify any of the 20 invited for questioning, except Trump’s son in-law, the Senate panel will probe alleged Russian interference in last year’s US election.

Burr and the top Democrat on the panel, Senator Mark Warner, said on Wednesday they would steer clear of politics in their probe.

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Burr said: “Mark and I work hand in hand on this. … We’re partners to see that this is completed and that we have a product at the end of the day that we can, in bipartisanship, support.”

Explaining the importance of thoroughly probing the mounting allegations of collusion between Trump’s team and Russia, John Neffinger, the communications director of the Democratic National Committee, said; “We have no proof yet,” he told Al Jazeera. “We do know that the Russians were talking to Trump’s campaign team on a regular basis during the campaign. We don’t know what they were talking about.

“Is it possible they were talking about the weather? It is. But if they happened to be talking about the thing that they had in common, which was trying to have Donald Trump elected for president, then it is also possible that something very, very bad took place,” he added.

 

 

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