Reuters: Trump-Putin phone calls in Democrats' sights: Schiff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress is determined to get access to Donald Trump’s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders, the chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee said on Sunday, citing concerns the Republican president may have jeopardized national security.
“I think the paramount need here is to protect the national security of the United States and see whether in the conversations with other world leaders and in particular with Putin that the president was also undermining our security in a way that he thought would personally benefit his campaign,” Democrat Adam Schiff said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Congress is investigating a whistleblower complaint that said Trump solicited a political favor from Ukraine’s president that could help him get re-elected to a second term next year. Democrats say Trump’s actions jeopardized national security and the integrity of U.S. elections.
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WNU Editor: If the White House complies with this request and creates this precedent, no foreign leader will want to talk candidly to the U.S. President in the future knowing that their conversation will be disclosed. If the White House refuses this request .... which they should .... it will be used as an excuse (or one of many) on why the U.S. President should be impeached. Bottom line. The Democrats have nothing. This is beginning to look like a witch hunt (like the Mueller investigation), but in this case the Congress is using their oversight authority to pry into the executive branch of government and its discussions with foreign leaders and foreign policy.
