Two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are urging the committee’s chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to release transcripts of Donald Trump Jr.’s testimony before the panel, according to a new report.
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sent a request Wednesday to Grassley requesting that transcripts from interviews with key witnesses in the Russia probe be shared with Mueller, Politico reported.
“The transcripts of congressional testimony may reveal other and better-founded concerns about witness false statements,” the two senators wrote to Grassley.
They said they believed members from both sides of the aisle “agreed in principle” to disclosing the testimonies, including that of Trump Jr., to Mueller to assist the ongoing federal Russia probe.
The two senators have previously called for the transcript of Trump Jr.’s interview to be released publicly.
"I think all these transcripts should be released — it's just a question of how and when," Blumenthal said in a recent interview. "And the Donald Trump Jr. interview transcript will be explosive when it sees the light of day."
Whitehouse concurred and said senators “also need to rethink, if there isn’t going to be a public hearing, why would we not release that transcript? And under any circumstances, why would we not let Bob Mueller have access to it?”
Trump Jr., who is President Trump's oldest son, has become a subject of interest in the Russia investigation because he agreed to a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer, who had ties to the Kremlin, under the assumption that she would provide “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
