House Intelligence Committee wants to know more about Trump's calls with Putin

[dalton99a]

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/29/20890056/impeachment-inquiry-ukraine-russia-call-putin-trump-schiff-intelligence-committee

Democrats are now eying Trump’s phone calls with Putin
Rep. Adam Schiff said the House Intelligence Committee wants to know more about Trump’s calls with Putin.
By Catherine Kim [e-mail] Sep 29, 2019, 4:56pm EDT

On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Schiff, who as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is leading investigations into the Ukraine matter, said he wanted to better understand whether the White House was trying to hide any more calls with foreign leader — and if so, why.

“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,” Schiff said.

“If those conversations with Putin or with other world leaders are sequestered in that same electronic file that is meant for covert action, not meant for this, if there’s an effort to hide those and cover those up, yes, we’re determined to find out,” he added.

Over the past three years, Trump has had 11 phone calls with Putin, according to The New York Times. The content of those conversations has mostly been kept in secret — and the Kremlin wants to keep it that way.

Two days after the White House released its summary of Trump’s phone call with Zelensky, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told reporters that he hoped conversations with Putin would remain private, according to the Times. Conversations between presidents are not usually shared with the public, and the release of the call with Zelensky is a “quite unusual” exception, Peskov added.

“We would like to hope that we would not see such situations in our bilateral relations, which already have plenty of quite serious problems,” he said.

[ffr]

1. Did this just happen while tRump was calling Schiff out for TREASON on twitter?

Upping the ante a ton!

[dalton99a]

2. No, this morning

I believe this is what triggered Trump's tirade against Schiff

[Roland99]

3. It should be more than just benefits to his campaign! Benefits to HIMSELF and tRump Org!

[triron]

4. Go Adam!