Democrats demand Pompeo turn over documents from Trump-Putin summit
by Diana Stancy Correll
| August 24, 2018 12:20 PM
Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., on Friday asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to provide them with all documents that would shed insight on commitments President Trump made during his summit last month with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
Senior staff and experts were not present during the first part of Trump’s meeting with Putin, and only translators in the room. As a result, Menendez and Shaheen are requesting that members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee receive classified and unclassified cable traffic, interpreter’s notes, memoranda of conversations, and policy directives about the summit.
The lawmakers said their “concern about this meeting is heightened†by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation looking at Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin. They also said the matter was urgent given the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.
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