Briefs: Senate Democratic leader urges removal of House intel panel chair

March 27, 2022 By Headlines

The U.S. Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, called on Monday for the removal of Republican Representative Devin Nunes as chairman of the House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee.

Nunes, whose committee is investigating potential ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, visited the White House the night before announcing he had information indicating Trump associates may have been subject to some level of intelligence activity before Trump took office on Jan. 20.

“Chairman Nunes is falling down on the job and seems to be more interested in protecting the president than in seeking the truth,” Schumer said in a Senate speech.

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Trump driving tax-cut ‘train’ but will consult Congress

The Trump administration intends to play a lead role in crafting a tax-cut plan, working in consultation with Congress, in an effort to meet an August target date, the White House said on Monday.

“Obviously, we’re driving the train on this… (but) we’re going to work with Congress,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer told a news briefing.

Spicer said the administration was aiming to meet an August target date for tax reform, but added that the timetable could slip depending on how quickly a consensus could be reached.

Trump son-in-law to testify on foreign contacts in Russia probe

Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, has volunteered to testify to a Senate committee probing whether Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, the White House said on Monday.

The allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian actors were behind the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails last year linger over Trump’s young presidency. Democrats charge the Russians wanted to tilt the election toward the Republican, a claim dismissed by Trump. Russia denies the allegations.

But there has been no doubt that the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, developed contacts among the Trump team. Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was forced to resign on Feb. 13 after revelations that he had discussed U.S. sanctions on Russia with Kislyak and misled Vice President Mike Pence about the conversations.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Kushner is willing to testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee chaired by U.S. Senator Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican.

“Throughout the campaign and the transition, Jared served as the official primary point of contact with foreign governments and officials … and so, given this role, he volunteered to speak with Chairman Burr’s committee, but has not received any confirmation regarding a time for a meeting,” Spicer told reporters at his daily briefing.

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  • DrArtaud

    I’m soon to be disillusioned in Republicans if we don’t start making gains. This mythical Trump/Russian thing, the SCOTUS nomination delay, and blocking his Executive Order a second time on the flimsiest of grounds will leave the gains the Republicans accomplish as solely for Wall Street and Big Business tax relief. The failure of the Healthcare, and the failure to stop muslim refugees from terrorist nations is largely the failure to take care of John and Jane Q. Citizen. I’m not voting for Republicans to benefit the rich.

    Devin Nunes did the proper thing. Trump is president, the information involves leaks and their continuation can have the direst of consequences for national security. The democrats insist that Trump’s election isn’t valid. It is. By keeping the information in the committee it will delay determining who the leak is. The democrats have proven again and again that they are all about obstruction. And, there’s a chance the leaker is on their payroll and they have a vested interest in suppressing or delaying the release of information about the leaker for nefarious purposes.

    I have an interest in radio scanners, police calls and whatnot. Years ago, a man just happened to be listening to the cell frequencies, and he just happened to be at the same highway rest stop as Newt Gingrich, and he just happened to be on the same frequency as Newt, and he just happened to be recording it, and he just happened to release it to the media, and it just happened to be on a controversial topic that just happened to get Newt in trouble. What likely really happened is they hired detectives to follow him, record his phone conversations, find what they wanted, and concocted an excuse on how it happened. You’d have to be an imbecile to believe the “just happened to record” scenario. I don’t trust democrats, they’re evil.