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Jonathan Swan 1 hour ago
Steve Bannon made one conspicuous slip up in his closed-door hearing on Tuesday with the House Intelligence Committee, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the confidential proceedings. Bannon admitted that he'd had conversations with Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and legal spokesman Mark Corallo about Don Junior's infamous meeting with the Russians in Trump Tower in June 2016.
Why it matters: The meeting and the subsequent drafting of a misleading statement on Air Force One has become one of the most important focal points of the Russia investigations, both on Capitol Hill and within Robert Mueller's team, because it provides the closest thing that exists to evidence that the Trump campaign was willing to entertain collusion with Russians.
Bannon immediately realized he'd slipped up and disclosed conversations he wasn't supposed to discuss, because they happened while he was chief strategist in the White House. Throughout the rest of the session, committee members in particular Republican Trey Gowdy and Democrat Adam Schiff hammered Bannon over the fact that he'd mentioned those conversations but refused to discuss anything else about his time in the White House.
Bannon's lawyer, Bill Burck, told the committee in his opening remarks that Bannon wouldn't answer any questions that relate to his time inside the White House or during the presidential transition. The committee caught him in the slip-up inside the first 90 minutes.
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Bannon is one I do not trust for coming forth with truths.
Gowdy and Nunes need to recuse themselves.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)"because it provides the closest thing that exists to evidence that the Trump campaign was willing to entertain collusion with Russians."
I think very few have access to all Mueller knows. It needs to be defined in this sentence that they are talking about information that has been released in one way or another.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Hmmm