The GOP chair of the House Intelligence Committee will likely attend Tuesday’s meeting with President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner despite recusing…
The GOP chair of the House Intelligence Committee will likely attend Tuesday’s meeting with President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner despite recusing himself from the Trump/Russia collusion investigation.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is expected to attend the meeting despite handing over duties overseeing the committee’s investigation to Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) in April after the House Ethics Committee announced an investigation into Nunes‘ handling of classified information.
Kushner met with the Senate Intelligence Committee Monday and will meet with their House counterparts on Tuesday. After the meeting Monday, Kushner released a statement denying collusion with the Russians.
“I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government, ” Kushner said in the statement Monday.
“I’ m still read into everything, ” Nunes said. “What I’ ve done, because I thought it was appropriate, as long as there’s going to be these bogus charges against me, until that got cleared up, I was just going to set the Russia investigation aside.”
“But everything else, I’ m still in charge of, ” Nunes continued, “especially the unmasking.”
In a statement in April, Nunes called the accusations against him „false and politically motivated“ when he explained his decision to step aside from the probe.
„Several left-wing activist groups have filed accusations against me with the Office of Congressional Ethics, “ Nunes said in his April statement. „The charges are entirely false and politically motivated, and are being leveled just as the American people are beginning to learn the truth about the improper unmaking of the identities of U. S. citizens and other abuses of power.“
Nunes said he will step aside while the House Ethics Committee „looks into this matter.“
