Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is demanding Republicans convene a public hearing on any deal made between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at their recent summit in Helsinki.
“Our Republican colleagues need to join us in demanding testimony from the president’s national security team that was in Helsinki and we need to do that immediately … to assess what President Trump might have committed to President Putin in secret,” Schumer said Tuesday on the Senate floor.
“You can’t assume anything — but that as weak as he was in public before President Putin, he was even worse in private,” Schumer added of Trump. “Why else did he not want anyone else in the room?”
A spokesman for Schumer later said the senator wants Republicans to convene a public hearing and not a closed-door briefing, which typically involves all senators. – READ MORE
[divider][/divider]Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court because he’s “worried” about special counsel Robert Mueller‘s probe into the 2016 election.
“Why did the president stick with Kavanaugh? Because he’s worried that Mr. Mueller will go to the court and ask that the president be subpoenaed. … And President Trump knows that Kavanaugh will be a barrier to preventing that investigation from going there,” Schumer said during a rally with Senate Democrats outside the Supreme Court.
Schumer added that “it’s no wonder” Trump picked Kavanaugh, because “his views on this issue are more extreme than just about anyone else on that list.”– READ MORE
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