{"id":3248,"date":"2017-08-30T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2017-08-30T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T10:07:10","slug":"trump-jr-to-testify-in-russia-probe-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/trump-jr-to-testify-in-russia-probe-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Jr to testify in Russia probe: Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump Jr, the US President\u2019s eldest son, will take questions from a congressional committee investigating possible collusion between the Republican\u2019s 2016 campaign team and Russia, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee announced that the 39- year-old Trump Jr. agreed to testify before investigators behind closed doors. No date was immediately given.<\/p>\n<p>The eldest Trump son also agreed to provide documents requested by the committee, its chairs Republican Chuck Grassley and Democrat Dianne Feinstein in a said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner gave information in a similar format in July, on his ties to Russia before and after the November 2016 election to the Intelligence Committees of the House of Representatives and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers involved in the investigation would have liked public testimony by Trump\u2019s son, son-in-law and other aides; they can be ordered to testify but were not.<\/p>\n<p>Trump Jr and Kushner, both very close to the president during the campaign, had multiple contacts with Russian people during that period. They have denied any collusion.<\/p>\n<p>US special prosecutor Robert Mueller is conducting his own investigation separately that could lead to indictments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump Jr, the US President\u2019s eldest son, will take questions from a congressional committee investigating possible collusion between the Republican\u2019s 2016 campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}