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Jared Kushner to testify to committee on ties to Russia

NEW YORK — Jared Kushner will face questioning by the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its investigations into ties between the Russian government and President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, the panel said Monday.

The committee wants answers from Kushner on meetings he arranged with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the U.S., including one with Sergey Gorkov, the chief of Vnesheconombank, Russia’s state-owned development bank, two Senate aides said. That meeting, and Kushner’s intent to testify to the committee, was first reported by The New York Times on Monday. The Obama administration leveled sanctions on the bank after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military campaign in Ukraine in 2014.

No date has been set yet for Kushner’s testimony, said Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, and Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the committee’s top-ranking Democrat.

“We expect him to be able to provide answers to key questions that have arisen in our inquiry,” Burr and Warner said in a joint statement. “The timing of Mr. Kushner’s testimony is still being determined, but will only come after the committee determines that it has received any documents or information necessary to ensure that the meeting is productive for all sides.”

A White House official who insisted on anonymity to discuss a politically sensitive matter said Kushner volunteered to appear before the committee because of his role as the Trump campaign’s primary point of contact with foreign governments.

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