US lawmakers are concerned about media reports of Donald Trump trying to destroy records of talks that happened with Vladimir Putin.
US President Donald Trump attends the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting at National Harbor near Washington, US.
“These allegations, if true, raise profound national security, counterintelligence, and foreign policy concerns, especially in light of Russia’s ongoing active measures campaign to improperly influence American elections,” Chairmen Adam Schiff, Elliot Engel and Elijah Cummings wrote in their letter. The Republican president faces investigations from several congressional committees, as well as the 22-month-long federal special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether the Trump campaign worked with Moscow to sway the outcome.
“We have seen the damage done to our democratic institutions in the two years that the Congress refused to conduct responsible oversight,” said US Representative Jerrold Nadler, Judiciary Committee chairman. “Congress must provide a check on abuses of power.”At the White House, Trump was asked if he would cooperate with Nadler’s probe. “I cooperate all the time with everybody,” he said before adding: “You know the beautiful thing? No collusion. It’s all a hoax…It’s a political hoax.
The investigation was subsequently taken over by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is expected to end his investigation and report his findings in coming weeks.
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