Donald Trump Jr. is expected to be grilled about his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer during his father’s presidential campaign. | Win McNamee/Getty Images Donald Trump Jr. set to testify before Senate Judiciary panel The committee recently set a date to privately question the president’s eldest son about his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has reached an agreement and set a date for Donald Trump Jr. to testify behind closed doors to the panel, the committee confirmed on Tuesday.

The committee would not divulge the exact date, but another source familiar with the matter said the testimony would likely occur in the “next few weeks.” Trump Jr. is expected to be grilled about his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer during his father’s presidential campaign in which he was promised compromising information on Hillary Clinton.


Trump Jr. had been called to publicly testify before Senate Judiciary in July, but the president’s eldest son offered to give a private interview and provide documents to the committee’s investigators instead.

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the panel leaders, said in July that they still intend to hold a public hearing with Trump Jr. after speaking with him privately, and would subpoena him to appear in open session if necessary.

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A committee aide said it is not yet clear whether the interview with Trump Jr. would be offsite or on the Hill. The date was only recently set, the aide said, explaining that the delay in scheduling was because of the slog of the August recess.

Representatives for the Trump Organization and Trump Jr.'s lawyer Alan Futerfas did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

It will be Trump Jr.’s first appearance on Capitol Hill, where three congressional committees are seeking to grill the president’s eldest son as part of their parallel investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Intelligence Committee also are probing the Kremlin’s efforts and whether any Trump campaign aides or allies colluded with Russian officials. Special counsel Robert Mueller is also conducting a sprawling probe into the matter.

Trump Jr. is the subject of intense interest in those probes due to his role in a June 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-connected lobbyist and lawyer. Emails tweeted by Trump Jr. show he took that meeting — which was also attended by then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner — after being promised damaging information on Clinton.

The broker of the meeting, publicist Rob Goldstone, said the offer of information was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

Trump Jr. responded, in part, by saying, “if it’s what you say I love it.”

Trump Jr. and Kushner, who have denied any wrongdoing, have said that the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower did not involve discussions about the campaign, but focused on high-profile sanctions legislation and the adoption of Russian children.

Trump Jr.’s appearance on the Hill is sure to stoke simmering tensions between the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees, which have led to each jostling with the other and with Mueller over witnesses and testimony.

Both Manafort and Kushner have already testified behind closed doors to the Senate Intelligence Committee, but not before other congressional panels. Trump Jr. has not delivered any formal testimony to lawmakers or their investigators.

Feinstein said in July that Mueller’s probe had been consulted and didn’t object to the Judiciary Committee interviewing Trump Jr. The Senate Intelligence Committee says it is regularly deconflicting with Mueller.

