It was unclear exactly what the president’s son-in-law told senators. Kushner did not answer questions.

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WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee interviewed Jared Kushner behind closed doors Thursday morning, less than a week after the attorney general sent his summary of the Mueller investigation to Congress. Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, exited the committee’s secure space just before noon Thursday and did not answer questions. The meeting, which included several senators as well as staff, began at around 9:30 a.m. “I can’t tell you anything about the investigation,” committee chair Richard Burr said as he left the committee’s secure space. A spokesperson for Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chair, declined to comment.



BREAKING: Jared Kushner appears from a closed door Senate Intelligence Committee hearing room this afternoon, six days after Mueller submitted his report on to AG Barr.

Committee staff first interviewed Kushner in July 2017. After that interview, Kushner said he told staff about his contacts with Russians during and after the campaign, adding that he “did not collude with Russia” and did not “know of anyone else in the campaign who did so.” Since then, Warner and other senators have advocated for Kushner to return to speak before the full committee, possibly in public. Kushner was present at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between senior Trump campaign officials and a delegation of Russians seeking to change US sanctions against Russia. Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, accepted the meeting after being promised compromising information on Hillary Clinton. Kushner also reportedly spoke with the Russian ambassador about creating a secret back channel between the Trump team and Russia during the transition period.

Here’s the rotated video of Jared Kushner leaving the Senate Intelligence Committee’s secure space just before noon today.