“His answers were forthcoming and complete. He satisfied all my questions,” said Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), who’s leading the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo House Russia probe leader: Kushner ‘satisfied all my questions’

Republicans who interviewed Jared Kushner for more than three hours in the House’s Russia probe on Tuesday said the president’s son-in-law and adviser came across as candid and cooperative.

“His answers were forthcoming and complete. He satisfied all my questions,” said Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), who’s leading the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, including possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign.


The committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), described the meeting as “productive” and wide-ranging.

“We appreciate his voluntary willingness to come and testify today,” Schiff said.

At least one Republican on the panel, Rep. Peter King of New York, a staunch Trump defender, said Democrats struggled to extract new information out of Kushner despite insinuating — in what he described as repetitive lines of questioning — that he wasn’t revealing everything.

“Obviously, they were trying to prove a point, which they couldn’t prove,” King said. “The whole tone of the questions was that there was more there and they couldn’t find it.”

“He answered every question, answered it fully — first, second, third, fourth, the whole ten times they asked him. He was asked and re-asked the same questions over and over again,” he continued. I think he answered everything fully. I think he did an excellent job. He was very candid, very open. He was even able to smile a few times.”

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Both King and Conaway said they saw no reason to bring Kushner in for new questioning, but Schiff said Kushner indicated willingness to return to the Hill for further questioning if called upon.

“I have no reason to ask him to come back in but some of my colleagues might,” Conaway said.