Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., wants to make the transcripts public before the election | Jose Luis Magana/AP photo congress House Intel Committee tees up release of Russia probe transcripts

The House Intelligence Committee will vote Friday to publicly release dozens of transcripts of interviews conducted in its now defunct Russia investigation — including testimony of prominent figures in President Donald Trump’s orbit.

The transcripts, from interviews primarily conducted between June 2017 and March 2018, include testimony from Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Hope Hicks, Roger Stone and other longtime Trump allies and associates, as well as his current campaign manager, Brad Parscale and former campaign leaders Corey Lewandowski and Steve Bannon. Trump’s longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller interviewed as well.


The list also includes prominent intelligence community figures and Justice Department officials from the Obama administration, like Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates and James Clapper. Interview transcripts from Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions would be released as well.

The vote to release the transcripts was revealed earlier this month by committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who had until then resisted calls from Democrats on the panel to make the interviews public. He now says they should be revealed before the election, introducing thousands of pages of potentially explosive new material in the final weeks of campaign season.

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The Friday vote won’t result in the immediate release of the transcripts but rather a referral to the intelligence community to review and redact them to protect classified information. The process could take days or weeks and it’s unclear if they’ll be released on a rolling basis throughout October. That possibility has led some Democrats to worry about selective releases of information during sensitive weeks in the election cycle.

The list also includes a handful of figures who attended to the June 9, 2016, Trump Tower meeting between top Trump campaign officials — Kushner, Trump Jr. and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — and a lawyer connected to the Russian government.

At least two interviews the panel conducted of sitting lawmakers, Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), do not appear on the list for public release.