Sen. Chuck Grassley Charles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleySenate Republicans face tough decision on replacing Ginsburg What Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Biden says Ginsburg successor should be picked by candidate who wins on Nov. 3 MORE (R-Iowa) is calling for the Senate Judiciary Committee to publicly release the transcripts of interviews related to the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. Don John Trump'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic requests pardon from Trump: 'Be my hero please' Zaid Jilani discusses Trump's move to cancel racial sensitivity training at federal agencies Trump International Hotel in Vancouver closes permanently MORE and a Russian lawyer.

Grassley, the chairman of the committee, said Thursday that he believes the committee’s interviews related to the meeting are “complete,” and so the completed witness interviews should be made public.

“I have said all along that I favor as much transparency as possible in our investigations, but at the appropriate time, so we don’t undermine our work,” he said, according to NBC News.

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He said that he had hoped to speak with all of the witnesses involved in the meeting before releasing the transcripts, but that Sen. Dianne Feinstein Dianne Emiel FeinsteinMcConnell says Trump nominee to replace Ginsburg will get Senate vote Top Democrats call for DOJ watchdog to probe Barr over possible 2020 election influence Intensifying natural disasters do little to move needle on climate efforts MORE’s (D-Calif.) decision earlier this year to unilaterally release the transcript from the interview with Glenn Simpson has “spooked” other witnesses.

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Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the controversial dossier linking Trump to Russia, interviewed with the Senate Judiciary Committee about the dossier last year. Feinstein published the transcript in January, prompting backlash from Grassley, who opposed releasing the transcript and said that the move would compromise the panel’s ability to conduct its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Grassley said it is now unlikely the committee will have a voluntary interview with Kushner, and will have to instead review Kushner’s interview with the Senate Intelligence Committee, as it did with Manafort’s interview.

Feinstein is a member of both the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence committees.

“Sen. Feinstein has access to the transcript as a member of that committee, and I hope to be able to arrange to review it as well, as I have done with their interview of Mr. Manafort,” Grassley said.

Grassley said that he hopes to forge an agreement with the committee’s ranking member or agree to release the transcripts through a committee vote.

“Let’s get them out there for everyone to see,” he said.