'The subpoena has to mean something. And once you let somebody elude it, it'll happen again,” Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein told Newsweek.
As calls from Senate Democrats mounted for contempt proceedings to be initiated, Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, reached an agreement with the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday to comply with a congressional subpoena and provide additional testimony regarding key events in the Russia investigation, according to several media reports.
Senators on the Intelligence Committee remained tightlipped, repeatedly declining to discuss the apparent ongoing negotiations with Trump Jr. to the press since the news first emerged that Burr subpoenaed him to answer follow-up questions about a 2016 Trump Tower meeting where a Russian lawyer promised “dirt” on Hillary Clinton and a Trump Tower Moscow project leading up to the 2016 election.
But some Senate Democrats signaled to Newsweek Tuesday, prior to a deal reportedly being struck, that the committee should soon move forward with contempt proceedings, much like the House Judiciary Committee did last week with Attorney General William Barr. "Well, the subpoena has to mean something. And once you let somebody elude it, it'll happen again,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat on the Intelligence committee, when asked by Newsweek prior to the deal whether Trump Jr. should be held in contempt. “The answer to that question is yes. But I would say, he ought to be re-subpoenaed."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks beside Sen. Ron Wyden as she questions retired Vice Adm. Joseph Maguire during a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing, to become the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on Capitol Hill, on July 25, 2018, in Washington, DC. Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images
But other Intelligence Democrats were weary of stepping into the contempt arena, instead sidestepping the topic to defer to the chairman, Burr, and vice chairman, Democrat Mark Warner. Both remained relatively silent about the matter throughout the negotiations.
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