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The
closed-door appearance is expected to cover a broad array of
topics. Among them will be what Trump Jr. knew about a Trump
Tower project in Moscow. Another will be a June 2016 Trump Tower
meeting when Trump Jr. and election campaign advisers Jared
Kushner, the president's son-in-law, and Paul Manafort met with
a Russian lawyer whom they believed had damaging information on
Hillary Clinton, Trump's Democratic presidential election
opponent.
Senators have also wanted to question Trump Jr. about his
September 2017 Senate Judiciary Committee testimony. During that
appearance, a congressional source said, Trump Jr. was asked
about his involvement in a plan for a Moscow Trump Tower. Trump
Jr. told the Judiciary Committee that he was only "peripherally
aware" of the plan, according to an official transcript.
His testimony was later contradicted by testimony from Michael
Cohen, the president's former personal lawyer. Cohen last month
began serving a prison sentence after pleading guilty in two
federal criminal cases.
Cohen also told Congress that some reimbursement checks issued
to him for hush-money payments to an adult film star who said
she had an affair with Trump were signed by Trump Jr., as well
as the Trump Organization's chief financial officer.
The Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Republican Richard
Burr, is the only congressional panel doing a genuinely
bipartisan investigation of Russian interference in U.S.
politics and the 2016 U.S. presidential election, in particular.
(Reporting by Mark Hosenball; writing by Makini Brice; editing
by Grant McCooland Leslie Adler)
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