Three key House chairmen on Monday formally asked the White House and the State Department for documents and witness interviews related to Donald Trump’s communications with Vladimir Putin
until March 15 to turn over “all documents and communications, regardless of form and classification, that refer or relate to any communications between President Trump and President Putin, including in-person meetings and telephone calls.”They are also demanding that the White House and the State Department make employees with knowledge of the Trump-Putin talks available for interviews with the committees.
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