NEW YORK _ Jared Kushner will face questioning by the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its investigations into ties between the Russian government and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign organization, the panel said Monday.
Two Senate aides confirmed that Kushner, the president's son-in-law and a close adviser, will testify, though a date hasn't been set.
A White House official who insisted on anonymity to discuss a politically sensitive matter said Kushner volunteered to appear before the committee because of his role as the Trump campaign's primary point of contact with foreign governments. He has not yet received confirmation that he will indeed testify, the official said.
The committee wants to question Kushner about meetings he arranged with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the U.S., including one with Sergey Gorkov, the chief of Vnesheconombank, Russia's state-owned development bank. That meeting, and Kushner's intent to testify to the committee, was first reported by The New York Times on Monday. The Obama administration leveled sanctions on the bank after Russian President Vladimir Putin's intervention in Ukraine.
The committee has scheduled an open hearing on Russia's "disinformation" practices for Thursday. Witnesses include former National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander.
