Sen. Dick Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said on Thursday that if Donald Trump Jr. didn't comply with a subpoena to testify before Congress that he should face prison time. That's according to two people familiar with the subpoena who discussed it on condition of anonymity.
Asked if the White House would fight the subpoena, Trump said, "We'll see".
The panel's investigation, led by Burr, has been running for more than two years, and the committee has interviewed numerous same witnesses who spoke to special counsel Robert Mueller's team. It's time to move on.
Trump Jr. has previously met with three congressional committees, including the Senate Intelligence Committee in December of 2017, with whom he met for more than nine hours as part of their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., ripped those fellow Republicans calling for Trump Jr.to return to Capitol Hill, saying in a tweet that "endless investigations by either party won't change the fact there was NO collusion". Trump also said he had already testified for a "massive amount of time". Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul a day earlier tweeted that Burr apparently "didn't get the memo from the Majority Leader that this case was closed".
The surprise subpoena was issued by a Republican-led committee, opening a new source of strain between the Congress and a White House battling the legislature's pressure on multiple points. Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a separate interview in 2017 he was only "peripherally aware" of the proposal. Trump last week said that it was Barr's call, but later declared on Twitter that Mueller should not testify. The subpoena was issued now because Senators want to question him themselves, they said.
The Trump administration is also refusing to turn over copies of the president's personal and business tax documents requested by House Democrats. Trump on Wednesday invoked the principle of executive privilege over that material, claiming the right to block lawmakers from receiving it.
Warner made the comments at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
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