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GOP senator: 'Exhaustive' probe of Trump-Russia ties needed
GOP Senate Intel Member: Exhaustive investigation into Trump-Russia connections needed following Flynn resignation
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- "I think everybody needs that investigation to happen," Blunt said on KTRS radio.
- "I would think that we should talk to Gen. Flynn very soon and that should answer a lot of questions," he added.
(CNN)Republican
Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on
Tuesday called for an exhaustive investigation into connections between
President Donald Trump and Russia and said the Intelligence Committee
should immediately speak with former National Security Adviser Michael
Flynn.
Flynn resigned Monday
evening amid revelations that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about
conversations he had in December with Russia's ambassador to the US
about sanctions placed on Russia. Pence had defended Flynn on television
and denied he discussed sanctions after initial reports of the
conversations.
"I think everybody
needs that investigation to happen," Blunt said on KTRS radio. "And the
Senate Intelligence Committee, again that I serve on, has been given the
principle responsibility to look into this, and I think that we should
look into it exhaustively so that at the end of this process, nobody
wonders whether there was a stone left unturned, and shouldn't reach
conclusions before you have the information that you need to have to
make those conclusions."
"But
the Senate Intelligence Committee is looking at this," he continued. "I
would think that we should talk to Gen. Flynn very soon and that should
answer a lot of questions. What did he know? What did he do? And is
there any reason to believe that anybody knew that and didn't take the
kind of action they should have taken?"
"For all of us, finding out if there's a problem or not and sooner rather than later is the right thing to do," he added.
Earlier the Missouri senator said the national security adviser needed to be trustworthy.
"The
national security adviser of all the people that work with and for the
President has to be absolutely trustworthy and truthful and apparently
he wasn't and he paid the price for that..." Blunt said. "In this case
absolute trustworthiness is the most important thing, even better than,
even more important than knowledge, you've got to trust what the
national security adviser says and apparently that wasn't gonna be the
case here."
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