President Donald Trump's son and his former campaign manager are in a line-up of witnesses set to testify at a hearing on July 26, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced. Jared Kushner, Trump's adviser and son-in-law, meanwhile, has been scheduled to testify on Monday before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. news reports said. Trump Jr, and Manafort entered the probe's spotlight after a meeting they held in June 2016 with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya came to light last week. "If the Senate wishes to hear the real story, I will be happy to speak up and share everything I wanted to tell Mr Trump," Veselnitskaya told Russian state-funded broadcaster RT. The recent scandal around Trump and Trump Jr. was an effort by British businessman Bill Browder to discredit her legal efforts against the Magnitsky Act, Veselnitskaya said.

Source: The China Post July 20, 2017 05:37 UTC