The information concerned the fact that the FBI was investigating targets including...Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, apparently provided the White House with information on the Russia investigation after a private briefing with then-FBI Director James Comey, according to special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report.
Within a week of Comey briefing the "Gang of Eight" congressional leaders about the FBI's Russia probe in March 2017, Mueller wrote that then-White House Counsel Donald McGahn's office was in contact with the North Carolina Republican "and appears to have received information about the status of the FBI investigation."
As Mueller notes, it's unclear if Trump was aware of the briefing at the time. But Annie Donaldson, who served as McGahn's chief of staff, wrote then that "POTUS in panic/chaos ... Need binders to put in front of POTUS. (1) All things related to Russia."
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When Trump is the executive, Republicans on the Committee can be expected to leak.[...] former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and a member of the panel, said in a statement: "Given evidence from the Mueller report, the committee must take steps to ensure its investigations do not leak to the executive branch."
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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