Schumer to Trump administration: Who met with Putin's spy chief?

Source: The Hill | January 30, 2018 | Jordain Carney

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is demanding to know whether anyone in the Trump administration met with a top Russian spy who visited the United States, after the Russian embassy said he had taken part in discussions on combating terrorism.

“The Trump administration must immediately come clean and answer questions: which U.S. officials did he meet with?” Schumer told reporters, flanked by Democratic Sens. Ben Cardin (Md.) and Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.).

The Russian embassy tweeted earlier Tuesday that Sergey Naryshkin, the director of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, had been in the United States “for consultations with … counterparts on the struggle against terrorism.”

The tweet came one day after the administration announced it would postpone implementing sanctions against Russia, despite a law calling for them passed by the Senate in a 98-2 vote last year.

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“We sanctioned the head of their foreign intelligence, and then the Trump administration invites him to waltz through our front door. This is an extreme dereliction of duty by President Trump,” Schumer said.

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