Mark Rubio undercuts report on Mark Warner attempting to talk to Trump dossier author: It has 'zero impact' on Intel probe

Source: Washington Examiner | February 8, 2018 | Diana Stancy Correll

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, defended the top Democrat on the committee, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., after a report was published detailing communications he had with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch who said he could put Warner in touch with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the controversial “Trump dossier.”

“Sen.Warner fully disclosed this to the committee four months ago.Has had zero impact on our work,” Rubio tweeted Thursday night.

Fox News’ Ed Henry, who authored the report, responded to Rubio on Twitter, saying the key takeaway from the report was Warner’s determination to not leave a “paper trail” throughout the communications.

Warner and lobbyist Adam Waldman, whose firm is connected to Hillary Clinton, communicated back and forth for several months in 2017 about establishing communication with Steele, Fox News reported.

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The two issued a statement to Fox News and condemned leaks based on “incomplete information.”

“From the beginning of our investigation, we have taken each step in a bipartisan way, and we intend to continue to do so,” Warner and Burr said in the statement. “Leaks of incomplete information out of context by anyone, inside or outside our committee, are unacceptable.”

The Fox News report comes after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attempted to provide Fox News host Sean Hannity with details on Warner, according to the Daily Beast late last month.

Assange sent a message to an inauthentic Sean Hannity Twitter account. The messages from Assange arrived just before Warner revealed that the Senate Intelligence panel received “end-of-the-year document dumps” that “opened a lot of new questions” concerning Trump and Russia.

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