Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Lamboree fixed
Speaker 1: bloring legal issues in the news and Todave. Bloomberg Law
Speaker 1: host Jun Grosso and Michael Best discuss White House Advisor
Speaker 1: Jared Kushner's interview with the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian
Speaker 1: interference in the twenty sixteen election. They speak with Renato Mariotti,
Speaker 1: a partner at Thompson Cockburn, and Andrew Wright, a professor
Speaker 1: at Savannah Law School. He had a closed door meeting,
Speaker 1: but he put out a statement, and now he makes
Speaker 1: a statement before before the cameras which reiterates what he said,
Speaker 1: so he has his his message out there. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: fact that he's doing the interview is going to dredge
Speaker 1: up all the previous reporting and that'll get re recited
Speaker 1: in the news cycles today. But he's getting to put
Speaker 1: his spin on and that was really one of the
Speaker 1: chief benefits of negotiating to a private interview for him
Speaker 1: um rather than a public hearing. But on the committee side,
Speaker 1: they get a lot of benefits out of this. They've
Speaker 1: now locked him into certain statements and they haven't given
Speaker 1: up any of their parag have to be able to
Speaker 1: bring him back under subpoena voluntarily to testify in front
Speaker 1: of the committee, um and in front of the public.
Speaker 1: So I think both sides came away um as a
Speaker 1: legal matter with some benefit to this, and Jared Kushner's
Speaker 1: media strategies at the center from his side of that
Speaker 1: negotiation reno UM. So just in terms of how this
Speaker 1: will proceed, You've got the Special Council, You've got the committees.
Speaker 1: Once they get these statements, where where does it go
Speaker 1: from here? So I would expect that that Mueller's team
Speaker 1: will be, you know, has already been, you know, giving
Speaker 1: regular reports to Congress about what they're doing and coordinating
Speaker 1: with Congress. So this way, there's no um, there's no
Speaker 1: way in which either of the investigations are undermining the
Speaker 1: others so that they can work in concert. I know
Speaker 1: there have been public reports that have suggested just that.
Speaker 1: Uh and and frankly, from what I've seen to you know,
Speaker 1: the congressional committees have been very deferential of Ler and
Speaker 1: the investigation that he's doing. So what I would expect
Speaker 1: is that this interview before Congress, would be before a
Speaker 1: Congressional committee, would be a piece of evidence that Mueller
Speaker 1: would use I expect that at some point in the future,
Speaker 1: Mueller will be potentially, you know, seeking interviews with many others, uh,
Speaker 1: including Mr Kushner, and it'll be interesting to see if
Speaker 1: they agree to sit for an interview with him. He
Speaker 1: may try to compel testimony before a grand jury. UH,
Speaker 1: and ultimately that process can can take, you know, many months.
Speaker 1: That's Renato Mariani, a partner at Thompson Cockburn, and Andrew Wright,
Speaker 1: a professor at Savannah Law School, speaking with the Bloomberg
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