Republican Senator Calls For Investigation Into Trump-Russia Connections
According to a CNN report, Senator Roy Blunt on Tuesday said there should be an exhaustive investigation into the ties between Russia and the Trump administration.
“I think everybody needs that investigation to happen,” Blunt told KTRS radio.
“And the Senate Intelligence Committee, again that I serve on, has been given the principal responsibility to look into this, and I think we should look into it exhaustively so that at the end of this process, nobody wonders whether there was a stone left unturned, and shouldn’t reach conclusions before you have the information that you need to have to make those conclusions.”
Senator Blunt said, that the Senate Intelligence Committee should have discussions with Michael Flynn “very soon,” adding that discussion should “answer a lot of questions.”
“What did he know? What did he do? And is there any reason to believe that anybody else knew that and didn’t take the kind of action they should have taken?” Blunt said.
“For all of us, finding out if there’s a problem or not and sooner rather than later is the right thing to do,” he added.
“And a lot of those people on that team have real concerns about Russia,” Blunt said. “And just because the president is trying to figure out how to talk to this dangerous power that’s been an adversary of ours for a long time, certainly nothing wrong with that.”
Blunt continued, “The national security adviser of all the people that work with and for the president has to be absolutely trustworthy and truthful and apparently he wasn’t and he paid the price for that.”
“In this case, absolute trustworthiness is the most important thing, even better than, even more important than knowledge, you’ve got to trust what the national security adviser says and apparently that wasn’t gonna be the case here.”
