The Senate Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on Tuesday to compel him to testify before the committee in an open session Wednesday.
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Senate Judiciary Committee drops subpoena for Paul Manafort to testify in open session
The Senate Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on Tuesday.
Paul Manafort with Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller
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The committees are examining Manafort's financial history and past work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine as part of their investigations into Russia's election interference.
The topic for Wednesday's hearing is the Foreign Agents Registration Act — a law passed in 1938 requiring that US citizens representing the interests of foreign powers in a "political or quasi-political capacity" disclose that relationship.
The committee also subpoenaed Glenn Simpson, the cofounder of opposition research firm Fusion GPS, to compel him to testify publicly on Wednesday. Simpson's lawyer said compelling his client to appear at the FARA hearing
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