“The Cummings people did a lot of great investigative work without formal tools,” says Phil Barnett, who was the staff director of the Oversight Committee under Waxman. Like Cummings, Nadler and Schiff chafed at their committees’ Republican chairmen’s lack of interest and outright interference during the Trump presidency. Committee Democrats said they were shut out of the drafting process and publicly condemned the report. Schiff, the incoming Intelligence Committee chairman, will play a major role. Trump Jr. claims he can’t remember, and the call appears as a blocked number on his phone records.

Source: New York Times December 17, 2018 10:00 UTC