Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Monday called for a closed-door hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee this week on a whistleblower complaint involving President Donald Trump.
In remarks on the Senate floor, McConnell said the panel's chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and ranking Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., "have been working together to get the Acting Director of National Intelligence [Joseph Maguire] and the intelligence community's inspector general [Michael Atkinson] before their committee this week to discuss this matter.
"It is extremely important that their work be handled in a secure setting with adequate protections, in a bipartisan fashion, and based on facts rather than leaks to the press," he said.
A Republican aide told The Hill that Burr is working to arrange a briefing for the panel with Maguire and Atkinson, who refused to discuss the complaint in a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee last week.
President Donald Trump has come under scrutiny over a telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump allegedly asked him to investigate accusations about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
In addition, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sent a letter to McConnell on Monday calling for a hearing on the complaint and demanding Senate Republicans subpoena the White House to force the administration to hand over the complaint to Congress.
"In the face of this dire warning and the Trump administration's effort to cover it up, the Republican-led Senate has remained silent and submissive, shying away from this institution’s constitutional obligation to conduct oversight," Schumer wrote.
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