A top foreign policy adviser to the campaign for Joe Biden said he will appear in front of a GOP-led Senate committee investigating the Democratic presidential nominee's connection with Ukraine, according to Politico.
Tony Blinken, the former deputy national security adviser and deputy secretary of state under President Obama, wrote a letter to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chair Ron Johnson, R-Wis., saying he would appear at the deposition.
“We are not commenting on our ongoing discussions with potential witnesses,” a spokesperson for Blinken said.
Amos Hochstein, a Biden adviser, has also agreed to appear in front of the panel.
Johnson will use these interviews to beef up his upcoming report that examines the of role Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company. He expected to issue the report by the summer's end.
Johnson had planned to issue subpoenas for Blinken and Hochstein before they volunteered to testify, although it's unclear why they agreed to be questioned.
The committee has already received testimony from other current and former State Department officials. That includes Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs George Kent, who testified against President Donald Trump during his impeachment hearing.
In a memo issued in early August, Biden’s deputy campaign manager and communications director Kate Bedingfield called the investigation a “desperate taxpayer-funded smear campaign” hinged on "a farcical, long-debunked, hardcore right-wing conspiracy theory.”
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