WATCH LIVE: Spicer holds daily news briefing
Watch White House press secretary Sean Spicer hold a news briefing in the player above at 12:00 p.m. EDT.
WASHINGTON — A Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee wants a thorough review of the financial relationships between Russia and President Donald Trump and his associates.
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon made his request in a letter Wednesday to the committee’s Republican chairman, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, and the ranking Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia.
Wyden says it’s important for the committee to separate fact from speculation amid reports that several individuals received funds from Russia.
In an interview last August, former national security adviser Michael Flynn acknowledged being paid by Russia’s government-backed television network.
Wyden also says that the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., stated in 2008 that Russians make up a “pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets.”
Burr and Warner planned a news conference later Wednesday.
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