Congressional investigations are starting to take shape into accusations that Russia sought to influence the 2016 presidential election.

  • House Intelligence Committee to hold public hearing on Russia March 20
  • Senate already investigating and meeting on the matter
  • Sen. Marco Rubio warns about Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggression against the west
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The House Intelligence Committee will hold the first public hearing on the Russia probe on March 20. The Senate has already started meeting and investigating the matter.

Among those involved is Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida.

"I’m interested in arriving at the truth," Rubio told Spectrum Networks reporter Alberto Pimienta in a one-on-one interview Thursday. "And whatever the truth is, whether it's good politically for my party or bad politically for the other party, that’s not my agenda.”

 


Sen. Marco Rubio speaks to Spectrum Networks' Alberto Pimienta.

 

Rubio is on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. Rubio was one of the committeemembers who visited CIA headquarters this week to review classified documents.

He said he couldn't say whether there was anything in particular that caught his attention in those documents because they are classified.

"The report is going to show as much as we possibly can within the confines of the law," Rubio said. "But I think -– when it’s all said and done, it’s going to be a very credible, bipartisan document that lays out for the American people what happened and how it happened.”

“I plan to go back again later next week," he added. "There’s a lot of documents to view and a lot of work to go through.”

One thing Rubio says he hasn't seen in his time on the committee -- any proof to President Trump's recent claims that President Obama tapped Trump Tower during the election.

“I don’t have anything I have ever seen that I can speak to that speaks to what he said,” Rubio said.

“Obviously the White House [has] additional information or notions and I would imagine they have the power to declassify these things if they so choose.”

Rubio and Delaware Democrat Sen. Chris Coons took to the Senate floor on March 1 to say the U.S. should stand against Russian President Valdimir Putin, who is taking action against western countries.

"I have extraordinary admiration for the Russian people," Rubio said on the floor. "I have extraordinary admiration for the sacrifices and the contributions that they have made throughout history to our culture and to the world, but unfortunately today their government is run by an individual who has no respect for his own people and has no respect for the freedom and the liberty of others, and it is important for our policymakers on both sides of the aisle to be clear-eyed and clear-voiced in what we do moving forward."

See the full speech here: