Ex-Trump chief strategist Bannon meets with House panel on Russia
President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon will meet behind closed doors on Tuesday with a US House of Representatives committee that is probing whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
The interview with the House Intelligence Committee comes after Bannon's public falling out with the president over comments Bannon made to author Michael Wolff for his new book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."
In the book, Bannon is quoted as describing a June 2016 meeting between Trump associates, including the president's son Donald Trump Jr., his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and a Russian lawyer, as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."
The meeting came after Donald Trump Jr. was told in an email that the Russian government had dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, to which he replied: "I love it."
