A panel in the US Senate is set to hold a hearing on allegations of Russian hacking in favor of GOP candidate Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
It was announced Tuesday that the Foreign Relations Committee will hold a closed briefing and a public hearing on the issue when senators return from their year-end holiday just before Trump is set to take control of the White House on January 20th, 2017.
“The committee plans to systematically look at this issue and will begin with both a classified briefing and an open hearing in early January when the Senate returns,” Micah Johnson, a spokeswoman for the panel’s Republican chairman, Senator Bob Corker, was quoted as saying by Reuters.
The announcement came as Trump’s Russia problem deepened with top Republicans refusing to dismiss the matter as “ridiculous” as their president-elect has.
Trump’s spokesman, Jason Miller, has described the assumption that the Russian government…