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Article snippet: Partisan divisions over the federal investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election deepened Wednesday as new developments rippled across Capitol Hill. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman MORE and other participants in a controversial 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer — a move that Democrats said signals an effort to prematurely end the committee’s investigation. The Senate Intelligence Committee said it agrees with the intelligence community’s assessment (ICA) in 2016 that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an interference campaign in the U.S. election to help MORE — breaking from its counterpart in the House. And in the House, three members of the Freedom Caucus sent a letter to Trump asking him to intervene in their increasingly acrimonious battle with the Department of Justice over access to documents related to Mueller’s investigation. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation into Russia’s election meddling has long been stymied by partisan infighting between Grassley and ranking member MORE (D-Calif.). While Grassley said the Wednesday release of the transcripts was intended “to allow the public to know what we know,” Senate Minority Leader MORE (D-N.Y.) denounced it as a “perfunctory” move aimed at ending “the committee’s on-again, off-again halting investigation.” Democrats on the Judiciary Committee insisted that the “full story” of the Trump Tower meeting remains unknown to them and that the probe ha... Link to the full article to read more