Article snippet: Rep. MORE Jr. may have been the first individual to become aware of the Russians’ intention to help his father in the 2016 presidential election. Schiff spoke to MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” following a new report in The New York Times that said Trump Jr. had been told in an email that harmful information about MORE was coming from the Kremlin as part of an effort to help his father’s campaign. “But they had made a decision to intervene to try to help a candidate, the first person who may have learned that was the president’s son, through this email because at that time, we couldn’t be sure whether this was going to go beyond the intelligence gathering operation.” Schiff noted that the reported email to Trump Jr. came before Wikileaks published hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign. “And at this point, we wouldn’t have known that the Russians intended to escalate that way,” Schiff said. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2017 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc. Link to the full article to read more