Washington (CNN) The revelation that President Donald Trump's attorney reached out to the Kremlin for assistance in building a Trump Tower in Moscow well into Trump's presidential campaign show that the then-candidate misled the public about whether he had business interests in Russia, California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday. "The President was dishonest when he said during the campaign that he had no business in Russia, was pursuing no business in Russia," Schiff told Dana Bash on CNN's "State of the Union." He added that the proposed project or any others like it could have spurred the Trump campaign to take a more favorable stance toward Moscow.Schiff said the House intelligence committee would likely interview Trump's personal lawyer"If they were pursuing business in Russia during the campaign, that might have influenced the positions that the candidate took in a more pro-Russian direction," Schiff said
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