Trump Jr, Manafort to testify before Congress about Russia

In a hearing entitled Oversight of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and Attempts to Influence US Elections: Lessons Learned from Current and Prior Administrations, the president's eldest son and his former top campaign aide will appear before the Senate judiciary committee as further scrutiny mounts of the Trump campaign's connections to Russia. A spokesman for Manafort told the Guardian: "We just received the letter and we're reviewing it. We have nothing else to add."

A spokesman for Trump Jr did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Their testimony comes less than two weeks after it was revealed that the two, along with Jared Kushner, a top White House aide and Trump's son-in-law, met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer in 2016 who offered Trump Jr negative information about Hillary Clinton. Manafort has long been under scrutiny for his ties to Russia. A veteran Republican political operative, he has extensive experience working in the former Soviet Union.