ROGER STONE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s confidant Roger Stone is telling congressional committees that he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights in order to not testify in response to requests for documents and testimony. Stone’s attorney Grant Smith rebuffed a request from the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee this week for documents and an interview connected to 2016 Russian election meddling. And Smith said he sent a similar letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee in September invoking the Fifth after the committee — which is still conducting its investigation into Russian meddling — requested documents and an interview. Smith sent a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California stating that Stone was declining Feinstein’s requests, which she released over Twitter on Tuesday.”
–Jeremy Herb and Sara Murray, “Roger Stone invokes Fifth Amendment in Senate Russia probe,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, December 4, 2018 6:47 am