What's Next For Jared Kushner? Ivanka Trump's Husband Wants To Clear His Name Over Russia Meetings

President Donald Trump's son-in-law and White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner has remained defiant amid reports he met with a Russian ambassador and banker and wants to clear his name in front of a Senate Intelligence Committee. A hearing could happen as early as the end of June, according to reports by CNN and NBC, with sources familiar with the matter claiming specific times for the hearing "are ongoing" for Kushner to appear.

White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks confirmed reported meetings with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, who set up a meeting for Kushner to meet with Sergey Gorkov, the chief of Vnesheconombank.

"He isn’t trying to hide anything and wants to be transparent," Hicks said according to a report in the New York Times.

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Meetings with Kislyak have continuously plagued members of the Trump administration. Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was asked to resign from his post after the revelation that he spoke with the ambassador about the sanctions imposed on Russia during the transition.

After it was revealed that Flynn misled the Vice President about the nature of conversation, the president asked for his resignation. Despite the resignation, Trump continued to call Flynn a "good guy" both in public and in private meetings, according to former FBI Director James Comey's testimony Thursday.

Undisclosed meetings with Kislyak also prompted Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from the investigation into Russia's meddling with the election. Sessions had previously denied ever having meetings with Russians during Senate confirmation hearings and following the revelations he had in fact met with the ambassador, and was forced to recuse himself from the investigation.

Hicks told the Times that the meetings Kushner arranged with Kislyak all took place in December, during the transition. The intent was to explore whether the U.S. and Russia could set up a channel of communication to improve relations. They also discussed how the two countries could cooperate on issues in the Middle East, an area that Kushner was leading for the administration.

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Meanwhile, Gorkov is the head of Vnesheconombank and heads the bank's supervisory board controlled by members of the Putin administration.

When Kislyak asked Kushner to meet with Gorkov, U.S. intelligence agencies had concluded that Russian spies and hackers had sought to sway the election by hacking political targets and proliferate emails connected to the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton adviser John Podesta.

Gorkov released a statement about the meeting saying that he met with representatives of the "business circles of the U.S., including with the head of Kushner Companies, Jared Kushner."

Sen. Bill Burr, a Republican from North Carolina and Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, said in a joint statement: "Mr. Kushner has volunteered to be interviewed as part of the committee’s investigation into the Russian activities surrounding the 2016 election" adding that they would "follow the intelligence wherever it leads."