Donald Trump Jr., son of U.S. President-elect Donal Trump, stands in an elevator at Trump Tower in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. President-elect Donald Trump has made job creation one of his signature issues, setting off a flurry of corporate pledges to hire more workers. Photographer: Albin Lohr-Jones/Pool via Bloomberg
The players behind the Trump Jr. meeting
02:55 - Source: CNN
CNN  — 

The House Intelligence Committee has several interviews scheduled Monday to kick off a packed week of witnesses in the panel’s Russia probe.

The committee is interviewing British music publicist Rob Goldstone, who arranged the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer who promised dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Wasserman Schultz is of interest to the panel because the DNC paid a law firm that retained the services of Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm behind the controversial dossier containing allegations of Trump and Russian connections. She has denied having any knowledge of the matter.

The panel is also speaking to Michael Sussman of Perkins Coie, the law firm that paid Fusion GPS for the opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia, according to two sources.

The committee is expected to interview Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, later in the week, as well as hold two sessions in New York with Russian-American businessman Felix Sater, and Trump’s former personal assistant Rhona Graff.

The committee’s top Democrat, California Rep. Adam Schiff, has accused the Republicans on the committee of rushing interviews in order to conclude the committee’s Russia investigation at the end of the year.