A grand jury has issued subpoenas in connection with a June 2016 meeting that included President Donald Trump's son, his son-in-law and a Russian lawyer, two sources told Reuters on Thursday, signalling an investigation is gathering pace into suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. WASHINGTON (WOWO): Subpoenas for a grand jury have been issued over a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer, as Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating allegations of Russian interference in last year’s Presidential elections. People familiar with the investigation told CNN that these ties offer a “more concrete path” to an eventual prosecution, while former federal prosecutor Thomas Zeno shared with the Wall Street Journal that although a grand jury doesn’t guarantee anything, it is a sign that the investigation will not easily be shut down by President Trump. But it has come under increased scrutiny in recent weeks because of revelations that President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and campaign aides Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort willingly met with a Russian lawyer peddling damaging information about Hillary Clinton, purportedly provided by the Kremlin, during the campaign. In relation to the Russia investigation, federal prosecutors in Virginia have already issued grand jury subpoenas as part of a probe into Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security advisor who was fired in February for failing to disclose contact with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak. And we know that the nature of these types of investigations become fishing expeditions, where you’re just throwing jello up against the wall and hoping it will stick.”

“The fact is that this White House and everybody involved has said that they would comply and share whatever information that they do have,” she said, adding later, “On this matter of the investigation, Ty Cobb, a special counsel to the president, has said that anything that accelerates the process, we are for.
Grand jury subpoenas have been issued in connection with a June 2016 meeting that included Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and a Russian lawyer.