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,h4> So @DWStweets & @johnpodesta lied to congressional investigators? Lock them up.

So @DWStweets & @johnpodesta lied to congressional investigators? Lock them up. https://t.co/zBz5krfVMi— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) October 26, 2017

Their remarks to congressional investigators raises the stakes in their assertion that they knew nothing about the funding because it's against the law to make false statements to Congress.

The White House has seized on the funding disclosures to discredit the ongoing investigations into potential collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign. While the most salacious allegations in the dossier haven't been verified, its broad assertion that Russia waged a campaign to interfere in the election is now accepted as fact by the US intelligence community.

In recent closed-door interviews with the Senate intelligence committee, Podesta and Wasserman Schultz said they did not know who had funded Fusion GPS, the intelligence firm that hired British Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele to compile the dossier on Trump, the sources said.