Watch Live: Senate Committee Hearing With Intelligence Chiefs

By Greg Myre / NPR

Published June 7, 2017 at 3:55 AM PDT

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., (right) gavels into order a hearing with the heads of the United States intelligence agencies with and ranking member Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., on Capitol Hill on May 11. They are holding another hearing on intelligence on Wednesday.

The Senate Intelligence Committee begins two days of highly anticipated hearings Wednesday that could shed new light on the state of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The senators are expected to ask intelligence officials about their contacts with President Trump, and whether he pressured them regarding the Russian investigation.

The president has repeatedly called for an end to the Russian investigation in his public remarks. But senators also want to know what he was telling the intelligence officials in private discussions.

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Trump reportedly asked Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and the head of the National Security Agency, Adm. Mike Rogers, to state publicly that there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. Neither official has done so.

Both Coats and Rogers are testifying before the Senate committee on Wednesday, as well as Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

The former FBI director, James Comey, who was fired by Trump on May 9, is scheduled to testify before the same committee on Thursday morning.

Rosenstein, McCabe and other Senate Intel officials testify