Congress to probe Ivanka Trump's private email use in WH

New revelations about the extent of Ivanka Trump's personal email use in the White House will be getting a hard look from House Democrats when they take power in January.

The House Oversight and Government Reform committee began looking into private email use last year after reports by Politico revealed that Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, and other White House officials had been using private email for government purposes in possible violation of the Presidential Records Act and other federal record-keeping laws.

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the likely incoming chairman of the Oversight panel, said Tuesday that he will resume that bipartisan investigation, which was dropped by Republicans.

And he will pressure President Donald Trump's administration to turn over records about the use of private email for public business by Ivanka Trump, Kushner and other senior officials.

"My goal is to prevent this from happening again not to turn this into a spectacle the way Republicans went after Hillary Clinton," Cummings said.

"My main priority as Chairman will be to focus on the issues that impact Americans in their everyday lives."
"They aren't classified like Hillary Clinton. They weren't deleted like Hillary Clinton," Trump said, adding: "What Ivanka did, it's all in the presidential records. Everything is there."
He also said Ivanka Trump did not set up a private server for the account, which he said was "never transferred or housed at Trump Organization."
Mirijanian said that while transitioning into the government, Ivanka Trump "sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family."