He’s a Member of Congress. The Kremlin Likes Him So Much It Gave Him a Code Name.<br />and the Senate Intelligence Committee are each seeking to interview him about an August<br />meeting with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, Mr. Rohrabacher said.<br />But in an interview with in late October, he acknowledged actions to curtail his activities<br />and said they represented Republican regrets about leaving the gavel to someone who would not “just go along and get along with whatever the State Department wants.”<br />“What happens with our committee is, if there is anything positive to say about Russia, it is trash-canned,” he said.<br />Independent analysts and political operatives from both parties said<br />that the Russia issue, the district’s steady leftward drift and a frustration with Republicans in control in Washington has put Mr. Rohrabacher on unstable ground.<br />“All I remember about that meeting is that they were promoting some kind of an idea about having Gulf<br />State countries invest in building nuclear power plants of some kind, I think,” Mr. Rohrabacher said.<br />and the senior members of the House Intelligence Committee sat Mr. Rohrabacher down in the Capitol in 2012 to warn him<br />that Russian spies were trying to recruit him, according to two former intelligence officials.<br />Mr. Rohrabacher has laughed off suggestions that he is a Russian asset, and said in an interview<br />that he did not remember being briefed that the Russians viewed him as a source.
