The Russia House: Senate investigators plan to question President Trump’s close aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner about his meeting last year with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Gen. Michael Flynn, who was fired as national security adviser, sat in on the meeting. Both the House and Senate are investigating Russian interference with the election. It’s not unusual for presidential transition teams to meet with foreign leaders.

Kushner also met with officers of the Russian VEB Bank, which has ties to Russian intelligence, and President Vladimir Putin.

This comes on the day Trump gave Kushner the authority to overhaul government agencies and make them operate more like a business. Part of the plan might be to privatize some government functions.

Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, met on the White House grounds with a source who showed him secret American intelligence reports, he now admits. The next day, he revealed that President Trump or his closest associates may have been “incidentally” swept up in intelligence gathering.

Democratic leaders have called for Nunes to recuse himself from the investigation, saying his actions and meeting with Trump have destroyed his neutrality.

Trying to change the subject, the tweeter in chief posted last night, “Why isn’t the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech … money to Bill, the Hillary Russian “reset,” praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax.”

Sanctuary: Attorney General Jeff Sessions threatened to pull Justice Department funding from “sanctuary cities” that refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement. Sessions said, “countless Americans would be alive today. And countless loved ones would not be grieving,” if sanctuary cities were ended.

Sanctuary cities, and states, won’t allow the feds to arrest illegal immigrants held in jails and prisons. Justice pays out more than $4 billion in grants a year. Sessions said, “The American people are justifiably angry. They know that when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe.”

The Obit Page: Roger Wilkins, a crusader for civil rights, journalist, and author who was a household name in the 1960s, has died at age 85. Wilkins was among for people at the Washington Post who won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Watergate scandal. He was a member of the Johnson administration and later taught history at George Mason University for 20 years. Wilkins wrote in his autobiography that he was uneasy with being black, and often felt like a token black man in a white world.

Wilkins said in spring 2008 that the presidential candidacies of a woman and a black man “would have been fodder for a fantasy movie” when he graduated from college 55 years earlier.

He told graduates at the University of Southern Main, “Today, whatever our problems are, we have a vastly different and better country than the one we lived in in 1953.”

Extra Yardage: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft told reporters yesterday that quarterback Tom Brady plans to play another six or seven years. Brady turns 40 in August and no NFL quarterback has played past 44.

In other NFL news, the owners voted to allow the Oakland Raiders to move to Las Vegas. They’re going to have to build a domed stadium first, with plenty of air conditioning.

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