{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_etnttjjgly7ffl7btixa","title":"Jack Smith Hearing Puts Congress’s Role in Trump Investigation Back in Focus","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/jack-smith-hearing-puts-congresss-role-in-trump-investigation-back-in-etnttjjgly","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_etnttjjgly7ffl7btixa","seq":798670,"kind":"article","title":"Jack Smith Hearing Puts Congress’s Role in Trump Investigation Back in Focus","url":"https://finchannel.com/jack-smith-hearing-puts-congresss-role-in-trump-investigation-back-in-focus/136638/politics-2/2026/09","summary":"WASHINGTON — The central dispute at Jack Smith’s Senate hearing Tuesday concerned how far a prosecutor investigating a president could reach into Congress — and whether obtaining a lawmaker’s records amounted to investigating the lawmaker himself. Republican senators accused the former special counsel of using the federal investigations of Donald Trump to gather information about […] The post Jack Smith Hearing Puts Congress’s Role in Trump Investigation Back in Focus…","published":"2026-09-30T00:59:20Z","seen":"2026-09-30T01:24:20Z","lang":"en","country":"GE","source":{"id":"kite-finchannel-com-ac636a","name":"finchannel.com","domain":"finchannel.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q7776998","name":"The financial","type":"newspaper","designations":["newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-finchannel-com-ac636a","topics":["politics"],"authors":["The FINANCIAL"],"entities":[{"id":"Q869824","name":"Jack Smith","type":"person"},{"id":"Q22686","name":"Donald Trump","type":"person"},{"id":"Q10225","name":"Indian National Congress","type":"org"}],"story":"st_etnttjjgly7ffl7btixa","category":"politics","category_p":0.9399999976158142,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.17000000178813934,"political":0.949999988079071}]}