--- title: Donald Trump: Watch House Democrats Hold Presser on Russia description: House Democratic Caucus leaders will hold a press conference regarding President Donald Trump and Russia after a meeting canonical: https://time.com/4782038/house-democratic-caucus-trump-russia/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-17T13:23:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:57:55.870Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: House Democrats Hold News Conference on President Trump and Russia og:description: Watch the House Democratic Caucus news conference live at 10:30 a.m. EDT og:url: https://time.com/4782038/house-democratic-caucus-trump-russia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93b5d2ff8e6fcc35/6988cd9ffb4eacd9b6892063/gettyimages-681570504.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: house-democratic-caucus-trump-russia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: House Democrats Hold News Conference on President Trump and Russia twitter:description: Watch the House Democratic Caucus news conference live at 10:30 a.m. EDT twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93b5d2ff8e6fcc35/6988cd9ffb4eacd9b6892063/gettyimages-681570504.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: House Democrats Hold News Conference on President Trump and Russia > Sponsored content. 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Photograph by Russia Foreign Minister Press Office—Getty/Anadolu Agency by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra May 17, 2017 1:23 PM UTC House of Representatives Democratic Caucus leaders will hold a press conference regarding [President Donald Trump ](http://time.com/4781992/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-russia-congress-notes/)and Russia after a caucus meeting Wednesday. This comes after allegations surfaced that Trump [shared classified information ](http://time.com/4779986/donald-trump-russia-classified-information-isis/?xid=homepage)with Russian officials, which [Trump defended on Twitter](http://time.com/4780312/president-trump-russian-leak-tweet/) Tuesday morning, saying he had an “absolute right” to share information. The press conference is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. EDT. Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley of New York will hold the conference with Democratic Representatives Elijah Cummings of Maryland, Adam Schiff of California, Eric Swalwell of California, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, and Ruben Kihuen of Nevada. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi previously spoke out about the allegations [calling Trump “sloppy.”](http://time.com/4780306/nancy-pelosi-donald-trump-sloppy-russia-leak/) _Watch the House Democratic Caucus news conference live at 10:30 a.m. EDT._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4782038/house-democratic-caucus-trump-russia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4782038/house-democratic-caucus-trump-russia/"},"headline":"Watch Live: House Democrats Hold News Conference on President Trump and Russia","datePublished":"2017-05-17T13:23:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:57:55.870Z","description":"Watch the House Democratic Caucus news conference live at 10:30 a.m. EDT","url":"https://time.com/4782038/house-democratic-caucus-trump-russia/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93b5d2ff8e6fcc35/6988cd9ffb4eacd9b6892063/gettyimages-681570504.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93b5d2ff8e6fcc35/6988cd9ffb4eacd9b6892063/gettyimages-681570504.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"house-democratic-caucus-trump-russia","caption":"Russian FM Lavrov in Washington","creditText":"Photograph by Russia Foreign Minister Press Office—Getty/Anadolu Agency","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4782038/house-democratic-caucus-trump-russia/","name":"Watch Live: House Democrats Hold News Conference on President Trump and Russia"}}]}] ```