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The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants the nation's top intelligence officials to turn over documents that describe their conversations with President Trump on Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the committee's ranking member, sent separate letters to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers requesting documents, recordings, memos, notes and communications related to their conversations with the president or other White House staff about the investigations into Russia's role in the election.

The Maryland Democrat's requests follow a Washington Post report from earlier this month that said Trump asked Rogers and Coats to deny any existence of collusion between Trump's campaign associates and Russia.

The president asked the two top intelligence officials to help him push back against the FBI's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election, according to the Washington Post.

Both Coats and Rogers refused Trump's requests.

"The report ... stated that the president urged both of you 'to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of collusion durign the 2016 election,' but that you refused these requests, which you 'both deemed to be inappropriate,'" Cummings wrote.

Previous reports suggest Rogers and his staff may have memorialized his conversations with the president.

A senior official at the National Security Agency reportedly detailed Rogers' conversation with Trump about the Russia investigation in an internal memo.

Additionally, Coats said during congressional testimony earlier this month he would provide information about his conversation with Trump to a congressional "investigatory committee."

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