“Sen. Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the Senate Intelligence Committee will continue to receive in-person briefings from top U.S. intelligence officials about election-security issues, despite the Trump administration’s recent directive to effectively cut off the congressional intelligence panels. The Florida Republican, who serves as the interim chairman of the Intelligence Committee, told a local news outlet that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe had pledged to continue briefing the panel even as its Democratic-led counterpart in the House saw a previously scheduled briefing scrapped. Ratcliffe has said the move came after a recent spate of leaks of classified information. ‘It’s my expectation we will. I’ve been told that we will,’ Rubio told Spectrum News. ‘We are going to continue to schedule these briefings, as we do on a regular basis throughout the year, and we expect them to come in and to provide us that information and answer our questions in person’. Rubio added that “they can’t tell us they’re not coming in to talk to us” because the Senate Intelligence Committee oversees the intelligence community” Politico reports.