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Trump Tower Russia meeting: At least eight people in the room — CNN Special Report “The First Son: The Life of Donald Trump Jr.” airs Friday at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT. — Washington (CNN)The June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort included at least eight people.
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NBC News:
Former Soviet Counter Intelligence Officer at Meeting With Donald Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer — WASHINGTON — The Russian lawyer who met with the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counter …
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Just Six Days After Trump Jr.'s Meeting, Guccifer 2.0 Emailed Me — But There Was One Key Difference — After 39 years of operating without an apparent conceptual understanding of “consequences,” this week Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out an email thread admitting to soliciting the help …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Team Met Russian Accused of International Hacking Conspiracy … The alleged former Soviet intelligence officer who attended the now-infamous meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and other top campaign officials last June was previously accused in federal and state courts of orchestrating an international hacking conspiracy.
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Rolf Mowatt-Larssen / Washington Post:
Trump Jr.'s Russia meeting sure sounds like a Russian intelligence operation — Rolf Mowatt-Larssen is the director of the Intelligence and Defense Project at Harvard's Belfer Center. He served for three years as director of intelligence and counterintelligence at the Department of Energy …
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Wall Street Journal:
Russian Lawyer Who Trump Jr. Met Says She Was in Contact With Top Russian Prosecutor — In interview, Natalia Veselnitskaya says she talked with Kremlin-appointed official about U.S. sanctions law — WASHINGTON—The Russian lawyer whom Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort met …
HuffPost:
Also At Trump Jr.-Russia Meeting: An Ex-U.S. Government Worker With Liberal Views — Investigators won't say if they've spoken to Anatoli Samochornov, a witness to the event everyone is talking about. — WASHINGTON When President Donald Trump's son, son-in-law and campaign chairman met …
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Charles Krauthammer: Trump Jr. emails are evidence of ‘collusion’
Charles Krauthammer: Trump Jr. emails are evidence of ‘collusion’
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Foreign Policy:
Private Email of Top U.S. Russia Intelligence Official Hacked
Private Email of Top U.S. Russia Intelligence Official Hacked
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Grace Wyler / BuzzFeed:
Trump Blamed Loretta Lynch For Letting A Russian Lawyer Into The US. Here's How She Actually Got In.
Trump Blamed Loretta Lynch For Letting A Russian Lawyer Into The US. Here's How She Actually Got In.
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Jack O'Donnell / Vox:
Trump put family first when I worked for him. It was disastrous.
Trump put family first when I worked for him. It was disastrous.
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Washington Post:
Russian American lobbyist was present at Trump Jr.'s meeting with Kremlin-connected lawyer
Russian American lobbyist was present at Trump Jr.'s meeting with Kremlin-connected lawyer
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Trump campaign adviser admits they'd have erased Russian emails if they'd broken the law
Trump campaign adviser admits they'd have erased Russian emails if they'd broken the law
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Dems want scrutiny of Ivanka Trump over Kushner's Russian contacts
Dems want scrutiny of Ivanka Trump over Kushner's Russian contacts
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Lynch distances herself from Russian lawyer after Trump attack
Lynch distances herself from Russian lawyer after Trump attack
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Russian Lawyer Reportedly Offered Dirt On DNC Just Days Before Document Dump
Russian Lawyer Reportedly Offered Dirt On DNC Just Days Before Document Dump
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
White House shakes up legal team as probe gathers steam … Under intensifying fire over its handling of the Russia investigations, the White House is shaking up its legal team, bringing on board a veteran Washington criminal defense lawyer just as another high-profile attorney turns …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Kushner's lawyer dropping out of representing him: report — Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner's lawyer is stepping back from representing him as the probe into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia evolves, according to a new report. — The National Law Journal reported …
Wall Street Journal:
Startup That Got a Seat at White House Roundtable Is Part-Owned by Kushner Family — Venture-capital firm run by Kushner's brother partly owns OpenGov, whose CEO last month attended summit with Donald Trump, leaders of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft — Prominent technology-industry leaders …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump to Hire Lawyer Ty Cobb to Respond to Russia Probes — Cobb to join White House to oversee legal and media responses — Attorney is relative of baseball legend of same name — President Donald Trump plans to put a veteran Washington lawyer, Ty Cobb, in charge of overseeing …
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Brian Eason / Denver Post:
More than 3,000 Colorado voters have canceled their registrations since Trump election integrity commission request — The withdrawals began in earnest earlier this month, after a presidential advisory commission on election integrity requested publicly available voter information from all 50 states.
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
White House releases sensitive personal information of voters worried about their sensitive personal information — The White House on Thursday made public a trove of emails it received from voters offering comment on its Election Integrity Commission. The commission drew widespread criticism …
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Jim Tankersley / Vox:
The Senate health care bill is getting dangerous for Donald Trump — It's alienating a crucial chunk of his supporters. — There have been, for most of the past six months, two kinds of Americans: one group that was confident that President Trump was going to make their lives better, and one group that never believed that.
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Nevada governor undecided on health bill, will meet with Pence
Nevada governor undecided on health bill, will meet with Pence
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Christopher Jacobs / The Federalist:
Here Are 5 Backroom Deals Inside The Latest Senate Health-Care Bill
Here Are 5 Backroom Deals Inside The Latest Senate Health-Care Bill
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Moral Vacuum in the House of Trump — Donald Trump's grandfather Friedrich emigrated to the United States when he was 16, in 1885. He ventured west to seek his riches and finally settled in Seattle, where he opened a restaurant that, according to family historian Gwenda Blair, likely included a section for a bordello.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The GOP's moral rot is the problem, not Donald Trump Jr.
The GOP's moral rot is the problem, not Donald Trump Jr.
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The Projection President — In Paris on Thursday, Donald Trump said, “A lot of people don't know” that “France is America's first and oldest ally.” That may be true. But commentators noted that when Trump uses the “a lot of people don't know” formulation, it's usually a sign that he didn't know himself.
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
A second-by-second analysis of the Trump-Macron handshake — (CNN)President Donald Trump added to the growing lore of his handshakes with world leaders on Friday in France when he and French president Emmanuel Macron spent 29 seconds in a shake that turned into something much, much more.
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Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
House Republicans weigh massive partisan spending bill — House GOP leaders will decide next week whether to brave an ugly floor fight over a massive GOP spending bill — a proposal applauded by some rank-and-file Republicans but that risks embarrassment if it fails.
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Judge Tosses Jury's Conviction Of Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions, Orders New Trial — A D.C. judge tossed out the conviction of a woman arrested after laughing during Sessions' Senate confirmation hearing. — WASHINGTON A D.C. judge has tossed out a jury's conviction of a protester …
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
A 39-year-old man is mysteriously still a ‘kid’ — All children, except two, grow up: Peter Pan and Donald Trump Jr. — “He's a good boy,” President Trump said of his scandal-engulfed son, in remarks that started off the record and then became on the record, apparently because he liked them so much.
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Alan Gomez / USA Today:
First DREAMer deported under Trump files court documents disputing administration's account — Lawyers for the only known DREAMer deported by the Trump administration filed supporting statements in court Friday from people on both sides of the Mexican border who corroborate Juan Manuel Montes' account …
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Billy House / Bloomberg:
Roger Stone's Testimony in House Russia Probe Delayed After Radio Tirade — Former Trump campaign adviser Stone was to testify July 24 — Stone had called Democrat on panel a ‘yellow-bellied coward’ — The House Intelligence Committee has postponed the scheduled July 24 closed-door testimony …