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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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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 …
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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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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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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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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Charles Krauthammer: Trump Jr. emails are evidence of ‘collusion’
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NBC News:
Former Soviet Counter Intelligence Officer at Meeting With Donald Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Russian Lawyer And The Lobbyist From The Trump Jr. Meeting Had A Busy Month In America Last Summer
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Dems want scrutiny of Ivanka Trump over Kushner's Russian contacts
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Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Trump campaign adviser admits they'd have erased Russian emails if they'd broken the law
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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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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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LawNewz:
LawNewz Prediction: President Trump Fires Special Counsel Robert Mueller Within 100 Days
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump to Hire Lawyer Ty Cobb to Respond to Russia Probes
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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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Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
DNC worried about voters unregistering in Colorado — Top officials in the Democratic National Committee are worried about a sudden drop in voter registrations in Colorado, concerned that President Donald Trump's new election commission is encouraging Democrats across the country …
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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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘Lie after lie after lie’: Fox News' Shepard Smith has a Cronkite moment on Russia … Between its “Fox and Friends” morning show and Sean Hannity at night, Fox News has become a haven for those who think this whole Russia thing is nonsense. On Friday morning, Steve Doocy even declared that …
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Media Matters for America:
Fox's Shepard Smith slams Trump lies over Russia meeting: The deception “is mind boggling” — SHEPARD SMITH (HOST): Fox News can now confirm new, more — Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, the lawyer from Russia, the interpreter, this new guy we found out about today, and a mystery person.
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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 …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The GOP's moral rot is the problem, not Donald Trump Jr. — The key insight from a week of gobsmacking revelations is not that the Russia scandal may finally have an underlying crime but that, as David Brooks suggests, “over the past few generations the Trump family built an enveloping culture that is beyond good and evil.”
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Moral Vacuum in the House of Trump
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New York Times:
Governors From Both Parties Denounce Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill — PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The nation's governors, gathered here for their annual summer meeting, came out strongly on Friday against the new Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, ratcheting up the pressure …
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Nevada governor undecided on health bill, will meet with Pence
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Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
In memo, Trump administration weighs expanding the expedited deportation powers of DHS — The Trump administration is weighing a new policy to dramatically expand the Department of Homeland Security's powers to expedite the deportations of some illegal immigrants.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pence will join GOP leaders for fundraiser benefiting his PAC — Vice President Mike Pence will join congressional GOP leaders later this month for a fundraising reception benefiting a newly formed, Pence-overseen political action committee. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
House Republicans weigh massive partisan spending bill
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Ryan Browne / CNN:
US kills leader of ISIS in Afghanistan — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)The Pentagon said Friday that US forces have killed Abu Sayed, the leader of ISIS-Khorasan, the terror group's Afghanistan affiliate. — The “Emir” of ISIS-K was killed “in a strike on the group's headquarters in Kunar Province …
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon announces death of ISIS leader in Afghanistan
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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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