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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Who was the Russian lawyer Donald Trump. Jr was going to meet?

    Donald Trump Jr. recently tweeted an email exchange in which he was promised incriminating information on Hillary Clinton via the Russian government. Those emails lay out plans for a meeting between Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya. She’s been described as both a Kremlin insider and also a low-level one-issue activist.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 12, 2017 • 1 min read

    Donald Trump Jr. recently tweeted an email exchange in which he was promised incriminating information on Hillary Clinton via the Russian government. Those emails lay out plans for a meeting between Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya. She’s been described as both a Kremlin insider and also a low-level one-issue activist.

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    The full episode

    1 of 5
    The Russian side of Trump Jr.'s meeting
    1. 0:00Who was the Russian lawyer Donald Trump. Jr was going to meet?You’re reading this
    2. 9:58Los Angeles tries fixing a really complicated problem: Homelessness
    3. 19:49Suburban poverty is getting worse
    4. 29:51LAPD's K-9 unit makes policing safer
    5. 41:38Inside LA's last two porn theaters
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