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    More details revealed on Trump, Jr. meeting with Russian lawyer

    Donald Trump, Junior's meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya dominated headlines all week. Now comes another twist: A former soviet counter-intelligence officer, Rinat Akhmetshin, also attended that Trump Tower meeting.

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    KCRW placeholderBy León Krauze • Jul 14, 2017 • 1 min read

    Donald Trump, Junior's meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya dominated headlines all week. Now comes another twist: A former soviet counter-intelligence officer, Rinat Akhmetshin, also attended that Trump Tower meeting. Also reported this week is that the death of a GOP operative who tried to obtain Hillary Clinton's emails from Russian hackers -- is being treated as a suicide. Shane Harris, senior writer for the Wall Street Journal, has more on the White House's efforts to insulate the president from the issue as well as news of the suicide of another GOP operative.

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      León Krauze

      national news anchor, Univision

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      Katie Cooper

      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Evan George

      Director of Content, News

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      Shane Harris

      Washington Post reporter covering intelligence and national security

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Do we need to be 'scared straight' on climate change?
    1. 1:22More details revealed on Trump, Jr. meeting with Russian lawyerYou’re reading this
    2. 7:58Do we need to be 'scared straight' on climate change?
    3. 42:55Donald Trump's wall is looking more like a fence
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