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A powerful father-son dynamic has emerged amid the latest revelations about Russian involvement in the 2016 election and it isn't just Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Aras Agalarov and his son Emin Agalarov have become part of the saga in light of their connection and alleged involvement in the meeting between Trump Jr. and a Russian attorney.

In a closed-door speech to a right-wing legal advocacy group, Attorney General Department of Justice appears to have released to the conservative website The Federalist on Thursday. Earlier this week, Sessions spoke to the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was designated an “anti-LGBT hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2016, at their Summit on Religious Liberty in Dana Point, California.

President Air Force One on his trip to France Wednesday. Asked if he was "joking about solar," a suggestion he made in reference to the wall during a June campaign-style rally in Iowa -- and was included in the plans of at least one contractor submitting plans for the blockade -- Trump said there was "a chance" it could be done and that "major companies" are looking at it. "Look, there's no better place for solar than the Mexico border -- the southern border," said Trump, according to a White House transcript.

President Trump defended his son Donald Trump Jr. again for the controversial meeting he held with a Russian attorney during the campaign season last year, calling him a "great young man" and saying that "most people would have taken that meeting." Trump Jr. has drawn fire for the meeting, as well as an email chain in which he was offered damaging information from a Russian government source about his father's campaign rival, Hillary Clinton. In response, Trump Jr. wrote, "I love it," but recently said that nothing came out of the meeting.

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Posted at 7:31 pm on July 8, 2017 by streiff I missed this in the tumult of the past week but good news is always welcome. When Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was released by the Taliban in 2014 he was feted by the Obama administration despite ample evidence that he was actually a deserter. His parent were guests at a Rose Garden ceremony with Obama, himself.