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President Hillary Clinton in the heat of the 2016 presidential race. In response, Trump wrote, “I love it.” The emails preceded a meeting with the lawyer. Also at the meeting were Donald Trump Sr.’s then-campaign chairman, Jared Kushner. In his interview on Fox with Sean Hannity, Donald Trump Jr.

Jared Kushner, also attended. In an interview that aired Tuesday night with Fox News'

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY THE TAKE with ABC News' Rick Klein The space between "I love it" and "I probably would have done things a little differently" is room enough for Donald Trump Jr. to have blown a hole in a year's worth of representations put forward by the now-president and the team around him. It's enough to galvanize the special counsel's office and congressional investigations into Russian meddling and all that it appears to have triggered in the White House.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories GROUND GAME For four days, the American political universe found itself captivated by the unfolding drama over a meeting that Donald Trump Jr. had with a lawyer connected to the Russian government. From Saturday until Tuesday there were shifting reasons given for the meeting, with more details emerging just about every hour. Now as the dust settles on an extraordinary news cycle, we’re left with one big question: Where do we go from here?

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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.

Posted at 7:30 pm on July 11, 2017 by Susan Wright New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is no friend to the New York Police Department, but that’s ok.