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Article snippet: (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. President Trump concluded his two-day visit to France on a high note. Following celebrations of Bastille Day and the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, Mr. Trump and President Emmanuel Macron of France warmly shook hands. But they remain in disagreement on climate change, immigration and trade. On his way to Paris, Mr. Trump offered his first extended account of his closed-door meeting with the Russian leader last week. Mr. Trump said he’d stopped questioning President Vladimir Putin about interfering in the election after he had denied it. “What do you do? End up in a fistfight?” _____ 2. The presence of a Russian lobbyist added a new twist to the evolving story about a meeting in June 2016 between Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, and a Kremlin-associated lawyer. Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-American lobbyist and former veteran of the Soviet army, above, said he participated in the meeting at the request of the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Conservatives in Congress, meanwhile, who spent years venerating President Vladimir Putin, seem to be willing to look the other way regarding evidence of Russian intervention in the 2016 election. _____ 3. The revised Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act has a new foe: the nation’s governors. State leaders at the National Governors Association mirrored their congressional counterparts, with co... Link to the full article to read more