Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — A senior member of President Donald Trump’s personal legal team said Sunday that there was nothing improper in the meeting that Donald Trump Jr., the president’s oldest son, took with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. ‘‘I wonder why the Secret Service, if this was nefarious, why the Secret Service allowed these people in?’’ Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for the president, said on ABC’s ‘‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos.’’ ‘‘The president had Secret Service protection at that point, and that raised a question with me.’’ The Secret Service, however, said those at the meeting would not have been vetted, because the president’s son was not under the agency’s protection at the time of the meeting. ‘‘Donald Trump, Jr. was not a protectee of the USSS in June, 2016,’’ Secret Service spokesman Mason Brayman said in an e-mail to Reuters. ‘‘Thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time.’’ Initially, Donald Trump Jr. said the meeting focused on Russia’s moves to halt adoptions by American families, but he changed his story after new details emerged. E-mails released last week show that Trump Jr. believed he was meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer with possible ties to the Kremlin, who would provide damaging information about Clinton as part of a Russian broader effort to assist his fathe... Link to the full article to read more