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🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Newly released emails from June of 2016 show Donald Trump Jr arranged a meeting with a person he was told represented the Russian government and wanted to supply information that would be politically damaging to Hillary Clinton. Presidential advisor Jared Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort also attended the meeting. This episode: host/White House correspondent Tamara Keith, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and political editor Domenico Montanaro. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Paula Poundstone here.
0:02.2	I hate to interrupt, but maybe you might like to listen to my new show,
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0:11.4	It's like hidden brain, except our brains are really well hidden.
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0:22.9	It's the NPR Politics podcast here at about 145 PM East Coast time on Tuesday,
0:29.0	and we have a lot to talk about.
0:31.6	I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House for NPR.
0:34.0	I'm Carrie Johnson, Justice Correspondent,
0:35.9	and I'm Dominican Montenegro Political Editor.
0:38.0	Okay, so at 11 o'clock on the dot this morning,
0:41.1	Donald Trump Jr. released an email chain that memorializes an apparent indirect offer
0:47.1	to help the Trump campaign by the Russian government.
0:50.2	It is all right there in writing, and it's so remarkable that I just want to read the whole email now.
0:57.1	This is a message that Don Jr. received on June 3rd, 2016.
1:02.8	It came from a publicist named Rob Goldstone, who represents a Russian singer,
1:09.6	Eman.
1:10.3	Yeah, so Eman E. Galerov, who is the son of Arisa Galerov,
1:14.7	somebody who Donald Trump Sr. had a business partnership with because of Miss Universe in 2013,
1:20.9	and who he was going to go into business with to create a Trump Tower Moscow.
1:25.7	Okay, so those are the names we need to know.
1:28.4	Here we go, from Rob Goldstone.
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