Hey guys, this is Tamara Keith with a special quick take for your weekend listening.

So on the weekly roundup I mentioned I'd been working on a big story piecing together

the timeline of what happened in the campaign last year when Donald Trump Jr. received

that email offering Russian help for his father's presidential campaign.

The story will air Monday on morning edition, but there's a lot that we couldn't fit in.

So this is what you might call the director's cut.

And I've dragged one of my editors Phil Ewing into the studio to help out.

Hey Phil.

Hi Tam, thanks for having me.

Yeah, thank you for being here and welcome to the NPR Politics team.

Thank you.

And you specialize in...

Defense intelligence in lately Russia and it's been a whole lot of Russia.

Yeah, a whole lot of Russia.

So Phil, that email chain that came out, it sort of got us all thinking about the timeline,

about what was happening in the campaign at that time.

Yeah, it certainly did.

It's very odd to have a story in which you have all the information first and you have

to figure out later.

Usually the way it works is you're going along, you're putting pieces together, you're

like little ants taking little crumbs to your nest and trying to figure out what it

adds up to.

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