From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.

Today, President Trump is calling on the Justice Department to open an investigation into

itself. Instead, the Justice Department is giving the president's team access to evidence

being used in the special counsel's investigation. Why would it do that? It's Tuesday, May 22.

The president really using Twitter this morning to slam the New York Times and air his grievances

and frustrations.

Meanwhile, a new bombshell New York Times article, there's a big debate raging and more

follow-up continues from it.

The president is back on Twitter, he's lashing out of the Justice Department and also at

The New York Times, this over a new report about a previously unreported meeting at Trump

Tower with the foreign country.

So the Times published a story over the weekend that looked at a different Trump Tower meeting

than the one we've all become familiar with, where Donald Trump Jr. met with Russians

who were promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Julie Davis covers the White House for the Times.

This time, the meeting was with officials from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

And they are discussions with the Trump campaign officials about potentially helping out the

campaign.

The reason it matters is because it's the first indication that we have that Mueller is

not just looking at whether the Trump campaign worked with Russians during the election season,

but also whether they may have worked with other foreign governments who are either offering

up or actually providing help to Donald Trump and whether they were also coordinating with

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