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Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

2002 for Friday, June 29th. In today's news, a gunman kills five at a newsroom in Annapolis.

President Trump summons two pro-choice Republican women to the White House

to talk about the Supreme Court, and tensions are growing within ice.

But first, the big idea.

The bad boys of Brexit had ties to Russia.

When British voters were deciding whether Great Britain should exit the European Union in the summer of 2016,

American observers saw many similarities between the so-called Brexit campaign and the presidential

campaign of Donald Trump. Both were populist insurgencies that focused on reducing immigration

and emphasized the importance of national sovereignty.

The leaders of the Brexit movement even served as informal advisors to Trump

and traveled to the US to speak at his rallies.

Here's the leading Brexit politician Nigel Farage addressing the Conservative political action conference, a few weeks after Trump's inauguration.

Our real friends in the world speak English, have common law and stand by us in times of crisis.

But we've now learned of another link between the Brexit campaigners and the Trump campaign.

Internal emails and texts show that at the same time, some of these key supporters of Brexit

were becoming very close, very chummy, with the Russian ambassador in London.

And they told us that they eventually had four in-person meetings.

That's my colleague Roz Helderman who helped break this story.

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