LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “President Donald Trump’s eldest son told congressional investigators Thursday [9-7-17] he agreed to meet a Russian lawyer last summer who he was told had damaging information about Hillary Clinton because he believed the meeting could shed light on the ‘fitness, character or qualifications of a presidential candidate.’
In a closed-door meeting with the bipartisan staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a Republican-run panel conducting an investigation related to Russian activity during the campaign, Donald Trump Jr. delivered his most in-depth statement to date about a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York with a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin. A copy of Mr. Trump’s statement was released by his spokesman…
The president’s son has previously said that no useful information came from the June 2016 meeting…
Mr. Trump said he had three ‘very short’ phone calls with Emin Agalarov, an Azerbaijani-Russian pop star who also helped arrange the meeting, on June 6 and June 7, 2016, but that he didn’t recall the content of the conversations.
The interview Thursday lasted more than five hours. Mr. Trump arrived and departed the Capitol without taking questions from reporters.”
-Byron Tau and Rebecca Ballhaus, “Donald Trump Jr. Hoped for Insights Into Clinton’s ‘Fitness’ From Russian Lawyer,” The Wall Street Journal online, Sept. 7, 2017 01:14pm