The Latest on the probes into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia (all times local):
12:05 p.m.
A music publicist says he set up a meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trumpās eldest son on behalf of a client in Moscow named Emin Agalarov.
In a statement to The Associated Press Monday, Rob Goldstone says the lawyer said she had information about purported illegal campaign contributions to the Democratic National Committee that she thought Donald Trump Jr. might find helpful.
Goldstone says Trump Jr. agreed to squeeze the meeting into a tight schedule.
Trump appeared in a music video with Agalarov in 2013. The video was filmed while Trump was in Russia for the Miss Universe pageant.
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11:40 a.m.
A senior Republican on the Senate Intelligence committee says the panel should interview President Donald Trumpās eldest son about a meeting he and other Trump associates had last year with a Russian lawyer to hear information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine told reporters Monday that āour intelligence committee needs to interview him and others who attended the meetingā as part of the panelās probe into Russian interference in last yearās election and possible collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.
Trumpās son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort accompanied Donald Trump Jr. to the Trump Tower meeting with Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Donald Trump Jr. said he was told the person he was to meet with might have information that would be āhelpfulā to the Trump campaign.
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11 a.m.
President Donald Trumpās eldest son is appearing to acknowledge that he took a meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential campaign to hear information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump Jr. says on Twitter that the meeting āwent nowhere but had to listen.ā He also downplayed the Trump Tower meeting, noting in a tongue-in-cheek fashion that itās common for members of campaigns to seek damaging information about opposing candidates.
Trump Jr.ās tweet is the latest shift in his explanation of the meeting first reported by The New York Times. Trump Jr. initially said the meeting focused on a disbanded Russian adoption program. A day later, he acknowledged he took the meeting because he was told the attorney might have information āhelpfulā to the Trump campaign.
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7:55 a.m.
The spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin is unaware of a meeting between Donald Trumpās senior staff and a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign where the Russian reportedly said she had information about Hillary Clinton.
President Donald Trumpās eldest son changed his account of the meeting he had with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign over the weekend, saying Sunday that Natalia Veselnitskaya told him she had information about Clinton. A statement from Donald Trump Jr. one day earlier made no mention of Clinton.
Asked about the reports, Putinās spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday the Kremlin does not know who the lawyer is and added that the Kremlin ācannot keep trackā of every Russian lawyer and their meetings in Russia or abroad.
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4:25 a.m.
President Donald Trumpās eldest son changed his account over the weekend of a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, saying Sunday that the woman told him she had information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.
A statement from Donald Trump Jr. one day earlier made no mention of Clinton. In his initial depiction of the meeting last June, the presidentās son said the discussion focused on a disbanded program that used to allow American adoptions of Russian children.
It appears that Trump Jr. shifted his account of the meeting after being presented with additional information from The New York Times, which first reported both the discussion and the prospect of negative information about Clinton.
Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
