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Donald Trump's son and aides to testify in Senate about Russia Donald Trump's son and aides to testify in Senate about Russia
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US President Donald Trump's eldest son, his son-in-law and his former campaign manager are to testify before Senate committees investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. US President Donald Trump's eldest son, son-in-law and ex-campaign manager are to testify before the Senate on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort are suspected of having links with Russian officials. Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort will be questioned about their links to Russian officials.
Mr Trump and his allies have denied any collusion. One key subject will be their meeting with a Russian lawyer last year.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump said he would not have named Jeff Sessions had he known he would recuse himself from the probe. Meanwhile, the president said he would not have named Jeff Sessions as attorney general if had he known he would recuse himself from the inquiry.
In an interview with the New York Times, Mr Trump called the attorney general's decision "very unfair". The president has also spoken about an until recently undisclosed conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a G20 dinner, saying it was mostly "pleasantries".
"Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else," Mr Trump said. The Senate, the House and a Justice Department special counsel are all investigating whether Russia interfered in the election to try to tip it in Donald Trump's favour. They are also investigating whether there was any collusion with the Trump team, which both Russia and Mr Trump have denied.
Mr Sessions recused himself from overseeing the Russia investigation in March, after failing to disclose at his confirmation hearing at the Senate that he had met Russia's ambassador to the US. Mr Trump Jr and Mr Manafort have been called to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Wednesday.
Mr Sessions has not commented on Mr Trump's latest remarks. Two days earlier, Mr Kushner is to answer questions in a closed-door session of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
In the same interview, Mr Trump also said that his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a dinner during the G20 summit in Germany this month lasted for 15 minutes and it was mostly about "pleasantries". The hearings will be the most high-profile since sacked FBI head James Comey gave testimony in June.
He also said they talked "about adoption", the New York Times reported. Russia banned Americans from adopting Russian orphans as a reaction to US measures against Russian officials accused of human rights violations. The three members of Mr Trump's inner circle attended a meeting in New York in June last year with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya after being promised damaging material on Mr Trump's election rival, Hillary Clinton.
The second meeting between Mr Trump and Mr Putin was only confirmed by the White House after media reports revealed it. A former Soviet counter-intelligence official, now a lobbyist, also attended the meeting,
Mr Trump Jr, who confirmed the meeting in a series of emails, said that no information on Hillary Clinton was provided.
The meeting is the firmest evidence yet of non-diplomatic interactions between Trump campaign aides and Russian figures.
On Wednesday, Ms Veselnitskaya told Russia's RT television channel she would also be willing to testify before the Senate on the matter.
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On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee said that it had called Mr Trump Jr and Mr Manafort to testify at a hearing on 26 July. President Trump, in an interview with the New York Times, again defended his son's actions.
Mr Kushner is due to answer questions at the Intelligence Committee on 24 July at a closed door session. He said he had spoken to a number of senators who agreed that if they had been called and offered information on an opponent, they would have attended such a meeting.
All of them attended a meeting last year with a Russian lawyer who had promised damaging material on Hillary Clinton, Mr Trump's Democratic rival in last year's US election, according to emails released by Mr Trump Jr. In the same interview, Mr Trump rounded on Mr Sessions.
A former Soviet counter-intelligence official, now a lobbyist, was also at the meeting, which took place at Trump Tower in New York on 9 June 2016. The attorney general recused himself from overseeing the Justice Department's Russia investigation in March, after failing to disclose at his confirmation hearing at the Senate that he had met Russia's ambassador to the US.
Several congressional panels and federal investigators are looking into claims that Russia interfered in the election in a bid to help Donald Trump. The president said: "How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, 'Thanks, Jeff, but I'm not going to take you'."
The meeting in New York is the firmest evidence yet of non-diplomatic interactions between Trump campaign aides and Russian figures. Mr Sessions has not yet commented on Mr Trump's remarks.
In the same interview, Mr Trump also spoke about his conversation with Mr Putin at the G20 dinner in Germany this month.
The conversation came to light only on Tuesday, with US media reporting it lasted an hour and was "animated".
But Mr Trump said it lasted for only 15 minutes and was mostly "pleasantries".
He said the pair talked "about adoption". Russia banned Americans from adopting Russian orphans as a reaction to US measures against Russian officials accused of human rights violations.
Did the Trump-Putin dinner chat break diplomatic protocol?