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Mr Trump Jr, Mr Kushner and Mr Manafort were in a meeting with a Russian lawyer last year
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.
Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort are suspected of having links with Russian officials.
Mr Trump and his allies have denied any collusion.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump said he would not have named Jeff Sessions had he known he would recuse himself from the probe.
In an interview with the New York Times, Mr Trump called the attorney general’s decision “very unfair”.
“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.
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 Sessions has not commented on Mr Trump’s latest remarks.
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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”.
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 second meeting between Mr Trump and Mr Putin was only confirmed by the White House after media reports revealed it.
BBC