First on CNN: Special Counsel investigators seeking info from 'eighth man' at Trump Tower meeting

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Washington (CNN)Special Counsel investigators are seeking information from the still-publicly unidentified eighth person who attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower, this person's attorney Scott Balber said Tuesday.

"The eighth person has been identified by prosecutors and we are cooperating fully with prosecutors as a result of the investigation. To preserve the integrity of the investigation we are declining to identify him at this time," Balber told CNN.

Balber said his client hasn't been interviewed yet and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators have not reached out about Emin and Aras Agalarov, whom he also represents.

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The eighth person has been described by sources familiar with the circumstances as an employee and US representative of the Agalarovs.

Balber said the individual is a long-time US citizen who speaks fluent Russian and has "never had any engagement with the Russian government in any capacity."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/eighth-man-trump-tower-meeting-russia/index.html

[Not Ruth]

1. Bannon or Trump?

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5. Neither.

"The eighth person has been described by sources familiar with the circumstances as an employee and US representative of the Agalarovs.

Balber said the individual is a long-time US citizen who speaks fluent Russian and has "never had any engagement with the Russian government in any capacity.""

[leftstreet]

2. I don't understand why his identity is still a secret

[SharonClark]

3. Good question.

[yellowcanine]

4. That "meeting" is sounding more like a workshop than a meeting.

Treason workshop?

[underpants]

6. This all sounds like a Grisham novel "Eighth Man" "The Russian Lawyer"

[herding cats]

7. It does indeed.

Except even Grisham might have had trouble imagining such a nefarious cast of characters!