Aide's email draws scrutiny in Russia inquiry

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By Manu Raju and Marshall Cohen, CNN
Updated 7:31 PM ET, Wed August 23, 2017

Washington (CNN)Congressional investigators have unearthed an email from a top Trump aide that referenced a previously unreported effort to arrange a meeting last year between Trump campaign officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

The aide, Rick Dearborn, who is now President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, sent a brief email to campaign officials last year relaying information about an individual who was seeking to connect top Trump officials with Putin, the sources said ...

While many details around the Dearborn email are unclear, its existence suggests the Russians may have been looking for another entry point into the Trump campaign ...

Dearborn's name has not been mentioned much as part of the Russia probe. But he served as .. Sessions' chief of staff, as well as a top policy aide on the campaign. And investigators have questions about whether he played a role in potentially arranging two meetings that occurred between the then-Russia ambassador to the US .. and Sessions, who has downplayed the significance of those encounters ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politics/donald-trump-rick-dearborn-email-russia-investigation/index.html

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Oh my,the Elf appears to have

been in this up to his little pointed head.

[Amaryllis]

2. Yep. Are you as shocked as I am? Such a surprise. WHo would have guessed. None of us, certainly.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Followed Sessions over the decades.

This mental midget is about as dirty as they get and you just knew someday he would be found out just how dirty he really is.

[Achilleaze]

4. republican treasonweasels should be locked up

Call on them.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

[spanone]

6. K&R...