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Old 05-10-2017, 12:58 PM  
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Russian State Media Gets Access To White House Meeting While U.S. Press Kept Out

What is Trump thinking? Seems like a show of unity with Russia and Trump. What do you think?

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?It?s unprecedented,? says NBC?s Andrea Mitchell.

On the morning after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, he met with Russia?s foreign minister in the White House.

The White House declared the meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to be closed press, meaning that reporters couldn?t attend and cover independently.

But one outlet did get in: TASS, a Russian state media organization.

In addition, Russia?s foreign ministry quickly distributed photos of the Trump meeting with Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. And the Russian embassy even tweeted a shot of the president and Kislyak.

On the morning after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, he met with Russia?s foreign minister in the White House.

The Wednesday meeting was especially newsworthy given the timing and circumstances, with Comey having reportedly just asked for more resources to investigate Trump associates? ties to Russia and the earlier conclusion of the U.S. intelligence community that Vladimir Putin?s government interfered in the presidential election to boost Trump.
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