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		</div><p>US president Donald Trump has defended his son&#8217;s meeting with a Russian lawyer, saying it was standard campaign practice and maintaining &#8220;nothing happened&#8221; as a result.</p>
<p>The remarks in Paris, made in a joint news conference with French president Emmanuel Macron, came even though Mr Trump&#8217;s own FBI pick said a day earlier that authorities should be advised of requests to meet with foreign individuals during a campaign.</p>
<p>Donald Trump Jr also said he would rethink his own conduct in agreeing to the meeting in the first place.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I think from a practical standpoint most people would&#8217;ve taken that meeting. It&#8217;s called opposition research, or even research into your opponent,&#8221;</i> Mr Trump said.</p>
<p>Mr Trump Jr released emails this week from 2016 in which he appeared eager to accept information from the Russian government that could have damaged Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign.</p>
<p>The emails were sent ahead of a Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer that Mr Trump&#8217;s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner also attended.</p>
<p>Asked about the meeting, Mr Trump said &#8220;politics is not the nicest business in the world&#8221; and it is standard for candidates to welcome negative information about an opponent.</p>
<p>In this case, he added, &#8220;nothing happened from the meeting, zero happened from the meeting&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s support for the encounter stood in contrast to the position of his nominee for FBI director, Christopher Wray.</p>
<p>At his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, he was asked what candidates should do if told a foreign government wants to help by offering damaging information about an opponent.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation-state or any non-state actor,&#8221;</i> Mr Wray said, <i>&#8220;is the kind of thing the FBI would want to know.&#8221;</i></p>
<figure id="attachment_115061" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-115061" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/donaldtrumpjr_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/donaldtrumpjr_large.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="325" class="size-full wp-image-115061" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-115061" class="wp-caption-text">Donald Trump Jr.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Mr Trump Jr said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday night that &#8220;in retrospect, I probably would have done things a little differently&#8221;.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he would call on Mr Trump Jr to testify as part of investigations into Russian meddling in last year&#8217;s election and subpoena him if necessary.</p>
<p>Senator Chuck Grassley said he wants Mr Trump Jr to testify &#8220;pretty soon&#8221; and it could be as early as next week.</p>
<p>He said members are not restricted &#8220;from asking anything they want to ask&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Judiciary Committee is one of several congressional panels investigating Russian meddling in the US election, along with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.</p>
<p>US intelligence agencies have accused the Russian government of meddling through hacking in last year&#8217;s election to benefit Mr Trump and harm Mrs Clinton.</p>
<p>Authorities are exploring potential coordination between Moscow and the Trump campaign.</p>
<p>The June 9 meeting involved a lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, who was described to Mr Trump Jr as a &#8220;Russian government lawyer&#8221; who had incriminating information on Mrs Clinton.</p>
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