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Tuesday, April 04, 2017 4:00:03 PM
Trump to meet with 'Putin's favorite congressman' as Russia story swirls
By Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 1:19 PM ET, Tue April 4, 2017
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, amid questions about his campaign's ties to Russia during the 2016 election, will meet with Dana Rohrabacher, a California congressman so well-known for his pro-Russia views that he has been referred to as Russian President Vladimir Putin's "favorite congressman."
Trump, according to his public schedule, will meet with Rohrabacher in the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon.
Ken Grubbs, a spokesman for Rohrabacher, declined to disclose the focus of the conversation, calling it "a general conversation at the President's invitation."
"We have nothing more than that," Grubbs said.
Rohrabacher, after operating as an anti-communism congressman during the end of the Cold War, has become a vocal pro-Russia voice in the Republican Party, regularly taking Russia's side in public debates and backing Trump's comments on the country.
He even has bragged about arm-wrestling and playing soccer with Putin during a trip Russian leaders made to the United States in the early 1990s.
"We started arguing about who won the Cold War. And so we decided to settle it like men do when they've had too much to drink in the pub. So we got to these arm wrestling matches, and I ended up being paired off with Putin," Rohrabacher said during a 2013 interview with KPCC, a California public radio station. "He's a little guy, but boy, I'll tell ya. He put me down in a millisecond! He is tough. His muscles are just unbelievable."
His meeting with Trump comes at a significant time for the administration: Two congressional committees are looking into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, and the FBI is looking into contacts between Trump advisers and Russian operatives during the election.
mpre - http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/politics/donald-trump-dana-rohrabacher-putin/
By Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 1:19 PM ET, Tue April 4, 2017
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, amid questions about his campaign's ties to Russia during the 2016 election, will meet with Dana Rohrabacher, a California congressman so well-known for his pro-Russia views that he has been referred to as Russian President Vladimir Putin's "favorite congressman."
Trump, according to his public schedule, will meet with Rohrabacher in the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon.
Ken Grubbs, a spokesman for Rohrabacher, declined to disclose the focus of the conversation, calling it "a general conversation at the President's invitation."
"We have nothing more than that," Grubbs said.
Rohrabacher, after operating as an anti-communism congressman during the end of the Cold War, has become a vocal pro-Russia voice in the Republican Party, regularly taking Russia's side in public debates and backing Trump's comments on the country.
He even has bragged about arm-wrestling and playing soccer with Putin during a trip Russian leaders made to the United States in the early 1990s.
"We started arguing about who won the Cold War. And so we decided to settle it like men do when they've had too much to drink in the pub. So we got to these arm wrestling matches, and I ended up being paired off with Putin," Rohrabacher said during a 2013 interview with KPCC, a California public radio station. "He's a little guy, but boy, I'll tell ya. He put me down in a millisecond! He is tough. His muscles are just unbelievable."
His meeting with Trump comes at a significant time for the administration: Two congressional committees are looking into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, and the FBI is looking into contacts between Trump advisers and Russian operatives during the election.
mpre - http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/politics/donald-trump-dana-rohrabacher-putin/
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