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The Latest: Senate Democrat has questions for Trump Jr.

In this April 17, 2017 file photo, Donald Trump Jr., the son of President Donald Trump, speaks to media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. President Trump’s oldest son is expected to meet privately Thursday with a Senate committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump Jr.’s closed-door appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to focus on a meeting he convened with a Russian lawyer during the campaign. Emails released in July show Trump Jr. was told the meeting at Trump Tower was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father during the election. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
In this April 17, 2017 file photo, Donald Trump Jr., the son of President Donald Trump, speaks to media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. President Trump’s oldest son is expected to meet privately Thursday with a Senate committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump Jr.’s closed-door appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to focus on a meeting he convened with a Russian lawyer during the campaign. Emails released in July show Trump Jr. was told the meeting at Trump Tower was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father during the election. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) In this April 17, 2017 file photo, Donald Trump Jr., the son of President Donald Trump, speaks to media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. President Trump’s oldest son is expected to meet privately Thursday with a Senate committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump Jr.’s closed-door appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to focus on a meeting he convened with a Russian lawyer during the campaign. Emails released in July show Trump Jr. was told the meeting at Trump Tower was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father during the election. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

By Associated Press 2 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on Donald Trump Jr.’s private interview scheduled Thursday with Senate Judiciary Committee staff (all times local):

8:55 a.m.

A Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he wants to hear more from Donald Trump Jr. about his meeting with a Russian lawyer last year.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal says on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” he wants to know more, adding that it is “equally important” to learn what happened afterward. He says his fear is the meeting was a “prelude or overture to more coordinated activity” between the Trump campaign and Russia and says he wants to know if “afterward there was obstruction of justice.”

Staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, one of three congressional panels conducting investigations, plan to privately interview the younger Trump Thursday. Blumenthal plans to attend.