Donald Trump Jr. to testify behind closed doors to the Senate Judiciary Committee

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The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmed on Tuesday that a date has been set for Donald Trump Jr. to privately testify in front of the panel.

The committee wouldn't say when he'll appear, but a person familiar with the matter told Politico it would likely happen in the "next few weeks." Trump Jr. is expected to be asked about the meeting he had in June 2016 inside Trump Tower with a Kremlin-linked lawyer and several other Russians; emails show that Trump Jr. was promised damaging information on his father's opponent, Hillary Clinton, courtesy of the Russian government as a show of support for Trump.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.