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Report: Trump Associates Negotiate Peace Plan For Ukraine

NPR

Published February 20, 2017 at 12:52 PM EST

President Donald Trump leaves Marine One before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Jan. 26, 2017. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

New York Times reporter Scott Shane ( @ScottShaneNYT) joins Here & Now‘s Eric Westervelt to discuss the front-page story that Shane co-wrote, about how President Trump’s personal lawyer and a Russian-American business associate negotiated a peace plan for Russia and Ukraine that they hoped would end U.S. sanctions against Russia.

The deal comes amid several investigations of Trump’s pre-election links to Russia.

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