by Itunuoluwa Adebo
President Donald Trump plans to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday.
According to the White House, the meeting will take place at 10:30 a.m. ET in the Oval Office and will be closed to press, Lavrov planned to be in Washington Wednesday to meet the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The State Department announced, Tillerson and Lavrov are scheduled to discuss Ukraine, Syria and bilateral issues.
Just after former FBI Director James Comey was dismissed Tuesday, unseating the man who is responsible for the bureau’s investigation into whether members of the Trump campaign team colluded with Russia in its alleged interference in last year’s election. Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates alerted the White House earlier this year that then Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn could be “essentially blackmailed by the Russians.”
