Claude Taylor's Twitter indicates that the meetings with the lawyer were taped by IC ("had ears on" the attorney). I don't believe for a second she is not an agent of the Russian gov. intelligence/Kremlin. There is also conjecture the meeting w/Putin was likely taped (by the Belgians), or transcripts made by a person present int he room- just like the meeting he had with Kisylak and Lavrov in the WH. First, the NYT must have had a copy of the email chain or DTJr would not have released it the way he did. Second, the IC and Congressional investigative committee has way more information on this per Rep Schiff. There are others who conjecture that the Trumps taped this meeting for Trump's use as hours later he announced that there was much that would be revealed soon irt Clinton's emails. Then today: Peter Smith, GOP operative who sought Clinton's emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide.
"However, the Chicago Tribune obtained a Minnesota state death record filed in Olmsted County saying Smith committed suicide in a hotel near the Mayo Clinic at 1:17 p.m. on Sunday, May 14. He was found with a bag over his head with a source of helium attached. A medical examiner's report gives the same account, without specifying the time, and a report from Rochester police further details his suicide.
In the note recovered by police, Smith apologized to authorities and said that "NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER" was involved in his death. He wrote that he was taking his own life because of a "RECENT BAD TURN IN HEALTH SINCE JANUARY, 2017" and timing related "TO LIFE INSURANCE OF $5 MILLION EXPIRING."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-peter-smith-death-met-0713-20170713-story.html I find this suspect as life insurance would not be payable on a suicide.
Oh and this from yesterday on AF1 with the reporters on the flight to France:
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he may have previously heard about his son and top campaign staff meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016, a stunning contradiction of his earlier statements on the matter.
A second, private, G20 meeting between Trump and Putin has now been reported. Story says that the only people in the room were Putin, his Russian interpreter, and Trump.