Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Google: Your Thursday Briefing
_____ • Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, offered to give Congress a "record" of Mr. Trump’s recent meeting with the Russian foreign minister to show
that the American leader had not divulged any secrets — so long as Mr. Trump did not object.
Separately, our reporters uncovered that the Trump team knew weeks before the inauguration
that Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s first national security adviser, was being investigated for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for Turkey.
[The New York Times] • Macedonia’s president gave Zoran Zaev, the opposition leader,
the mandate to form a government, possibly ending a monthslong political standoff.
• The U.S. State Department condemned Turkey over a violent assault of protesters by security agents
and supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Washington.
[The New York Times] • Anis Amri, accused of killing 12 in a truck attack at a Christmas market in Berlin last year,
should have been arrested on drug dealing charges before the attack, the city’s top security official said.