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ABC News reports:

The White House announced Saturday that it has hired attorney Ty Cobb who, as a White House official confirmed earlier to ABC News, will serve as part of an internal legal team to manage matters related to the ongoing investigations into Russian election interference and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.

Cobb — a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Hogan Lovells, where he focuses on white-collar crime, and a former federal prosecutor — will handle the administration’s media responses to the Russian-meddling inquiries and coordinate with President Donald Trump’s outside counsel, Marc Kasowitz. Cobb is said to be related to the deceased baseball Hall of Famer of the same name.