committed suicide. he had a placed a bag over his head and basically suffocated himself. interestingly, also, we learned from police that he left behind a suicide note where he explained why he was doing this, partially it's because he was ill, and also that he had a large life insurance policy and clearly wanted his family to get that money. but you know, this all obviously comes as there's all these different conspiracies about people close to russian -- the russian investigations, having died and so certainly this has some of the conspiracy theorists thinking that there's something else here. but we have no indication that that's the case, and police telling us that it does appear, unfortunately, that he killed himself. >> all right, thank you. back to our breaking news now. cnn learning more people attended a secret meeting at trump tower between top trump campaign officials and a kremlin-linked lawyer. besides that russian lawyer, a