Donald trump Junior has told Fox News that he didn't discuss his controversial meeting with a Russian lawyer with his father.
Don Junior had earlier released emails showing he was informed that a Russian attorney was promising dirt on Democrat Hillary Clinton, and that it was part of a Russian government effort to help his father in the 2016 US election.
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Speakng on the Fox program Hannity, Don junior denied his father had knowledge of last June's meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya...
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Following a week of revelations over his meeting with the Russian attorney - President Trump's son released the email chain which preceded it - the documents detailed the promise of damaging info on Hillary Clinton and made clear the material on offer was part of the Russian government's support for Donald Trump in race for the White House.
In the same interview with FOX Don junior said he might have handled things differently...
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His father, The US presdient, has been notably quiet since the bombshell report landed days ago.
Instead giving a breif statement to White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders to read out..
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The top Democrat on the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Congressman Adam Schiff says he will invite everybody who was in that Trump Tower meeting to testify in front of Congress - something Don junior says he happy to do.
Also inthat meeting was the US President's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and then Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort...
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Hillary Clinton's former running mate Tim Kaine went as far as to suggest Don junior's actions could change the scope of the Russia-related probe...
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There are now reports the emails in question will be examined as part of the The Special Counsel's investigation into possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia
President Trump continues to deny any campaign collusion with Moscow, but while he's desperate to shift the cloud of speculation over his White House, the actions of his own son have achieved the exact opposite.