WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has lauded the "transparency" of his eldest son over the release of a chain of emails showing a Russian source offering "sensitive information" about his White House rival Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the presidential election.In an email to 39-year-old Donald Trump Jr, who is in the middle of a political storm over his meetings with a Russian source, his music publicist Rob Goldstone said the information "would incriminate Hillary (Clinton) and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father". "Pending any investigation, no one who participated in the Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya should have access to any classified information, especially material relevant to our national security," Krishnamoorthi said.Senator Ben Cardin, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the email shows that Trump Jr clearly understood the intent of the meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya. WASHINGTON — The widening investigations into Russia's election meddling are drawing in more of President Trump's family members, as congressional leaders on Monday vowed to question the president's son about his meeting last summer with a Kremlin-linked attorney who claimed to have damaging information on Hillary Clinton's campaign. On Saturday, the day before conceding that the Veselnitskaya meeting indeed involved campaign interests, Trump Jr., initially said the session – also attended by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Kushner – was called to discuss Russian adoptions, which were halted by the Kremlin in retaliation for Congress' approval of a 2012 law which blocked suspected human rights abusers from entry to the U.S.

Veselnitskaya has been an aggressive advocate for repealing the law, named for Russian attorney Sergei Magnitsky, who was beaten to death in prison in 2009 after discovering fraud involving Russian tax authorities. In his statement Sunday, Trump Jr. said he was asked by an acquaintance he knew from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant to have a meeting with a person he was told might have information that would be "helpful" to the Trump campaign. "I was asked to attend the meeting by an acquaintance, but was not told the name of the person I would be meeting with beforehand." Special counsel Robert Mueller and the House and Senate intelligence committees are investigating Russian meddling in the election, thought to include stealing Democratic National Committee emails and the use of social-media bots to spread fake news about Clinton. Trump Jr. said it quickly became clear during the meeting that Veselnitskaya had no information he deemed meaningful, and that Veselnitskaya primarily wanted to secure the meeting to talk about a law pertaining to adoptions. The incendiary news of the meeting arranged by Donald Trump Jr is a grave development in the investigation of Trump officials' possible collusion with Moscow," she said.The New York Times, which first broke the story, said the emails show just how eager Trump Jr was to accept what he was explicitly told was the Russian government's help in his father's campaign against Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump Jr. discloses emails in which he and Rob Goldstone discuss gathering opposition research against Hillary Clinton through a June 2016 meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.