US President Donald Trump's eldest son has offered to talk to a Senate committee investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, after he acknowledged meeting a Russian lawyer during the campaign.
"Happy to work with the committee to pass on what I know," Donald Trump Jr wrote on Twitter.
Happy to work with the committee to pass on what I know. https://t.co/tL47NOoteM
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 10, 2017
Mr Trump Jr, as well as two other close associates of Mr Trump, met with the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, in June 2016 at Trump Tower in New York.
The younger Trump has said he agreed to meet the lawyer, who the New York Times described as having links to the Kremlin, after being promised damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Mr Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Mr Trump's then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, also attended the meeting, the Times said.
It described the encounter as the first confirmed private meeting between members of Donald Trump's inner circle and a Russian national.
Congressional committees and a special counsel, Robert Mueller, are investigating whether Russia interfered in the election and colluded with the Trump campaign.
Russia denies the allegations, and Mr Trump says there was no collusion.
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Earlier a Republican member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee called on Donald Trump Jr to testify to the panel.
"Our intelligence committee needs to interview him and others who attended the meeting," Senator Susan Collins told reporters at the US Capitol.
Aides to leaders of the Senate and House intelligence committees declined to comment about whether Mr Trump Jrwould be called to testify.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said today there was nothing inappropriate about the meeting with Ms Veselnitskaya.
In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters the Kremlin did not know the identity of the Russian lawyer.
