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“I never had any damaging or sensitive information about Hillary Clinton," Natalia Veselnitskaya told NBC News. "It was never my intention to have that."

During the interview,Veselnitskaya was pressed on why Trump Jr. appeared to have the impression she had information about the DNC.

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“It is quite possible that maybe they were longing for such an information," she said.

"They wanted it so badly that they could only hear the thought that they wanted.”

Veselnitskaya also denied she had ever worked for or had ties to the Russian government.

The comments come after a report Monday that Trump Jr. was told before his meeting with Veselnitskaya that the damaging information promised about Clinton was part of a Russian government effort to help Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

The New York Times reported Monday that Rob Goldstone — the publicist who set up the June 2016 meeting between Trump Jr. and Veselnitskaya — told the eldest Trump son in an email that the potential information was coming from the Russian government in an attempt to aid his father.