House Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 At indoor rally, Pence says election runs through Wisconsin Juan Williams: Breaking down the debates MORE (R-Wis.) dodged questions Wednesday about Donald Trump Jr.’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised she had incriminating information about his father’s presidential rival Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Momentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day Warning signs flash for Lindsey Graham in South Carolina MORE.

The speaker reiterated that it was “absolutely unacceptable” for Russia to interfere in U.S. elections and called himself a “Russia hawk.”

Asked whether he had concerns about Trump Jr.’s meeting with the Kremlin-connected attorney, Ryan sidestepped the question and shifted the focus back to Russia, which the U.S. Iintelligence community has determined interfered in the 2016 election.

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“It is absolutely unacceptable that Russia or any other country, but Russia, meddle in our elections. Just period. Right there,” said Ryan, who noted that Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller and the House and Senate intelligence committees are probing all aspects of the Russia situation.

“I think it’s very important that these professionals and these committees do their job so we can get to the bottom of this,” he told reporters at a news conference in the Capitol.

When another reporter followed up and asked whether Ryan would have taken a meeting with a Russian official who offered opposition research on a political opponent, the Speaker replied: “I’m not going into hypotheticals.”

“As you all know, I supported Bob Mueller being appointed special counsel. And I think we need to let him and his team and our investigators here follow these leads wherever they may go and follow the facts.”

Trump Jr. released a bombshell chain of emails Tuesday detailing how he came to meet with a lawyer allegedly connected to Russia.

The meeting in early June 2016 with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya included Trump Jr. and two central figures in President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE’s campaign: his son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

The emails with music publicist Rob Goldstone show Trump Jr. was lured into the meeting by the offer of “incriminat[ing] information about Hillary Clinton from Russian government sources.”