Trump Jr.’s participation in that meeting has made him a focus of several probes, including special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation. Congressional Democrats believe that Trump Jr. may have lied to them during previous testimony about the meeting and whether he told his father about it — suspicions that were heightened after the publication of Mueller’s report.

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The report documented former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s recollection of a phone call between the then-candidate and his son, in which Trump Jr. told his father about a meeting to collect “adverse information” on Clinton. Cohen is serving a three-year jail term for lying to Congress and financial crimes.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) has expressed a reticence to explore perjury charges for Trump Jr., reasoning that if Mueller had access to the transcript of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s first interview with Trump Jr., he likely would have indicted him if there were reason to do so.

But the risk that others might accuse the president’s son of lying nonetheless complicated Burr’s efforts to bring Trump Jr. in for additional testimony. After it was revealed last month that the Senate Intelligence Committee had subpoenaed his testimony, several of President Trump’s congressional Republican allies took the unprecedented step of openly urging Trump Jr. to flout the committee’s summons or invoke his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refuse to answer the panel’s questions.

In the end, the deal Trump Jr. struck with the panel requires him to field questions on six broad topics, reduced from a list of 10. In addition to the Trump Tower meeting, the president’s son is expected to tell senators what he knew about the president’s plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow and how long into Trump’s campaign those efforts continued.

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Trump Jr.’s Wednesday interview on Capitol Hill was first reported by CNN.