The Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, who Donald Trump Jr and other Trump campaign associates met with last June, suggested they were the ones who were looking for damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

'I never had any damaging or sensitive information about Hillary Clinton. It was never my intention to have that,' she told NBC News' Today show. 'It's quite possible that maybe they were looking for such information, they wanted it so badly.'

She denied working for the Russian government, in a segment of the interview that aired Tuesday morning, while also confirming the participants of the meeting when asked about the 'purpose' of the Trump Tower get-together by NBC's Keir Simmons.

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Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya confirmed her meeting with Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort to NBC News

In her first exclusive interview, the woman at the center of the storm - Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya - said she wasn't working for the Russian government

Sitting down with NBC News' Keir Simmons (left), Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya (right) said she never had any damaging information about Hillary Clinton to provide the Trump campaign

Donald Trump Jr met with Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower last June, just two weeks after his father wrapped up the Republican nomination

'I never knew who else would be attending the meeting. All I knew was Donald Trump Jr was willing to meet with me,' she said.

The Trump son, the Russian lawyer explained, only asked her one question.

'The question that I was asked was as follows: whether I had any financial records which might prove that the funds used to sponsor the DNC were coming from inappropriate sources,' she told NBC.

Veselnitskaya said she replied that had no such records adding 'it was never my intention to collect any financial records to that end.'

She also confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his campaign chairman Paul Manafort were in the room.

'I could recognize the young gentleman who was only present in the meeting for only the first seven to 10 minutes and then stood up and left the room. It was Jared Kushner,' she continued. 'And he never came back, by the way.'

'And the other individual who was at the same meeting, was always looking at his phone. he was reading something he never took any active part in the conversation,' she aded. 'That was Mr. Manafort.'

Last night the New York Times revealed that Trump Jr was allegedly told before his meeting with Veselnitskaya that the 'Russian government was the source of the potentially damaging information' in an email from British PR guru Rob Goldstone.

The newspaper's account is based on conversations with 'three people with knowledge' of what it contained.

It added: 'There is no evidence to suggest that the promised damaging information was related to Russian government computer hacking that led to the release of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails.'

The meeting took place on June 9 – weeks after Trump clinched the Republican nomination.

Veselnitskaya didn't say who initially set up the meeting while she was visiting New York for work, but told NBC she was met by Goldstone when she arrived at Trump Tower.

Don Jr's lawyer attempted to downplay the reports in a statement given to the Times on Monday, instead trying to shift the blame to Clinton.

'In my view, this is much ado about nothing. During this busy period, Robert Goldstone contacted Don Jr. in an email and suggested that people had information concerning alleged wrongdoing by Democratic Party front-runner, Hillary Clinton, in her dealings with Russia,' Alan Futerfas told the newspaper.

'Don Jr.’s takeaway from this communication was that someone had information potentially helpful to the campaign and it was coming from someone he knew. Don Jr. had no knowledge as to what specific information, if any, would be discussed.'

Donald Trump Jr was reportedly told via email the damning evidence he was hoping to receive on Hillary Clinton came from the Russian government

Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya last summer in Manhattan

PR guru Rob Goldstone (pictured) says he facilitated the controversial meeting between Donald Trump's son and a Russian lawyer who promised 'dirt' on Hillary Clinton

Goldstone posted this picture of himself wearing a t-shirt with 'RUSSIA' emblazoned across his chest after the election result

Goldstone also 'checked in' at 'Trump Organization' in New York City on June 9, 2016 - the day Trump Jr, Kushner, and Manafort met with Moscow-linked lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Based on the post, it appears as though he chose the wrong option title, which is why it says he is in Jakarta, Indonesia, but the location on the map matches up with Trump Tower

When the newspaper contacted Kushner and his lawyers about the new allegations, they 'deferred questions on the content of the meeting' to Trump Jr.

Manafort declined to comment through a spokesman who contacted the Times.

The potentially damning allegation comes after White House remained adamant the president's son did not collaborate with the Russians to secure a favorable outcome in November's election.

'The president's campaign did not collude in any way,' White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday during an off-camera question and answer session. 'I would certainly say Don Jr. did not collude with anybody to influence the election.'

Shortly after she finished, Reuters reported that Don Jr had hired criminal defense attorney Futerfas to represent him.

Donald Trump Jr confirmed he met with the Moscow-linked lawyer in a statement on Sunday

Donald Trump, Jr has hired criminal defense lawyer Alan Futerfas to represent him since the meeting emerged

Trump Jr, Kushner, and Manafort's meeting with Veselnitskaya came during a period of weeks when the Democratic National Committee was hacked, Wikileaks posted thousands of DNC emails, and Trump associates met with Russia's ambassador to the US.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is reportedly interested in speaking to Trump Jr, a committee source told NBC news.

WHO IS NATALIA VESELNITSKAYA? Lawyer known for waging harsh public campaign the 2012 Magnitsky Act

She is married to a former deputy transportation minister of the Moscow region

She is also the family lawyer for Denis Katsyv, the son of senior Russian government official Pyotr Katsyv

Katsyv's real-estate company Prevezon was under investigation by the Department of Justice at the time of the meeting

Prevezon allegedly laundered millions of dollars into New York City real estate

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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told reporters Monday that 'our intelligence committee needs to interview him and others who attended the meeting,' which took place in Trump Tower in June 9 last year.

'I think it’s appropriate that he does that to clear this up,' Democrat Jack Reed, a senior Intelligence and Armed Services member who has forged ties with members of both parties, added when speaking to CNN.

The committee is already probing contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russians last year.

Trump Jr defended himself Monday prior to the latest allegations surfacing, by claiming he 'had to listen' to the potentially damaging information.

He also appeared to contradict himself from earlier statements, in which he claimed he didn't know the identity of the Russian attendee before it happened and that the substance was about adoption.

The latest developments add further fuel to suspicions that officials with the president's campaign actively colluded with the Kremlin to tilt the election in their favor.

Ties between officials close to Trump and Moscow have drawn scrutiny from the FBI and Congress in light of assessments that the Russian government hacked the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's email account.

The wife of a former deputy transportation minister, Natalia Veselnitskaya is best known for her public attacks on American sanctions aimed at Russian human rights abusers

Rob Goldstone (left) is pictured during a meeting with Donald Trump (right) in Las Vegas in 2013. An email from him reportedly alerted Trump Jr to Russia's role in the Clinton 'dirt'

The White House was adamant Monday that President Donald Trump's son did not collaborate with the Russians to secure a favorable outcome in November's election

The goal was to sway the election toward Trump and away from Clinton, intelligence officials said.

Former FBI director Robert Mueller is leading the investigation as a special counsel into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to hack the election.

Both Russia and the Trump campaign deny this.

Veselnitskaya, is the wife of a former Russian government minister and best known for her public attacks on American sanctions aimed at Russian human rights abusers.

The Magnitsky Act imposed visa bans and asset freezes on Russian officials linked to the 2009 death in prison of Sergei Magnitsky, a 37-year-old Russian whistleblower.

Russia has demanded that the US repeal the legislation since its passage in 2012. President Vladimir Putin was so enraged by the law that he halted American adoptions of Russian children as retaliation.

The Times also reported over the weekend Veselnitskaya's clients include state-owned businesses and the son of a senior government official whose company was under investigation in the United States at the time of the meeting.

She said she hasn't enjoyed being the center of the news.

'Imagine yourself in my shoes. One morning you wake up and all of the sudden you're the focus of all the high ranking, upstream media of the world,' Veselnitskaya told NBC.

'To summarize, those were not the happiest days of my life, I have to say,' she continued. 'I have to break up my holiday, I have to take a trip back to Moscow, because I just wanted to be able to answer the questions myself.'