Donald Trump Jr. said Tuesday that he never told his father about a meeting last year with a Russian lawyer who reportedly offered the Trump campaign dirt on 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.

"It was just a nothing. There was nothing to tell," the younger Trump told Fox News's Sean Hannity. "I mean, I wouldn’t have even remembered it until you started scouring through this stuff. It was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame."

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 eldest son released a chain of emails earlier Tuesday revealing that Trump Jr. had agreed to meet with a Russian lawyer who promised what an intermediary described as "information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father."

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Publicist Rob Goldstone, who acted as the intermediary to set up the meeting, told Trump Jr. that the information was "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."

But Trump Jr. said that he received nothing of value from the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, and that she primarily talked about a Russian law barring American families from adopting Russian children.

Trump Jr. told Hannity that he thought the information offered was simply opposition research that could have helped his father's campaign. But that meeting provided no such information, he said.

"Someone sent me an email. I can’t help what someone sends me," he said. "I read it, I responded accordingly, and if there was something interesting there, I think that’s pretty common."