Donald Trump Jr has published a series of emails which detail how he came to meet a Russian lawyer offering damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

The emails spell out that Mr Trump Jr met the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, expecting that she would provide him with information, from the Kremlin, to harm Mrs Clinton. Mr Trump Jr said that he was releasing the emails "in order to be totally transparent" - but The New York Times said that they had obtained the emails and told Mr Trump Jr they were to be published. He then pre-empted the newspaper.

The emails contradict his assertions on Saturday that he initially believed he was meeting her to discuss American adoptions of Russian children.