President Donald Trump can be seen in a newly revealed videotape hobnobbing with the British-born music publicist at the heart of son Donald Trump Jr's sensational meeting with a Russian lawyer.

In the 2013 video, released Wednesday by CNN, Trump is seen dining in Las Vegas just two seats down from Robert Goldstone, who reached out to Donald Trump Jr. with the offer of dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Goldstone claimed the information had been obtained by pop singer Emin Agalarov, who is seen seated next to Trump in the video.

The footage, obtained by CNN, shows Trump fraternizing with Goldstone, Agalarov, and Agalarov's father, billionaire Agas Agalarov.

Caught on camera: Video footage emerged at the same time as the Trump denial of him chatting with Rob Goldstone, the British PR who set up the meeting between the Russian lawyer and Don Jr. Sitting in between them in Moscow in 2014 was Emin Agalarov, the pop star son of an oligarch who employs Goldstone as his manager

The video was shot in connection with the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, which the Trump Organization owned and which was held in Moscow.

It emerged just as Trump said in an interview with Reuters that until recently he was unaware of his son's meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, as set up by the Goldstone contacts.

Trump said on Wednesday he was unaware of his son Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last year with a Russian lawyer at the heart of a White House controversy, telling Reuters he only learned of it a couple of days ago.

Asked if he knew that his son was meeting with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June last year, Trump said in a White House interview: 'No, that I didn't know until a couple of days ago when I heard about this.'

Trump is seen seated next to pop singer Emin Agalarov, who is seated next to Goldstone, his manager at the 2013 Las Vegas dinner

President Donald Trump can be seen in a newly revealed videotape hobnobbing with the British-born music publicist Robert Goldstone, who reached out to Donald Trump Jr. to set up a meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer

Family affair: Emin Agalarov (left), his mom Irina - who was praised for her looks by Trump and (right) Emin's British-born manager Rob Goldstone backstage at the 2013 Miss Universe in Moscow

Meet the family: Aras Agalarov (center) was seen at the 2013 Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas, with (left) his son Emin and (right) Rob Glodstone. It was part of their campaign to woo Trump

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One of the video clips shows Trump flattering the Agalarovs before dinner.

'Whoa, look at this! Now I'm glad we're going to dinner,' Trump says after meeting their mom and sister, according to CNN. 'What a beautiful mother you have! Well, you produce good looking stuff, right? Beautiful stuff.'

Trump hailed the Agalarovs the following day at the pageant. 'These are the most powerful people in all of Russia, the richest men in Russia,' Trump says.

Trump calls Russia a 'great country' but says the relationship can be improved.

'It really is a great country. It's a very powerful country that we have a relationship with, but I would say not a great relationship, and I would say this can certainly help that relationship. I think it's very important,' Trump says in response to a question.

He said having the pageant in Moscow, for which he got paid millions, was a form of 'detente.'

'I have great respect for Russia. And to have the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, in the most important location, the most beautiful building, in your convention center, with such amazing partners, I mean it's going to be fantastic for detente, or whatever you want to say,' Trump said. 'I think it's a great thing for both countries, and honestly they really wanted it in Russia -- badly. ... Politically they wanted it.'

Trump Jr. eagerly agreed to meet the woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as part of Moscow's official support for his father's presidential election campaign, according to emails the son released on Tuesday.

In the interview, Trump said he did not fault his son for holding the meeting. 'I think many people would have held that meeting,' the president said.

The emails were the most concrete evidence that Trump campaign officials welcomed Russian help to win the 2016 election, a subject that has cast a cloud over Trump's presidency and prompted investigations by the U.S. Justice Department and Congress.

In Wednesday's interview, Trump also said he directly asked Russian President Vladimir Putin if he was involved in what U.S. intelligence says was Russian meddling in the presidential campaign and that Putin had insisted he was not.

Trump said he spent the first 20 or 25 minutes of his more than two-hour meeting with Putin last Friday in Germany on the election meddling subject.

'I said, did you do it? And he said no, I did not. Absolutely not. I then asked him a second time in a totally different way. He said absolutely not,' Trump said.

Trump doubled down on his support for his son Donald Trump Jr on Wednesday, saying that attacks against him and the administration were the 'greatest Witch Hunt in political history'.

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks with ABC's 'Good Morning America' about meeting with Donald Trump Jr. in footage aired Wednesday

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks ABC's 'Good Morning America' about meeting with Donald Trump Jr. in footage aired Wednesday

Trump said that his son did a 'good job' on Fox News, where Trump Jr admitted he 'would have done things differently' after it was revealed he met with a Russian-linked lawyer with the hopes of getting 'dirt' on Hillary Clinton.

He then slammed 'Fake News', saying that anonymous sources were 'made up and do not exist'.

'My son Donald did a good job last night. He was open, transparent and innocent. This is the greatest Witch Hunt in political history. Sad!' he said in a tweet on Wednesday morning.

He tweeted that his White House is functioning 'perfectly' after a series of reports his administration has been rocked by the latest revelations in the Russia scandal.

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'The W.H. is functioning perfectly, focused on HealthCare, Tax Cuts/Reform & many other things. I have very little time for watching T.V.' the president tweeted, just as a Senate hearing for the replacement for fired FBI director James Comey got underway.

The president's media offensive comes after a day when he mostly left it to Trump Jr to defend himself.

Trump Jr was interviewed by Fox News' Sean Hannity - a staunch supporter of Donald Trump - on Tuesday night, hours after it was revealed special counsel Robert Mueller is keen on reviewing the president's son's emails.

Trump tweeted that he was 'focused on' health care and tax cuts, as the White House hunkered down amid new Russia revelations

Hours earlier, Trump tweeted that his son 'did a good job last night' in an appearance on Fox News with Sean Hannity

In what was his first appearance since the scandal broke in the New York Times over the weekend, Don Jr attempted to explain away his meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya on June 9 last year.

'In retrospect I probably would have done things a little differently. Again this is before the Russia mania, this is before they were building this up in the press,' Trump Jr told Hannity in the Fox News sit-down.

'For me this was opposition research, they had something you know maybe concrete evidence to all the stories I'd been hearing about, probably under reported for years not just during the campaign so I think I wanted to hear it out.