The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is questioning whether Blackwater founder Erik Prince potentially misled lawmakers during his testimony last fall about the purpose of his 2016 meeting with a Russian official with ties to the Kremlin.

Special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE is looking into efforts by Prince to establish a “back channel” between the Trump administration and the Kremlin during a meeting in Seychelles that took place before President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE took office, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

“That allegation if true would be very disturbing, considering that using Russian diplomatic facilities for a back channel would only be designed to hide those communications — not from the Russian government but from our own government,” Rep. Adam Schiff Adam Bennett SchiffTop Democrats call for DOJ watchdog to probe Barr over possible 2020 election influence Overnight Defense: Top admiral says 'no condition' where US should conduct nuclear test 'at this time' | Intelligence chief says Congress will get some in-person election security briefings Overnight Defense: House to vote on military justice bill spurred by Vanessa Guillén death | Biden courts veterans after Trump's military controversies MORE (D-Calif.) told reporters Thursday.

Schiff said he wants Prince to return for a second interview before the committee and turn over documents he initially pledged to provide.

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Prince told lawmakers investigating Russian interference in November that he met with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of a Russian sovereign wealth fund under U.S. sanctions since 2015, in an informal and somewhat impromptu manner, according to a transcript of his closed-door interview released last year.

“It was a matter of, ‘Hey, while you’re here, there’s a Russian guy that we’ve done some business with in the past, and it’d be interesting for you to meet him,’ ” Prince told investigators at the time.

The private security executive maintained that the real reason for his trip was to briefly meet with Emirati officials to discuss terrorism in the area as well as “conceptual-only stuff” on mineral-related business. He said the work was all unrelated to his support for the Trump campaign.

Prince described his involvement with the Trump campaign as both a donor and supporter who would occasionally write policy papers, dismissing that he had served the campaign in an official capacity.

The New York Times reported earlier this week that an adviser to the then-leader of the United Arab Emirates, who is cooperating with investigators, gave testimony to a grand jury last week as part of Mueller’s probe.

The cooperator, George Nader, also reportedly attended the Seychelles meeting. He is seen as a key witness who could offer fresh testimony about the circumstances surrounding the meeting.

Schiff, who also wants Nader to testify before the committee, said the Post's report and Prince’s testimony cannot both be true.

“If those reports aren't accurate, there is clearly a significant discrepancy between that version and what we heard in Erik Prince's testimony. Which is accurate? I don’t know and we should find out. Clearly, both can’t be true. It either was a back channel or it wasn’t."

After the November interview, Schiff characterized Prince's answers as incomplete and called for him to be subpoenaed.

“On the details of this meeting, Prince was less than forthcoming and sought to represent that his discussion with Dmitriev, which comprised a third of the time he was conducting meetings in the Seychelles, was merely coincidental,” Schiff said at the time.

The Washington Post initially broke news about the meeting in April, reporting that it was part of an apparent effort to establish a "back-channel line of communication."