Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday released a chain of emails offering "high level and sensitive information" that would incriminate Hillary Clinton as part of "Russia and its government's support" for his father's presidential campaign. "If it's what you say I love it," Trump said in part of his response to the possible information in June 2016. The email exchange was with Rob Goldstone, a music publicist who worked with a Russian musician who has ties to President Donald Trump. It took place before the younger Trump met with a Russian lawyer who reports said was linked to the Kremlin. Trump Jr.: Here's my statement and the full email chain Trump Jr.: Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints). Trump Jr. said he released the emails "in order to be totally transparent" about the June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower with attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya. The New York Times, which first reported on the meeting, was set to report on details of the emails when Trump Jr. chose to release them. "To put this in context, this occurred before the current Russian fever was in vogue," the younger Trump said. "As Rob Goldstone said just today in the press, the entire meeting was 'the most inane nonsense I ever heard. And I was actually agitated by it.'"

The meeting matters because a special counsel and congressional committees are investigating Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin. The probe has dogged and frustrated President Trump since he took office, and he has denied collusion with Russia. In an exclusive interview with NBC News that aired Tuesday, Veselnitskaya denied she had Kremlin connections. However, in an email, Goldstone described his contact as a "Russian government attorney." The email exchange starts on June 3, 2016, six days before the meeting. Jared Kushner, Trump Jr.'s brother-in-law and advisor to then-candidate Trump, as well as then-campaign manager Paul Manafort, attended the meeting. The email chain Trump shared appears to have been forwarded to Kushner and Manafort. Trump Jr. previously said the pair was not aware of the substance of the meeting before it took place. The president's legal team has said Trump did not attend the meeting and had no knowledge of it. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday released a statement from the president regarding Trump Jr. and the emails: " My son is a high quality person and I applaud his transparency."