Article snippet: Hillary Clinton. Critics of the president pointed to the emails as evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the presidential election. During his interview on "Hannity," Trump admitted the situation may have been mishandled, but he said that the meeting was "a nothing," and maintained that his father had no knowledge of the encounter. "There was nothing to tell," said Trump Jr. "I wouldn't have even remembered it until you started scouring through stuff. It was literally just a waste of 20 minutes, which is a shame." "I had been reading about scandals that people were probably under-reporting for a long time, so maybe it was something that had to do with one of those things," continued Trump. "I didn’t know if there was any credibility, I didn’t know if there was anything behind it, I can’t vouch for the information. Someone sent me an email ... I read it. I responded accordingly." Portraying his acceptance of the meeting with Veselnitskaya as a "courtesy to an acquaintance," Trump Jr. did not rule out the possibility that he may have had other meetings with persons from Russia during the campaign, but "not in the context of a formalized meeting." The president's namesake boiled down the encounter to a strategic decision in the course of the campaign. "For me this was opposition research. They had something, you know, maybe concrete evidence to all the stories I’d been hearing about … so I thin... Link to the full article to read more