Article snippet: During a five-hour meeting with Senate Judiciary Committee staffers today, Donald Trump Jr. denied any wrongdoing in his meeting with a Russian lawyer during his father's presidential campaign, according to his prepared remarks, which were obtained by ABC News. In his statement, Trump Jr. said he took the meeting with the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya — on June 9, 2016, more than a month after Donald Trump Sr. became the presumptive Republican nominee — because he wanted to determine Hillary Clinton's "fitness" as a candidate. He said that he was skeptical about taking the meeting and that "as it later turned out, my skepticism was justified." "Nonetheless, at the time, I thought I should listen to what Rob [Goldstone] and his colleagues had to say. To the extent they had information concerning the fitness, character or qualifications of a presidential candidate, I believed that I should at least hear them out," Trump Jr. said in his statement, which was first obtained by The New York Times. Goldstone, a music publicist Trump met through the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Russia, set up the meeting, which was held in Trump Tower in New York. The meeting quickly turned from a confusing allegation about Russian-connected individuals funding the Democratic National Committee to the Magnitsky Act, which Trump had never heard of before that day, he said. "It was clear to me that her real purpose in asking for the meeting all along was to discuss Russian adoptio... Link to the full article to read more