Donald Trump tweets support after son releases emails

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Donald Trump has sent out an encouraging message to his son&comma; who had a harrowing day after releasing a chain of emails about his meeting with a Russian lawyer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US president tweeted that Donald Trump Jr was <i>&&num;8220&semi;a great person who loves our country&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An email exchange posted to Twitter by Mr Trump Jr showed him conversing with a music publicist who wanted him to meet with a &&num;8220&semi;Russian government attorney&&num;8221&semi; who supposedly had dirt on Mrs Clinton as &&num;8220&semi;part of Russia and its government&&num;8217&semi;s support for Mr Trump&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The messages reveal that Mr Trump Jr was told the Russian government had information that could &&num;8220&semi;incriminate&&num;8221&semi; Mrs Clinton and her dealings with Russia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;I love it&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i> Mr Trump Jr said in one email response&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As the emails reverberated across the political world&comma; Mr Trump Jr defended his actions in an interview with Fox News&comma; blaming the decision to take the meeting on the &&num;8220&semi;million miles per hour&&num;8221&semi; pace of a presidential campaign and his suspicion that the lawyer might have information about &&num;8220&semi;under-reported&&num;8221&semi; scandals involving Mrs Clinton&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump Jr said the meeting &&num;8220&semi;really went nowhere&&num;8221&semi; and that he never told his father about it because there was &&num;8220&semi;nothing to tell&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;In retrospect I probably would have done things a little differently&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i> Mr Trump Jr said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Democrats in Congress voiced outrage and insisted the messages showed clear collusion&comma; with California Representative Adam Schiff&comma; the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee&comma; declaring that &&num;8220&semi;all of the campaign&&num;8217&semi;s previous denials obviously now have to be viewed in a different context&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yet Republicans &&num;8211&semi; who stand the most to lose politically from Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s Russia ordeal &&num;8211&semi; did not join in the condemnation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">My son&comma; Donald&comma; will be interviewed by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;seanhannity&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;seanhannity<&sol;a> tonight at 10&colon;00 P&period;M&period; He is a great person who loves our country&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Donald J&period; Trump &lpar;&commat;realDonaldTrump&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;realDonaldTrump&sol;status&sol;884931352201756672&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">July 12&comma; 2017<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he was confident Senate investigators would &&num;8220&semi;get to the bottom of whatever happened&&num;8221&semi;&period; And Senator Susan Collins&comma; a Maine Republican on the intelligence committee&comma; cautioned that the emails were &&num;8220&semi;only part of the picture&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump Jr&comma; who was deeply involved in his father&&num;8217&semi;s presidential campaign&comma; portrayed his decision to release the emails as an effort &&num;8220&semi;to be totally transparent&&num;8221&semi;&period; In fact&comma; they had already been obtained by The New York Times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hours after the son posted the emails&comma; the father rose to his defence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;My son is a high-quality person and I applaud his transparency&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i> the president said in a statement read to reporters by White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Although Ms Sanders declined to answer questions about the emails&comma; she stood by the White House&&num;8217&semi;s long-standing insistence that no-one in Trump&&num;8217&semi;s campaign colluded to influence the election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As congressional committees and Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigate&comma; the emails will almost certainly be reviewed for any signs of coordination with the Kremlin&comma; which the White House and Mr Trump Jr have repeatedly said did not take place&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the emails &&num;8211&semi; dated early June 2016&comma; soon after Mr Trump secured the Republican nomination &&num;8211&semi; music publicist Rob Goldstone wrote to Mr Trump Jr to connect him to Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya&period; Mr Goldstone wrote that the information &&num;8220&semi;would be very useful to your father&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;If it&&num;8217&semi;s what you say I love it especially later in the summer&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i> Mr Trump Jr replied in one of the emails&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Days later&comma; Ms Veselnitskaya met with Mr Trump Jr on June 9 at Trump Tower in New York&period; Ms Veselnitskaya has denied ever working for the Russian government&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e70017fb">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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