In an exclusive interview with Fox News‘ “Hannity”, Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged that he “probably would have done things a little differently” when he met with a Russian attorney during his father’s presidential campaign last year.

Trump Jr. said “This was pre-Russia fever. This [was] pre-Russia mania,  “I don’t think my sirens went off or my antenna went up at this time because it wasn’t the issue that it’s been made out to be over the last nine months, ten months.” He went on to describe the meeting “a nothing, I wouldn’t have even remembered it until you started scouring through this stuff. It was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame.”

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This was the first public statement the president’s son made since the New York Times reported he had been informed of the meeting with the Russian lawyer in an email.  Trump Jr. posted what he called “the full email chain” on Twitter, Tuesday, In one of the messages, Goldstone told Trump Jr. that Russian officials were offering “some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary [Clinton]” as part of “Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump”, Trump Jr.’s response – “if it’s what you say I love it.”

Trump Jr. said “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 think I wanted to hear it out. But really it went nowhere and it was apparent that wasn’t what the meeting was about”.

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The Russian attorney, Natalia  Veselnitskaya, in an interview told NBC News Tuesday that she did not have “any damaging or sensitive information about Hillary Clinton,” adding, “It was never my intention to have that”. When asked about his thoughts on her interview, Trump said he was “a little taken aback by her talking about me pressing for the information, but as you can see from the emails, the pretext of the meeting was, ‘Hey, we have information.'”