Donald Trump Jr.’s overeager response to a Russian intermediary’s offer for dirt on Hillary Clinton—“I love it”—essentially ensured that his subsequent meeting with Kremlin-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya would become a key focus for federal investigators. Trump Jr., his lawyers, the White House, and his father have all dismissed that meeting, which took place at Trump Tower in June 2016, as meaningless.

But in a two-and-a-half-hour long interview with Bloomberg in Moscow, Veselnitskaya offered a much more damning account of the meeting, in which she says Don Jr. hinted at a quid pro quo deal.

Veselnitskaya said Trump Jr. indicated that, if his father won the election, the Magnitsky Act—a retaliatory measure the U.S. leveled against Moscow, blacklisting suspected human-rights abusers—would be re-examined.

Veselnitskaya wants to share her account with the Senate Judiciary Committee on the condition that her testimony be made public. Lawyers for Prevezon Holdings Ltd. had earlier sought an order granting Veselnitskaya, permission to come to the U.S. for the hearing, which was denied. They then asked permission to have her call in, which U.S. District Judge William Pauley granted in a ruling late Monday.

Sounds like the Russians are angry they didn't get what they bargained for when Congress denied Trump permission to lift those sanctions. LOL.

Russian Lawyer Who Met Trump Jr. Will Be Allowed to Call Into Court Case - Bloomberg