Maine’s senior senator is calling for Donald Trump Jr. to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee that’s probing possible collusion between the president’s campaign and Russia during last year’s election.

Republican Susan Collins told reporters Monday the panel “needs to interview him and others” who attended a meeting in June 2016 in Trump Tower where a Russian lawyer sought to provide dirt on Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton.

Trump’s eldest son met with a Kremlin-connected attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, along with the campaign’s chairman at the time, Paul Manafort, and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The New York Times reported over the weekend about the previously unknown session.

Trump said in a statement that the woman “had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Mrs. Clinton.”

But, he said, her comments proves “vague, ambiguous and made no sense” and it “quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information.”

The Times said Trump agreed to the meeting arranged by a former British tabloid journalist who worked on the Miss Universe pageant, one of the businesses then-operated by the president.

Collins and U.S. Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent, each serve on the 15-member Senate Intelligence Committee that’s been looking into Russian interference in the election and whether there are any improper ties between President Donald Trump and Russia.

U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia engaged in a widespread effort that included hacking and propaganda in a bid to help Trump defeat Clinton in the presidential race. Whether Trump knew anything about it remains uncertain.

Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., confer on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, as the committee conducts a hearing on Russian intervention in European elections in light of revelations by American intelligence agencies that blame Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. 

 
AP