Ivanka Trump told ABC News that she “barely” knew about the prospective Moscow deal that the Trump Organization pursued while Trump was also running for president, downplaying the significance of the project’s exploration.

Said Trump: “It’s not like it’s a strange thing, as a hospitality company or a development company, to have a hotel or a property in Russia. We’re not talking about Iran. It was Russia. And we weren’t even advanced enough that anyone had even visited the prospective project site. So it really was just a non-factor in our minds. I’m not sure that anyone would have thought of it.”

Asked if she has any concerns about any of her loved ones being entangled in the ongoing Mueller probe, Trump said: “I’m not. I’m really not.”

Ivanka Trump defended her use of a private email account for official government business in an interview with ABC News, insisting it’s different to the case of Hillary Clinton who was attacked by her father during the 2016 campaign for doing the same thing.

Said Trump: “All of my emails are stored and preserved. There were no deletions. There is no attempt to hide.”

She added: “There’s no equivalency to what my father’s spoken about.”

President Trump on Tuesday dismissed as “fake news” reports that his daughter Ivanka Trump may have violated federal law by using a personal email account to conduct government business, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “She wasn’t doing anything to hide her emails. There was no deleting like Hillary Clinton did. You’re talking about all fake news.”

Meanwhile, the Washington Post notes that Fox & Friends spent months blasting Clinton’s email use, but gave the Ivanka Trump story just 25 seconds.

“Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are planning on looking into Ivanka Trump’s use of a personal email account to determine whether she violated federal law,” The Hill reports.

A Democratic aide said that the committee is planning “to continue our investigation of the presidential records act and federal records act, and we want to know if Ivanka complied with the law.”

“Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules,” the Washington Post reports.

“White House ethics officials learned of her repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit. That review revealed that she often discussed or relayed official White House business using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner.”

“Some aides were startled by the volume of Ivanka Trump’s personal emails — and taken aback by her response when questioned about the practice. Trump said she was not familiar with some details of the rules, according to people with knowledge of her reaction.”

“Ivanka Trump abruptly left a conference call on Tuesday about a coming fitness event after receiving questions about her company’s trademarks in China and her father’s exercise regimen,” the New York Times reports.

“White House officials insisted that she had always been scheduled to leave.”

Washington Post: “On a small table in Ivanka Trump’s well-appointed office sit several pictures of her kids, a framed copy of Trump’s typed ‘Remarks Regarding the Capitol of Israel’ — signed ‘To Ivanka, Love Dad’ in the president’s oversized Sharpie scribble — and the lyrics to Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ handwritten to her by one of the songwriters.”

McClatchy: “Ivanka Trump — a senior White House adviser who is doing everything from lobbying the Senate on tax policy to representing her father at a G20 summit of world leaders — will pull in more than $1 million a year from the family business that has continued to develop luxury resorts across the globe during the Trump presidency.”

“Some of those Trump-branded developments are hiring state-owned companies for construction, receiving gifts from foreign governments in the form of public land or eased regulations and accepting payments from customers who are foreign officials.”

“Ivanka Trump’s continued relationship with the businesses affiliated with the Trump Organization creates countless potential conflicts of interest prohibited by federal law and federal ethics standards as she works as a special assistant to the president. And just like her father, she is being accused of violating the so-called emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution that forbids government officials — not just presidents — from accepting gifts from foreign governments without the approval of Congress.”

U.S. counterintelligence officials are scrutinizing one of Ivanka Trump’s international business deals, CNN reports.

“The FBI has been looking into the negotiations and financing surrounding Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver… The scrutiny could be a hurdle for the first daughter as she tries to obtain a full security clearance in her role as adviser to President Trump.”