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Mr. Okay. And you guys, had you talked before? Because, in this memo, you said, "Clapper wanted me to speak to the President-elect." So had you talked before this and kind of choreographed how the meeting was going to go and who was going to do what?

Mr. Yes. And we had briefed here on Capitol Hill that morning to the so-called Gang of Eight and the day before to President Obama and his senior national security team. So we'd done the briefing twice already.

And then General Clapper, who was the leader of the team, had explained to me how it was going to go at Trump Tower.

Mr. Okay. So you kind of orchestrated and choreographed how it was going to go at Trump Tower.

What did you brief the President on exactly?

Mr. There were two parts to this conversation. The second part was just the President-elect and I alone. The first part was the Director of National Intelligence reporting to him, Mr. Trump, and his team the results of the intelligence community assessment that we had briefed here on the Hill that morning and the President -- the then-current President the night before.

Mr. In that first part -- was there anything in that first part about the dossier?

Well, let me ask it this way. Was the dossier only briefed in the second part with you and the President-elect, just the two