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Rh the mining industry, and is big in Kazakhstan, a member of the trio, as they are called. And I believe that Moskovich (ph) also has connections to the Sapirs and the Arifs.

MS. SPEIER: He was one of the financial backers evidently of Bayrock.

MR. SIMPSON: Yes, that's right.

MS. SPEIER: And somehow, then associated with Trump Soho, or not?

MR. SIMPSON: Yes, absolutely. I think that that whole thing is -- there is a lot left there. I don't know if you have ever asked Ivanka Trump what she was doing in Kazakhstan, but she was there. So was Don Jr. I believe. She talks about it in her book. She doesn't say what she was doing there, you but she says she was there. I think she mentions eating a cow stomach.


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Q So Mr. Simpson, I just handed you a article entitled Talking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin from The New York Times. Do you recall reading or otherwise being familiar with this article?

A So I read the article at the time. I didn't realize that this was appended to the article. Is this from the article?

Q So in addition to the article, I have handed you a two-page memo that according to the article was a document provided by the office of Mr. Chaika, the Russian prosecutor, to an American Congressman in approximately April of 2016, paragraphs of which were also incorporated in the talking points that Ms. Veselnitskaya brought to the Trump Tower meeting.

And particularly, with respect to this memo, if you have a chance to look it UNCLASSIFIED, COMMITTEE SENSITIVE