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Rh things that either couldn't be verified or might be the subject of Russian disinformation.

Is there anything now, with the benefit of hindsight with the allegations that have become public, that would cause you now to think, well, actually, what he came up with that we excluded from the report may have been accurate after all?

MR. SIMPSON: No. Actually, I mean, I'm -- what I think I was saying when you were out of the room was it would -- it's a microscopic kind of thing. There's very little that we did that is actually in the dossier. You know, there are -- I was trying to think of an example, and I had trouble coming up with one, of something that we discarded because we didn't believe it.

MR. SCHIFF: And didn't you, during the course of your work, uncover any information regarding a connection between Trump or those around him and WikiLeaks?

MR. SIMPSON: Yes. I mean, you've seen some of the public reporting. We gradually -- I mean, this would be separate from the Steele stuff, but, you know, we gradually towards the end of the project became very interested in -- you know, Roger Stone bragged about having his contact. We tried to figure out who the contact was.

We started going into who Stone was and who his relationships were with, and essentially the trail led to sort of international far right. And, you know, happened, and  became someone that we were very interested in, and I still think it's very interesting.

And so I have formed my own opinions that went through -- that there was a somewhat unacknowledged relationship between the Trump people and the people and that the path to WikiLeaks ran through that. And I still think that UNCLASSIFIED, COMMITTEE SENSITIVE