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A. No, it wouldn't have been consistent.

Q. Did you speak with anyone at Baker Hostetler about the work that you had been engaged to do on then Candidate Trump?

A. Not that I recall.

Q. So the point in time at which you were in meetings that included — the meetings that you had related to the Court hearing at Prevezon that you've already discussed, the dinner, the Court hearing, and then a subsequent dinner, they occur right around the same time that Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin and the individual you described as a translator, Anatoli Samochornov, met — or it has been reported met with individuals in the Trump campaign. Did that topic just never come up during those three days?

A. It never came up. I don't know what else to say. It never came up.

Q. So you at the time had no idea that they were meeting with or met — and actually, in fact, met with members of the Trump campaign?

A. I didn't have any idea about that meeting until quite recently.

Q. So in an August 1, 2017 news briefing 1-800-FOR-DEPO