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"Steele confirmed Nuland, Winer, and Talbott invited him for a meeting to discuss the dossier research when lawyers asked whether Talbott helped open the doors for a meeting with State officials.
“I think Strobe Talbott had gotten in touch with us much earlier than [October],” Steele said. “I remember taking a phone call from him, your lordship, earlier in the summer in which he said that he was aware that I had. Hespoke in fairly cryptic terms, but he was aware that we had material of relevance to the U.S. election.”
“Both National Security Advisor at the time Susan Rice and Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who were the key policymakers on Russia, had been colleagues of Mr. Talbott,” Steele said. “And I had, although he didn’t state it explicitly, one or either or both of them had briefed him on the work we had been doing.”
This testimony provides a direct link between the DNC, the Clinton campaign, the Obama White House and Steele’s Russian collusion hoax dossier."