Just over a month after Q first dropped: Podesta session - Monday, December 4, 2017 (p26)
MR. CONAWAY: All of Steele's conversations under the – have you read the dossier?
MR. PODESTA: l have.
MR. CONAWAY: Okay. The reported Steele contacts with the Russians.Do you discount those altogether, that didn't happen?
MR. PODESTA: I didn't say that. I mean, I think there's a difference between an action directed by the Russian Government, approved by President Putin, executed by Russian intelligence, to
interfere with a campaign and to interfere with the democratic process, to hack my personal email account, to hack the DNC, to hack State voter bases, all with the knowledge and approval, evidently,
according to 17 intelligence agencies –
MR. CONAWAY: You know better than that. lt's three.
MR. PODESTA: I think it was the unanimous view of the lntelligence Community.
MR. CONAWAY: No, no. The other 14 had nothing to do with that lCA.I mean, you can keep that up all you want to, but it's pretty clear that 17 is –
MR. PODESTA: I think there's a difference between that and someone who is trying to develop intelligence who is in the business of doing that. But you can draw your own judgments about that. I
found it, again, the idea that we were developing, trying to develop, trying to figure out complicated financial arrangements between Trump and entities like Bayrock and Felix Sater, Sergi Millian and
his representation of Trump in the U.S.,trying to find out what Carter Page was up to in Moscow, I think that was all perfectly appropriate.