John Podesta admitted under oath that the DNC and the Hillary Campaign split the cost of the Trump-Russia dossier.
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[Marc Elias] - Said the same thing in his testimony when being questioned by: (Trey Gowdy).
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MR. GOWDY: All right. Whose money were you spending?
MR. ELIAS: Right. so I was spending the campaign's and the DNC's.
MR. GOWDY: Right. And my question to you was, were you authorized
up to a certain dollar amount to consult no one other than yourself?
MR. ELIAS. I now understand.
So with respect to this particular project, I consulted with Robby Mook, who
was the campaign manager, to get budget approval to be able to spend money in order for me to retain consultants. This was the consultants that I retained, but I didn't need to consult on the identity of the consultants.
MR. GOWDY: All right. And how much money did Robby Mook approve
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you to spend?
MR. ELIAS: I'm going to do the best I can by memory here. lt is all on
FEC reports.
But my recollection is that initially it was a total of $60,000 split between the
campaign and – $60,000 split 30 and 30 between the campaign and the DNC. And then there additionalexpenses associated with that, that changed month to month, were relatively modest initially and grew larger as the campaign drew on.
MR. GowDY: Now, were you paying, was that 30-30 split for work that had already been done by Fusion GPS? was that a retainer for them to do additionalwork? What was the 60,000?
MR. ELIAS: lt was to provide the information that I requested or needed in order to do what I needed to do
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