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There& #39;s a PDF for him.

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MARC ELIAS.
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MR. GowDY: okay. where do you currenily work? How about we start there?

MR. ELIAS: I& #39;m a partner at the law firm perkins coiehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‘€" title="Eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Eyes">in washington
MR. GOWDY: Who is Tom Perez& #39;s predecessor?

MR. ELIAS: His immediate predecessor was Donna Brazille, and his predecessor before that was Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz& #39;
MR. GOWDY: How did you come to hire Fusion GPS?

MR. ELIAS: I came to hire them - they approached me & indicated that they might be a good fit for doing work to support the legal efforts of my clients.
MR. GOWDY: When you say they approached me, who is "they"?
MR. ELIAS: They were Peter Fritsch and Glenn Simpson.
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MR. ELIAS: So they told me that they had been retained by
a -- previously -- by a wealthy Republican - they didn& #39;t identify who : to do research on then candidate Trump --
and they had done a lot of research on Trump --
and thought that if I was going to be looking to hire a consultant to help me advise the campaign on issues relating to Trump, that they would be a good fit
dropping this here.. perkins coie https://twitter.com/17thOps/status/1255450284794535938?s=20">https://twitter.com/17thOps/s...
pdf for Sussman too..

Interview Transcript of Michael Sussman (December 18, 2017) [PDF] Added on 5/8/2020
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/CPRT-116-IG00-D078.pdf

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Back to Elias.

MR. GOWDY: You used the word research. What do you mean by research?

MR. ELIAS: I didn& #39;t know what they had - they were describing what they had done for this Republican wealthy individual. So I didn& #39;t -- I wasn& #39;t privy to it.
They were telling me that they had done a research project for this wealthy Republican. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿค”" title="Thinking face" aria-label="Emoji: Thinking face">
Had you ever hired Fusion GPS before?

MS. RUEMMLER: You can answer that.

MR. ELIAS: I had not.
MR. GOWDY: And you wound up hiring a Company you& #39;d never hired before. And my question is, whY?

MR. ELIAS: So I think there were a couple of things that went into it. The first, like I said, was they had familiarity with then candidate Trump.
MR. GOWDY: Well, let me stop you there. How did you know that?

MR. ELIAS: Because they told me that they had familiarity with then candidate Trump because they had been working on a research project up until that point for an unnamed wealthy Republican https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‘ˆ" title="Left pointing backhand index" aria-label="Emoji: Left pointing backhand index">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿค”" title="Thinking face" aria-label="Emoji: Thinking face">
MR. ELIAS: I think I understood that their research included researching - that involved his business holdings and lawsuits, which were the principal topics that I would have been interested in, knowing what they -- what their - how
familiar they were with him.
MR. GOWDY: Okay. You met Peter Fritsch and Glenn Simpson.
They told you they& #39;d been doing research for a wealthy Republican.

ELIAS: Yes.
MR. GOWDY: I guess what I& #39;m getting at is what was your stream of money with which to retain them?
Where did that come from?

MR. ELIAS: The money with which to retain them came from the Clinton campaign, Hillary for America, called the Ctinton campaign, and the DNC.

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MR. GOWDY: Which is great if you& #39;re paying the bill, you can do what you want. I presume you weren& #39;t spending your own money.

MR. ELIAS: Correct.

MR. GOWDY: All right. Whose money were you spending?

MR. ELIAS: Right. so I was spending the campaign& #39;s and the DNC& #39;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 Mookhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‘ˆ" title="Left pointing backhand index" aria-label="Emoji: Left pointing backhand index">, 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& #39;t need to consult on the identity of the consultants.

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MR. GOWDY: All right. And how much money did Robby Mook approve you to spend?
MR. ELIAS: I& #39;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.
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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.
So it was not -
GOWDY: All right. so if I have the right picture in my mind, Fusion GpS is trying to interest you in work they& #39;ve already done
without violating that client& #39;s confidentiality,
but at same time entice you enough that you are
interested in retaining them yourself. ls that fair?
MR. ELIAS: I think that& #39;s more or less fair, yeah
MR GOWDY: But yet you& #39;d never hired Fusion GPS in the past. So there are plenty of other people who do this exact same kind of work.

MR. ELIAS: Uh-huh.

MR. GOWDY: So why Fusion GpS this time?
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They had a background in it. They were recommended, you know. They were thought highly of in the community
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MR. GOWDY: And you needed it in every other election that you& #39;d ever been part of, and yet you managed to muddle your way through all of those elections without ever hiring Fusion GPS.

MR. ELIAS: True.

MR. GOWDY: So why now?
MR. ELIAS: I could say the same thing. They had - they approached me and seemed to have a background in a very complex --

MR. GOWDY: Let me tell you what I hear when you say that, and perhaps there& #39;s just a disconnect.
They approached you.
MR. GOWDY: But it doesn& #39;t get much bigger than Presidential. And you hired a firm you& #39;d never hired before, based on a meeting where they said they
have quote, "research."
& we& #39;ve defined research as bankruptcies and court
filings that you could have hired a law clerk to go find
.
MR. ELIAS: So as I said, it was based on their reputation in the community, recommendations, and -

MR. GOWDY: Recommendations from whom?
MR. ELIAS: One of my partners had recommended them to me as a firm that had done good work in his experience and that they had a good reputation.

(is this partner/colleague Sussman?)
MR. GOWDY: All right. So I think we& #39;re up to $60,000. What is the total amount of money that Perkins Coie paid Fusion GPS?

MR. ELIAS: I know it& #39;s in the letter we -- I don& #39;t remember the --

MR. GOWDY: l won& #39;t hold you to it. Just give me a ballpark. More than $60,000?
MR. ELIAS: I think it was -- well, it was -- l& #39;m sorry, $60,000 a month.

MR. GOWDY: $60,000 a month.

MR. ELIAS: I& #39;m sorry, yes. lt was 30 and 30 per month.

MR. GOWDY: So $60,000 a month, What was the duration of -
MR. ELIAS: And then plus expenses
MR. GOWDY: What was the duration of that agreement
MR. ELIAS: lt was some time in the spring.
MR. GOWDY: OkaY.
MR. ELIAS: I want to say maybe April, but that could be off a month one way or the other. And it ended in - at the end of October.
MR. GOWDY: So May, June, July, August, September, October& #39;

MR. ELIAS: I think April, I think April. I don& #39;t know, maybe.
MR. GOWDY: All right. so 7 months times $60,000. l& #39;ll let you help me with the math there.
MR. ELIAS: I went to law school.
MR. GOWDY: $400,000 and something, Himes, is that close?
MR. HIMES: lt& #39;s close.
MR. GOWDY: Alt right. So we& #39;re not quite close to the million.
MR. ELIAS: Right.
MR. GOWDY: Where is the other half of it, those expenses?
MR. ELIAS: Yes.
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