issue all my life and when you're trained in Russian intelligence matters the fundamental problem of your profession is disinformation. It's the number one issue.
In any collection of field — you know, information from the field you should assume that there will be possibly some disinformation and that, you know, as a professional who has dedicated my life to this, you know, I am trained to spot possible or likely disinformation. So it's front and center when you gather information in Russia.
Q. And when you hired him to do the work, did the client — were you still working for — at any time did you work for two clients on this opposition research? Did they overlap, the two clients?
A. I just don't know. I can just tell you that it was — I mean, things follow the political cycle. So there was a point at which the Republican primaries were fundamentally over and the Democrats hadn't really begun yet. So there was some transition period. That's all I can say. I don't keep the books at my place. So I would feel — I'm afraid to give you a wrong answer that. I just don't know.
