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"There were a couple of dinners in New York and a couple of dinners in D.C. "I recall some of the when and the where," Simpson responded.

"Do you recall when and where those would have been?" the committee staff attorney asked him. "I think I attended a couple client dinners, and I think that's about it," Simpson responded. Dianne Feinstein released the Simpson transcript earlier this year.)Īside from business dealings with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Glenn Simpson was asked if he met with her in person "on other occasions besides court hearings." Here are the relevant portions of the transcripts released today. had never heard of Veselnitskaya, either, before he met her and he said he was not aware that Fusion GPS was conducting opposition research on his father when the meeting took place. said he had never heard of Fusion GPS or Glenn Simpson when he met with Veselnitskaya and other people with Fusion GPS connections at Trump Tower. Veselnitskaya also told the committee that “no,” she did not inform Simpson of her meeting at Trump Tower, either before or after it happened.Īnd finally, in his interview with the committee, Donald Trump, Jr. In written responses to questions from the committee, she disputed a news report saying she met with Simpson before and after the Trump Tower meeting.īut in response to another written question, she said she met with Simpson on an “as-needed basis,” but “I cannot name specific dates because I do not keep a log of my meetings…” Veselnitskaya, however, told the committee that “no,” she did not have contact with Glenn Simpson on June 8, 9, or 10, 2016. He said the subject never came up at either of the dinners he had with Veselnitskaya on June 8 or 10, 2016 and he was “stunned” to learn about it later in The New York Times. But Simpson said he did not know about the Jmeeting at Trump Tower. Simpson had business dealings with Veselnitskaya, and that included a court hearing in New York on June 9, 2016. () – Transcripts released Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee say that Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, had dinner with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya both the day before and the day after she met with Donald Trump, Jr. Trump Tower in New York (Photo: Screen capture)