So, what's inside the Fusion GPS transcript?

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Who's reading through the transcript? If you are, please post anything interesting that turns up. Here's the link provided through Feinstein's office:

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/9/3974a291-ddbe-4525-9ed1-22bab43c05ae/934A3562824CACA7BB4D915E97709D2F.simpson-transcript-redacted.pdf




Right out of the starting gate, I read this little gem:

It was, broadly speaking, a kind of
7 holistic examination of Donald Trump's business
8 record and his associations, his bankruptcies, his
9 suppliers, you know, offshore or third-world
10 suppliers of products that he was selling. You
11 know, it evolved somewhat quickly into issues of
12 his relationships to organized crime figures but,
13 you know, really the gamut of Donald Trump.

[StopTheNeoCons]

1. What page was that?

[procon]

2. Don't know, but do a quick search and that should find it for you. nt

[nocoincidences]

3. Trump doesn't really start coming up until around page 62, from what I have skimmed through.

The first 60ish pages are a detailed description of what Fusion does, who it works for and with, who it subcontracts with, etc.

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4. "getting help from a foreign government..."

So the issue with the Trump Tower meeting, as
1 I understand it, is that the Trump people were
2 eager to accept intelligence from a foreign
3 government about their political rivals and that
4 is, you know, I would say, a form of interference.
5 If you're getting help from a foreign government
6 and your help is intelligence, then the foreign
7 government's interfering. I mean, you know, I
8 think that also -- of course, in retrospect we now
9 know this was pretty right on target in terms on
10 what it says. So anyway --

[brooklynite]

5. Michael Wolff: " People in the WH think if the investigation goes near his finances, he's sunk.

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6. Sounds like the FBI might have had two separate sources inside Trump.

I believe you said that
9 Mr. Steele had told you that the FBI had a source
10 from inside the Trump organization and I believe
11 she referred to a source from inside the Trump
12 campaign. Do you know which is the accurate --

MR. LEVY: He's not going to get into the
14 details of that source.

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7. Carter Page was long suspected as an espionage suspect.

I think really stands out as notable,
4 which is that Chris identified Carter Page as
5 someone who had -- seemed to be in the middle of
6 the campaign, between the Trump campaign and the
7 Kremlin, and he later turned out to be an espionage
8 suspect who was, in fact, someone that the FBI had
9 been investigating for years.

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8. k for visibility