"Well were you ever an agent of a foreign power ? Did you ever advise the Kremlin or work with the Kremlin on anything? "

"Look, Jake, I uh, No. I have never been an agent of a foreign poli- uh foreign power in any a- by any stretch of the imagination. You know I may have ah, back in the G20 when they were getting ready to do that in St. Petersburg I might have uh participated in a few meetings that a lot of people, including people from the Obama administration were sitting in on. Geneva, Paris, etc. Uh, but I've never been ah anywhere near what's being described here."

"So you have advised the Kremlin in the past. That was 2013, the G20 meeting I believe."

"Look, it was, there was experts from around the world talking about energy issues and I was one of countless company, uh you know, myself and a lot of academics and businesspeople who were involved in various discussion center-uh sessions but uh it was nothing "

"But th-but you did advise the Kremlin. I just want to make it clear. You did advise the Kremlin back in 2013 or 2012, somewhere in there. "

"Jake that's... it's really spin, I mean I - I sat in on some meetings but you know to call me an advisor I think is way over the top."

"Except in a 2013 letter you wrote, it says quote : 'Over the past half-year I have had the priviledge to serve as an informal advisor to the staff of the Kremlin in preperation for the presidency of the G20 summit next month, where energy issues will be a prominent point on the agenda.' That was in 2013. That's yourself calling yourself an informal advisor to the Kremlin."

"You know, informal having some conversations with people I mean this is really nothing, just an attempt to distract from the real crimes that are shown in this ahh misleading document. You know Page-8 it says, it talks about disguised propaganda including the planning-planting of false or misleading articles, which is exactly what this is so it's the pot calling the kettle black by Mr. Comey and co."