Stefan Passantino

I said, Dan George, Dan, you and I are going to work in this town far too long to be playing games with any leaking to the press. And I said, I assure you, I've practiced law for 30 years. This is not how I do business. And I have too much respect for the Congress. And I said, and I have too much respect for Liz Cheney to ever leak.

And I asked him at the time, I said, I want you to please go and tell Liz Cheney how much respect I have for her, and that I would never leak something that came out of the committee. Now, Dan George tells me he had that conversation with Cheney.

And I asked him at the time, I said, I want you to please go and tell Liz Cheney how much respect I have for her, and that I would never leak something that came out of the committee. Now, Dan George tells me he had that conversation with Cheney.

And I asked him at the time, I said, I want you to please go and tell Liz Cheney how much respect I have for her, and that I would never leak something that came out of the committee. Now, Dan George tells me he had that conversation with Cheney.

I don't know if they actually did, but all of these are reasons why, to me, I was confronted with a highly, highly unusual scenario whereby there was this small operation that was done, this small interview, Lots of security, but I didn't think anything of it. At the time, it was unusual, but it moved on.

I don't know if they actually did, but all of these are reasons why, to me, I was confronted with a highly, highly unusual scenario whereby there was this small operation that was done, this small interview, Lots of security, but I didn't think anything of it. At the time, it was unusual, but it moved on.

I don't know if they actually did, but all of these are reasons why, to me, I was confronted with a highly, highly unusual scenario whereby there was this small operation that was done, this small interview, Lots of security, but I didn't think anything of it. At the time, it was unusual, but it moved on.

It was only later, after I had been fired as Cassidy's lawyer and after she had testified live on TV, that she subsequently provided lots of testimony describing in detail the nature of our interaction together. And it was in that September interview transcript that I learned all of these back-channel things.

It was only later, after I had been fired as Cassidy's lawyer and after she had testified live on TV, that she subsequently provided lots of testimony describing in detail the nature of our interaction together. And it was in that September interview transcript that I learned all of these back-channel things.

It was only later, after I had been fired as Cassidy's lawyer and after she had testified live on TV, that she subsequently provided lots of testimony describing in detail the nature of our interaction together. And it was in that September interview transcript that I learned all of these back-channel things.

I learned the degree to which there had been communications that had been going on, how they had set up this interview, how they had expected me to block her from testifying, how they had sort of laughed about how... How surprised I was that a lot of these new facts were coming out.

I learned the degree to which there had been communications that had been going on, how they had set up this interview, how they had expected me to block her from testifying, how they had sort of laughed about how... How surprised I was that a lot of these new facts were coming out.

I learned the degree to which there had been communications that had been going on, how they had set up this interview, how they had expected me to block her from testifying, how they had sort of laughed about how... How surprised I was that a lot of these new facts were coming out.

And she literally testifies in that interview that as we're walking out of the Cannon office building, the two of us, we've completed this interview. I didn't obstruct her. The transcripts are there. I never blocked her from testifying. I never... Told her I never created objections to coach her. I didn't do any of those things.

And she literally testifies in that interview that as we're walking out of the Cannon office building, the two of us, we've completed this interview. I didn't obstruct her. The transcripts are there. I never blocked her from testifying. I never... Told her I never created objections to coach her. I didn't do any of those things.

And she literally testifies in that interview that as we're walking out of the Cannon office building, the two of us, we've completed this interview. I didn't obstruct her. The transcripts are there. I never blocked her from testifying. I never... Told her I never created objections to coach her. I didn't do any of those things.

But she literally describes in her testimony, as we're walking out the door, she turns around to Dan George, literally behind my back, saying something to the effect of mouthing, I'm so screwed. And the Dan George mouths back to her, I'm sorry. Now, when I'm reading this in the transcript, and it's all there for anyone who wants to read it, I realize... This whole thing had been a setup.

But she literally describes in her testimony, as we're walking out the door, she turns around to Dan George, literally behind my back, saying something to the effect of mouthing, I'm so screwed. And the Dan George mouths back to her, I'm sorry. Now, when I'm reading this in the transcript, and it's all there for anyone who wants to read it, I realize... This whole thing had been a setup.

But she literally describes in her testimony, as we're walking out the door, she turns around to Dan George, literally behind my back, saying something to the effect of mouthing, I'm so screwed. And the Dan George mouths back to her, I'm sorry. Now, when I'm reading this in the transcript, and it's all there for anyone who wants to read it, I realize... This whole thing had been a setup.

And if it was simply a question of, well, we just want to get the truth from Cassidy, well, then just fire me, get a new lawyer, let her testify. No, this was very important that I be sitting next to her while she provided this new inflammatory testimony with the eye towards having me obstruct her in some way. Why were they so intent on hurting you? You're just a lawyer. Well...