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Government Unfiltered

IV.A.4 Dimitri Simes and the Center for the National Interest (Mueller Report)

Government Unfiltered

Dan Williams

Politics, News, Government

4.8993 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Part 4 of 8 from Section IV: Russian Government Links To And Contacts With The Trump Campaign. This subsection of Volume 1, pages 103-110, outlines interactions with the Center for the National Interest, a D.C.-based non-profit with expertise in and connections to the Russian government.

Dimitri Simes and the Center for the National Interest (0:11)

  1. CNI and Dimitri Simes Connect with the Trump Campaign (1:16)
  2. National Interest Hosts a Foreign Policy Speech at the Mayflower Hotel (4:13)
  3. Jeff Sessions's Post-Speech Interactions with CNI (7:51)
  4. Jared Kushner's-Continuing Contacts with Simes (9:48)

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Welcome to the Mueller Report audio.

0:40.5

Section 4A, subsection 4.

0:43.8

Dmitry Symes and the Center for the National Interest.

0:51.0

Members of the Trump campaign interacted on several occasions with the Center for the National Interest, CNI,

0:55.3

principally through its president and chief executive officer, Dmitri Simes.

1:00.1

CNI is a think tank with expertise in and connections to the Russian government.

1:05.8

Symes was born in the former Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States in the 1970s.

1:11.6

In April 2016, candidate Trump delivered his first speech on foreign policy and national security at an event hosted by the national interest, a publication affiliated with CNI.

1:16.6

Then Senator Jeff Sessions and Russian Ambassador Kisliak both attended the event, and as a result, it gained some attention in relation to Sessions confirmation hearings to become attorney general.

1:31.8

Sessions had various other contacts with CNI during the campaign period on foreign policy matters, including Russia. Jared Kushner also interacted with Simes about Russian issues during

1:36.9

the campaign. The investigation did not identify evidence that the campaign passed or received

1:41.7

any messages to or from the Russian government through

1:44.4

CNI or Symes. A. CNI and Dmitri Symes connect with the Trump campaign. CNI is a Washington-based

1:51.9

nonprofit organization that grew out of a center founded by former president Richard Nixon. C&I describes

1:57.5

itself as a voice for strategic realism in U.S. foreign policy,

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