© Reuters/Aaron P. BernsteinBill Priestap, assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, testifies during a Judiciary Committee hearing into alleged collusion between Russian and the Trump campaign on July 26, 2017.
The government is set to call the former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, Bill Priestap, and the FBI's former deputy general counsel for national security, Trisha Anderson, to testify.
Prosecutors could also call Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to the stand as a witness.
© REUTERSAttorney Michael Sussmann (front) is on trial for one count of lying to the government.
Sussmann, during that meeting, told Baker he was not doing work "for any client," but rather bringing the allegations to the FBI as a citizen concerned with national security.
Durham's team alleges that Sussmann was, in fact, doing work for two clients: the Hillary Clinton campaign and a technology executive, Rodney Joffe. Following the meeting with Baker, Durham claims Sussmann billed the Hillary Clinton campaign for his work.
Sussmann has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Baker did not take handwritten notes on his meeting with Sussmann on Sept. 19, 2016 — something Sussmann's defense attorneys criticized Baker for — but prosecutors have repeatedly referenced handwritten notes from both Priestap and Anderson as evidence, as they both wrote that Sussmann was not bringing the allegations to the FBI on behalf of any specific client, but on his own.
Baker testified last week that the FBI began an investigation into the Trump-Alfa Bank allegations, which lasted "several weeks, maybe a month, maybe a month and a half."
"We concluded there was no substance," Baker testified. "We couldn't confirm it. We could not confirm there was a surreptitious communications channel."
Baker added: "There was nothing there."
© Reuters/Julia NikhinsonSpecial Counsel John Durham departs the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Washington, May 17, 2022, after opening arguments in the trial of Michael Sussmann, who is charged with lying to the FBI
Hellman testified that whoever drafted the narrative describing the DNS data was "5150," and clarified on the stand that meant he believed the individual who came to the conclusions "was suffering from some mental disability."
Hillary Clinton and campaign manager Robbie Mook
Mook testified that former Clinton campaign officials John Podesta, Jennifer Palmieri, and Jake Sullivan (who now serves as White House National Security Advisor) were also involved in the plan to share the allegations with the media.
The government, in its opening statement last week, argued that Sussmann's delivery of the Trump-Alfa Bank allegations to the FBI was part of the Clinton campaign's plan to create an "October surprise" against then-candidate Donald Trump.
Former President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Saturday, called the years-long investigation into whether he and members of his campaign were colluding or coordinating with Russia ahead of the 2016 election "one of the greatest political scandals in history."
"For three years I had to fight her off and fight those crooked people off," Trump told Fox News Digital. "And you'll never get your reputation fully back."
He added: "Where do I get my reputation back?"
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