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This never happened. Warner, trying to get in touch with Christopher Steele, texted with a Washington lawyer-lobbyist who has represented oligarch Oleg Deripaska and other Russian powerbrokers. There was no entertainer purporting to be an operative. 
Schiff spoke in 2017 to Russian pranksters who purported to be a Ukrainian politician with damaging info on Trump. So: nobody was purporting to be a Russian operative in either case. And Schiff's team has long said they contacted law enforcement both before and after the call.
Yes. Schiff tells the pranksters, “I’ll be in touch with the FBI about this. And we’ll make arrangements with your staff. I think it probably would be best to provide these materials both to our committee and to the FBI."
