crown prince, a number of members of his delegation and advisers."

Asked if that meant Nader was one of those advisers, Bass said: "As we said yesterday, Erik has nothing more to add to his evidence on this one. We are not making any further comments."

The meeting in the Seychelles has come under scrutiny because Democrats and some intelligence sources suspected it was a way to set up a back channel between the incoming Trump administration and the Kremlin. Prince has strongly denied that was the case, and he denied to the House panel last year that anyone on Trump's team had asked him to take the meeting.

Prince said he was invited to the Seychelles by someone working for the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and met with agroup there for an hour. It was a member of the Emirati entourage, Prince said, who recommended he meet with Dmitriev to discuss business opportunities. He said the meeting with Dmitriev was brief and had nothing to do with the Trump administration.

During his testimony before the House panel, Prince was asked by Schiff directly whether he had met with "anyone else in the Seychelles from your company or any other associates there?"

Prince's response: "No."

Prince has worked with Nader in the past, at one point hiring him as a consultant to help with business opportunities in Iraq. Prince said in a 2010 deposition that his private security company "retained" Nader "for a while" to secure contracts with the Iraqi government. But Nader "pretty much worked on his own" and