Nellie Ohr told the House she met Christopher Steele three times. Only the last meeting, she said, fell during her Fusion employment. The date she gave: “The final one, July 30, 2016.” Jordan asked if that was the Mayflower Hotel meeting. The transcript discussion of that breakfast is the source for the hotel.
She said she may have seen a page there; she said she first saw the full Steele dossier when BuzzFeed published it; she denied working with Steele on the dossier or being a Steele source. Those are her answers. They are not Durham’s later description of her Millian reports, and they are not a finding that she wrote the dossier.
Bruce Ohr’s own closed testimony, as released and reported (NBC News on the full Bruce Ohr transcript), placed him and Nellie at breakfast with Steele. The 2019 FBI analysis repeats that Nellie and Bruce met personally with Steele in 2016. The Washington Examiner, writing off the March 2019 transcript release, headlined that the Mayflower meeting was “the day before” the FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane (July 31, 2016). The calendar is real. The Examiner’s juxtaposition is reporting, not proof she opened the case.
National Review (Andrew McCarthy, December 2017; February 2018 Nunes-memo recap) described her as working with Steele on Fusion’s anti-Trump research and noted Bruce later transmitted “all of his wife’s opposition research” to the FBI. McCarthy is analysis. The Nunes memo line is a House product, not a conviction.