On March 27, 2017, I added the following items to my Timeline for Moyers & Company. For context, see how they fit into the larger Timeline picture.

• 1979: Roger Stone met Donald Trump when the notorious attorney Roy Cohn introduced them. [Added March 27, 2017]

• 1980: Stone founded a lobbying practice with Paul Manafort; Trump became one of Stone’s first clients. In the 1980’s, Trump hired Manafort on gambling and real estate issues. By 1988, Stone was one of Trump’s closest advisers. [Added March 27, 2017]

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• 2000: Roger Stone served as chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential exploratory advisory committee. [Added March 27, 2017]

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• June 2005: Paul Manafort proposed that he undertake a consulting assignment for one of President Vladimir Putin’s billionaire oligarchs. Manafort suggested a strategy for influencing politics, business dealings, and news coverage inside the United States, Europe, and former Soviet republics to benefit Putin’s government. [Added March 27, 2017]

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• Aug. 8, 2015: The Trump campaign said it had fired Roger Stone; Stone claimed that he’d quit. Either way, Stone remained a prominent Trump surrogate for the rest of the campaign. [Added March 27, 2017]

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• March 29, 2016: On Roger Stone’s recommendation, Paul Manafort joined the Trump campaign as convention manager. [Added March 27, 2017]

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• May 19, 2016: Paul Manafort became Trump’s campaign chairman and chief strategist. [Added March 27, 2017]

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• March 20, 2017: In a House Intelligence Committee public hearing, Paul Manafort’s name came up more than two dozen times. [Added March 27, 2017]

• March 21, 2017: In his daily press briefing, Sean Spicer said that, with respect to the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort had “played a very limited role for a very limited period of time.” [Added March 27, 2017]

• March 22, 2017: Devin Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, bypassed his fellow committee members and went directly to the White House with alleged evidence that Trump associates may have been “incidentally “ swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies. Nunes refused to release the information or name his sources, even to fellow committee members. And he confirmed that he still had seen no evidence to support Trump’s claim that President Obama had ordered his wires tapped. [Added March 27, 2017]

• March 24, 2017: Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Roger Stone volunteered for interviews with the House Intelligence Committee. [Added March 27, 2017]

• Also on March 24, 2017: Nunes cancelled public hearings scheduled for March 28. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates had been slated to testify before his committee. Nunes postponed their appearances indefinitely. [Added March 27, 2017]

• March 26, 2017: In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Roger Stone said, “I reiterate again, I have had no contacts or collusions with the Russians. And my exchange with Guccifer 2, based on the content and the timing, most certainly does not constitute collusion.”