Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Roger Stone never gave the House Intelligence Committee a copy of the email, now leaked to the press, in which he claimed to have "dined" with WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange.

Stone, a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, appeared before the panel in September as part of its inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election..

The committee has since wrapped up its probe, much to the Democrats' chagrin, and this week the Wall Street Journal reported that special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into Stone due to the 2016 email. Schiff, the top Democrat on the panel, told the Atlantic that the WSJ was one example of why the House Intelligence probe should not have ended last month.

Stone predicted on a radio show in 2016 that WikiLeaks would soon publish information that was damaging to the Clinton Foundation on the same day he sent an email saying he claimed to have had dinner with Assange in the email.

Stone also appeared to have foreknowledge in 2016 of a WikiLeaks dump of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta, though he denies it.

Stone says his email about the dinner to Sam Nunberg, who was a Trump campaign adviser, was part of a running joke. He also provided the Daily Caller boarding passes and credit card records in an effort to show he was no where near London, where Assange remains in asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy, at the time of the so-called dinner.