*'''March.''' [[Vice President]] [[Joe Biden]] threatens Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] that the [[Obama administration]] would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General '''[[Viktor Shokin]]''' who was investigating his son, [[Hunter Biden]], on the board of the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings.
:*“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money...Well, [SOB], he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."<ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref><ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived</ref>
*'''1 March.''' Peter Fritsch of FusionGPS sent an e-mail to a “senior figure in the Democratic Party” and conveyed his belief that Trump “had to be stopped.” The Democratic contact responded by stating “Yes. Let’s talk.”<ref>Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, ''Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump'', p. 55.</ref>
*'''2 March.''' Carter Page meets with an FBI and SDNY Assistant United States Attorneys in the New York field office in preparation for the trial of Victor Podobnyy, a Russian intelligence officer, in which Page was a paid informant.<ref>https://twitter.com/carterwpage/status/1038941607054266369</ref> Page informs the FBI he intends to volunteer to work for the Trump campaign. After the meeting the FBI agent contacted FBI Headquarters to ask what type of investigation to open on Page.