On Wednesday, another attorney associated with the Clinton campaign testified at the Sussmann trial. Mark Elias, the "top lawyer on Hillary Clinton's 2016" campaign, took the stand in Sussmann's trial. Elias' testimony held that he (Elias) had hired a private research firm to "turn up damaging information" as a part of an effort to "guard against possible libel suits in the future from either Donald Trump himself or others associated with the Trump campaign.