Edited sentence: " After the call, Stolyarov told The Atlantic "“We leaked him a bunch of disinformation" and called it “completely absurd." When asked for comment by The Atlantic, Schiff's spokesman released a statement, reading:."Before agreeing to take the call, and immediately following it, the committee informed appropriate law-enforcement and security personnel of the conversation, and of our belief that it was probably bogus.Good, this is very helpful.I appreciate it," and stated "the U.In 2018, The Atlantic magazine revealed that Schiff was the target of a prank phone call by Russian radio hosts Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov.The hosts enticed Schiff with promises of "naked pictures of Trump," to which Schiff responded "“All righty.would welcome the chance to review the evidence