Paul Manafort considered Fox News host Sean Hannity a White House “back channel” between the July 2017 FBI raid on his home and his October 2017 indictment.

The insight into the former Trump campaign manager’s thinking came from newly released FBI interview notes from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, which are being released through a successful Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by BuzzFeed. The 348 heavily redacted pages released Thursday include interviews with 19 different Trumpworld figures, and this is the third of many expected monthly releases of the secretive Mueller memos.