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29 completed just a couple minutes ago — or had you had this in hand a few days prior when maybe you could have shared it and we would have been, you know, better armed to discuss since this is the only thing you're willing to discuss?

Mr. MacDougald. Thank you, Congressman.

You may not have been tuned in earlier when I explained to my apology for giving this to him just this morning.

I was just engaged last week. We've been working continuously on this letter up through yesterday afternoon, late, and I've been conferring with Mr. Clark. So I've been continuously involved in the preparation of this letter since sometime last week.

I can't remember what day I first got started, but it was just late. We didn't have time. We were working on it up through yesterday.

And I apologize to the committee and to counsel and committee staff for any inconvenience that the late delivery of this position may have caused. But I'm doing the best I can. It's just me. It's just me trying to help Mr. Clark, and I've done everything that I could to get this ready in the time that I had available, and that went up almost to the last minute.

Other members? Ms. Cheney, anything from you?

Ms. Cheney. Thank you very much yes. I'd like to ask the witness when he first met Congressman Scott Perry?

Mr. MacDougald. I will assert the privilege objection to that question, respectfully, Congressman Cheney.

Ms. Cheney. And what's the basis for the privilege assertion about your meeting a Member of Congress?

Mr. MacDougald. The privilege objection is set forth in the letter, Congressman. It's a detailed legal question, and the parameters of the privileges that attend aides and