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99 personal beliefs about the election or what happened thereafter.

I am also going to assert a First Amendment privilege objection. By asking her for her personal political beliefs, you are engaging in conduct that could chill political expression, political association, political speech, by people knowing that, if they engage in that, that Congress could bring them before them and ask them about personal political beliefs.

So, for all of those reasons, I'm objecting and I'm instructing Ms. McCallum not to answer that question.

Okay. I'll just respond to a couple of the points that you made.

First, to explain that the charter of the select committee, House Resolution 503, tasks the committee with investigating not only the events of January 6th itself but also the causes of January 6th. And, in particular, one of the things that we are focused on are attempts to interfere or affect the outcome of the election and, in particular, how those actions played out in the States.

So I appreciate all of the answers that your client has given us thus far about these calls and the communications around them, because I think it is clearly related to the focus of the committee, which is also very clearly related to the potential legislation that the committee is considering about changes to the elections process and related statutes in the United States.

I will also say, too, that my questions were directed not at your client's personal individual beliefs about any political issue but, rather, to the context of these calls that she made as an employee of the Trump campaign during the time period after election day and before January 6th.

But, that being said, your objection is noted for the record.

I think we've had enough of this colloquy about these calls for the present