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16 regarding efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election?

Fifth.

Dr. Eastman, regarding the 2020 election, did you speak with Representative Scott Perry?

Fifth.

Dr. Eastman, with regard to the 2020 election and any efforts to change the outcome of the election, did you speak with Senator Josh Hawley?

Fifth.

And just so I understand, Dr. Eastman, with regard to whether you had any conversations with Senator Josh Hawley about efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, you're taking the Fifth Amendment on the grounds that your answer could tend to incriminate you?

Fifth.

Is that a yes?

Mr. That was an invocation of the Fifth in response to your question about his basis for taking the Fifth, but I think it could be taken as a yes.

Okay. Just to be clear, I wasn't trying to ask about the basis for taking the Fifth, I just wanted to clarify that he was taking the Fifth on the grounds that it could incriminate him, not anything about the factual basis or legal basis underlying that.

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Dr. Eastman, did you clerk with now Senator Ted Cruz.

Yes.

Dr. Eastman, did you have any communications with Senator Ted Cruz regarding efforts to change the outcome of the 2020 election?

Fifth.