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Rh A I want to be as helpful I can without getting into client communications. So I guess I would like to say generally, I mean -- generally when reporters -- when we have to deal with the press, we would inform our clients that we were doing -- you know, in any case if you're dealing with the press, it's incumbent on you to, you know, make sure your client knows that.

Q Right So are you saying it's a particular client confidentiality that prevents you from asking - answering who, if anyone, directed you to have Christopher Steele go to the media with the dossier information?

MR. LEVY: First, I'm not sure you characterized his testimony correctly; but second, he has been as helpful as he can be with this question without getting into confidential client communications.


 * No, I understand. I'm just trying to look for which confidential client communication he's referring to, because certain clients have provided disclosures and relief from that confidentiality agreement.

MR. LEVY: This client has not authorized Mr. Simpson to discuss confidential client communications.


 * Okay. So this client would not be then Perkins Coie?

MR. LEVY: Perkins Coie has not authorized Mr. Simpson to discuss client communications.

This specific communication?

MR. LEVY: Any.


 * Any. So their statements in -- that the general counsel for Perkins Coie wrote releasing Fusion GPS from client confidentialities, are you aware of that? Are you --

MR. LEVY: That letter releases Fusion GPS from no longer protecting the UNCLASSIFIED, COMMITTEE SENSITIVE