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Rh At least I can tell you about generally what I -- what my -- what I did.

So Chris went and reported this to the Bureau. And he came back and said: I reported this to the Bureau. And we did not ask permission from the client to do that. The client didn't instruct us to do that. It was -- he was -- you know, it was viewed as reporting a crime in progress, sort of a citizenship obligation.

You know, at some point later on, you know, I think that, as the questions -- I'm not sure how to say this—as the hack attack by the Russians on the Democrats became a major issue in late --later in the year, questions of whether to engage with the FBI, you know, became more of a general issue.

MR. ROONEY: My time is up, but I will say that I think that the Russian scores in that Salt Lake Olympics were pretty low. Very suspicious. I didn't get to ask you about that, but -- it's always the Russians. Like everybody's got a 10 or a 9 and the Russians are like 5.

MR. SCHIFF: Before I pass it off to Mr. Quigley, you didn't have a chance to answer one of the questions I posed at the end. That is, we do have the subpoena power. If we are to get to the bottom of the issue of whether Russian organized crime money was used in the flipping of these properties and the purchase of the golf course and this is a lever over the President, what institutions would you use that process with to get to the bottom of it?

MR. SIMPSON: I guess I would -- if I were issuing the subpoenas, I would, you know, first need to identify the underlying -- the banks that had custody of that information. That would be the banks that would service the brokers. So the first thing that I would do would be to subpoena the brokers and the people, the other people that were involved in the transactions, and the title UNCLASSIFIED, COMMITTEE SENSITIVE