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Rh One of the things that we learned that caught my interest was we learned from reporters that serious questions about Donald Trump's activities in Russia and the former Soviet Union went to Michael Cohen, and that he was the only person who had information on that subject or was in a position to answer those questions.

So if you ask about Donald Trump's taxes, it goes to Allen Garten. And if you ask about, you know, his position on something, it would go to Hope Hicks. And none of these things -- these things go -- went to Michael Cohen.


 * I just realized that Congressman Swalwell is in the room, so I'm going to turn it over to him.

MR. SWALWELL: Thank you, Mr. Simpson.

And earlier you stated that you didn't think Jared Kushner was relevant because of his age, and I had interrupted. I said, I take offense to that.

But just on Michael Cohen, and I'll turn it back over to our staff. Did you ever research whether Michael Cohen had any aliases or other names that he used? Did you ever find anything out about that?

MR. SIMPSON: A little bit. The possibility that he had two passports or used a different formulation of his name was something -- I can't remember -- we asked around about or thought about trying to get information on, but ultimately did not.

MR. SWALWELL: Did you ever come across the name Michael Cohn, C-o-h-n, with links, common addresses but different social security numbers?

MR. SIMPSON: I think my staff probably did come across stuff like that, but we didn't make much of it. It looked like a typo.

MR. SWALWELL: When it came to Donald Trump Jr., did you have similar UNCLASSIFIED, COMMITTEE SENSITIVE