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Glenn SimpsonPage 158 A. I'm sorry.

Q. — and tell him not to pursue any particular avenues of research?

A. No.

Q. Do you know — if we could just move on to kind of the next memo, which begins with Bates No. 41394 and it ends with 41396. It appears to be — it's three pages and it has a date of 26 July 2015 and it has "Company Intelligence Report 2016/086." To the best of your recollection, was this the second memo you had received from Mr. Steele?

A. To the best of my recollection, this is the second memo.

Q. And how did you kind of use this information?

A. Well, I think the context of external events is important here. I believe — it's my recollection that what prompted this memo was, in fact, the beginning of public reporting on the hack. I think — what is the date again? Yeah, it's 26 July. So by this time Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been the subject of a very aggressive hacking campaign, weaponized hack, the likes of which, you know, have never really been seen. 1-800-FOR-DEPO