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Glenn SimpsonPage 65 someone to tell me look here, don't look there. For the most part we are looking at — you know, we're trying to understand something big. So it's really counterproductive for somebody to tell you look here, don't look there, I'm interested in X but not Y. So we generally sort of push back when that happens, but I have to say we sort of set the rules at the beginning and people, you know, accepted those terms. So generally that's what we explain to people in the beginning of our engagements, you know, let us do our jobs and that's the way it works best.

Q. And did that — can you tell us whether that general practice and rule applied to the engagement that you took on in September or October 2015 with regard to Candidate Trump?

MR. LEVY: You can answer that without getting into client communications.

BY THE WITNESS:

A. I mean, we were — it was regular order. As, you know, various people will tell you, I'm — you know, it would be like herding a cat, right? We're going to do what we do. So it was regular order.

Q. And then when you spoke with my colleagues 1-800-FOR-DEPO