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Glenn SimpsonPage 75 MS. SAWYER: Okay.

MR. LEVY: And other obligations of confidentiality.

MS. SAWYER: Just to be clear for the record, specifically what privilege?

MR. LEVY: The privileges that we previously asserted with the committee. They're in our April 7 and June 23 letters.

MS. SAWYER: Okay.

BY MS. SAWYER:

Q. With regard to the engagements, both of these engagements to do opposition research on Candidate Trump, were you paid directly by each of the clients or was there an intermediary paying you?

A. I think I'd like to confer with my lawyer about this.

MR. LEVY: Sure.

(Whereupon a discussion was had

sotto voce.)

MR. SIMPSON: I'm going to decline to answer that question.

MS. SAWYER: And, again, the grounds for declining?

MR. LEVY: It's a voluntary interview and it 1-800-FOR-DEPO