identity of the client. It does not release Fusion GPS from client communications.
: I understand. So if Perkins Coie were to at some point in the future provide such a disclaimer or a release, would you then be in a position to answer that question?
MR. LEVY: We'd have to look at it and -- but if it released our client from confidentiality, we'd take that under advisement and talk to their counsel and --
: Okay.
MR. LEVY: I want to make sure we're not waiving other privileges that we've asserted in this investigation as well, including the First Amendment, but --
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Q And my last question for you, Mr. Simpson, is why did you go to direct Mr. Steele to go to the media with the information in the Steele dossier?
A Sure. Well, so there were two instances of this or rounds of it, and I think I was beginning to recount this earlier. In the -- in whatever the first round was, I assume it was sometime in mid-September or early October, it was mainly about telling the press, a few high-level members of the national security press, and the, you know, top-level press that we had information that there was a Russian intelligence operation that the Russians were engaged in, you know, that this was more than just hacking, and that there was a major effort to interfere with the election, and that it allegedly involved the Trump Organization.
And the reason for that, the motivation for that was mainly because I thought that this was historic and that it was something the press needed to investigate and know about and ask the Intelligence Community about because I wanted to expose It.
But, you know, we were operating under the assumption at that time that
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