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A I guess it depends on how you define the cycle.

Q I will help you. From January 1, 2015 through the election.

A I don't specifically remember, but what I can say is that the Clinton Foundation and related issues has come up in my work a lot. And I can't remember when the last time was. So it's hard to be categorical.

Q I guess I can narrow it down a little more for you. Were you tasked by anyone or sought out by any company, agency, individual to conduct research -- without naming those individuals -- to conduct the research on then-candidate Hillary Clinton?

A Yeah. I think we agreed to talk to you about these two matters that you rightly are interested in. And I have tried to be as helpful as possible. So that would be not something that I am prepared to talk about. I will say that I have gotten journalistic inquiries about this subject, and I have tried to be helpful to reporters about this subject.

Obviously, at some point, you know, that became a conflict of interest. But it is something that I just know a fair bit about because of all the work that we have done over the years.

Q All right. Just so I am clear, I think our agreement, and Mr. Levy can correct me if I am wrong, we are investigating the 2016 election campaign cycle, irrespective of party. So that's why my question was directed in that fashion.

MR. LEVY: Let me just take a 10-second break to confer with Mr. Simpson.

  Sure. Go ahead.

MR. SCHIFF: And I want to specify too that while the scope of our investigation is into the Russian active measures campaign, as well as

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