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provided to it by the Defendants in the course of that working relationship without the agreement of the Defendants." Is that a correct description of your understanding of how the material was to be treated?

MR. MUSE: There's also a context to that who the Defendants are in other such matters.

MR. DAVIS: Sure. The Defendants are Orbis Business Intelligence Limited and Christopher Steele.

BY THE WITNESS:

A. What's the question?

Q. Is that an accurate description of what you understood the obligations to be with that material?

A. I mean, that's hard for me to answer. There's a mutual expectation of confidentiality, and if that's what you read that as saying, then yes, there's a mutual expectation of confidentiality.

Q. Was that expectation established by contract?

MR. LEVY: We're not going to talk about contracts with clients.

BY MR. DAVIS:

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