about other clients, and we were not allowed to get the answers because there was an objection on your side that it was beyond the scope or we shouldn't just be asking about other clients that weren't necessarily related. So we've had kind of rulings that have gone back. I don't know whether --
MR. ROONEY: That's fine, but we're just trying to get the information here. And if I was willing to make Carter Page answer a question for Mr. Swalwell that he did not want to answer and begged us not to answer, and I made him answer it, and he's trying to get some background information on his client, it's kind of like, you know, it's not a two-way street, and that's not really fair.
MR. SCHIFF: Carter Page was subpoenaed to come in, because he wouldn't cooperate otherwise. I'm not objecting to the question. I just don't know the answer. And so I'm not objecting to the question, though. And my only suggestion was we try to get all the answers we can get answered, and then we can figure out, okay, we need to go back and say we need to get answers to these questions or maybe we get what we need. That was just my suggestion. But I'm --
MR. GOWDY: All right. We'll keep trying.
MR. CONAWAY: Just to be clear, you're invoking attorney-client privilege with all these folks or just client-client privilege or just work product? I mean, what is it?
MR. LEVY: It's a voluntary interview, and so he's just respectfully declining to answer this question.
MR. CONAWAY: On what basis?
MR. LEVY: He's got a confidentiality obligation to the client. The client has not waived that confidentiality for him to get into his communications with the
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