client. He can, however, talk to you as long as you'd like about the work that he did, his communications with Mr. Steele, the work on the dossier. He just can't talk about communications with the client, because they are confidential, and those confidentiality considerations have not been waived.
MR. CONAWAY: I'm going to figure out a way to officially put the objection on the record so that when we revisit how we enforce the House investigatory prerogatives, we'll know what to do. So what do we do?
I think what we should do is, if you can't answer the question, raise the objection.
MR. CONAWAY: He won't answer the question.
: He won't answer the question. So there's been an objection. And I'll just say that the witness is reminded that he may refuse to answer a question only to preserve a testimonial privilege. Neither the U.S. House of Representatives nor the committee recognizes any purported nondisclosure privileges associated with common law, including attorney-client privilege, attorney work product protections; and neither the U.S. House of Representatives or the committee recognizes any purported contractual privileges, including those supposedly deriving from nondisclosure agreements.
So we'll just raise that's the objection that's on the record. We'll move on to the next question.
MR. LEVY: And just to ask clarification just so we're making sure we're all proceeding under the same rules, are those rules for staff depositions or for voluntary interviews, which is what this is?
Well, we consider this to be a -- this is a voluntary staff deposition. You're here on a voluntary basis.
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