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getting beyond anything that is a matter of public record.
MR. SIMPSON: I just --
MS. McCAWLEY: But I appreciate you letting me know that.
THE WITNESS: All right. I will not waive anything, and if I start to do that, I would certainly request the opportunity to retract what I'm doing, but I was aware, since the issue is, well, what's in the public record, I was aware that, you know, probably the most significant United States Supreme Court case argued in the last 20 years was Bush versus Gore, which was a case that essentially determined who was going to be President of the most powerful country in the world.
There were two attorneys who argued that case in front of the United States Supreme Court and arguing for the Democratic Presidential Candidate, Al Gore, was David Boies. He had put his credibility on the line in arguing the Bush versus Gore case, and without going into any confidential communications or trying to waive in any way, I knew that David Boies had agreed to
represent Virginia Roberts which gave me
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