HOUSE OVERSIGHT 012446 -0929104.TXT 14 No, I'm not going to allow it. That is not 15 proper. 16 MR. GOLDBERGER: Okay. 17 MR. LEOPOLD: If he wants to say that she's 18 lying after asking it five times and her 19 explaining in great detail, he can do that. But 20 I'm not going to allow her to answer, nor be 21 harassed by him. It's improper. 22 MR. GOLDBERGER: Okay. But your response 23 that Counsel doesn't like the question -- or 24 doesn't like the answer -- just let me finish. 25 MR. LEOPOLD: Absolutely. I wasn't going 60 1 to interrupt you. 2 MR. GOLDBERGER: Just requires us to say we 3 like the answer to that question. And it's not 4 you and t or you and Mr. Tein who are testifying 5 here. It's the witness. 6 MR. LEOPOLD: Fine. But after the sixth 7 time of asking the same question and then coming 8 back and pointing a finger at her and saying, 9 you're a liar -- 10 MR. TEIN: That didn't happen. 11 MR. LEOPOLD: That's fine. But I'm not 12 going to allow her to answer that question because 13 she's answered that same question and has 14 explained it. 15 Now Counsel might be sitting there rubbing 16 his head with a migraine. That's his problem. 17 But if he can't ask a question appropriately in a Page 51