68 1 A. No, I'm just trying to remember what I was 2 thinking about with -- with regard to -- 3 MR. SCAROLA: Do you need the response read 4 back up to the point -- 5 THE WITNESS: If you would do that. 6 MR. SCAROLA: -- about privilege. Just read 7 the last couple of sentences back or the last two 8 sentences. 9 THE WITNESS: Oh, I'm sorry, now I remember 10 exactly. 11 How would we go find out whether Mr. Epstein 12 was lending women, or in this case, underage 13 girls to Mr. Dershowitz for sexual purposes? 14 Well, the first thing I want to do was ask -- I 15 will ask go Jeffrey Epstein. 16 And so what I discovered when I started to 17 look at the transcripts, there were a number of 18 transcripts where Mr. Epstein was asked about 19 Alan Dershowitz. And rather than say, well, no, 20 he wasn't involved in any of these illegal 21 activities, Jeffrey Epstein took the Fifth as the 22 phrase, you know, to be more precise, he 23 exercised his right against compelled 24 self-incrimination and refused to answer the 25 question, which since these were civil cases ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021891