72 1 yelling going on here, so I was trying to make 2 sure that everybody was quiet so that the client 3 could answer. 4 MR. SIMPSON: All right. Let me back up. 5 Professor Cassell, I think you were in the middle 6 of an answer? 7 THE WITNESS: Yeah, I was. 8 MR. SIMPSON: Could the court reporter read 9 me the last two lines of your answer? 10 (Thereupon, a portion of the record was read 11 by the reporter. ) 12 BY MR. SIMPSON: 13 Q. Can you pick up then? 14 A. Sure. I'll pick up the ans -- so I was 15 beginning to draw an adverse inference when Jeffrey 16 Epstein, who is at the heart of the sexual abuse of not 17 only Virginia Roberts, but dozens and dozens and dozens 18 of girls literally scattered across the globe, takes the 19 Fifth, refuses to answer the question. 20 Off the top of my head, I can't recall 21 exactly, but something along lines of: Do you know Alan 22 Dershowitz? And he says, I take the Fifth. That sort 23 of, frankly, startled me, that this international sex 24 trafficker was taking the Fifth now when asked about 25 Mr. Dershowitz. ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021895