87 1 getting beyond anything that is a matter of 2 public record. 3 MR. SIMPSON: I just -- 4 MS. McCAWLEY: But I appreciate you letting 5 me know that. 6 THE WITNESS: All right. I will not waive 7 anything, and if I start to do that, I would 8 certainly request the opportunity to retract what 9 I'm doing, but I was aware, since the issue is, 10 well, what's in the public record, I was aware 11 that, you know, probably the most significant 12 United States Supreme Court case argued in the 13 last 20 years was Bush versus Gore, which was a 14 case that essentially determined who was going to 15 be President of the most powerful country in the 16 world. 17 There were two attorneys who argued that case 18 in front of the United States Supreme Court and 19 arguing for the Democratic Presidential 20 Candidate, Al Gore, was David Boies. He had put 21 his credibility on the line in arguing the Bush 22 versus Gore case, and without going into any 23 confidential communications or trying to waive in 24 any way, I knew that David Boies had agreed to 25 represent Virginia Roberts which gave me ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021910