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Ms. Brignac. We will do our best to accommodate that. Thank you. Mr. Black. Thank you. Okay. Mr. Grant. And we've had a couple of additional members join us. Could they please introduce themselves for the record? Ms. Stansbury. Melanie Stansbury, New Mexico-1. Mr. Min. Dave Min, California. Mr. Grant. Thank you. Ms. Brignac. I understand, Mr. Black, you have an opening statement that you would like to read into the record. You can do so now. Mr. Black. Thank you very much. Chairman Comer, Ranking Member Garcia, Committee members, and Committee staff, I come here today voluntarily to set the record straight about my relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and in particular why I paid him the money I did. I knew Epstein for 18 years before I paid him a dime. When I first met Epstein in the mid-'90s, he was on the board of Rockefeller University, the greatest scientific research institution in the world, and also on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. His network included respected luminaries such as David Rockefeller, Ehud Barak, who had been the Prime Minister of Israel, Larry Summers, George Mitchell, Bill Richardson, and Ace Greenberg. By the time I first paid Epstein in 2013, I knew him to possess an unrivaled network of relationships with individuals in finance, academia, science, politics, and more, including Deepak Chopra, Tom Barrack, Tom Pritzker, Reid Hoffman, Kathy Ruemmler, who had been President Obama's personal attorney, Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, President Bill Clinton, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ariane de Rothschild, Eric Kandel, who is