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philanthropic activity and civic service. And so I spent a lot of time thinking and coming up with an idea that would be about changing the way that philanthropy was engaged upon around the world and certainly in this country and where everybody could pay it forward or give some time to civic engagement or public service of some kind. And so morphing that into an idea to create the Clinton Global Initiative, which was a conference that was created for people to come and provide concrete actions rather than just sort of sitting around and talking. And so that led to, you know, commitments all over the world of billions and billions of dollars impacting hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Q And do you recall when the Clinton Global Initiative was formed? A It was in the early 2000s where I had started thinking about this. I believe the first one was launched in 2005, but I'm not -- I mean, that was, again, a long time ago. I'm not exactly sure when the first one was. Q And, just for my benefit, what's the difference between the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative? A That's a good question. The Clinton Global Initiative was its own separate entity which was about the conference and the bringing together of these -- of people to make concrete actions to do good around the world and to engage on things. The Clinton Foundation was -- you know, Presidents have Presidential foundations upon leaving office, and his foundation was created by him to -- as I said earlier, about going on these humanitarian trips and missions and create initiatives and lots of other things fell within that framework. Q So I want to turn to a statement that Mr. Epstein's lawyers have made in correspondence -- legal correspondence.