Premise: As you see, I'm far more genial than I express in writing. What I invited by that opinion, though, was that I would be available -- and I believe in an issue that is as important to the reporters and to you, as their counsel, as this, it is appropriate for you to stop a deposition on a question like that, instruct your witness not to answer, and allow the Court to rule on it. I was inviting you to do that. Now, I understand what your reasons are for not doing that, and I think you can do that.
Hypothesis: The counsel instructed the witness not to answer