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100 Mr. Giuliani.

I see.

So you'll see that the DAG's response is several hours later.

So he forwarded this to me. As I said, there were emails flying throughout the day, phone calls going throughout the day. I sat down, I watched the video. I was—as an investigator, I was not impressed. And I made my response at 3:39, according to this email chain.

And then, much later, Jeff Rosen told me that there was more to this and that this guy was associated with Giuliani and so on.

Did Mr. Rosen make a decision that he wasn't going to meet with Giuliani or anyone associated with him at this point? Did he tell you that?

He did. He certainly told me in the email, and he might have told me in the phone calls as well. He was getting a little irritated that day, I think understandably so. And he relayed to me, at least in the email, if not also on the calls, that he was not going to meet with Rudy Giuliani.

Rudy Giuliani certainly knew how to bring allegations of criminal conduct to the attention of a U.S. attorney's office or the FBI, and he could follow the regular channels if he chose to do that.

Got it.

All right. Mr. Meadows emails you and Mr.—or, actually, Mr. Rosen a little bit later, still on Friday, the holiday, January 1st, at tab 23, about signature match anomalies in Fulton County, Georgia. And he asks, "Can you get Jeff Clark to engage on this issue immediately to determine if there is any truth to this allegation?"

Do you remember having that forwarded to you and what your response was?

Yes. My response is the next tab, 24. I say, "At least it's better than the