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103 Mr. Raskin. I have no further questions. Thanks.

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My only other question, Mr. Donoghue, is just, again, for your assessment of Meadows, whether he took seriously any of these claims or whether you continued to believe it was "get them off my desk," forward them, without necessarily vouching for their credibility.

I'm just trying to get your sense as to whether Meadows was, sort of, believing that these were valid and that the election was riddled with fraud or whether he was just checking the box by passing this stuff along to you. What was your impression?

Well, of course, to some extent I'm speculating here, but I think it was the latter. I think he didn't have a firm opinion one way or the other about these matters. They were landing on his desk, and he was sending them off.

Okay.

I think what I'd like to do now, Greg, is maybe take a break. I'm close to being finished. I'm literally up to the last two White House meetings, the brief one on the 31st and then the January 3rd meeting. And then I'll be finished and I'll turn it over to

But it might make sense now to take a short break and let Mr. Donoghue, you know, have a little bit of lunch before we continue. It's 1:14. Maybe at 2 o'clock we could start up again. Is that okay?

Mr. Andres. Look, whatever you like. We don't need that much time and—

We can go faster, if that would be your preference.

Mr. Andres. Yeah. Again, the shortest period of time that's reasonable for people so that the people on your side don't kill you for stealing their lunch and the