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112 earlier that day, that he had decided—that the President had offered him the Acting Attorney General position and that he had decided to take it but that he wanted to have one last conversation with Jeff Rosen before he communicated that to the President.

So we had a brief conversation about that. Then we had to break off and go into the 1 o'clock call about January 6th. That took some period of time.

When that call was done, we were still sitting in his office, and I said, so what are you going to do in terms of meeting with Jeff Clark? And he said, I am going to meet with him—hang on. I just want to make sure I'm not conflating two different days here.

Yeah. Take your time.

Let me just think about this a second.

Uh-huh.

Mr. Andres. Was there a prior meeting with Jeff Clark before that?

Mr. Donoghue. Well, there was the 28th. I just want to make sure I had the—yeah, no, this is right. This was the 2nd. Because the only time I saw Jeff Clark on the 3rd was in the Oval Office.

So let me back it up a little bit, because I am conflating slightly here January 2nd and January 3rd.

So, when I got to the office, the DAG did tell me that he'd spoken to Jeff Clark and Jeff Clark relayed that the President offered him the position of Acting Attorney General—it was very explicit at that point—

. Yeah.

Mr. Donoghue. —and that Jeff Clark was thinking about it and he wanted to meet with DAG Rosen about it.

So, after our call with DOD and the other partners, he said he was going to have a meeting with Jeff Clark up on the sixth floor, which is our SCIF, and that he wanted me to