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114 Maybe I'm mistaken, but—

. To be clear, there is a one-page note that I do think you have for January 2nd, for this meeting.

Mr. Donoghue. I know I've seen them in my prior testimony, so—maybe they're not marked as an exhibit. But I'll go, as best I can, off my recollection here.

Yeah.

Mr. Donoghue. So we had this conversation in the SCIF. Jeff Clark says, well, despite the fact that the IC doesn't have anything that calls this into question, I still think there's a lot of fraud out there, I still think the Department should be taking action, and I still think the Department should send that letter.

And, at that point, it got very confrontational, because we were not going to send that letter.

And so the meeting went on for some time. He said something that made me think that he had again been in contact with the President. And I said, you know, you, again, have violated the White House contacts policy. I reminded him that I was his boss and that I had directed him to do otherwise.

He said that he had talked to some people on the phone, essentially interviewed witnesses over a phone, and that these people had information in Georgia and that there was testimony in the Georgia Senate hearing that raised questions about Georgia, and so on and so forth.

So he kept saying, there's so much there, there has got to be something to these allegations, we have to act now, we're running out of time, we need to send the letter. And that's the way that conversation went.


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Yeah. Was there any discussion of possible resignations if he became the