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137 It's just a one-page email, Mr. Donoghue, that you sent directly to Bobby Christine on this truck issue. Do you see that?

Yeah. Right.

And it indicates, "As discussed with both of you"—and you're copying Mr. Amundson from PIN—"while we're all skeptical of this claim, we should do what we can today within our established policies, and no more."

You're conveying to both Christine and Amundson some skepticism about the claim, but suggesting that they follow protocol and evaluate the credibility of this allegation respect to the truck. Is that right?

Yes.

And your understanding—I think you just said that they did that and found that there was no reason—it didn't give them any pause, with respect to the overall integrity of the Georgia election.

Right.

And if I remember right with regards to the truck specifically, I think the explanation was, yes, the truck was full of shredded ballots, but it was full of shredded ballots from a prior election, and that what was going on was, through the routine records-retention practices of the county or the State, old ballots were being shredded to make way for the 2020 ballots so that there would be room to store them. I think that was the explanation for that. And that made perfect sense.

Okay.

. All right. Let me stop there and ask, Ms. Cheney, if you have any specific can questions about that last—these White House meetings and the current line of questions.

Ms. Cheney. I don't. Thanks