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140 Mr. Andres. —this portion. And we can, sort of, break and start the second part. So maybe just give us 10 minutes and come back?

That's fine. I appreciate that, Greg. Take your time.

Mr. Andres. Okay, good.

[Recess.]

Thanks. So I just wanted to then start.


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Our focus for hopefully the next couple hours will be on the preparations for January 6th. But, obviously, it struck me that the time period from the events of the last few hours that you just discussed with my colleague essentially overlaps with the preparations the Department was taking for January 6th.

Is that fair to say, Mr. Donoghue?

Yes, that's right.

So from the end of December until the 6th itself.

Right.

What impact do you believe that DOJ's position of not investigating the alleged election fraud had on the significance of January 6th itself, the joint session?

Well, I think I'd have to address that by talking about what I think would've happened if we had followed the more traditional approach.

So you have all these allegations about fraud that supposedly changed the outcome of the election. Had we not done what Attorney General Barr instructed us to do and conduct at least some sort of limited investigations, I think the Department would never have been able to comment one way or the other as to whether there are merits to these allegations. And so, because we were able to conduct some, sort of, very limited