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159 That's at 12:21.

Yes, I see that report.

Okay.

It also, in this email, estimates the crowd to be around 28,000 people to be expected. And that's the top of the second page.

Okay.

Now, I want to—

My understanding—

Go ahead.

Just so you understand, the range that we heard throughout this week leading up to it was somewhere between below 10,000, up to 30,000. That was sort of the range of what we were hearing.

And that was based on a number of different metrics, one of which was the number of permits that had been issued. We have nothing to do with the permitting process in D.C., but we understand that they apply for a permit; in submitting the permit application, they estimate how many people will show up. So that's one metric you can use. Others were based on social media, as well as the hotel reservations and things of that nature.

So we were getting this sort of sliding scale of less than 10,000, up to 30,000, throughout the week. And that's a relatively small turnout for a Washington, D.C., event. So, again, that sort of gave us some comfort, too, thinking that this was not 100,0000 people we were going to be looking at.

Got it.

Now, exhibit 36 is a 2:02 email from specific to January 6th reporting. And in—