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166 all going to start shooting at each other all across D.C.

Do you know who mentioned RMVE or Antifa?

I think it was the DOD guys. I don't think that was us. I think that came—we spoke later in the conversation.

Well, midway down the page, it says "4 buckets." Can you just talk us through that note?

So you recall that the night before when General Milley asked for DOJ to serve as the lead agency, the DAG said we could not do that for a variety of reasons that we would explain later.

The next day we discussed this issue in more detail with Dave Bowdich. And Dave had been using this sort of paradigm to explain how the FBI was viewing this thing, and we thought it was helpful. He said, if you break it down to four buckets, you have intelligence, command posts, investigations, and street operations.

So this is the DAG explaining to DOD, and others on the call, what we as the Department were able to do. He said, with regard to intelligence, we're already doing that. The FBI is disseminating intelligence, others are as well, DHS, et cetera. But we are already doing that, and the FBI has an established mechanism through which it disseminates intelligence to State and local law enforcement officers. We'll continue to do that.

With regard to command posts, we're doing that as well. We are standing up with SIOC. Everyone is invited to be there. We have a command post at WFO, and we're staffing other command posts that are being hosted by other agencies. So that's also functioning.

With regard to investigations, which really means investigations and prosecutions, we, DOJ, of course, have the lay on that because we're the only ones who can prosecute.