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175 No, the first I saw this report was in the last few days in preparation for the interview.

And just for the components working this, is this a unit within BOP that is collecting this information, if you know?

I believe so, but I, frankly, don't know much about the intelligence gathering within BOP.

Okay. So if we could just start then on January 6th, what time you arrived at the office, and kind of go through your day.

So at that point, we had 9 a.m. meetings every morning with the DAG, myself, and some other Department leaders. We had a 9:30 meeting with FBI. I do remember Dave Bowdich being at that meeting. I don't specifically remember Director Wray being there, but he might have been there. We discussed, of course, January 6th.

In reviewing these exhibits in preparation for this, it reminded me of something. And I'm not going to go beyond what's in this record that you provided here.

But in exhibit 43, on page 4 of that exhibit, there is a summary, an excerpt, I suppose, of a CBS News report that talks about air traffic controllers receiving a threat. Quote, "We are flying a plane to the Capitol on Wednesday. Soleimani will be avenged."

That was another matter that we discussed with the FBI that morning, and perhaps prior to that morning. But I had forgotten about that particular issue until I saw this exhibit yesterday.

We had a more general discussion with FBI about preparation for January 6th. Were all the teams in place? Yes, they were. I think they were mostly positioned at Quantico. And we talked about a number of other things that were on the Department's radar at that point.

After the 9:30 meeting, the FBI personnel left, and I kind of went about my regular