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176 day with everything we were dealing with, with election matters and other things.

Can I just interrupt. Sorry. I have one thing.

When you say the people were positioned at Quantico, do you mean the components that were prepositioned for January 6th?

Yes. So I think—I could be wrong about this, and FBI would have to tell you—but I think they took the two SWAT teams that we moved to D.C., the two hostage rescue teams that we moved to D.C., and I think they put them both at Quantico. And they had helicopters and the ability to move them into the Capitol quickly, if needed.

And so they were all just on standby with their equipment in case something happened that day.

Okay. Go ahead. Sorry.

So the morning, I, frankly, can't remember what we were working on. I'm sure there were a million things going on. I do recall at some point, late morning, early afternoon, hearing protesters marching down Constitution, going from the Ellipse toward the Capitol. We could hear them chanting and banging drums and things like that. They passed by the Department.

And then sometime in the early afternoon, I walked into the DAG's office. He had his television on. You could see that people were in the rotunda of the Capitol.

And he said to me, do you see this, do you see what's going on, can you believe this? And that was the first that I learned that the Capitol had been breached.

Okay. Let me try to stop you there and get a timeframe here.

Looking at exhibit 44, we have a 10:43 a.m. email from, who states, "There are no credible threats as of the 10:00 brief."

Is that your briefing, or is that a separate briefing?

No. So at this point is at the SIOC, and the SIOC does periodic briefing