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190 me on January 6th.

And apart from Mr. Cipollone and Mr. Meadows, did any White House official attempt to call you directly on January 6th?

No. We had a call from the Situation Room, so that was operated out of the White House, but there were no other officials reaching out to me that I'm aware of.

Who was in the Situation Room at the White House? Do you remember?

I don't. This call, this 1800 call, this did not have the congressional leadership on it. And I don't believe the Vice President was on that call either. It was more of, I think, a law enforcement-level call.

If we could just go through what you briefed them on in that 1800 call, that would be helpful.

So these notes I have in exhibit 54 titled Prep for 1800 Situation Room Call, I made these notes to myself a few minutes in advance of the 1800 call because I wanted to make sure that I covered each of these points.

So I made this list with Dave Bowdich and Ashan Benedict and some of the Capitol Police officers with me to make sure I wasn't missing any key information.

I ran through the list. I prepared it. When the 1800 call started out of the Situation Room, they turned it to me first. That's why I have the first entry there as, "See call prep notes." And I, essentially, read this list, and I briefed them on what the situation was.

And then the call continued from there with other people chiming in about perimeter fencing. General Hokansen, H-o-k-a-n-s-e-n, talked about the D.C. National Guard role and things like that.

Before we move on from the 6 p.m. and the 7 p.m. call on January 6th—and just so I'm clear, you're still at the Capitol at that time. Is that right, Mr. Donoghue?