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192 used them, and that was it.

How many hours in total do you estimate you were at the Capitol?

About 5 or so.

Before kind of go back to some emails that were received, does anybody have any questions?

Ms. Cheney?

Ms. Cheney. Thanks. , are you going to walk through Mr. Donoghue's 7 o'clock call, the 1900 call, just to get—I see the note in the exhibit 54.

. Uh-huh.

Ms. Cheney. Just to get some specifics about what messages that were on that call.

Sorry, just to clarify. The notes say that POTUS was on the call, but I think Mr. Donoghue just said that's not the case?

Mr. Donoghue. Right. And I think what I was doing there, I was taking notes during the call. And someone at some point said something about the President. I think they were going to relay something that the President said or some directive or something like that.

And I wrote POTUS, because I was going to relay whatever the instructions were. And then when I heard them, it sounded like to me it was something I had heard previously.

So whether it was the Chief of Staff or someone else saying the President wants the situation brought under control, I think that's what it was, but I'm not a hundred percent certain.

I am a hundred percent certain that the President was not on the call. You know, looking back at the notes, obviously, I was kind of racking my brain a little bit as to why