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Where did you conduct the call?

From—as you can see at the top, it says HR 228. That's the office number that we were in.

I was in the rotunda. My detail guys could hear that we were planning calls in the rotunda, because of the echo. It was not a good place to do a call. And so my detail guys said, we'll go find you a quiet place to make these phone calls. And then they came back and they led me to 228.

Do you know where the Vice President was at that time?

I don't know exactly, but after this call I learned that he was in the Capitol -- wherever his office is, I don't know offhand where that is -- and I went there. Someone led me to the Vice President's office, and there were some officers stationed outside. I said who I was, and we were just there in case there's anything, any sort of assistance we could provide.

His Chief of Staff came out. I said, look, we were just on the call, you know, I understand the Vice President's here, do you guys need anything at all? And he said, no, thanks, we got it.

And that was it. I never saw the Vice President. I never spoke to him aside from the phone call. I just saw his Chief of Staff.

Did it surprise you that he was still in the building?

No, not really.

To Ms. Cheney's point, could you just go through that 1900 call, what you touched upon in that call?

It was similar to the 1800 call in that I was telling them that the building is