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207 President seemed to believe that we had the authority administratively just to do that, and we explained to him that we did not, and then he moved on.

Ms. Cheney. Okay. Thank you.

Mr. Andres. Hi. Sorry, I'm not sure what's next. We were going to talk about the election fraud, January 6th. We were going to go from 10:00 to 4:00. It's 5:08, so just so we're—what's left?

. Hi, this is. I'm senior counsel to Vice Chair Representative Cheney. I just have a few small questions.

Mr. Andres. Great.

. It'll probably be less than 10 minutes.

Mr. Andres. No worries.


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Going back to your discussion with the Assistant Attorney Generals and what they would do if the President replaced Acting Attorney General Rosen with Jeff Clark, you mentioned that you said that you hoped that John Demers would stay on, and then—but when they actually decided—told you what they would do, did he say that he would resign as well, or did he say that he would stay on?

John did not respond. I think he and everyone else on the call took that as me saying he should not resign, you know, unless he said otherwise. I think the presumption would've been, absent John putting up his hand and saying, "No, I am going to resign," I think everyone understood that John would stay in place.

Okay. Great. And just last question, I don't know if you've seen there was recently a memo from John Eastman that was published pretty widely. Are you familiar with that? It discusses January 6th scenarios and the Vice President's constitutional role on that day. Are you familiar with that at all?