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23 side all day every day. There's one door between our two offices. I was constantly in his office. He was constantly in mine. So anything that I knew he would have known for the most part within a few minutes.

Yeah. So, on December the 1st of 2020, Attorney General Barr publicly announced that the Department had found no evidence of systemic election fraud sufficient to undermine the outcome. Do you recall that public statement?

Yes, I do.

All right. Were you involved in formulating that conclusion, his conclusion that there had been no evidence discovered of systemic election fraud?

I think his conclusion reflected the input we were getting from the field. So I helped channel some of that information up. So I shared his view. He also talked, in some instances, directly to the U.S. attorneys, which was not unusual either. So he was getting that not only through me and through DAG Rosen but through U.S. attorneys. So I did not formulate his statement that day in any way, but it was consistent with everything I had seen.

Okay. So you are anticipating my next question. That statement was the product of a number of U.S. Attorney's Offices pursuing allegations yet finding no evidence of systemic election fraud. Is that right?

Yes, that's right.

Okay. Let me stop there and see if Ms. Cheney or Congressman Schiff, Ms. Lofgren or Ms. Murphy have any questions for Mr. Donoghue?

Ms. Cheney. I have none,.

I'm sorry? Go ahead, Ms. Cheney. Did you say you do have one?

Ms. Cheney. No. I said I have none.