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29 again, anticipating exactly where I'm going—you take this report, the ASOG report, and ask that it be sent to the two U.S. attorneys for the two districts in Michigan for them to evaluate and potentially pursue. Is that right?

Correct. And, again, I was upstairs on the fifth floor. So I wasn't even aware that DAG Rosen had received this from the White House down on the fourth floor 2 minutes prior.

Okay.

But this report was everywhere and obviously was something we were going to have to look at because if there was any possibility that there was a significant error rate with the Dominion machines then that would create a lot of issues for the election.

Yeah. So tell us then whether or not this was investigated and what conclusion was drawn.

So AG Barr asked—and I don't remember if this was on the 14th when I was upstairs, or it was the following morning or at some other point, but somewhere in this time period, AG Barr wanted Department of Homeland Security to take a look at the Allied report.

And the reason is, within Department of Homeland Security they have an agency called CISA, C-I-S-A, which is the cyber infrastructure—I'm sorry, Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency, and they have expertise in election hardware and software. They provide support and assistance to States and localities in using and qualifying election hardware and software. So they're the Federal government's experts in this.

AG Barr wanted them to take a look at this report and to report back to him as to whether there could be any truth to this. Obviously, on its face, a 68-percent error rate is very, very unlikely. Hard to believe that that's true, but he wanted them to take a look at it and give them his feedback.