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43 that they came up in subsequent conversations with the President. And DAG Rosen and I essentially told him, "We looked into that, and it's just not true."

Ms. Cheney. Okay. So he was informed?

Mr. Donoghue. I told the President myself that several times, in several conversations, that these allegations about ballots being smuggled in in a suitcase and run through the machines several times, it was not true, that we had looked at it, we looked at the video, we interviewed the witnesses, and it was not true.

Ms. Cheney. And that timeframe of those—when you informed the President, do you have a sense of the dates when that would've occurred?

Mr. Donoghue. I believe it was in the phone call on December 27th. It was also in a meeting in the Oval Office on December 31st. I believe I mentioned that specifically both times.

Ms. Cheney. Okay.

Okay. And then do we have a date for the briefing that you mentioned with AG Barr, Rosen, Wray? I think this would've been the briefing with CISA about the Antrim County.

Mr. Donoghue. I don't remember specifically. It may be on a calendar someplace. But we did that somewhere between December 14th and December 18th. Because—

Ms. Cheney. Okay.

Mr. Donoghue. —the email from Ken Cuccinelli on December 18th was pursuant to that briefing and the discussion we had at the briefing.

Ms. Cheney. Okay.

And then, just to note for the record—and,, you might have done this, but—the exhibit 3, that email that we received, the subject line here is "From POTUS." I