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67 And it gave us an opportunity to say in response that that wasn't the case, that we were doing our job. And I had hoped, certainly, that by giving him clear responses on some of these points that it would help the President understand that these allegations were not supported by evidence.

Was it your impression by the end of the call that that had worked, that he had been convinced that these allegations had no merit or that the Department and the FBI had, in fact, been doing their jobs?

Not overall, necessarily. It was clear that he still believed that he'd won the election and that the different outcome was the result of corruption. But I think on some of these individual allegations he did accept it. So, when we pushed back on an individual allegation, as I said, he seemed to accept our explanation, but then he would move on to another allegation.

Yeah.

Did he mention any other person beyond those that are reflected in your notes? For instance, when he said, just say the election is corrupt and leave it to the Republican Congressmen, did he say who, specifically, those Republican Congressmen were?

No.

If he mentioned a name, would it be reflected in these notes?

Yes, I think so.

Okay.

All right. Let me pause there and see if, Ms. Cheney, if you or—I don't if anyone else from the committee is on—have any questions about this particular phone call.

Ms. Cheney. Thanks,

Yeah. Just to confirm, so this phone call is happening on December 27th. Is that right?