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41 And I would like that to be included in the record.

I appreciate that.

What I would propose to do quickly is to go through the exercise that he refused to indulge and just put on the record the areas that I intended to develop with him, just, again, so that, for consideration by a court or by DOJ, at least the subject matters that we intended to develop are reflected in an official proceeding.

And I just want to make sure that the record reflected when the witness left. It did.

Okay. So—and this won't take 5 hours, as Mr. Clark suggested, but I intended to develop with him a series of questions about documents, what he maintains, his use of personal devices or emails, to get a little bit more information about categories of responsive information that he maintains, whether or not he was withholding any of them on a privilege basis. He has not produced any documents or a privilege log to the committee.

I then intended to develop very simple things about his background, his professional background, his educational background, his current employment.

I would have proceeded then to questions about the institutional role of the Department of Justice in matters of election integrity. There was a November 9th memo from Attorney General Barr to the Department that authorized U.S. attorneysattorneys' [sic] offices to investigate credible allegations of voter fraud. I wanted to ask him about the Civil Division or the Environment of Natural Resources Division having any role in voter fraud investigations.

I wanted to ask him about communications he had with President Trump, from his