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117 me and Ed and we got to say, hey, we can tweet about this.

And when you said, "He sent me some stuff," was this over email?

No, I don't think so, no.

So how would you send somebody something if it's not over email or mail? Just help me understand, what was sent to you, how was it sent to you?

I mean, it was probably a text message because it wasn't resolving. And it wasn't about January 6th. It was about election integrity. And, you know, and again, to my best recollection, they are telling us what they are doing.

And they were doing it independent of me. They were doing it independent of the White House. They were doing what they thought was right.

There were several different Members of Congress on different tracks. I thought that was silly. What I wanted to know, I wanted to be a clearinghouse for some of this information and concentrate the effort in a productive, legislative, legal, peaceful way.

How did you know they were doing it independent of the White House?

Because on the call they were in over their heads. They were, you know, saying—I asked—I think I asked, "How many Members?" Again, like, this makes me feel icky because, like, my First Amendment or whatever.

But they—they—I asked them, I think, you know, how many Members you guys have or something? We're trying to probe the political viability of the issue. And it was a ridiculous answer or something like that. And I was like, "Are you guys working with White House Legislative Affairs? Are you working with anybody who's, like, helping y'all with whip counting?" It was something about whip counting.

And whip counting is, you know, counting the expected votes for a piece of legislation.

. No, no, I watched "House of Cards." I know that one. But I