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133 chronologically now for your planning for January 6th, just to give you an idea. Right? So you have the idea around the 16th or 17th. You spoke about it at your rally on December 19th. I just went through the texts with Mr. Alex Jones on the 20th. You do not recall the congressional meeting on the 21st.

So now we're going to move to the One Nation Under God permit. You told us that Mr. Stephen Brown—you hired him to help you do it seems like planning for the January 6th. Did you tell him to file for a permit for January 6th in Washington, D.C.?

Yeah, I have no idea how to do that by myself.

That's fair. No, that's fair.

So why did you—did you direct him to file the permit or apply—do the permit application under One Nation Under God?

I know we had consultation about it. And I believe that—we had a consultation about it, and I don't know how we decided on the name. But, like I said, One Nation Under God was a coalition effort of "stop the steal," which is itself a coalition, and then other Christian and Jewish groups.

If I were to ask Mr. Brown whose decision it was to file the permit under One Nation Under God, it's your testimony here today that you all discussed this together and made the decision together?

That's why I hire consultants, yeah. They consult me, and then I make a decision on what I'm comfortable with based off of expertise that I don't have.

So, look, I'm saying so is it your testimony here today that, if I were to ask Mr. Stephen Brown whether he consulted you on filing this application under One Nation Under God, his answer would be yes, right? That's your testimony?

I believe so.

Okay. So the date on the application was December 21st, 2020. Why did