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134 you file for the application on December 21st, which happens to be the same day as the congressional meeting with the President?

We—the horrible thing about all of this was that I announced that we are, instead of doing State capitals, we're going to go to Washington, D.C., and that our voices will be peacefully heard outside. That's on video. And, when the President announces it—I believe the 19th is when his tweet was—was a Friday late afternoon, and all of the permitting offices were closed. So that was stupid on my end because I either hadn't talked to Stephen Brown or we hadn't decided on where we wanted to—where we wanted to do it because I was so busy in the States.

And so the 21st would have been the first available date in which my consultant would have had the information or the wherewithal at the time to have filed this. This is, you know, my understanding of it all.

Why did you file under One Nation Under God and not under "stop the steal"?

Because, as I've said before is—I even said this at the event where I appeared with Representative Andy Biggs, is that "stop the steal" could not just be political; it needs to be a Christian ministry as well. And that some groups didn't consider themselves political; they just wanted to pray over Democrats and Republicans, but they wanted to participate. They thought it was historic. And so we called it One Nation Under God because we also thought, well, you know, we don't want to over advertise this. And there's other events happening right by us that we want people to feel comfortable going to. If you see a big fat "stop the steal" logo, then we would be taking away from other people's events. I wanted to share the love.

What did you mean by "over advertise this"?

Just logistically, if the President of the United States is saying come to D.C.,