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169 Okay. So you're saying you talked to Dr. Gosar and said to the effect of we should have people come to D.C. to protest on January 6th.

Yes, we definitely spoke about that.

Okay. And he said that was good idea?

Yes.

Was anyone else, do you recall, a part of that conversation you had with Mr. Gosar?

I don't recall.

Did you ever have a conversation with Mr. Van Flein along the same lines about January 6th?

Yes.

And he agreed it was a good idea for people to come to D.C. to protest that day?

I don't—I don't recall what he specifically said at all.

Did you understand him to be in agreement though?

That's my understanding of it.

Sure. And when you talked to Mr. Gosar about this—or Dr. Gosar, apologies—what was the plan that you talked about in terms of how the protest would play out, where it would be, and what would be done?

That it would be somewhere—I think initially, it was, like, just anywhere in D.C. and that—and it could have been that we had talked about the Capitol Grounds, but I'm not sure.

And what we talked about was that there were some soft Republicans that were leaning towards voting the same way that the House Freedom Caucus was voting, the majority of them, and that having that many people who are your door knockers and