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63 Okay. Where did you go?

I believe, again—

Without—just the way, what you remember, yeah.

Well in consultation with my attorneys and, again, remember I was stupid. I missed—I was confusing—I was confusing,— I believe, south with east and north with west. And this is reflected in these text message, including a text message that I ended up sending to all kinds of supporters.

So we were walking, I believe, on the south side. We ran into an officer who was, you know, politely but very annoyed, directing people to the east side. And we asked him several times how can we help. What can we do? And he didn't want to engage in that conversation. He's, like, just go to the east side. Just go to the east side.

So we, of course, are walking towards the direction of Lot 8. When you're walking—when you're walking, you know, again from The Ellipse to Freedom Plaza, to the west, past the north I hope I didn't just previously just say south—past the north.

We get it. That's fine.

And then what's directly in front of you, you think it's Lot 8, but it's actually, I believe, Lot 9. But if somebody showed me a map, we cube more accurate about it. What we see then is about six or seven officers, I believe, on the steps closest to us. So this is hard northeast of the Capitol building. We walk up to them, engage them.

And, again, we're—we're escalating our deescalation efforts, myself and Alex Jones and Owen Shroyer and thinking, well, we'll be recognized by part of this crowd. These aren't all our supporter, but a lot of them are. And we engage with those officers. Eventually they tell us, you know, okay. Try to get those people down if you can. We don't think you can. That's my best recollection of that.