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82 participant in this chat. I'm not a member of an organization, I'm not a member of—

All right. That's fair. So you were a participant of the Signal chat?

I don't recall this, but I am not reading anything that is sticking out that, you know, that looks foreign.

Do you recall why this Signal group chat was created?

Probably to handle security.

Right.

Volunteers.

The Oath Keepers volunteered security for you?

Yeah, yeah. Well, not for me. If Stephen Brown is not—was not hired to handle my January 5 events or me going around as a public figure to other events. And so, this chat would have been specifically only about Lot 8, which means that if they weren't my security they are again the Lot 8's, again, kind of perimeter buffers.

Okay. Go to Exhibit 22 for me, please.

Yes, sir.

And this is where I got the name Jeff Morelock from.

Okay.

There is a text message between you and Mr. Stephen Brown. And it looks like he says, "room needed for Ali PSD guys at the JW in the name of Jeff Morelock and Tom Burgess." And you respond back with a thumbs up emoji. Do you recall these two individuals providing volunteer security for you on Jan 6th?

The first thing I would like to point out is there is a discrepancy in the evidence with Stephen Brown. And that's that the three or two other pieces of evidence that you've shown me with him, my name an Ali Alexandra. On this one it says Ali Akbar. And so, that's my birth name, which I don't think I've ever told Stephen, and