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110 Was Mark Meadows your only point of contact at the White House concerning the transition, or did you have others?

I would say he was my main point of contact for the transition.

Were you in contact with anyone at GSA about the ascertainment, I think is the word?

I don't think I've ever contacted anyone at GSA regarding this. I just don't believe I have. Maybe OGC, general counsel, did and we were there, but, again, I wasn't able to review those records.

Who was the Biden-Harris lead that you were in contact with?

The appointed lead changed a couple of times, but the day that they named Kat Hicks—Ms. Hicks is currently, I believe, the Deputy Secretary of Defense. At the time, she was named the head of the Biden ART transition team, and her point of contact would have been Mr. Muir.

As I recall, as best I recall, as soon as that appointment was made—I don't know the date; we were visiting a Fifth Fleet in Bahrain to feed them for Thanksgiving. I called Ms. Hicks on my phone. I believe it was my work phone, because that was the one that would've worked over there, and said—I welcomed her, and I said: Congratulations. This is my cell phone. This is my email. Please let me know if you are not getting anything you need. Our instructions for transition are very clear. We are to help you with transition. And I never heard from Ms. Hicks again.

So that would have been around the November 23rd, 24th timeline?

Yeah, right around Thanksgiving because I remember us going there to feed the troops.

There's a couple of exhibits where there's a—the Pentagon—there's reporting about the Pentagon blocking visits to military spy agencies by the Biden