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117 a half-day, 1-day pause on transition. And what happened was the Acting Secretary of Defense and I felt that the transition team was working crazy hours, 24/7 to make the transition happen, and I believe what we decided, what the Acting Secretary and others decided was to give the team a night off and return to their duties either in the next day or so, because we thought it was the holidays and people needed a break. If you're not referring to that, I'm sorry, but that's my recollection of this break.

So your recollection it was a 1-day break?

I believe it was like, yeah, it was a night, morning, something. That's what we were trying to give our team just a breather, and I believe it was misconstrued in the media as a halting to the transition process. That was not our take—

So—

—but I talked about it in my op-ed, which I think we're going to enter, right?

Mr. Glabe. Yeah. So, for the record, we have K. Patel Exhibit 4, "Kash Patel: Defense Department Fully Cooperating With Transition to Biden Administration," published January 13—

The Witness. And I think it's addressed in there.

I'll take a look at it, but I'm just curious, your recollection is it is about a day. The Biden-Harris folks' recollection is it was a 3-week stoppage of any transition occurring from mid-December and not reengaging until after January.

The Witness. So if there's a—

Ms. Lomax. What was the question?

The Witness. Sorry. Yeah, if there's something you could show me, point me to to talk about that?


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I have nothing to point to you. So what—