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121 And you also said possibly Mr. Meadows. Is that right?

Yeah, yeah. Right.

Did you have any discussion with President Trump about your potential appointment to the CIA?

My potential appointment—well, yeah. The question appears to implicate core executive privilege concerns. I'm prepared to answer it, but I want the record to reflect my serious concerns about congressional overreaching.

What I recall is, it was discussed amongst the people we already stated about the Deputy Director position at the White House.

Did I have a separate discussion with the President, I believe is what you're asking, about that role? I think it came up in one of our conversations. I don't know if it was before the election or after. I'm just not sure.

So, before your appointment to DOD, you could have had that conversation with the President?

Maybe. Yeah, I just don't have any timeline in front of me to remember the date of that conversation.

Understood, but that's a pretty big deal, right? That would've been a huge position, as the Assistant Director at the CIA.

To be Deputy Director—

Deputy.

—would've been a great promotion. I think it would've been an honor to serve in that capacity. With my intel background, I would have, of course, considered it.

So what happened, from what you were aware of? If you had the discussion with Mr.—

I was never made the Deputy Director of the CIA. It did not happen, as we