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—I've answered as best as my memory allows.

Do you have anything on that?

Yeah.


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Was he dissatisfied with the people that were in those positions at the time? I'm talking about the deputy positions at CIA or FBI.

Was "he," the President?

Yeah. Did you, either from him or from any other source, get the sense that he was displeased with those—

I don't believe I can answer that question, because I don't believe I know what he, the President, was or was not about that.

Okay. I'm asking you whether you have any personal knowledge from any source that he may have been displeased with those people which prompted him to consider you or others as replacements.

Well, caveat, when you say "any source"—

Any source.

—there's media reporting that said that. I don't know what that media reporting was in reference to. That—I'm trying to be open with you. I've read that media reporting. So I want to say that that media reporting, I have read it, and it speaks to that.

Beyond the media reporting, no discussions with Mr. McEntee, with the President, with anyone in the White House, about the President being displeased with the people at CIA or FBI?

Which positions?