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140 address it. I don't remember anything coming of this or what it was really about.

So you don't have any memory about what happened with an additional request for D.C. National Guard on December 18th for the White House campus?

I don't have an independent memory, but I'm sure if there was a request, there's a document for a request for D.C. National Guard that would've been made by Secret Service for protection of the White House.

And it looks like you emailed to—that it would be with ExecSec?

So there's these ExecSec, the Office of—well, the Office of the Secretary of Defense is "SD," as it says there, and other recipients in the administrative group. I don't—like, I can't see if that's—who's in that chain or not exactly.

I'm just checking through everything. Go ahead.


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Yeah, I just want to—you just, I think, Mr. Patel, said that you talked to the Vice President on January 6th?

Well—sorry. I should've been—thank you for letting me clarify.

Me, personally, I was on the phone with the Chairman and the Secretary of the—the Acting Secretary of Defense in the Secretary of Defense's office when that call came in.

I see. It's a group call.

It's a group call. Thank you.

Okay. Tell me more of what you remember from the call.

The Vice President, just what I remember, was asking the status. We asked if the Vice President was secure. Being in the Presidential succession, it was one of our responsibilities. He said he was secure somewhere, I think in the Capitol, but I'm not sure.