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141 Okay.

And then we said we were trying to meet the needs of the Representatives of Congress to restart the certification. I believe he asked for, do you have a ballpark timeline? That was a frequent question. We said, we're doing the best we can, and we think we'll have it back on, I believe at the time "within hours" was what we—

Okay.

—informed him.

So, then, roughly, that took place in the evening of January 6th before Congress reconvened to—

Well, yeah, it would've had to have taken place before.

And who else do you recall being on the call besides the Vice President? I think you said the Chairman and the Secretary—

Yeah. I'm not sure who was on on his end.

Yeah.

I'm not really even sure of the room or who was in it, but—

Okay.

—I imagine there was other people there.

Yeah. How about on your end?

Yeah, there was probably—you know, on that day, when we were—the Office of the Secretary of Defense is pretty huge, and, you know, we had people coming in and out, performing duties—the ExecSec, the senior military advisor, general counsel. So, you know, I don't have an accounting for that exact moment, but those people were rolling through.

Were you present for any other conversations with the Vice President on January 6th besides that group call?