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25 Do you remember Secretary Miller or Chairman Milley raising any concern about the potential of the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers attending the rally?

If you have something I could look at that shows me that we had a meeting or something like that, but as I sit here today, I don't recall having those discussions.

Secretary Miller stated on a January 4th interagency call publicly and it was reported in the Senate report that he brought this up, that the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and the increased political rhetoric had created an atmosphere that he—

He, Secretary Miller brought it up?

Yes.

And, look—

Does that jog your memory?

—I've known Secretary Miller a long time. If that's what he said, then that's—you know, he's been a man of his word the entire time I've served with him. So, if that's what he said, then I believe that's what happened.

Whether I was on that call—I was on most calls with the Acting Secretary, but we were doing a million other things at that time. So I might not have been. And I'm happy to get into the other activities we were undertaking if you would like.

Non Jan. 6th?

Yes.

That's okay, just to be time—cognizant of time. Were—did you—

Mr. Sofer. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I guess the point—and we're not trying to slow this down. We want to move. But the reason that that might be important to you is you might think that that was the—this was the only thing going on, and there was a tremendous amount of other things going on, at least that's our understanding talking to our client. He could probably, in 10 seconds or 15 seconds, describe sort of the plate