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28 experience with this topic."

Do you remember if you were on that call or a part of setting up or discussions after that call?

Thanks for the exhibit. So what I see is my name on the "To" line with about 20, ballpark-ish, other people. If the Acting Secretary and the Chairman are on the call, there's a good chance I was on the call. I don't have an independent recollection of what was said in that call.

Are you familiar with Ken Rapuano?

Sure, of course.

What's his role?

Mr. Rapuano was a representative in the Under Secretary for Defense for Policy. So, in the structural regime at the Department of Defense, the USDP, is basically, after the Secretary of Defense and the DepSecDef, the USDP is the number three in the chain of command. So it's an important role because they interact—USDP interacts with the White House and the interagency on all policy level decisions. So I think it was smart to have Mr. Rapuano on that call.

[Discussion off the record.]

The Witness. Yeah, sorry. Right, he wasn't the Under Secretary for Defense. He worked in the Under Secretary's office.


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Got it. At any time during the discussions, preparations for January 6th, did the issue of the response of DOD to the summer protests ever was it ever brought up?

I'm sorry?

The DOD's response to the summer 2020 civil unrest, was that ever discussed while you were present in—