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3 Mr. Sofer. Okay. We just—initially, we did a couple of quick housekeeping matters before we started, but we just wanted to confirm that this is, in fact, a closed hearing, that there's no members of the media or anybody else—I mean, we obviously saw many members of the media running around right outside the door, but I just wanted to confirm that it wasn't being piped into any other public forum or anything like that.

Nope, not at all.

No. The rules, Gregg, as we explained by phone, provide this is an executive session of the select committee, so it's not a public proceeding. No press, no one other than the people in the room. I see your lawyer, Mr. Jensen, and—

Mr. Sofer. Well, he's not technically my lawyer. I wish he was.

. Right, you're correct. So, no, that's correct, no other participants.

Mr. Sofer. Okay. And we're going to have just—I want to understand the process. We'll have some exhibits, including we want the opening statement obviously to be made part of the record.

. Sure.

Mr. Sofer. We'll have some other exhibits we'd like to be made part of the record. Is there—I'm used to courtrooms, not rooms like this, so tell us what—how you would like us to proceed procedurally with respect to exhibits.

. In terms of you providing us exhibits?

Mr. Sofer. Yeah, I mean, as we go through them, or do you want us to stop and say we'd like this to be—we've marked them already. I just want to do it in a way that's smooth for the committee.

. I'm sure it will be fine. Yeah, we'll coordinate on it. If you've marked your own numbers, that's fine. I'll mark this as 53. I think we're up to