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31 preparations for January 6th. And I understand if you haven't had the opportunity to review it, but that's the point of those paragraphs.

Okay.

Were you involved in the January 5th memo that Secretary Miller drafted in response to the guidelines for the D.C. National Guard?

Yeah, which memo, the number?

I'll show you the number. It would be 51.

Okay.

Do you recognize that?

Yes, I recognize this document. Thank you. Dated Jan. 4, 2021?

Right.

Yes.

Were you involved in drafting that or discussions leading up to that memo?

From my recollection of what I see here, naturally I would have been involved as the Acting Secretary's chief of staff. And, in summary, I'll let the memo speak for itself, but it's just the limitations that were placed on the D.C. National Guard by the mayor.

And under the law and what the Department of Defense has to do is they cannot go outside the lines of what the request for National Guard was. And, in this instance, the mayor did not want them armed or body guarded or kitted out in any way, and this outlines that. This then gets pushed down to the Secretary of the Army, and the Secretary of the Army then sends it to Commanding General Walker of the D.C. National Guard.

Okay. But are you kind of aware of the background or the backdrop about some of these guidelines that were put in place, putting aside what the mayor's request