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45 Sorry, Jeff, we had not unmuted. I'll restate.

Mr. Jensen. Thank you.

We're back on the record.


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Yeah, Mr. Patel, I understand that there's been some reporting about this meeting, and you gave us some helpful information about it. I just want to set that aside and ask you what you recall, not about the Iran stuff, but anything that anyone, the President or others, said about January 6th during that meeting, whatever date it was.

As best as I can recall, it's what I told co-counsel just before we broke. I don't think that I have any additional memory of that as I sit here, but I'm happy to look at anything you guys want me to.

We don't have anything else to show you. I just—whatever you recall.

There was some reference in the article, for instance, to 10,000 to 20,000 troops. What do you remember about how that came up, who said it, what was discussed?

Yeah, and I will rely on what I told co-counsel, not to provide a duplicative record, but, basically, the sum and substance is, there was a conversation that there was an authorization by the President of the United States for 10,000 to 20,000. That's what I remember because it's the important step one of the authorization process.

Uh-huh. Yeah.

Outside of that, it was—I will say this, without getting into details: It was an extensive classified conversation about a number of other topics.

I appreciate that.

We were there for a while.

Yeah. Okay. So the topic of 10,000 to 20,000 troops being potentially on the streets the next day or a couple of days later, kind of a big deal, right?