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46 So, just to clarify, it's 10,000 to 20,000 across America.

Okay.

It was an authorization for anybody—

Yeah.

—if there was civil unrest anywhere.

Yeah. So, again, was there more information as to why that number was appropriate or what might happen that would give rise to the need from anyone during that meeting?

I don't—I don't remember. Maybe the Acting Secretary and the Chairman have a different—maybe.

A lot of times, in these meetings, just for an example, not talking subjects, there would be groups of individuals in the Oval and there would be side conversations sometimes, depending on the topic or depending on what was going on. So I can't pinpoint that one meeting, and I don't know if that happened or not in that meeting. But that's my recollection, is that was the authorization for 10,000 to 20,000.

Let's separate it from that meeting. What do you remember at any time the President saying about January 6th, expectations about what might happen in the days before January 6th?

So, from my understanding and my memory—

[Discussion off the record.]


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Right. I understand you have a continuing privilege assertion but are nonetheless willing to talk about it.

Yeah. So, just let me say, I'm prepared—so the question appears to implicate core executive privilege concerns. I'm prepared to answer it, but I want the