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47 record to reflect my serious concerns about congressional overreach.

Appreciate that.

Thank you.

Yeah.

And so I believe you asked, outside of Jan. 5, any other meetings—

Yeah.

—that I have a recollection about anything Jan.-6-related, let's say, with the President.

Yeah.

To the best of my memory, my interactions with the President in and about January 6th, around that time period, that I can recall was the authorization for 10,000 to 20,000.

As I best remember, he and I did not have substantive conversations about other things on January 26 that did not involve the Department of Defense's role—sorry, Jan. 6th, not the 26th.

Okay.

Separate from your direct communication with the President, what did you expect, in your role as chief of staff to the Acting Secretary of Defense, was the threat landscape or might happen on January 6th justifying the deployment of the National Guard?

So, from my opinion, the advice that I would give would be based on the intelligence that was coming in. I haven't seen or looked at intelligence in a long time—

I'm just asking you what you remember.

Yes.

What was coming that justified the deployment of National Guardsmen on