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56 call—my habit would've been—I'm with the Acting Secretary of Defense and the Chairman and others at DOD. We want to make sure we are giving the White House everything they need. And do you, the White House, have any questions for DOD?

That's usually how we did things outside of Jan. 6th or involving Jan. 6th to make sure we had a line to the chain of command.

Well, was there a request from the White House?

I don't recall that there was any request from the White House specifically, other than to do what we discussed earlier, which was things related to the National Guard.

So how about in the subsequent calls? Was there ever any specific request from the White House?

When you say "request," like, what do you mean? Like, are you working the National Guard? What's going on? What's the status of that? Or—

Well, you tell me. I don't know. When you say there wasn't a request, what was the context of the conversation?

The context was, as best I can recall, was: Chief of Staff Meadows, we have the authorization from prior communication with the President from the day or so ago before. We have additional requests that came in throughout the day—I'm not sure of the timing—from the Mayor and other offices that we were fielding.

So I was keeping him up to date of that order of events as best as I could. It was not an extensive phone call. We had to focus on mobilizing, employing, and deploying the National Guard.

But was there ever a request made from Mark Meadows to move the National Guard to the Capitol?

I don't believe so, because I don't know what I would've done with such a