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58 with the National Guard is, so Keith Kellogg reached out to you—

Uh-huh.

—and stated, "What the hell are you guys doing? Meadows is furious that the Guard is not moving."

Mr. Glabe. Sorry, is there a particular—

The Witness. Yeah.

This is from Peril. I don't have a page number.

The Witness. I don't know what that is.


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Do you have any recollection of that at all?

No.

Did anyone convey to you that there was an urgency to move the National Guard, from the White House? From any of those calls from anybody at the White House, did anyone convey a concern about the timing of the National Guard?

Not a concern. I think that the sum and substance of those conversations was: Employ, deploy, and mobilize the National Guard. Do it.

And when it did not happen over—and we'll go through the 2-1/2-hour period of time—

Okay.

—was there an urgency that increased from those phone calls?

There was a—I don't believe there was an urgency. We had what we needed from the White House to deploy and employ the National Guard. We were fielding requests from the field throughout the country for the National Guard. So we were putting that all together.

When you say "we," though, you're not fielding all the calls from across the