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Let me rephrase my question, first with a statement. There was no call between President Trump and Secretary Miller on January 6th during the attack.

Separate question: Did you find that to be unusual?

You are telling me that. I don't know that to be true. You said you read it from somewhere about this phone call or lack thereof. I'm telling you, I can't testify to the lack of a phone call that you're reading to me from some transcript or some news article. I don't know where that came from. If you showed me, I would look at it.

Were aware of President Trump's tweet at 3:13 during January 6th?

I don't believe so. I wasn't following. I'm not on Twitter. I've never been on Twitter. I don't even know how to log on to Twitter. So probably not.

So I think the big question here is, did you see any role for the President to quell the violence that was going on on January 6th?

Any role? What do you mean? What are you saying?

I mean, should there have been—

[Discussion off the record.]

The Witness. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Should there have been—


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Should he have done anything to quell the violence as your—go ahead.

I don't know what the President should or shouldn't have done. I know what I was busy doing was mobilizing the National Guard to the various locations we were asked to do it as best as we could and as fast as we could.

Were you aware of anyone who attempted to encourage the President to put out a statement or issue a tweet to quell the violence?

To the best of my memory, I don't know who would do that. So I don't