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91 have developed other evidence that there was a very short one- or two-sentence order purportedly signed by the President directing the withdrawal of troops from both Somalia and Afghanistan by dates certain that was never vetted by the Chairman, by the National Security Advisor, by anyone, and then that you had some involvement in passing that along, communicating that to Chairman Milley and others. Do you have any recollection of that?

So I don't—I—

And I don't have the memo.

Yeah, I get it. I get it. We agree nobody has the memo.

Yes.

The order, memo, whatever we're talking about, nobody has it. You don't have it; we don't have it. I've never seen it; you've never seen it. So I think you're relying on—I don't know what evidence you have to say that I might have handled it. I'm telling you I don't have a memory of ever handling a memo like that through the chain of command to Secretary—Acting Secretary Miller or the Chairman, Chairman Milley, as you pointed out.

Tell us more broadly about that topic. Do you recall—

Which—

The withdrawal of troops—

Oh.

—from those two countries during the time that you served as chief of staff to the Secretary.

Yeah, I mean, so—let me—to advance our discussion—

Yes.

—let me just generally say, massive conversations. I mean, we're removing