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A The second page?

Q The second physical page.

A I don't have a second page.

Q On exhibit—sorry. I must have misspoke. 34, I read the wrong tab, so I apologize. It looks like you text Mr. Brown, "I will have the team make separate One Nation Under God graphics in case the cops ask you for a copy of promo so you can deny Wild Protest being totally affiliated or whatever." It looks like you're trying to hide Wild Protest and your involvement with this application. Why?

A I don't think we're trying to hide it. Again, we're trying to disperse the crowd. And he had called me and said he needed to submit a graphic advertisement, but also that he advised that we not you know, that we not—not like over publicize One Nation Under God. And so, I said, okay. I'll have it done, because either he was going to have to have the graphic work done and charge me or I can get volunteers to do it.

Q Help me understand how, on the day of January 6th, it's your testimony here today that you were trying to direct everyone to Lot 8. "I want to get everyone off the grounds. Need to go to Lot 8." But now you're testifying, "I wanted everyone dispersed." Help me understand that difference—

A —great question. So, as I'm walking—as I'm walking and I am standing on those chairs, I'm still under this stupid belief that my event can take place, that all of this can be just deescalated and chilled out. By the time I ever make it to the northeast side, we're just trying to get people away from the building. And so whatever you have to say to get people away from the building, including "there's an alien, there's free burgers over there," you have got to get people away from the building. They were ignorantly a lot of people, what I observed personally, were ignorantly