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Q How did you become aware of your own potential appointment to the CIA?
A Which—what are you specifically referring to when you say my "appointment"?
Q Were you ever aware of any potential appointment to the position of Deputy Director at CIA in the time period from November 10th till January 20th?
A Yes. In that time period, I do recall that happening.
Q Can you tell us who told you that?
A I believe it was a representative of PPO and that it was a possibility and a representative—
Q Let me stop you there. Who was the representative from PPO?
A Without having seen any of the emails we probably would've had going back and forth on such a matter, I'm guessing it would've been Mr. McEntee, who's the head of PPO, and probably, as the way the White House works on Presidential personnel decisions is no personnel decisions can be made that aren't done in conjunction with PPO and their chief of staff's office—which would've been Chief of Staff Meadows. So I probably would've talked to either Chief of Staff Meadows or some representative in his office about that.
That's what I remember.
Q Meaning Mr. McEntee or somebody other than Mr. McEntee?
A Yeah, I'm saying I believe it was Mr. McEntee.
Q Okay.
A I'm not limiting it to him because PPO is an enormous office. It has over 50 employees. And then there was also the chief of staff's office, which is also quite large.
