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The Witness. Sure.

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I just have one more question.

BY  :

I know in the binder there was an email exchange between you and Mr. Ken Cuccinelli. That's exhibit 43.

How do you—and I'm not asking about the email itself.

A Oh.

Q How do you know Mr. Cuccinelli?

A From my time in government. Mr. Cuccinelli and I have crossed paths and served together for some time.

Q And there was, I believe, exchanges about Secretary Ryan McCarthy and—

A Are you asking me about it, the document? Sorry.

Q Yes.

Mr. Sofer. Is that the exhibit you just referenced?

 . Uh-huh, 43.

The Witness. What is the question?

BY  :

Q It looks like there was a press statement from therichmond.com about "The FBI fears 'insider attack.""

A Uh-huh.

Q And your response was, "Just Ryan doing too much media."

A Yeah.

Q What—and there was other emails, which I don't want to spend time getting into, about Secretary McCarthy leaking the DOD timeline.

Was there a concern about Secretary McCarthy that was shared by you and Ken