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Q Where did you conduct the call?
A From—as you can see at the top, it says HR 228. That's the office number that we were in.
I was in the rotunda. My detail guys could hear that we were planning calls in the rotunda, because of the echo. It was not a good place to do a call. And so my detail guys said, we'll go find you a quiet place to make these phone calls. And then they came back and they led me to 228.
Q Do you know where the Vice President was at that time?
A I don't know exactly, but after this call I learned that he was in the Capitol -- wherever his office is, I don't know offhand where that is -- and I went there. Someone led me to the Vice President's office, and there were some officers stationed outside. I said who I was, and we were just there in case there's anything, any sort of assistance we could provide.
His Chief of Staff came out. I said, look, we were just on the call, you know, I understand the Vice President's here, do you guys need anything at all? And he said, no, thanks, we got it.
And that was it. I never saw the Vice President. I never spoke to him aside from the phone call. I just saw his Chief of Staff.
Q Did it surprise you that he was still in the building?
A No, not really.
Q To Ms. Cheney's point, could you just go through that 1900 call, what you touched upon in that call?
A It was similar to the 1800 call in that I was telling them that the building is
