and you never read this email?
A What is "any of this"?
Q The email, like the arrangement of the personal security detail, you had no idea that Nathan was getting Oath Keepers, you had no idea that he sent this to you?
I'm confused, because these are two individuals that you either hired or directed, and I just want to make sure that what you're saying is, "I've never seen this email. I had no idea that they were doing this."
A There's like three or four questions stacked in there. So let me in a narrative form try to summarize what I believe I've told this committee.
I do not recall seeing this email until today. I still believe that I probably have possession of this email and did not know that I did. And it's probably marked unread, and I gave the context of the date and the time and what I would have been doing.
The second thing I'd like to observe is I trust Stephen Brown and Nathan Martin mostly at my direction. You know, I don't know if we want to play around with language or whatever. I'm so unfamiliar with this email I didn't know what PSD means until you told me. And I appreciate that, .
What I will say is I'm unfamiliar with this list. This is my best recollection first time seeing this list. So when read out the list faster than I could put dots near the name of who was arrested, that's how new this information is for me.
And the question I have is, are the two that guarded me that were not with me until—were no longer with me after 10 a.m., did they get arrested?
Q And what I want to make sure is that you're not getting wrapped up. Because what we're not trying to do is trick you. We have an email from people to people. We're not trying to trick you about what the email says or doesn't say.
What we're trying to get from you sitting here today is, do you remember the
