department doesn't take sides in the elections, and the department is not an extension of your your legal team. and our role is to investigate fraud, and we will look at something if it's specific, credible, and could have affected the outcome of the election. and we are doing that. and it's just not -- they are just not meritorious, they are not panning out. as i walked out of the oval office, jared was there with dan scavino who ran his -- ran the president's social media and who i thought was a reasonable guy and believe is a reasonable guy. and i said, how long -- how long is he going the carry on with this stolen election stuff? where is this going to go? and by that time, meadows had caught up with me and -- leaving the office. and caught up with me and said that -- he said, look, i think