my meeting notes are very clear. i happened to make sure to keep them after every meeting. and they are sent around to every person that is in charge of each division within the inaugural committee so everyone has a chance to respond to them. and the responses were slow and far from coming in. because i don't think anyone knew how to respond to that. so rick gates took lead as he did with most of the inaugural financing. he was given the power of the purse. he had the power of the safe. the tickets and the funds were in his hands and he was very close, i don't know now, but he was very close to the family very much. close to ivanka. and to handle things one-on-one. >> what do you recollect in terms of what president-elect and his daughter's response that this was hyper inflated? >> donald felt ivanka would deal with me later on the subject. we were going through an entire presentation of the entire