And you could have been new in a role. You've been at the department for 15 years, but you're newly in a role and you're considered provisional. And we lost some or We wrongly laid off a number of critical, very important people in [the National Security Administration]. NSA. As soon as I realized that, which was within 24 hours, we called all of them back and all but two came back. That was a screw up. (04:18–04:25)
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Admits to mistakenly laying off critical personnel in the National Security Administration.
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