but Matt my name is Rachel Mitchell
thank you I just wanted to tell you the
the first thing that struck me from your
statement this morning was that you are
terrified and I just wanted to let you
know I'm very sorry that's not right I
know this is stressful and so I would
like to set forth some guidelines that
maybe will alleviate that a little bit
if I ask you a question that you don't
understand please ask me to clarify it
or ask it in a different way when I ask
questions sometimes I'll refer back to
other information you've provided if I
do that and I get it wrong please
correct me okay I'm not going to ask you
to guess I know it was a long time ago
if you do estimate please let me know
that you're estimating okay yeah
we've put before you and I'm sure you
have copies of them anyway five pieces
of information and I wanted to go over
them
the first is a screenshot of a whatsapp
texting between you and somebody at the
Washington Post do you have that in
front of you yeah the first two texts
were sent by you on July 6th is that
correct correct and then the last one
sent by you was on July 10th correct
okay are those three comments accurate I
will read them yes
so there's one correction okay um I've
misused the word bystander as an
adjective okay
bystander means someone that is looking
at an assault and then the person named
PJ was not a technically a bystander I
was writing very quickly it was a sense
of urgency so I would not call him a
bystander he was downstairs and you know
what I remember of him was he was a tall
and very nice person I didn't know him
well but but he was downstairs not
anywhere near the event okay thank you
if I'd like to take that word out if
it's possible okay thank you for
clarifying that
the second is the letter that you wrote
to senator Feinstein dated July 30th of
this year did you write the letter
yourself I did and I says it's dated
July 30th did you write it on that date
I believe so I found that right I was in
Rehoboth Delaware at the time I could
look into my calendar and try to figure
that out it was it written or about that
day yes yes I traveled I think the 26th
of July to her hope it's Delaware so
that makes sense because I wrote it from
there okay it's the letter accurate I'll
take a minute to read it I can read fast
okay so I have three areas that I'd like
to address okay
in the second paragraph where it says
this the assault occurred in a suburban
Maryland area home yes at a gathering
that included me and four others I can't
guarantee that there weren't a few other
people there but they are not in in my
purview of my memory would it be fair to
say there were at least four others yes
okay what's the second correction okay
the next sentence begins with Cavanaugh
physically pushed me into the bedroom I
would say I can't promise that
mark judge didn't assist with that I
don't know it was pushed from behind so
I don't want to put that Foley on him
okay okay miss Mitchell I don't know
whether this is fair for me to interrupt
but I want to keep people within five
minutes is that a is that a major
problem for you in the middle of a
question because I don't we've got a
I've got to treat everybody the same