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 that. That is when he said, well, you are under arrest.

B: And Sheriff Weitzenfeld was there, as well?

H: Yes.

B: So, that is why the deputies were also taken into court with you at the hearing,
 because they were the ones who were present.

H: Right. I believe there were, like, six of them.

B: After you retreated into the office, that was when they threatened to break down
 the door?

H: They came and knocked on the door, demanded to open the door. I told them I
 was not going to do that and that they should have understood from what they
 just went through, I told them if they knocked the door down, why, they would be
 arrested for destroying public property. We were carrying out our constitutional
 duties to do what we were doing. From that room, all I had to do was holler. Like
 I said, we had them upstair and we had them downstairs, so they would have
 reacted in a few minutes if we would have needed them. But after a little bit of
 waiting around and talking through the door, I guess they decided the best thing
 was to leave. But then I heard the federal marshals were then pouring into
 Tampa and that they would be back.

B: There were also some reports that there was some telephoning going back and
 forth between inside and outside the office. Is that accurate?

H: Like I said, I had that telephone hooked up right to the governor's office where I
 was telling him everything that was happening back and forth.

B: I meant between the lobby where the marshals and Blasingame were and the
 office. Is that inaccurate?

H: I do not remember that, but I do remember talking on the telephone back to
 Tallahassee with all that going on. Trying to talk with them about what was
 happening and then banging on the door, it was a little bit tough trying to keep
 your concentration on what was happening.

B: So, a very surreal but very tense situation.

H: Absolutely, and Colonel Beach did not help matters by telling me how I was
 going to get hurt if something did not happen right soon to stop it.

B: My understanding of events after that is that you and Mr. Hoffman were taken to