I got a bit more information about the Lindell meeting. It was a brief meeting, Trump sent him upstairs to the WH counsel's office to be escorted by an admin official sitting next to Lindell in the meeting. That official, according to another official, was Robert O'Brien.

Once up there, he insisted on meeting with Cipollone. It got contentious, in part bc supposedly on the blacked-out part of his notes was something about how Cipollone should be fired.

Lindell tells me that he was carrying the notes for an attorney he's been working with to prove the election was really won by Trump, wouldn't say who it was. Said some of it related to reports Trump is now unable to see because he doesn't have Twitter.

Lindell insists the papers he was holding, which were photographed and visible, didn't reference "martial law." An administration official says they definitely referenced martial law.

But an administration official says Trump wasn't really entertaining what Lindell was saying. Lindell also seemed frustrated he wasn't getting more of a hearing.

O'Brien, to be clear, was not encouraging this, per administration officials. No one was.

A second administration official said that O'Brien was called to the meeting after Lindell arrived, because advisers in search of someone who could steer Lindell away couldn't immediately reach Cipollone.

Among the items on Lindell's list was replacing O'Brien. The national security adviser, seeking to end the conversation, said if there was evidence of what he was saying it should go to the White House counsel, and he steered Lindell upstairs to the counsel's office.

Officials said Lindell spoke sharply to one of Cipollone's assistants after he was brought upstairs; Cipollone told him he wouldn't speak to him until Lindell apologized to her.

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