recognize your free speech rights and this is an important conversation for people to hear. if you could do it over, would you want the president at the time not to tell people to go march on the capitol? >> i think it's very hard to look back and -- i have no involvement in the speech writing or anything like that. that is not a role i play. my role as a vip adviser was to assist in the seating and credentialing process which is a role i have done at hundreds of rallies at many different political candidates and events. o going back in time, that would never have been my role to play there. >> i'm not asking you if it was your role at the time. >> certainly, the events that happened later that day were very difficult to watch, and a bad day for democracy, but i do think it was an isolated number of people. there were a lot of people who had every right to be -- >> you made that point. that's on the record. but donald trump should not have told all those people gathered at your rally to go march on the