guard to restore order and secure the peace without having to wait for the approval of some governor that thinks it s politically incorrect to call them in. the next president needs to send the national guard to the most dangerous neighborhoods in chicago until safety can be successfully restored, which can happen very, very quickly. the former presidents talk about the federal government not having to wait for a governor s approval to send the national guard. we just learned the former acting defense secretary told the house select committee that the former president never gave him a formal order to have 10,000 troops ready to be deployed to the capitol on january 6th, like he keeps claiming he did. right, yeah, first of all we have a law in the country, posse comitatus, which prevents federal troops from entering into states and engaging in law enforcement activity without first receiving approval and
as they try to build their case. and so, that would be the natural evolution of this. and it follows a pattern that jeffrey is very familiar with, because it s kind of standard operating procedure. and also takes a while. everybody is frustrated, i mean, a lot of democrats are frustrated with garland. if you look at iran contra, if you look at watergate, it took a year and a half to two years to get the big conspiracy case indicted. so, this is not on the slow boat to know where that a lot of democrats thought it was. it has been a year and a half. thank you, thank you both, i appreciate. we ve got a lot more on january six news tonight. new details on the doj, looking at the farm presents actions in the criminal investigation. plus, what trump s acting defense secretary told the committee that directly contradicts his former boss.
you look at watergate, it took a year and a half to two years to get the big conspiracy case indicted. so, this is not on the slow boat to know where that a lot of democrats thought it was. it has been a year and a half. thank you, thank you both, i appreciate. we ve got a lot more on january six news tonight. new details on the doj, looking at the farm presents actions in the criminal investigation. plus, what trump s acting defense secretary told the committee that directly contradicts his former boss. [ only wanna be with you by hootie & the blowfish] discover is accepted at 99% of places in the u.s. [ only wanna be with you by hootie & the blowfish]
majority rule, 12 zero to find beyond a reasonable doubt that a guy who is a front runner or a nominee in early 2024 is guilty of a crime. i m not saying it s impossible, but they are making their task harder on themselves. yeah, i think in this case they have to do something, considering the egregiousness of what happened. but that s just what i think. also, the former acting defense secretary chris military called told the 1/6 committee that trump never gave him in order to have 10,000 troops ready to deploy at the capitol on january 6th. this contradicts what trump has previously said, that he had requested troops. how significant is that, norm? well, this is an individual, this is why i have to disagree with elie about getting a conviction against trump. this is an individual who the washington post found lied over 30,000 times. are you really surprised to learn that he did not give this order with 10,000 troops? part of the difficulty that
and i think we re going to see a lot of this going forward, for the next few months, to selectively leak out in dribs and drabs of their vast archival footage that they ve obtained of former the trump officials, essentially fact checking false claims by the former president. we ve seen that previously, we had ivanka there was one hearing where they played a clip of ivanka, trump or someone contradicting her, the chief of staff what she had said. i think we ll see a lot of that fact-checking to poke holes in his credibility and trump allies who tried to do the same of some of the people who have publicly testified. and i think we ll also see them get a little more creative about all of the information they ve obtained to keep the public s attention on this topic while they re sort of recalibrating this month of august. and setting the stage for the fall, where we re going to come back with some additional public hearings. former acting defense secretary very clear there,