shortly thereafter the author of a brand-new book out yesterday. it s called courage under fire 58-1 on january 6th. thanks for being here. i have a lot of questions for you. i read the whole book cover to cover. the book feels like an attempt to explain what happened, what went wrong and why you in particular are not solely to blame for what happened. you write quote, hearings have been held and reports written but in true d.c. fashion where everything is done to promote one s party the facts are ignored or glossed over. i know you wrote an entire book. but as concisely as possible, what are people missing about that day? there is so much that went on that day. there are so many things that were in play that prevented advance protection of the cap capitol, regulations that i faced, issues with intelligence, issues with the department of defense, failing to come to our assistance that just created a terrible day for my officers. i think the reason i wrote
that. when she said that at the time you think about it, where is she thinking about this? i m not seeing the intelligence. when i was briefing zoe it was paul irving that actually brought up hey, tell her about the national guard. right. even though he had been downgrading. he was the person that told me i couldn t have him in advance. i said yeah, i reached out and if we need them, they re ready. the book is courage under fire, under seeing and 5 8-1 on january 6th. the suspect in the idaho student murders is on his way back to idaho as the families prepare to learn more. stay with us. an: : i have a fewe minutes. let s go! tech vo: that s service that fits your schedule. go to safelite.com. singers: safelite repair, safefelite replace.
the book is i don t want to see this happen again. it was a terrible day. i m worried something like this could happen again. one of the big problems you have with the way the capitol police system is set up is that you didn t have a lot of autonomy. you had to report to a board. there was a house sergeant at arms. the architect of the capitol, the senate sergeant at arms and you point fingers at the house sergeant at arms and the senate sergeant at arms, both of whom were let go around the time you were let go for not approving your many requests for the national guard. how much was that the key problem in your view that those two men, one of whom passed away, that those two men did not take your request seriously enough? it ties in. it s a compilation of issues. it s that and what people don t realize, as chief of the capitol police, you re right, i have very little autonomy. there is a federal law that prevents me from calling in resources in advance of an event
how they were handled in this entire operation. and the question surrounding whether or not they have already flipped and are working with the doj. that s a good question, i ve heard speculation about that earlier on this show. mika, i know from authoring government reports myself, that probably 95% of people who read government repors read the executive summary. so, to me, it was absolutely right tole release the executive summary first. it s 160, i m sure ali vitali and carol and i are going to read the entire thing cover to cover, but i suspect the essence of it is in 160 pages. i have thought for a long time, mika, that if there is to be a criminal case here, those responsible for bringing that case should really charge the essence of what happened here. don t just go for the quick and easy win, the charge that s easiest to prove.
is a viable thing over the long term. and we expect privately that president zelenskyy will make a personal appeal to president biden for additional weapons that ukraine still wants, longer range weaponry, tanks, f-16s. things like that. as for president biden, he s going to announce $2 billion in aid, including that patriot missile battery for ukraine that they ve been wanting. and the question really there is how does the president respond to requests for additional weapons, heavier weapons that the ukrainians wants. and to what extent, mika is peace, an end to the war, a pathway to seeing this conflict. and a topic of discussion between the two presidents. all right. nbc s carol lee. thank you very much. let s jump over to ali vitali for the congressional side of things. don t think there will be much pushback in the senate but do you think zelenskyy s address to a point session, might help sway some opinions on the house side