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Pentagon, D.C. officials point fingers at each other over Capitol riot response Julia Ainsley and Dan De Luce and Mosheh Gains © Provided by NBC News WASHINGTON City officials here said it was the Pentagon that planned to keep the presence of National Guard troops at Wednesday s pro-Trump rally small, unarmed and distant from the Capitol. But Pentagon officials said they were merely responding to the city s wishes to keep things de-escalated. A timeline released by the Pentagon late Friday says Capitol Police twice declined help from the Defense Department in the days prior to Jan. 6. But it also shows that when the city officials and the Capitol Police requested additional National Guard troops after rioters breached the Capitol, it took four hours for those troops to arrive.

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