secretaries of defense mccarthy kept saying, it s hard and it takes time, i need to talk to my boss and i haven t had a chance to go see him. there was really a delay. then by the time we spoke to the acting secretary of defense, it was like, well, we re going to do this or that. did it make sense to you? no, it made no sense at all. it is hard to activate the national guard. you have to start early. they said they had the authority here but they didn t have the permission to exercise it. is that why you think the january 6 commission is so important, to find out exactly what happened one year ago today here? the facts and the whole thing, to set up what happened before, what happened during. that s very important. and what s happening after. so it s the before, during and the after. but the fact is that the presence of the national guard earlier, you would have had a different story to tell. did you call the white house