guard? well, first of all, sean, thank you very much for having me on tonight. and i really appreciate you kind of talk about the 20, 20 riots coming up to january six . is that something i tied together in my book? there was a number of requests. i went on january 3rd requesting the national guard from paul irving. that was the first request for the for the national guard. i then went to mike stanger, who is the senate sergej arms now, paul irving, is a politically appointed by speaker pelosi. he initially, when i asked for the national guard on january 3rd, which was a sunday, was the first day of the new congress. he said specifically, quote, i don t like the optics. and besides, the intelligence didn t support it. his concern for the optics, i believe, goes back to pelosi s decision, that statement that she referred to the federal agents and national guard on the streets of america as storm troopers. and i think she just didn t want to look at storm troopers up on the hill. and t
in the most fortified city in america? on a day when the vice president and almost every lawmaker was inside and when everyone knew there was going to be a big rally expected at the capitol that day, now, coming up tonight, the person who was serving as the capitol police chief on january six , steven son , he will join us and help answer that question. and it s an extremely important question. as i said at the time, the january 6th committee, they had a predetermined outcome to go after donald trump, bludgeon him as much as possible. and that s why congressman jim jordan, congressman jim banks were off the committee. they were kicked off the committee. and only members that impeach donald trump were allowed on the committee. not exactly a fair committee. now, sadly, democrats are not interested in learning how the capitol is breached, why security failed so badly. but here s the saddest part to me. and it should be the whole country. and that is this whole saga. it is the ve