central questions that a 9/11-style commission to look at january 6th would answer, most people want to know why the national guard wasn t deployed more quickly. it s not just an eagerness to use the united states active duty military troops on the streets of american cities, in this case, to quash protests, it s holding questions now about whether he held them back on january 6th. how do we get to the bottom of all of these questions and future proof the presidency? i think it starts with a full investigation of what happened on january 6th but way prior to that as well. a year ago right now i was covering this and others were trying to sound the alarm because trump had gutted the senior leadership, replaced all the senior leadership with his cronies and we were all praying that the guardrail would be chairman of the joint chiefs, general milley. it seems the reporting is he was that guardrail for democracy, for the military, for what could have been much greater violence
who publicly called on trump to declare martial law and have the military take over the country and rerun the election and swing states. where trump lost. michael flynn s brother on january 6th was the deputy chief of staff of the united states army. which he described essentially being the chief operating office of the army. after the attack happened on january 6 on hard questions started to be asked about why the national guard wasn t there. why they took so long. request after request produced no help. for hours and hours. when hard questions first started to be asked about what happened there the pentagon initially made false public statements saying that general charles flynn had nothing to do with fielding any of the requests for help. or taking part in any of decision making about whether the national guard would be deployed to save the capitol.
january 6, when hard questions started to be asked about why the national guard wasn t there, why they took so long. request after request to the pentagon produced no help for hours and hours and hours. when hard questions first started to be asked about what happened there, the pentagon initially made false public statements saying that general charles flynn, mike flynn s younger brother, had nothing to do with fielding any of the requests for help or taking part in any of decision making about whether the national guard would be deployed to save the capitol. those were false denials from the army that charles flynn was involved. today general flynn explained to the house over sight committee he was involved in the decisions and in that planning.flex even though, like i said, he didn t have answers for what went so wrong and why it took five hours to get there. we don t know why the pentagon
patrol agents i talked to said because the national guard wasn t from here and weren t familiar were the landmarks around here, they had to be paired up with border patrol in those monitoring facilities. it wasn t really freeing them up that much. molly, thank you, jacob, thank you in brownsville, texas. let s get back to our breaking news. three big reporter takeaways so far from the ig report that congress and the white house are being briefed on. former fbi director james comey broke bureau protocol in the clinton e-mail investigation. but he did not do so out of political bias. a previously unreported text message in which a key investigator on both the clinton e-mail case and the investigation of russia and the trump campaign assured an fbi attorney back in august of 2016, quote, we ll stop trump, from making it to the white house. the report by the inspector general does not challenge the decision not to prosecute mrs. clinton. i m joined by susan page, white
katrina in new orleans where the national guard wasn t talking to the u.s. military, we ve got a liaison officer, a one star, that brings me to go. the other biggest thing that we will see in florida, now they ve got a real good statewide building code, so you are going to see the effects of that. all the buildings will be demolished come up with new ones will stand a pretty good. shepard: i wonder about the inland areas east of fort myers in that region. immokalee, some of the smaller towns around the lake. do you know anything about evacuations? so often people that u.s. set in your ways, it s not looking like a good time to do that. well, for good reason. because the center of the hurricane track from the hurricane center is drifting to