night the ritual maddow show starts right now, good evening rachel. president vladimir putin it s been a white knuckle day for democracy back here at home. in a congressional hearing today on the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol, there was no explanation. none. for why the national guard stood down for hours while the capitol was over run that day by a huge violent mob of trump supporters. the committee and the house documented 12 different requests to the pentagon that day, trying to get help from the national guard.ge 12 different requests while the attack was under way. five different times, the national guard was told that ua they needed to standby.