command to the dod, refusing our request to allow national guardsmen and women to stage on january four and five before january 6th. did you both ask for the national guard to be called ? up? without a doubt. without a de john , we ve made that very, clear not just once but on numerous occasions. we wanted to make surety that there was plenty of national guard on the ready in case there was some kind of violence. i had a meeting with president trump on the 3rd ofom january concerning some international threats and at the very endl he asked if there were any requests for national guard support. what was the president s response to you s with regard tt the requests madeo by mayorma bouser? yo > fill it and do whatever was necessary to protect the demonstrators. jus now, in addition tot what youas just heard, there was one other person in the room and that is the chairman of the joint chiefs, general milley. now this week people close tose him have confirmed directly to
0 authoritarian state. that is the destruction of democracy. and we can t let them do it. we re doing our part. thank you for joining us for this hour. have the best evening b with the ones you love.see you we ll see you tomorrow. and welcome to hannity. and we start with the fox news alert breaking tonight . we have all three major broadcast networks, fake news, cnn, msnbc, all happily broadcasting well, the dullest the most boringel. there s absolutely nothingng nothing new . multi hour democratic fundraiser masquerading as a january six hearing. going to and by the sounds of it, they re going to do hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours of t us produced by a former abc executive, 100% hollywood production with all the creative licensesere that wd go along with that. butt make no mistake, tonight s so-called hearing is not in good faith. it is not an honest probe into the security breakdown on that fateful day and we will prove that to tonight instead it is i a made for tv smear