[no audio] how about now . I am tim barber. One of the public information officers to the u. S. Capitol police. We know you have a lot of questions. We will explain briefly what we have been doing to prepare for tomorrows demonstration. And, answer some questions. You will be hearing from chief thomas major, the Assistant Chief for protective operations. The acting chief for uniformed operations, sean gallagher, and, the District Of Columbia officials. You will also be hearing from metropolitan Police Department Chief of police robert contee,dr. Christopher rodriguez the director of d. C. Homeland Security And D. C. s Deputy Mayor for public safety and justice. Chief manger will open it up for questions. We are more than happy to talk about our preparations in general. To protect the integrity of tomorrows mission, we cannot get into specific security details. Here is Chief Manger. Chief manger thank you for being here. The u. S. Capitol Police Department been working around the clock
The acting chief for uniformed operations, sean gallagher, and, the District Of Columbia officials. You will also be hearing from metropolitan Police Department Chief of police robert contee, does dr. Christopher rodriguez the director of d. C. Homeland Security And D. C. s Deputy Mayor for public safety and justice, crisco hard. Chief manger will open it up for questions. We are more than happy to talk about our preparations in general. To protect the integrity of tomorrows mission, we cannot get into specific security details. Here is Chief Manger. Chief manger thank you for being here. The u. S. Capitol Police Department been working around the clock or clothes last several weeks to ensure we have a safe event tomorrow. Perhaps more important lead over the last eight months, the leadership of the u. S. Capitol Police Department has been preparing and working to ensure that we do not have a repeat of january 6. They have been working on ensuring that we have adequate resources for Po
Our Mission Tomorrow is our mission every day which is to protect everyones right to free speech and to allow them to lawfully demonstrate. Again, we are planning for a safe event tomorrow. Have been some threats of violence associated with the events for tomorrow. We have a strong plan in place to ensure that it remains peaceful and if violence occurs, that we can stop it as quickly as possible. We are not going to tolerate violence and we will not tolerate criminal behavior of any kind. The american public and members of congress have an expectation that we protect the capital. I am confident with the plan we have in place that we will be able to meet that expectation. I want to turn it over to Chief Pittman to talk about intelligence and after that the Chief Gallagher will talk about operational planning. Chief pittman thank you, chief. After january 6, this department made several challenging, yet critical, changes on the way we go about our business. One of those substantial chang
Chair klobuchar i call to order this second joint hearing of the rules and Homeland Security and government Affairs Committee on examining the january 6 attack on the united States Capitol. At Todays Hearing, we will continue our committees important work to get answers that will lead us to solutions following the horrific events at the capitol on january 6. Last week we heard from witnesses who were directly in charge of Capitol Security on that day and from local Law Enforcement in washington. Today, we will hear testimony from the head of the d. C. National guard and from federal officials from agencies including fbi, Defense Department, and department of Homeland Security that are tasked with supporting our security people at the capitol. The testimony of these witnesses is crucial as we work to get to the bottom of what happened, again, with the focus being on making sure it does not happen again. And with that, i now turn it over to Chairman Peters for his opening statement. I wi
Chair klobuchar i call to order this second joint hearing of the rules and Homeland Security and government Affairs Committee on examining the january 6 attack on the united States Capitol. At Todays Hearing, we will continue our committees important work to get answers that will lead us to solutions following the horrific events at the capitol on january 6. Last week we heard from witnesses who were directly in charge of Capitol Security on that day and from local Law Enforcement in washington. Today, we will hear testimony from the head of the d. C. National guard and from federal officials from agencies including fbi, Defense Department, and department of Homeland Security that are tasked with supporting our security people at the capitol. The testimony of these witnesses is crucial as we work to get to the bottom of what happened, again, with the focus being on making sure it does not happen again. And with that, i now turn it over to Chairman Peters for his opening statement. I wi