national guardsmen and the denial of that request from mayor bowser and other agencies. those are the documents that a congressional committee of oversight that cares about the truth, those are the documents that should be put forth in front of the american public. though i doubt it will be. i want the public to understand this, mr. secretary. once the president makes the authorization and once that is communicated to the speaker of the house nancy pelosi and mayo bowser, who wrote down and denied in writing that she even wanted the guard to be called up . it is not in the president s authority to call up the guard on his own. he can only as required by law authorize it. it is in their jurisdiction and total call. he has no say in that. is that correct? the president could mobilize the national guard but he made the decision to support the local law enforcement and
called up. that was his role. then the jurisdiction went to nancy pelosi who is in charge o security for the house along with the sergeant of arms and the dc mayor bowser who refused to call up the guard, again, that is they are call as required by law. donald trump did his part. if donald trump wanted this breach of the capital, why woul he have authorized up to 20,000 national guard troops? there are multiple documents an statements to back all of this up. the january 6th committee has all of this, but they won t be including it on thursday. that would include this letter from mayor bowser declining national guard support prior to january 6th. these documents from a recent inspector generals report that details how trump s department of defense plan for january 6th and they planned appropriately. they responded for calls were assistant appropriately and the did not delay or obstruct the response to the january 6th the
why wouldn t he after coming of the riots of the summer of 2020? take a look. did you authorize calling up the guard and then it became as the chain of command went to nancy pelosi and the mayor of dc , muriel bowser. did you, as required by law, authorize that? 100%. attested to by many people and they turned it down. nancy pelosi turned it down. mayor bowser s written refusal. the communication between the leader of the capitol police an their chain of command for the dod refusing our request to allow national guard men and women to stay on january 4th an fifth to be for the six. did you both ask for the national guard to be called up? without a doubt. we have made that very clear. not just once, but on numerous occasions. we wanted to make sure there wa plenty of national guard on the ready in case there was some
political leaders. what you said is exactly right. typically the governors-i want to highlight we reiterated numerous times to all of the cabinet secretaries as well as the political leadership in washington, d.c. that we would provide and the president had authorized any national guard support or any military support. i want to be clear. it s not just the national guard . any military support they requested. we got one request from mayor bowser which we fulfilled in full. isn t this consistent with what the president did in the summer of 2020 and we had these local authorities butting heads? the president would authorize the use of the guard and they wouldn t call up the guard, but he left it in the hands of loca authorities in almost every instance? i wasn t there for that event . i can only speak about the 6th of january and the events leading up to it. i can say definitively presiden
kind of violence. i had a meeting with president trump on the 3rd of january concerning some international threats. at the very end he asked if there were any requests for national guard support. what was the president s response to you with regard to the request made by mayor bowser ? do whatever was necessary to protect the demonstrators. kash patel and the former acting defense secretary chris miller will join us in a second. none of what you just saw i predict will be played by the january 6th committee. they don t care about the truth. sadly, they are not looking for ways to better secure the capital and elect our leaders which we must do. they are smearing trump again and again and attempting to cement their power in dc. according to reports we have democrat jamie raskin who wants to use the committee to abolish