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. 12 different requests. While the attack was under way. Five different times the national Guard was told that they needed to standby. And be ready to maybe do something. But it was close to five hours before any national Guard troops were sent to the capitol. At which point the capitol was well and truly overrun. Today one of the pentagon officials who couldnt explain that delay in dispatching the Guard on January 6, one of the officials who couldnt explain it, never the less testified about it. Was a General Charles Flynn. He is the younger brother Of Trump national Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Who of course called on trump supporters to come to the capitol January 6. 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
And maybe do something. But it was close to five hours before any National Guard troops were sent to the capitol. At which point, the capitol was well and truly overrun. P today one of the Pentagon E officials who couldnt explain that delay in dispatching the S Guard on January 6, one of the officials who couldnt explain it, but never the less testified about it, was a general Charles Flynn. Charles flynn is the younger brother Of Trump national Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Who, of course, called on trump supporters to come to the capitol January 6. Ja 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 flynns brother charlies 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, when hard questions started to be asked about why the national
good day, everyone, from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. barack obama is hitting the campaign trail today. the former president will be rallying in virginia for democrat terry mcauliffe as the race for governor there is neck in neck. election day is nearing. we re going to be there live for you. meanwhile, democrats may be close to reaching an agreement on president biden s agenda, house majority whip steny hoyer has told lawmakers, democratic leaders aim to hold votes next week on both the reconciliation package and the bipartisan infrastructure package. last hour, democratic congressman ruben gallego gave us an update on where things stand this weekend. it s possible, but i also don t want to rush a bill if it s not actually going to do anything to change the lives of americans, right? yeah. i do think we need to land this plane and land this plane quickly because americans hate process below the outcomes. we shouldn t rush s
soon. this at a campaign rally for terry mcauliffe. it is a very tight race for governor there against republican glenn youngkin who s launching a bus tour across virginia at this hour. let s go to gary grumbach. reporter: hey there, alex, yeah, governor ralph northam is on stage now. when barack obama left office, he said he was not going to comment on every news story sh he was not going to endorse every campaign so the fact that he is going to be here today speaking in richmond with terry mcauliffe is sort of his vice president would say, a bfd, it s a big deal here. that s something the voters are really hearing and understanding as well because what happens in the state and the implications of this vote is going to have implications beyond just the borders of the commonwealth. here s what we heard about the importance of barack obama speaking at this event from voters this morning. whenever i hear him speak, i get so inspired, right, and it s like he speaks to people
Election, and that biden had won this thing. fox called arizona for a biden on election night and all of the information, and all of the data we were getting, were supporting a biden win all week. it was never ever trending toward trump. the people who called these things and their networks have been incredibly careful about it. and waited until november 7th it. could ve been called earlier, but they didn t most conservative way, so what this says to me is they knew in the white house, they knew in the trump family, two days after the election, the donald trump had lost. he s not going to win the votes. forget about counting votes this week. we have to go another way. yes. that s why donald trump, even in the run up to the election, was announcing that if he lost it would be rigged. this really was a coup from day one. i think it arguably continues to this day. what i think don jr. has now distinguished himself as is yet