be able to safely manage a crowd of that size and we knew that wasn t in place. they knew it was up safe to do that and they knew it was a bad idea to do that, they knew there was no security to do that. then they find out, this is what they say, in that moment the president s decided to do it. some people like stockton and lauren raised the red flag about going to the capitol. they spoke up and said it was dangerous and it was debated. it wasn t a spur of the moment thing or something undercontemplated. they debated it. they were overruled. we also know from do you means that then chief of staff mark meadows turned over to the january 6th committee meadows wrote a weird e-mail january 5th indicating the national guard would be present at the capitol protect pro-trump people. when you put this together, it sure looks like trump and his allies, including meadows were
the marshals, the security, the stage, the sound. all the things you have to do to be able to safely manage a crowd of that size. and we knew that wasn t in place. so they knew it was unsafe to do that, and they knew it was a bad idea to do that and they knew there was no security to do that. and then they find out, this is their what they say, in that moment the president s decided to do it. so some people involved in the planning raised the red flag about the idea of going to the capitol. they spoke up and they said it was reckless and possibly dangerous and then it was debated. it wasn t just a spur of the moment thing or it wasn t something that had been undercontemplated. they debated and they were overruled. we know from documents that chen chief of staff mark meadows wrote a weird email on january 5th indicating the national guard and i quote in his email here would be present at the capitol to, quote, protect pro-trump people. if you put this together it sure looks like tru