Transcripts for FOXNEWS Tucker Carlson Tonight 20240604 01:14:00

tarek johnson spent 22 years as a capitol police officer on january 6th. he says he was in charge of securing the certification of the presidential elections. so he was right in the middle of it. if anyone was, tarek johnson was. here is more of our sitdown interview with him. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: from the outside, here's how it looked. we now know huge parts of the federal government were aware there was going to be something big happening at the capitol on january 6th. they knew there were going to be big demonstrations there, and they prepared for that, but the capitol police on which you served for 22 years did not seem prepared at all and, of course, that would be the front line in preparedness. was the capitol police prepared for that day? >> the front-line officers and supervisors were not prepared for that at all. >> tucker: when you say "at all" you had no idea it was coming? >> we knew there was going to be a demonstration that day but we had no idea that we were going to be facing what we faced on

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