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Connectivity and this conspiracy that they charged. what are your thoughts? >> well, i would agree with that, nicole. its as serious as a heart attack. i mean, seditious conspiracy is one step down from absolute treason. if you look at the statute, it is about the violent overthrow of the government. i believe it says, its levying war against the government. theres nothing more serious than that. so, i applaud d.o.d. for doing it. folks like frank and others have said that this is something that...

Request. there cannot be a phone call that says, "hey, we need help." you cannot deployed troops in america it is unlawful unless the national guard pursuant to a legal and lawful request that has to come from the head of the agency. >> sean: last question. you went to this committee before this committee. i read that they were asking more questions about afghanistan, which seems rather odd to me. but you have a timeline of the events that day. you were backed up by the inspector general, depart...

Repeated refusal and they along with the chain of command. followed and i will leave you with this, sean, the dod is not only no fail mission on gods green earth. we were proven right that we acted lawfully on january 6th under the law and under president trumps authority.we and the timeline as well. >> sean: it sounds like they were not interested. is it fair to conclude that donald trumps request for national guard troops two days before the sixth, had the mayor of d.c. approved and nancy pelo...

A number of those members, though, disassociated themselves with the oath keepers as it became clear that they were looking for some sort of fight, in their words. that being said, there were still a number of formerly military-trained people who stormed the capitol who are now being indicted by the fbi or by doj. when you write about how were training our own insurrectionists, i wonder how do we stop doing that? >> katy, the big challenge is we have to be able to say what is domestic extremism ...

It seems to me its a very early draft, probably didnt go through coordination in the white house. it references irrelevant authorities. and it actually is a very clear violation of the posse comitatus act which means the department of defense cannot -- you cant use federal troops for domestic law enforcement. by asking dod to seize these machines is a clear violation of the law. so its pretty crazy. now, all that said, had it cleared the process and been signed out by the president, because we k...

2024. >> turning to the new charges in the january 6 investigation rick stengel had this to say earlier today. >> this is serious as a heart attack. seditious conspiracy is one step down from absolute treason. if you look at the statute it is about the violent overthrow of the government. i believe it says it is levying war against the government. that is nothing more serious than that. i applaud dod for doing it. >> bill, what message does this charge send? >> i think your previous panel discus...

Could come in with field hospitals to offer additional capacity? >> we have deployed a number of resources from -- to surge resources over the last several months. we will continue to do that, and we are working with local health authorities, state leaders, local leaders, to determine where there are the greatest needs. but we have deployed a range of resources, many of them through fema, to ensure that communities have higher surges or needs in different ways i should say, have resources from t...

Violation of the act which means the department of defense cannot use federal troops for domestic law enforcement. by asking dod to seize these machines is a clear violation of the law. so its pretty crazy. now, all that said, had it cleared the process and been signed out by the president, because we know the process didnt always work at the tail end of the last administration, i assume it would have been immediately, you know, several states including michigan, which was likely a target of the...

It themselves, but this was developed by chinese scientists, got through the barrier of infrared, heat seeking missile has to have a glass dome on the front of it, and the pressures and the temperatures they operate at would cause the glass to melt. they found a way around that. how big of a technological leap is it for china to have overcome this problem? >> its a huge leap, and you know, technology has always been the key for the united states, for our department of defense to stay a step ahea...

Iraq, who is advocating essentially using the military to overthrow the government. but i mean, im very, very concerned. and paul is as well about extremism and the impact of extremism on our military. d.o.d., department of defense, recently passed some policy that prohibits active membership in extremist groups, in hate groups. the fbi has a list of gangs and extremist groups. but the policy allows them to be members and we dont think that is good enough. they cant be members at all. active or ...