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D. C. Check point with an unregistered hand gun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition trying to enter an area he wasnt authorized to be in. He was later released from custody. And the pentagon authorizing 25,000 National Guard members to be in washington, d. C. To ensure a peaceful transition of power takes place wednesday when president elect joe biden is sworn into office. Thats more troops in d. C. Than in iraq, afghanistan and syria combined. And new tonight, weve learned the u. S. Postal ser...

You and me and others on his Inauguration Day. Were told that president elect joe biden is finalizing a speech that he hopes will help unite this deeply divided nation tomorrow as he stands on very same steps where the deadly insurrection took place just days ago. It damaged the podium where all of this will take place. But tomorrow he will deliver that speech in front of more flags than americans. This because of the raging pandemic and threats of more violence, both a stark reminder of the cha...

One of our sworn members assigned to the joint Terrorism Task force, a task force with the fbi. They received at this time evening of the 5th, reviewed and it then forwarded to it an official at the Intelligence Division over at the u. S. Capitol police headquarters. You hadnt seen it yourself. No, maam. Did you get the report . No. Mr. Irving. I did not. Today the post reports another warning about violent extreme is calling for an assault on congress. It was sent to a d. C. Police email inbox ...

I guess ill start with you, mr. Sund. When a critical Intelligence Report is received by the Capitol Police from an Intelligence Community source like the fbi, who usually would receive it . I will start with did you receive this report . Thank you very much for the question, maam. I actually just in the last 24 hours was informed by the department that they actually had received that report. It was received by what we call one of our sworn members thats assigned to the joint Terrorism Task forc...

National guard and then when we included mr. Stanger, the three of us discussed the specific issue as to whether the intelligence warranted the troops and the answer was no. The collective answer was no and then mr. Stanger put forth his recommendation to have them on stand by. And my recollection was mr. Sund was very satisfied with that, in fact he briefed the following day that he was satisfied and i heard no concern anytime thereafter. Were you concerned, this use of the word optics, the app...

Made up to the top levels of the Capitol Police Intelligence Units to the head of the Capitol Police force, given that raw intelligence, what would you expect them to have done differently . You know, i really want to be careful not be an arm chair quarterback. See, that is the problem. Because i dont know how to answer that question myself. Because you could capture stuff today that may foretell an attack tomorrow but how much this is a problem i dont want people to run down the road, there is ...

There is a lot of complications about what happened here, what went wrong on january 6th. But i think youll hear questions about whether the fbi should have done more to get inside of these groups. We know that some of the groups are certainly planning a lot of the events, that we know from the Court Documents and the charges that have been brought against 300 people. We know there was some planning involved. Why did the fbi not see that. Why did they miss some of that. And i think youll hear so...

Lets play that out a bit and say it made it up to the top levels of the Capitol Police Intelligence Units to the head of the Capitol Police force, given that raw intelligence what would you have expected them to have done differently . You know, i really want to be careful not to be an arm chair quarterback here. Thats the problem because i dont know how to answer that question myself because you can capture stuff today that may foretell an attack tomorrow but how much this is a problem. I just ...

I want to hear what steps were taking to protect the capitol on march 4th from any more violent extremists. Thank you. Okay. Talk to him about that later. Senator warner has arrived via video. And senator peters will work with us for restroom breaks and the like. We dont want to take a long break, but i could imagine you need a break at some point here. Senator warner. Thank you, madam chairman, and thank you to the witnesses for appearing today. You know, weve talked a little bit about the depl...

Taking to protect the capitol on march 4th from any more violent extremists. Thank you. Okay. Well have you talk to him about that later. Senator warner has arrived via video. I also just want to mention that senator pieters will work with our witnesses for a break and the like. We dont to want take a long break, but i imagine you could use a break somewhere in here. Senator warner . Thank you, madam chairman, and thank you to the witnesses for appearing today. You know, weve talked a little abo...