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With all the pomp and pageantry surrounding the presidents State of the Union address, one might think its traditions date back to earliest days of the republic. Theres the House sergeant-at-arms bellowing out the arrival of the president, as if microphones were never invented. Theres the president handing paper copies of his speech to the House speaker and vice president, as if that couldnt have just been an email.

The acting Secretary of Defense at the time, Christopher Miller, has some answers. In a new book, he offers a view into the Pentagon on that day.

On rare occasions, modern presidents have skipped the speech and submitted it in writing. Read more at Boston.com.

Kevin McCarthy told reporters Thursday that he intends to release all the security footage from the January 6 Capitol riots. 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday he is willing to make public unreleased security footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The man who served as the head of the D.C. National Guard during the Jan. 6 insurrection said law enforcement’s response to the predominately white rioters would have been a lot different if the demonstrators were African-American.  

Steven A. Sund wrote in his new book that intelligence possessed by the F.B.I. and other agencies should have had them “seeing red.” He also criticized the military’s slow response to the siege.

The latest batch of transcripts shed light on how threats before Jan. 6 went unheeded and what led to an hourslong delay of the National Guard deployment to the Capitol.

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