his telling, that's precisely what they were worried about. >> right, you have matthew saying that's a lie. and using to your point, unusually strong language to go after these two generals. an important piece of context for all of this is that everything about the way the pentagon and the d. c. national guard prepared for january 6th, was totally in reaction to the summer of 2020. when the u.s. military responded in a way that was deeply disturbing to protests in washington d. c.. so what everyone at the pentagon was thinking, is how do we make sure the national guard doesn't go too far. how do we make sure the pentagon doesn't overreach. how do we make sure we don't overreact. that was the number one concern. and well congratulations to the pentagon, they certainly didn't overreact. the problem of course was that they underestimated the immense danger that the crowd, quote unquote blue lives matter trump supporters posed to the law enforcement officers and to america's democratic process.