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sadly, it was indeed the case. now, imagine, if you will, a foreign adversary attacked any part of our country, let alone a symbol of our democracy, and imagine there's an attack and the president of the united states, the only person that you can't taunt with the phrase you and what army, stands by and does nothing or stands by and stands back. i mean, all the way back, back at the white house in the dining room for more than three hours watching it all unfold on tv. no calls to the military that he commands in chief, crickets. you'd probably tell me it's impossible. it would never ...

Dominant the streets. >> gordon, before we go into that -- excuse me, before we go into that, i want to bring us even more current than that notion because one of the things i think is on the minds of so many people about the secret service, when you think about the idea as you're talking about, the integrity that is essential. i mean, these people are going to put their lives on the line for the president, for the vice president, for the line of succession for so many people, and they accept as you well know the possibility that they will have to put themselves in between their protected pers...

Skeptical about this. but let me put it this way. there was a significant breach in the outer perimeter. hundreds of protesters and assailants were coming into the capitol. secret service was aware of this. they understood the danger. they knew that they had to come up with something very quick to get the vice president from his office in the capitol down to a safe pace, and they were -- >> of course. >> that was their focus. nothing else mattered to them. that was their focus. >> that -- and i'm glad you said that, of course, because that is what one would expect, the singular focus and the p...