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November 2020 and apparently was not acted on. it was only when it was resubmitted in march after the january 6th riots that the fbi acted and absorbed this as part of its investigation. you can only hope the january 6th committee, while they're doing a great job investigating trump and his inner circle and the people around him in what led up to january 6th, they're investigating the intelligence failures. they haven't had a hearing about that yet. the inspector general of the justice department is looking at what happened here and hopefully we'll get more answers on that soon. we're also lea...

The democrats are completely lawless and look how they've run this committee. there's no rankingis member, there's no minority counsel. it's's not like the traditional hearingslv that have galvanized a nation in the past. and tucker, i think it's one of the reasons that itt hasn't i really had that big an impact. t you know, when they interviewed the people on the trial, i think almost alle the workino class people didn't even know it wasw going on your showbe with people like darren, beadie and revolver. you've done actually moreep original reporting on what we've got to get to the bottom of ...

Your vantage point was what none of us really had -- approximating right there. you saw this unfolding. what are the questions you are looking to, even outside of what the commander in chief and the president of the united states was doing? do you have questions about how this could have happened, in the first place, in terms of intelligence failures or security protocols? what are your questions? >> yeah, i mean, s it was never forte. i spent most my time in narcotics but i don't need to be an expert in civil disturbance to tell you this was a catastrophic failure of planning and preparation....

Financial times." ed, it is so baffling for western intelligence we have gotten putin so wrong, we have gotten the russian military so wrong, we have gotten the people around him so wrong. this "times" of london report, this 150 in the purge. he has blamed his own for the failure. this is a guy who, my god, could end up like stalin and purging everybody around him. >> yeah, he could. of course, you know, we in recent past, not immediately recent past, have our own history of intelligence failures. you don't need to be anna okay be an autocracy for this.

And it just gives us a clearer picture of how much worse that day could have been. frankly, it was just luck that the day wasn't much more catastrophic. it's something that i'm still, frankly, trying to get my head around, that the secret service wasn't able to make sure that there wasn't this type of an incendiary device outside of a building that harris was in. it's sobering, and it has major repercussions going forward in terms of just how awful the security failures on january 6th were. >> i mean, betsy, you're at the forefront of the body of reporting that includes local d.c. officials wh...