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The national guard while matthews now says in this document that s been delivered to the january 6 select committee that in fact they did. and very importantly, another key piece of detail that matthews brings here is he describes how everyone in the d.c. national guard at the armory in d.c. where many of those guard forces were stationed was he used the word stunned to describe how long it took the national guard to get to the capitol building. matthews gives an insider perspective of the extent to which d.c. national guard leadership felt ready to go. they felt they needed to be there. they felt they had the skills, the equipment, the personnel necessary to get there and make a difference, but they were stunned that it took senior pentagon leadership so long to green light sending those troops over. now to be clear, the pentagon is defending these two generals. they gave us a statement saying that pyatt and flynn were honest when they spoke to the committee. these are two diverging ....
One key point of dissension is, what did these two generals, flynn and piatt say on the call? when the capitol police chief was begging them to send in the national guard as soon as possible. those two generals have told congress that they did not oppose immediately sending in the national guard, while matthews now says in this document that has been delivered to the january 6th elect committee, that in fact they did. another key piece of detail that matthews brings here, he describes how everyone in the d. c. national guard at the armory in d. c. where many of those guard forces were stationed, was that he used the word stunned to describe how long it took the national guard to get to the capital building. matthews gives an insider perspective of the extent to which d. c. national guard leadership felt ready to go. they felt they needed to be there. they felt they had the skills, the equipment, the personnel necessary to get there and make a difference. but they were stunned that it t ....
Not long ago in june, tony blinken assured america that afghanistan would definitely not fall in just a matter of days. i don t think it s going toni be something that happens from a friday to monday, so i wouldn t necessarily equate the departure of our forces in july, august or by early september with some kind of immediate deterioration in the situation.it tucker: of course as we just learned, that s exactly what happened. the country collapses fromke friday to monday. how did this happen? it s worth knowing. the president of the quincy institute for responsible for craft and the author of age of illusions, how america squandered its victory and joins us now. thank you so much for coming on. you just heard doug mcgregor accuse pentagon leadership of lying to the country and to the men they lead about the state of afghanistan. ....
After january 6th. i want to bring in jeremy bash. the other piece of this leigh ann mentioned missing donald trump not mentioned by the republicans and the pentagon leadership. defense chief mark esper had been fired. there was the new acting defense chief miller and he was in the chain of command also. why wasn t the national guard? that s the other piece. jeremy, in addition to being chief of staff and in addition to being cia chief of staff, you also were a house staffer. you worked for the house intel committee. you know how the whole system works and also how the white house works. speak to that chain of command as they try, the republicans try to redirect the blame against speaker pelosi. no doubt, andrea, one of the most important questions that this committee has to answer is what was the federal response in that, on that day? what were the warnings that the federal agencies received and why weren t federal agencies properly postured to repel that ....