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Minutes before the january 6th attack. mid-way through trump's speech act 12:45 p.m., capitol police officers along with agents from the fbi and bureau of atf were dispatched to investigate reports of a pipe bomb, with a timer found outside the rnc headquarters and suspicious packages that the supreme court near the democratic national headquarters, all offices close to the capitol. one official darnell harvin said the bomb squads were responding to the suspicious package near the rnc building. the two flashed back to their tabletop exercise on december 30th how analysts had imagined a scenari...

Spring. by late april two weeks after the president's decision, military planners had crafted a number of evacuation scenarios. in mid may i ordered cent com to make preparations for non-combatant evacuation. two weeks later i began prepositioning forces in the region. on the 10th of august we ran another tabletop exercise around a non-combatant evacuation scenario. we wanted to be ready and we were. by the time the state department called for the neo additional forces had already arrived in afghanistan including leading elements of the 24th marine expeditionary unit who were already on the gr...

The august 61, my understanding that with scenarios for both the permissive and nonpermissive neo so for the august 6 tabletop, the statement was involved in that. coming out of that tabletop exercise, the department had an opinion adequate understanding as to the state departments plan and role to conduct vetting and processing of evacuees at hkia. >> i believe they did but i also urged state. i felt that by nature the department of defense can move very fast on issues like this. i felt like we were not completely lined with state. there are some things that they could do faster and i believe...

0 in the attack on the 26. >> in classified, i'd like to know that. i don't understand. i went to union public high school 1100. my math. 11,015,000 u.s. citizens. that leaves thousands, not hungry left -- not hundreds left. we have people calling us wanting to get out, u.s. citizens not allowed to get in the gate or kicked off the base are not allowed out. we have to get our folks home. i yield back. thank you. mr. chairman. >> general milley come i want to thank you for your 42 years of service, your principled commitment to civilian rule, for your commitment to military to military communic...

A little bit about that issue of time. the reason that our troops were able to get there so quickly is because we planned for just such a contingency. we began thinking about the possibilities of a noncombatant evacuation as far back as this spring. indeed, by late april, two weeks after the president's decision, military planners had crafted a number of evacuation scenarios. in mid may i ordered central command to make preparations for potential -- and two weeks later i began pre-position thing forces in the region to include three infantry battalions. on the 10th of august we ran another tab...