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That's
interesting. Trunk checks.

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Yeah. We're not
gonna drive shit in there.

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This is gonna be
the most high vis area.

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So this is where we're gonna
want people seeing, you know,

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US troops gunning
down patriotic Americans.

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Can you keep tabs on
the suburban behind us

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with your side
view? Not like hardcore.

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I just wanna
see if they follow us

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all the way across the bridge.

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Key is trying to
lure the response teams

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into Virginia
- Mm-hmm [affirmative].

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and then cutting the bridges.

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Yeah. 'Cause all of our
insiders are in the DC Guard.

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Correct?
- Mm-hmm [affirmative].

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Here's Washington Monument,

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here's the White House,
- Mm-hmm [affirmative].

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a dead reckoning from us
to the Washington Monument,

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and you're gonna watch
that fucker right across.

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Yep.

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A little gasoline,
you've got a big distraction.

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Right.

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- That close to the Pentagon's
- Yeah.

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gonna get a response.

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Right.

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Ready?

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Yep.

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My fellow Americans,

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when our ancestors came
to these shores centuries ago,

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they brought with
them two essential elements

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that would
ensure their survival,

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faith, and purpose.

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Faith is a gift from God to us.

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Purpose is what
gives us the ability

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to put that power to use.

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It is undeniable that this
past election was stolen

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and it is Hotham
who is attempting a coup

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to consolidate his illegitimate
power and eliminate

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our God-given
freedoms.

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To all those
members of the armed forces

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watching and listening,

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join with us to
defend our liberty and land,

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with faith and purpose. America,

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God and freedom will prevail.

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Yeah. Yep.

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Should I be
friendlier?

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- No. Mm-mm [negative].
- No?

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- I'm gonna join up.
- Yeah?

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You motivated yourself?

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- I did.
- Okay.

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Guys happy with
that?

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About a year ago,
three Generals penned an op-ed

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in the Washington Post
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"We're increasingly concerned
about extremism in the ranks

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and that the next
insurrection like activity

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could involve members
of the active duty military.

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One of the recommendations
the generals made was that

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the Pentagon and
DHS should take some time

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to war game what
that might look like

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and what
the implications would be.

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I am President Hotham,

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Commander in Chief
of the US Armed Forces,

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Chief Executive of
the United States of America,

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elected to a four-year term,

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just completed
reelection campaign,

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which is under fault's dispute.

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So I'm playing the role of
Chief of National Guard Bureau

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and the DC Commander.

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Well, I am
Secretary of Homeland Security.

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It's a tough job.
- It's a tough job, right?

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- Somebody's gotta do it,
- Somebody.

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right? Might as
well be you, right?

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Yeah.

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Are you nervous at all?

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It's not a nervousness
of playing the exercise,

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as much as we're probably gonna
have to make decisions about

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level of force.
- Mm-hmm [affirmative].

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And that, that's very heavy.

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I've been, I've been, I've
been in the real situation room.

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These are
really tough decisions.

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I'm David Crease.

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I'm the Director of
National Intelligence

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for this exercise.
- Oh, great.

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- Just wanted to say hello.
- Great.

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You'll be
seeing me at the table.

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- Okay, great.
- Yeah.

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- All right. Tell me,
- Enjoy it.

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what's your background here?
- CIA.

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That voice is
not the Pentagon.

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We're not DHS, but
we do have an incredible number

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of folks in our network
who have held positions

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in these agencies
who volunteered to serve

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and are taking this
issue really seriously.

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So we thought why not
bring them all together

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and where things go from there

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will be up to the role players.

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Seated around this
room is an incredible diversity

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of professional experience

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spanning the last five
presidential administrations.

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All of us are here today

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because we are
increasingly concerned

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by the rise of
domestic extremism

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and radicalization
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specifically within
the active duty military forces.

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I don't need to tell you that
the alarms are flashing red.

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Most of you have at
one point, sworn under oath

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to protect and
defend the constitution.

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Today, we'll examine
a frightening scenario.

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What happens when those
in uniform break that oath?

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I think what
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a need to be better prepared,

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and the exercise is

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Introduction to
Coup Prevention 101.

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I'm a retired
Lieutenant General.

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I spent 37 years in the Army.

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I'm pretty
adamantly non-partisan.

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In fact, that was one of
my conditions for participation,

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that it was not
a partisan exercise

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because this should
not be about politics.

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This is about security.

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So we have the situation room,

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we've got
the press briefing room,

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and we've got the Red Cell room.

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Classic
terminology for war gaming...

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White cell is your game masters

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controlling
the scenario and adding injects.

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Blue team is
typically the good guys.

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And then
Red Cell is your opponent.

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Me and my team,
we spend all day, every day,

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studying extremist
movements.

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In the simulation, we're
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like we're the ground,

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ground teams, right?
- Right. Yeah. Yeah.

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You guys are the,

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the Bannon stone figures.
- But we're in touch.

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Yes.

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The events of January 6th
surprised a lot of Americans.

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It did not surprise those
who followed the far right.

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These threats
are advancing in a way

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that the average
American just has no idea.

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Eroding confidence in
democracy was successful.

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Next January 6th is
another inflection point.

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These insurrectionists
have recognized

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that this certification
of the next president

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is a vulnerability
that can be exploited.

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Three, two... From Washington,

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I'm Isha Sesay.

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The question on the minds
of many at this moment is,

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is our government and military

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prepared to face this challenge?

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We're certainly as
a country more divided

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than any time in my lifetime.

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I thought that fever would
break. I don't think
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What I wanna do is
think about the unthinkable,

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the plausible
scenario that seems implausible.

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And do all of this

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with sort of the ghosts of
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knowing what could
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doesn't respond
in the right way.

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This isn't scripted.

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I have no idea if at
the end of this exercise

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this country
collapses or comes together.

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The scenario
that we've designed

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begins with
a contested election.

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You have members
of the active military

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siding with the losing
candidate and disobeying orders.

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Welcome everyone.
Thank you for being here.

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You have six hours
to avert a civil war

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and ensure
the peaceful transfer of power.

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If the clock runs
out and Congress fails

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to certify the election results,

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you lose and
the insurrection to swing.

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This is not something

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that is just one
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It is a force that could
tear our country apart.

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What we are here
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our national security system.

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I want them to be prepared
for the worst case scenarios.

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If the bad guys in this
scenario win, democracy loses.

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Mr. President, we are
gonna be starting the game

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in 5,

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We're breaking
into regular programming

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to bring you this
special report from the Capitol,

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where Congress
is due to convene,

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to certify President John
Hotham's election to
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after his defeat
of Robert Strickland.

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But we are now getting word
that thousands have gathered

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on the National Mall
with hundreds of protestors

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currently facing off
against law enforcement.

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This is what
we know at the moment.

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A security checkpoint
at the Capitol has appeared

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to have been breached by
protestors for Robert Strickland

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with the help of DC Guardsmen
assigned to two units

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that had been
securing the checkpoints.

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This is breaking
news. It is fast developing.

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We are awaiting word from
the Pentagon and the White House

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on how severe
the security situation is

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and if there is
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in military ranks.

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Mr. President, ladies
and gentlemen, good morning.

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I'm here to
brief you on an evolving

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situation at the US Capitol.

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We've identified a group known
as the, "Order of Columbus,"

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that we believe is
behind the violence.

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It's a very dynamic situation,

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both what is
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as well as our understanding
of that is evolving.

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What we have heard in
this unexpected breach was that

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the protestors have
demonstrated evolved tactics,

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evolved communications,

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and evolved weapons
from what we saw in 2021.

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So the Order of Columbus

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is part of
the sovereign citizen movement.

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It is founded on the belief that

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the founders
established the United States

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based on biblical interpretation
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the existing government
is largely not legitimate.

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Part of the Order
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involve registering
themselves as churches.

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They do this for at
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One is to escape financial
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and the next is to
provide some limited protection

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against public
disclosure of their activities.

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And consequently,
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immune from
the existing government.

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That's all
the information I have for now.

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If there's something you'd
like me to go through again

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or explain further,
I'd be happy to do so.

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Pete, do you have any idea

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how many people
are at the Capitol?

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Sir, estimate on
the mall is several thousand,

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less than 10,000.

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The FBI, along with
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estimate that of
approximately the 2,700

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DC National Guard personnel
protecting the Capitol,

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approximately 180
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to be affiliated
with the Order of Columbus.

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Secret Service
describes the situation as dicey

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and a powder keg
waiting to explode.

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I'm about to
drop the, the DOD one

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right now.

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Can, can I interrupt? Mr.
President, we're hearing that

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the movement on
the Capitol is escalating.

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I think we need
to make a statement.

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It needs to be clear on
what's gonna happen if in fact

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this continues and
this movement continues.

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And so I think it's,
time is of the essence

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to make a strong
statement right now,

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that we're in charge of this.

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We are not gonna let
another 2021 happen again.

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Mr. President,
the fact that we have breaches

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being facilitated
by the National Guard

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is complicating the situation,

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even though there's
multiple redundancies

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in place.
-  One.

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We now are
working with our partners

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to pull them off the street

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so that we can replace
them with other service members.

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We have to get
them off the street.

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The second thing is
that we're gonna have to

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continue to monitor social media

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so that we can pinpoint
who some of our members are

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that may be problematic.

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So in other
words, you are confirming

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that there are
National Guard that have in fact

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led protestors
through. Have they been secured?

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And have they been put in
a secure place for processing

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because they are not
- So...

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doing their duty right now?
- That's correct.

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Sir, if I can
give you an update.

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DHS, we do have a word
out with Maryland and Virginia,

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the law enforcement
community there.

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They are prepared to
surge if we need that.

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So if we give 'em
the word that wheels up now,

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they're gonna go wheels up.

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We don't wanna show up with
a force that is overwhelming,

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too large, or with a force that
is too small and is gonna be

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overrun and therefore is
going to look like we don't,

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we're not
capable of stopping this.

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Suggestions for next steps.

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Often I think,
we want to perceive a leader

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as someone who will
just boldly charge ahead.

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But I think
effective leaders are those

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that first listen and maybe
listen more than they even talk,

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and try to draw on
the best of everyone around them

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to reach sort of
that considered judgment.

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Mr. President, I,
I do think it's going to

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potentially escalate rapidly.
- If we overreact,

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I think it's gonna come back

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and it'll haunt
your entire presidency,

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but we wanna be
ready if we need to react.

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My understanding
is they've already

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breached to the point
of being trespassers.

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I think that what you need,
Mr. President, you know,

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with all due deference
to the, to the secretary,

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and I completely
understand what you're saying,

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I think what the public saw
in 2021 was an under reaction.

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I don't think
anyone is anticipating

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we need the full
strength of the military,

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but we have to respond

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so we don't have a repeat
of what happened in 2021.

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So that's the balance.
Do you start with a criticism?

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A military intervention to
basically seat this president?

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Or do you start with
a, with a scene that we saw,

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you know, four years
ago, which also will taint the,

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the people's
attitudes about democracy?

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And to me at this point, we
cannot underreact to the threat.

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There is
another element here too,

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and that is religious liberties
because this, these folks

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have ostensibly declared
themselves as a quote, "Church."

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Well, I, I, I, just from
my personal view right now,

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that's total BS and we will
be looking at whether or not

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that we can crack that code.

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But it's also
something that is very delicate

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to deal with
from a public relations

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about freedom of religion.

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No one, no one
thinks that's a church.

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It is critically important

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that if we have any additional
intel that's been overlooked,

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that we get that intel
to this table right now.

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We've pissed off
a lot of senior ranking folks

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from all five
presidential administrations.

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- Doing my job. Yeah.
- Great job.

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- They're stressed.
- I know. Yeah.

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You could see
the sweat on their brows.

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This scenario is
developed to reflect

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a lot of what
happened on January 6th,

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but with
the twist that this time,

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members of the National Guard
who have been brought in

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to protect the Capitol,
actually join the insurrection

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and turn their weapons
around on the folks that

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they are there to
protect.

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The military
probably is not doing enough

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to deal with this question
of extremism within the ranks.

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It's not just us,
democracy defenders,

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that have learned from this.

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It's also
the democracy offenders,

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the authoritarians
that are looking to

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advance the cause of stealing
elections, retaining power.

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And they've probably learned
that you need the elites,

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you need military behind it

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to conduct
a more organized coup.

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I'm a Marine Corps veteran.
I obviously believe deeply

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in our military
and our armed forces,

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but we also
recognize this growing threat.

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It's not
something we're making up.

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These are all
bright red warning signs

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and something that deeply
concerns us about our democracy.

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I was definitely
not your typical Marine.

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I came in in the first
class of marine officers

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who could be openly gay.

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I was a liberal human
rights activist, lesbian,

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combat engineer, marine officer,
and still made, you know,

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some of the most
incredible friends of my life.

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So that is one of the things

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that's really motivating
me about this exercise is

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seeing this sort of
widening gulf in our society

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and knowing that my
brothers and sisters in arms

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are being targeted
for extremist recruitment

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in a way that will
continue to divide this country

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and could
potentially cause real harm.

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I still have
a fundamental confidence

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in the military at large,
but the question would be...

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What happens if
there is a violent effort

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to hold the White House
and the only,

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the only
institution that's capable

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of enforcing the law
happens to be the military,

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happens to be
the National Guard.

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That, that aspect
of it concerned me.

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I am humbled to
come before you today.

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For the last 20
years, it has been an honor

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to represent and protect this
great country. As a young man,

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I decided I wanted to spend
my life serving this nation

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that gave my family refuge
from authoritarian oppression.

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We do not serve any political
party. We serve the nation.

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Why did I choose to report
the president's corruption

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at personal cost?
Because I did not put my own

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personal interests
ahead of what my duties were.

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- You wanna try to pull now?
- Yep.

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- Okay.
- We can drop TP2.

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Welcome back everyone
to our breaking news coverage

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of the Capitol in Crisis.

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INN can confirm
that both Houses of Congress

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have been forced to evacuate

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to a secure
location due to violence

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outside the Capitol.

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The formal
counting of electoral votes

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to certify
President-elect Hotham's win

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over Governor Robert Strickland
is on hold

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until the Capitol is secured.

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We have reports
that the leadership of
the Order of Columbus

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is actively calling for
violence to stop the count.

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Hotham and his defeated
opponent, Governor Strickland,

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have yet to make statements.

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Mr. President,
we have drafted up a statement

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and we can edit
it based on the input

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that you'll get shortly.

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At the end,
the right to peacefully protest

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is enshrined in
our constitution.

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- It's kinda messy.
- Uhhh... The ability to

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overrun the Capitol
- Actually...

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and do a bunch of
bad shit, it's not.

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Actually, sir...

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But we will
not tolerate violence.

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- That's right.
- Yeah.

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Like we need to be firm
on like, yeah, you can protest,

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but this ain't protest.

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And you will spend
the rest of your life in jail.

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Bingo.

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This guy got
elected being who he is

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and so don't write
this in Washington speak.

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He, he, you know,

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write it in his speak.
- Right.

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Because that's
what the people expect.

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They expect somebody
- Yeah.

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who's gonna tell him the truth
in plain, simple language,

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not blah, blah,
blah. Keep it in his,

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00:21:03,979 --> 00:21:04,501
in Mr. President speak.
- I think you're absolutely

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00:21:04,675 --> 00:21:06,503
right, Ms., Madame Advisor.

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What do I, what do
you want me to call you?

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- You can call me Heidi.
- Okay. All right.

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We will issue it and I'll
go to the podium. Thank you sir.

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I, I just, I just
think that the idea that you can

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overreact to this is not valid.

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00:21:20,865 --> 00:21:22,780
I think that a show of force

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that you are
the Commander in Chief,

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you're gonna secure
the American democracy,

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is a critical part of this.

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Now they're walking.

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Oh, they're
about to make a statement.

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Comms team just is going out
to make a statement right now.

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00:21:36,446 --> 00:21:39,014
Good morning.
The president is currently

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meeting with
his national security team.

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He is well aware of
the breach of the Capitol.

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He is working with all
appropriate law enforcement
agencies

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to ensure the Capitol is secure.

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This administration supports
the constitutional right

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for peaceful
protest, but violence

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or breach of public institutions
will not be tolerated

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and we will use all available
means to protect the Capitol.

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The FBI believes
that the Order of Columbus,

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which is leading the protest,

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thinks that its members
are not subject

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to state or federal
law.

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The administration is
asking Governor Strickland

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to issue an immediate
statement denouncing violence

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and asking
the protestors to go home.

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We will have more as the
situation warrants. Thank you.

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What a weak response.

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I'm gonna hit
him with this right now,

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as an immediate response, "No,
you don't control the ground.

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We do."
- Yep.

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So the Order
of Columbus is a name

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that we made up to
create our kind of mishmash

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of real extremist movements
and to show how they could

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potentially coalesce
around centralized leadership.

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Yeah.

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00:22:54,219 --> 00:22:57,527
My team consists
of American veterans

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from all different
branches of the military

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with all sorts of
different experiences.

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Assemble. Where would
we like to send a large body

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of armed crazies?

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- Capitol?
- Capitol.

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At the United States Capitol.

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We are here to play
the role of the unfaithful,

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of those who are
willing to do violence

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to achieve political ends.

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I am thinking like an insurgent.

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I'm doing what I expect
enemies of democracy to be doing

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as they plan the next assault.

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I'm gonna
send obvious pictures

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that aren't American
troops to fuck with 'em.

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I'm just gonna,
I'm gonna flood the zone

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with fake pictures, guys.

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Have you or has
anyone been following?

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- Oh, this social incoming?
- Yeah.

480
00:24:01,417 --> 00:24:04,115
Yeah. It's just
hard to verify which images.

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Like there were
a couple of kind of

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upsetting
images of National Guard

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on the attack and
it's very difficult

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to find out what
is real and what is...

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And there were actual

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00:24:13,124 --> 00:24:13,734
images of that?

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00:24:13,908 --> 00:24:15,126
Yeah, that was in the...

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We don't know if
they're legitimate images.

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Right. That's
what, so I don't know

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if they're,
- Yeah.

491
00:24:19,740 --> 00:24:21,350
they could be images from
exercises done five years ago.

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I have no idea. So
that's where we need to confirm.

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00:24:23,570 --> 00:24:24,396
- We've seen this be...
- What else are

494
00:24:24,571 --> 00:24:25,310
We've seen this
before you seeing?

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in a lot of foreign situations,

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00:24:27,661 --> 00:24:29,227
where there are a lot
of videos that circulate

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on the internet
that are from previous protests

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and without any datetime
information or forensics,

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00:24:34,363 --> 00:24:36,017
we can't tell if these are
legitimate videos, but lots of

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videos of shootings.
- Yeah.

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00:24:38,062 --> 00:24:40,935
And social media's very
active with Order of Columbus,

502
00:24:41,109 --> 00:24:43,938
what could clearly be
called propaganda and you know,

503
00:24:44,112 --> 00:24:45,635
accusing jack-booted
thugs of shooting them

504
00:24:45,809 --> 00:24:46,680
and things of that sort.

505
00:24:46,854 --> 00:24:47,681
So we don't know how much that

506
00:24:47,855 --> 00:24:48,812
is crossing over.
- Find how,

507
00:24:48,986 --> 00:24:49,813
how much of this
could be diversion.

508
00:24:49,987 --> 00:24:51,511
Right.

509
00:24:51,685 --> 00:24:53,774
To divert
resources from the real targets.

510
00:24:53,948 --> 00:24:55,427
Right.

511
00:24:55,602 --> 00:24:56,603
Let me, let me
give you an update.

512
00:24:56,777 --> 00:24:58,387
So we're getting
reports that there are

513
00:24:58,561 --> 00:25:00,911
casualties reported as fighting
breaks out amongst guardsmen

514
00:25:01,085 --> 00:25:03,174
and between
guardsmen and protestors.

515
00:25:03,348 --> 00:25:05,002
So we don't know
the number of casualties.

516
00:25:05,176 --> 00:25:06,526
It seems like
this is starting to,

517
00:25:06,700 --> 00:25:08,049
to spin outta
control.

518
00:25:08,223 --> 00:25:09,833
Mr., Mr. President?

519
00:25:10,007 --> 00:25:11,835
The media is now reporting
that there is fire on the mall.

520
00:25:12,009 --> 00:25:13,620
Are these intelligence reports

521
00:25:13,794 --> 00:25:16,666
or are these
social media reports?

522
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,146
- Right now, social media.
- Social media

523
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:19,582
and some standard
media.

524
00:25:19,756 --> 00:25:22,193
We do have National
Herald Examiner reporting

525
00:25:22,367 --> 00:25:24,979
that now Lafayette Square Park
has a protestor clash

526
00:25:25,153 --> 00:25:28,025
with MPD dispatch.

527
00:25:29,940 --> 00:25:31,159
We also have shots fired.

528
00:25:31,333 --> 00:25:33,161
- Shots fired?
- Yes.

529
00:25:33,335 --> 00:25:34,641
It's
being reported on social media.

530
00:25:34,815 --> 00:25:36,773
Is there a way for us to
get independent confirmation?

531
00:25:36,947 --> 00:25:39,210
One of the things
that should concern all of us

532
00:25:39,384 --> 00:25:41,735
is an overreaction
to a news count,

533
00:25:41,909 --> 00:25:44,433
an overreaction to social media.

534
00:25:44,607 --> 00:25:47,915
And so, as you're raising
these social media concerns,

535
00:25:48,089 --> 00:25:49,917
tell us what
you're doing to verify 'em

536
00:25:50,091 --> 00:25:52,397
from official
sources.

537
00:25:52,572 --> 00:25:54,486
I won the election.

538
00:25:54,661 --> 00:25:57,577
I won the election.
I won the election.

539
00:25:57,751 --> 00:26:00,884
Do we have friends on
the outside in social media

540
00:26:01,058 --> 00:26:02,277
that are countering
some of this bullshit?

541
00:26:02,451 --> 00:26:03,931
Because...
- It looks like it.

542
00:26:04,105 --> 00:26:06,150
Well, a, a, a,
actually, Mr. Attorney General,

543
00:26:06,324 --> 00:26:07,543
we should.
- Yeah.

544
00:26:07,717 --> 00:26:09,197
That should be

545
00:26:09,371 --> 00:26:11,199
what we are able to call on.
- Absolutely.

546
00:26:11,373 --> 00:26:12,548
And if we are
able to call on that,

547
00:26:12,722 --> 00:26:15,246
we will find out if
we can, then we will.

548
00:26:15,420 --> 00:26:18,641
Messaging is so
extremely important

549
00:26:18,815 --> 00:26:22,689
when we're in these situations.
The strength in our message

550
00:26:22,863 --> 00:26:26,518
is sometimes more appropriate
than the action we take.

551
00:26:26,693 --> 00:26:28,520
One of
the things on the social media

552
00:26:28,695 --> 00:26:31,611
is they keep hammering
that there's big casualties

553
00:26:31,785 --> 00:26:34,135
and all that stuff,
so I assume in his statement

554
00:26:34,309 --> 00:26:36,572
the president's gonna
talk about the real situation

555
00:26:36,746 --> 00:26:38,008
up there, right?
- No. No sir.

556
00:26:38,182 --> 00:26:39,967
He is not gonna be addressing

557
00:26:40,141 --> 00:26:41,664
all the specific questions
that are coming from the media.

558
00:26:41,838 --> 00:26:43,710
It's going to be a...

559
00:26:43,884 --> 00:26:44,972
I'm not talking about media
questions. I'm talking about

560
00:26:45,146 --> 00:26:46,582
on the social media.
- No, no.

561
00:26:46,756 --> 00:26:48,192
They're, they're
portraying a situation

562
00:26:48,366 --> 00:26:50,020
where there's mass casualties.

563
00:26:50,194 --> 00:26:52,588
Now, we're not gonna have
the president feed into that.

564
00:26:52,762 --> 00:26:54,982
He's got to,
he's gotta calm the waters,

565
00:26:55,156 --> 00:26:57,027
right?
- Yeah.

566
00:26:57,201 --> 00:26:59,073
Mr. President, I think
you shut down the bridges,

567
00:26:59,247 --> 00:27:01,989
'cause we don't know
what the next target is.

568
00:27:02,163 --> 00:27:03,991
Who' is shutting down
the bridges, the protestors?

569
00:27:04,165 --> 00:27:05,296
- And we don't know
- No. Whether we should

570
00:27:05,470 --> 00:27:06,428
how many people

571
00:27:06,602 --> 00:27:07,647
We should
shut down the bridges?

572
00:27:07,821 --> 00:27:10,650
To protect us,
are gonna turn on us

573
00:27:10,824 --> 00:27:12,869
and provide
intel on the other side.

574
00:27:13,043 --> 00:27:14,436
And so, I think...
- And that's, I guess,

575
00:27:14,610 --> 00:27:16,264
that's where I'd like
a little bit more input

576
00:27:16,438 --> 00:27:18,875
because the thousands
of protestors,

577
00:27:19,049 --> 00:27:21,182
or tens of
thousands are here right now.

578
00:27:22,226 --> 00:27:24,446
We don't know how
many are outside the district.

579
00:27:24,620 --> 00:27:25,926
If you'll recall in
2021,

580
00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:29,233
there were people in
Virginia who had hotel rooms

581
00:27:29,407 --> 00:27:30,931
full of weapons. That's
what we're concerned about,

582
00:27:31,105 --> 00:27:32,584
that there are people out there

583
00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:34,630
who are waiting to
come in as their replacements

584
00:27:34,804 --> 00:27:37,024
for the ones
who made the initial breach.

585
00:27:37,198 --> 00:27:39,026
I'm not ready
to shut down the city.

586
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,420
Mr. President? I'm
concerned about drones.

587
00:27:42,594 --> 00:27:44,161
- About drones?
- Drones, yeah.

588
00:27:44,335 --> 00:27:46,076
I'm thinking I'm
gonna fly in something low.

589
00:27:46,250 --> 00:27:47,861
- Yeah.
- And create havoc there.

590
00:27:48,035 --> 00:27:50,167
This is
a low-scale terrorist attack

591
00:27:50,341 --> 00:27:51,603
in my opinion. I mean...

592
00:27:51,778 --> 00:27:52,343
- No, I appreciate that.
- We're seeing it.

593
00:27:53,997 --> 00:27:55,825
Everybody back to table!

594
00:27:55,999 --> 00:27:59,002
- POTUS doesn't ask twice.
- Defense.

595
00:27:59,176 --> 00:28:03,050
We encourage you to activate
active duty military forces

596
00:28:03,224 --> 00:28:05,313
that we can begin to
flow, so that if we need

597
00:28:05,487 --> 00:28:07,750
the 82nd Airborne Division
or someone else,

598
00:28:07,924 --> 00:28:09,491
they're already spun
up. They're on their way.

599
00:28:09,665 --> 00:28:10,710
Mr. President,
I have a question

600
00:28:10,884 --> 00:28:12,494
of the Secretary of Defense.

601
00:28:12,668 --> 00:28:15,279
Nowhere in your brief did
you talk about the potential

602
00:28:15,453 --> 00:28:19,283
of infiltration of the troops
with insurrectionists.

603
00:28:19,457 --> 00:28:22,547
How do we get our arms
around that? Because right now,

604
00:28:22,722 --> 00:28:24,288
after what we saw
with the National Guard

605
00:28:24,462 --> 00:28:26,377
that's been
confirmed by the National Guard,

606
00:28:26,551 --> 00:28:29,772
we have a concern that you can
deploy all these people.

607
00:28:29,946 --> 00:28:32,557
But if these people
are not on the right side

608
00:28:32,732 --> 00:28:36,344
of rule of law,
that's not particularly helpful.

609
00:28:36,518 --> 00:28:38,781
These are our soldiers. We
trust them, we've trained them.

610
00:28:38,955 --> 00:28:42,045
We, we, we will hurt ourselves

611
00:28:42,219 --> 00:28:43,699
if the message
that we communicate

612
00:28:43,873 --> 00:28:46,223
is that we are
suspicious of our soldiers.

613
00:28:46,397 --> 00:28:47,659
We can begin
with that premise,

614
00:28:47,834 --> 00:28:50,880
but when
the FBI's already identified

615
00:28:51,054 --> 00:28:53,361
7% of the DC National Guard

616
00:28:53,535 --> 00:28:55,798
as members of
Order of Columbus...

617
00:28:55,972 --> 00:28:58,583
But we're counting on
the other 93% who aren't members

618
00:28:58,758 --> 00:29:02,196
to do their duty.

619
00:29:02,370 --> 00:29:07,244
We are in an era
when service members, troops,

620
00:29:07,418 --> 00:29:10,247
and veterans are being
very specifically targeted

621
00:29:10,421 --> 00:29:13,033
with disinformation
that is meant to

622
00:29:13,207 --> 00:29:16,558
make them question
the legitimacy of the Commander
in Chief.

623
00:29:16,732 --> 00:29:17,994
Join the Order of
Columbus.

624
00:29:18,168 --> 00:29:19,822
All it takes is
a handful

625
00:29:19,996 --> 00:29:23,043
of soldiers who've
been manipulated to action.

626
00:29:23,217 --> 00:29:24,479
The election was
stolen.

627
00:29:24,653 --> 00:29:27,003
To cause serious,
serious security threats.

628
00:29:27,177 --> 00:29:28,135
So we're not just talking about

629
00:29:28,309 --> 00:29:30,093
like an attack on the Capitol.

630
00:29:30,267 --> 00:29:32,704
We're talking about
a more sophisticated attack

631
00:29:32,879 --> 00:29:37,187
that prevents the certification
of the next president.

632
00:29:37,361 --> 00:29:39,711
Talking about,
you know, things like

633
00:29:39,886 --> 00:29:42,236
successful assassinations.

634
00:29:42,410 --> 00:29:45,413
You know, look at
the Kennedy's, MLK,

635
00:29:45,587 --> 00:29:48,895
that wasn't,
you know, ancient history.

636
00:29:49,069 --> 00:29:50,635
Sir, I just
wanna give you an overview

637
00:29:50,810 --> 00:29:52,724
of the status of
forces that we have on ground.

638
00:29:52,899 --> 00:29:57,077
Right now, we have 3,900
National Guard personnel
on ground.

639
00:29:57,251 --> 00:30:00,428
We've only had about 50
injuries. Those are minor
injuries.

640
00:30:00,602 --> 00:30:03,735
25 of those 50 have
been returned to duty.

641
00:30:03,910 --> 00:30:06,086
Sir, from
a federal perspective,

642
00:30:06,260 --> 00:30:11,134
the goals are to ensure
a seamless transition of power.

643
00:30:11,526 --> 00:30:13,310
We have about a thousand
troops from the Old Guard,

644
00:30:13,484 --> 00:30:16,444
infantry soldiers on standby
right across the river at,

645
00:30:16,618 --> 00:30:18,750
at Fort Meyer

646
00:30:18,925 --> 00:30:20,970
that we could bring in to
support law enforcement
for that.

647
00:30:21,144 --> 00:30:23,538
For me, the question
is... What's next?

648
00:30:23,712 --> 00:30:26,149
So we have all this capability
from a federal perspective.

649
00:30:26,323 --> 00:30:29,283
What can you do,
what should you do,

650
00:30:29,457 --> 00:30:33,026
if our guard forces and
our law enforcement capabilities

651
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,420
are not sufficient strength
to be able to handle things?

652
00:30:36,594 --> 00:30:38,335
You can authorize lethal force

653
00:30:38,509 --> 00:30:40,207
to protect law
enforcement officers.

654
00:30:40,381 --> 00:30:41,948
Pause for
a second. Is that correct?

655
00:30:42,122 --> 00:30:43,340
You could have federal?
- We've done it on

656
00:30:43,514 --> 00:30:45,777
the southwest border.
We could have federal troops

657
00:30:45,952 --> 00:30:47,867
that with
a presidential directive,

658
00:30:48,041 --> 00:30:51,305
can protect law
enforcement with lethal force.

659
00:30:51,479 --> 00:30:55,309
The more significant is if
you invoke the Insurrection Act.

660
00:30:55,483 --> 00:30:58,007
Then you can use federal troops
to actually enforce the law.

661
00:30:58,181 --> 00:31:00,444
That's what
Posse Comitatus was all about.

662
00:31:00,618 --> 00:31:04,535
So there's a couple of different
options for escalation.

663
00:31:04,709 --> 00:31:06,146
Well, I think
these should be prepared.

664
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,062
I'd like to get definitely
Maryland, Virginia, Delaware,

665
00:31:09,236 --> 00:31:10,237
Pennsylvania National Guard now.

666
00:31:12,239 --> 00:31:13,849
Thank you, Mr. President.

667
00:31:14,023 --> 00:31:18,027
Invocation of the Insurrection
Act is an option that

668
00:31:18,201 --> 00:31:20,595
basically says
our democracy is failing.

669
00:31:20,769 --> 00:31:23,815
I mean, we have a law against
active duty military doing

670
00:31:23,990 --> 00:31:27,036
law enforcement functions
in this country for a reason.

671
00:31:27,210 --> 00:31:29,386
It's called the,
"Posse Comitatus Law."

672
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,520
And when we convert
it to a domestic police force,

673
00:31:32,694 --> 00:31:35,088
such as we would
been enable to do that

674
00:31:35,262 --> 00:31:36,916
through the Insurrection Act,

675
00:31:37,090 --> 00:31:39,570
we better be playing
close attention because

676
00:31:39,744 --> 00:31:42,486
those repercussions
will reverberate

677
00:31:42,660 --> 00:31:44,793
through society
for a long, long time.

678
00:31:44,967 --> 00:31:45,925
You can tell the president,

679
00:31:46,099 --> 00:31:47,317
he seems like he's getting ready

680
00:31:47,491 --> 00:31:48,971
to use the Insurrection Act
already.

681
00:31:49,145 --> 00:31:50,799
Wow.

682
00:31:50,973 --> 00:31:53,541
What do we, how do
we slow them down? Or do we?

683
00:31:53,715 --> 00:31:55,673
We don't, I mean, they're
gonna, they have to justify

684
00:31:55,847 --> 00:31:56,761
during the debrief
why they did it.

685
00:31:56,936 --> 00:31:57,197
- Okay.
- Yeah.

686
00:31:59,721 --> 00:32:02,158
For our purposes in
the outcome of the game,

687
00:32:02,332 --> 00:32:05,031
if the United States President
invokes the Insurrection Act,

688
00:32:05,205 --> 00:32:07,337
it's basically
like a nuclear adoption.

689
00:32:07,511 --> 00:32:09,383
It authorizes the military

690
00:32:09,557 --> 00:32:12,952
to actually act
on domestic soil.

691
00:32:13,126 --> 00:32:16,390
It suspends certain
civil rights and liberties

692
00:32:16,564 --> 00:32:19,219
in order to sort of
maintain the national peace.

693
00:32:19,393 --> 00:32:21,699
So the Insurrection Act
is a great tool,

694
00:32:21,873 --> 00:32:24,311
but can amplify the violence

695
00:32:24,485 --> 00:32:26,313
and it can make a bad
situation even worse.

696
00:32:37,193 --> 00:32:38,978
Welcome back to
our continuing coverage

697
00:32:39,152 --> 00:32:42,503
of the Capitol in
Chaos. We have new information

698
00:32:42,677 --> 00:32:45,985
regarding the quickly
deteriorating security situation

699
00:32:46,159 --> 00:32:48,161
around the certification
of electoral votes

700
00:32:48,335 --> 00:32:50,902
of the 2024 election.

701
00:32:51,077 --> 00:32:53,775
A new video has been
released on social media

702
00:32:53,949 --> 00:32:56,996
by the heads of the so-called,
"Order of Columbus,"

703
00:32:57,170 --> 00:32:59,433
the extremist group,
which has a long challenged

704
00:32:59,607 --> 00:33:02,001
the legitimacy
of the US government.

705
00:33:02,175 --> 00:33:04,351
Retired Army
Lieutenant General Roger Simms,

706
00:33:04,525 --> 00:33:07,528
who the order
refers to as the patriarch,

707
00:33:07,702 --> 00:33:10,705
is claiming to have
evidence of a stolen election.

708
00:33:10,879 --> 00:33:13,577
And the group is backing
those members of the military

709
00:33:13,751 --> 00:33:16,363
who have appeared
to have gone rogue.

710
00:33:16,537 --> 00:33:18,843
Now, this video was
released just a short time ago.

711
00:33:19,018 --> 00:33:20,889
We're gonna play
it for you. A word of warning.

712
00:33:21,063 --> 00:33:22,760
Some of what
you'll hear is disturbing.

713
00:33:24,806 --> 00:33:27,722
We have undertaken
an extensive investigation

714
00:33:27,896 --> 00:33:31,291
of the 2024 election.

715
00:33:31,465 --> 00:33:35,686
I can report to you that I have
assembled an elite team

716
00:33:35,860 --> 00:33:40,082
of five highly respected
military intelligence officers.

717
00:33:41,214 --> 00:33:45,696
Together, they have identified
that the 2024 election

718
00:33:45,870 --> 00:33:48,786
was an illegitimate
and fraudulent fiction.

719
00:33:50,614 --> 00:33:53,704
And it is Hotham
who is attempting a coup

720
00:33:53,878 --> 00:33:56,316
to consolidate
his illegitimate power

721
00:33:56,490 --> 00:33:59,232
and eliminate
our God-given freedoms.

722
00:33:59,406 --> 00:34:01,799
So the Red Cell is motivated

723
00:34:01,973 --> 00:34:03,888
not just by a failed candidate

724
00:34:04,063 --> 00:34:06,413
who's trying to
steal the presidency,

725
00:34:06,587 --> 00:34:09,329
but also by a religious figure.

726
00:34:09,503 --> 00:34:11,722
Someone with military experience

727
00:34:11,896 --> 00:34:14,812
who comes with
a lot of credibility,

728
00:34:14,986 --> 00:34:19,513
like former General
Michael Flynn, a convicted felon

729
00:34:19,687 --> 00:34:24,387
who spent his career
fighting against insurgencies.

730
00:34:24,561 --> 00:34:27,086
It is not unrealistic
that figures like him

731
00:34:27,260 --> 00:34:30,089
could play roles in an attack.

732
00:34:30,263 --> 00:34:33,483
Those of you who are
feeling weak tonight,

733
00:34:33,657 --> 00:34:36,704
those of you that don't have
the moral fire in your body,

734
00:34:36,878 --> 00:34:39,010
get some
tonight because tomorrow,

735
00:34:39,185 --> 00:34:41,839
we the people are gonna
be here and we want you to know

736
00:34:42,013 --> 00:34:44,538
that we will
not stand for a lie.

737
00:34:44,712 --> 00:34:48,411
We will not stand for
a lie.

738
00:34:48,585 --> 00:34:51,762
A figure like that can be used

739
00:34:51,936 --> 00:34:55,940
to help recruit
Americans into a belief system

740
00:34:56,115 --> 00:34:58,378
that justifies
violence against other Americans

741
00:34:58,552 --> 00:35:00,031
to achieve political goals,

742
00:35:00,206 --> 00:35:01,729
which is
the definition of terrorism.

743
00:35:06,734 --> 00:35:08,605
You truly believe

744
00:35:08,779 --> 00:35:10,303
what you're saying
about the stolen election.

745
00:35:10,477 --> 00:35:12,696
Your heart aches.

746
00:35:12,870 --> 00:35:16,483
You're not just doing this
to earn your piece of history.

747
00:35:16,657 --> 00:35:19,442
You're doing this
because you truly believe

748
00:35:19,616 --> 00:35:21,923
that your country
has been stolen

749
00:35:22,097 --> 00:35:25,622
and you're in
a position to undo these wrongs.

750
00:35:25,796 --> 00:35:27,015
So you should,

751
00:35:27,189 --> 00:35:28,147
you should feel
it in your chest.

752
00:35:29,974 --> 00:35:32,542
Okay.

753
00:35:32,716 --> 00:35:36,111
These cancer
cells within our democracy

754
00:35:36,285 --> 00:35:38,766
can congregate
into a common movement

755
00:35:38,940 --> 00:35:42,248
that follows a common commander.

756
00:35:42,422 --> 00:35:45,294
And all it takes is a tiny,
tiny fraction of American troops

757
00:35:45,468 --> 00:35:47,775
who are assigned
to protect the Capitol,

758
00:35:47,949 --> 00:35:51,431
to betray their oath
because they truly believe

759
00:35:51,605 --> 00:35:52,997
in this conspiracy theory,

760
00:35:53,172 --> 00:35:57,350
this cult, this
religion.

761
00:35:57,524 --> 00:35:59,134
President's
writing his own statement

762
00:35:59,308 --> 00:36:00,744
with advisors over his ear.
- Okay.

763
00:36:02,442 --> 00:36:03,921
A few years ago,

764
00:36:04,095 --> 00:36:07,925
my dad started
talking about Qanon.

765
00:36:08,099 --> 00:36:09,144
And it didn't make any sense

766
00:36:09,318 --> 00:36:11,494
because my dad
is a smart guy and

767
00:36:13,714 --> 00:36:14,715
rational human being.

768
00:36:18,327 --> 00:36:21,939
It's very challenging
to see someone that you love

769
00:36:23,550 --> 00:36:24,899
ascribe to this belief system

770
00:36:25,073 --> 00:36:29,469
that just feels not only absurd,

771
00:36:29,643 --> 00:36:33,734
but so destructive
to our country.

772
00:36:33,908 --> 00:36:37,999
And yet, like this is somebody
you love and you care about,

773
00:36:38,173 --> 00:36:41,089
and who raised
you and took care of you.

774
00:36:41,263 --> 00:36:43,265
That is part of
the motivation for me

775
00:36:43,439 --> 00:36:46,486
of like doing this
exercise, of teasing this out,

776
00:36:46,660 --> 00:36:49,402
of understanding
what could happen.

777
00:36:49,576 --> 00:36:53,928
I want my dad and people
who believe what he believes

778
00:36:54,102 --> 00:36:58,541
to understand that this isn't
just theoretical or a game.

779
00:36:58,715 --> 00:37:01,152
I think that that is
part of this bigger trend

780
00:37:01,327 --> 00:37:03,807
around denigrating
our institutions.

781
00:37:03,981 --> 00:37:05,635
And if you devalue
our institutions

782
00:37:05,809 --> 00:37:08,725
and you take away
the things that bind us together

783
00:37:08,899 --> 00:37:10,988
as a country and give
us a common identity,

784
00:37:11,162 --> 00:37:12,816
regardless of
our diverse backgrounds,

785
00:37:12,990 --> 00:37:14,731
it makes it a lot easier

786
00:37:14,905 --> 00:37:17,256
to inspire people to
take up arms against each other.

787
00:37:17,430 --> 00:37:19,780
And if you believe
that you're doing violence

788
00:37:19,954 --> 00:37:22,217
because you're trying to
quote unquote save your country

789
00:37:22,391 --> 00:37:26,047
or do something for
the greater good, these are the,

790
00:37:26,221 --> 00:37:29,093
the hallmark virtues of
how folks are radicalized.

791
00:37:29,268 --> 00:37:31,400
Our founding fathers

792
00:37:31,574 --> 00:37:34,838
predicted
that should our republic fail,

793
00:37:35,012 --> 00:37:37,624
it would be
from a threat within.

794
00:37:37,798 --> 00:37:42,019
What that means is, Americans
lose faith in our republic,

795
00:37:42,193 --> 00:37:46,023
lose faith in
our election system.

796
00:37:46,197 --> 00:37:49,244
And that is
happening today in a way that is

797
00:37:49,418 --> 00:37:52,465
completely
unprecedented for modern times.

798
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:00,995
In the past few
minutes, Robert Strickland

799
00:38:01,169 --> 00:38:04,607
just released a video
statement through his campaign.

800
00:38:04,781 --> 00:38:07,131
It's just come in
to us. Take a look.

801
00:38:07,306 --> 00:38:09,569
What we are all
witnessing in Washington,

802
00:38:09,743 --> 00:38:13,137
and other parts of the country,
is the will of the free

803
00:38:13,312 --> 00:38:16,184
and sovereign
citizens of these United States.

804
00:38:17,228 --> 00:38:19,492
All our friends in the military
and law enforcement,

805
00:38:19,666 --> 00:38:22,233
I call upon you to help liberate

806
00:38:22,408 --> 00:38:24,323
our great nation
from those who seek

807
00:38:24,497 --> 00:38:28,762
to subjugate its people.
To defend John Hotham

808
00:38:28,936 --> 00:38:30,938
is to be complicit in the evils

809
00:38:31,112 --> 00:38:33,027
that I have long fought against.

810
00:38:34,115 --> 00:38:37,684
Walk away, and I will
absolve you of any consequences

811
00:38:37,858 --> 00:38:41,340
or accusations of
insubordination or insurrection,

812
00:38:41,514 --> 00:38:42,645
once I assume the presidency.

813
00:38:44,734 --> 00:38:47,694
Together, we will
restore the greatness

814
00:38:47,868 --> 00:38:50,131
of the American
people and this great nation.

815
00:38:51,741 --> 00:38:54,048
So, so, Mr. Attorney General,

816
00:38:54,222 --> 00:38:57,356
is there a way
we could get legal authority

817
00:38:57,530 --> 00:39:00,576
to monitor
General Simms and Strickland

818
00:39:00,750 --> 00:39:02,273
and what they're
saying to each other

819
00:39:02,448 --> 00:39:05,015
and what might be happening?
- I think that's a bad idea.

820
00:39:05,189 --> 00:39:05,973
- The, the, the short answer
- Don't wanna do it? Okay.

821
00:39:06,147 --> 00:39:07,366
is yes. The question is whether

822
00:39:07,540 --> 00:39:09,368
we should.
- I just beat him by

823
00:39:09,542 --> 00:39:11,544
six tenths of 1%.
- Right.

824
00:39:13,154 --> 00:39:14,895
Right.

825
00:39:15,069 --> 00:39:16,462
And we're in a deeply
divided country right now.

826
00:39:16,636 --> 00:39:19,029
No one has to know
whether we're monitoring

827
00:39:19,203 --> 00:39:20,944
this phone or not. No
one has to know that.

828
00:39:21,118 --> 00:39:22,816
But someone
will at some point.

829
00:39:22,990 --> 00:39:24,252
I mean, that monitoring
- It's your call.

830
00:39:24,426 --> 00:39:26,472
everyone else, I understand.

831
00:39:27,603 --> 00:39:29,431
Six tenths of a percent
in a deeply divided country,

832
00:39:30,867 --> 00:39:32,391
if that ever came out...

833
00:39:32,565 --> 00:39:34,088
- Your...
- Your call.

834
00:39:34,262 --> 00:39:36,395
Can I? Based on the
intelligence that we're getting,

835
00:39:36,569 --> 00:39:38,745
that we're, there's also
pro Hotham supporters out there

836
00:39:38,919 --> 00:39:40,834
that are beginning to clash.

837
00:39:41,008 --> 00:39:42,662
Would it be
appropriate for the president,

838
00:39:42,836 --> 00:39:46,405
not at the podium, but on
social media for God's sakes,

839
00:39:46,579 --> 00:39:49,625
to, to do a quick
video to his supporters

840
00:39:49,799 --> 00:39:53,673
and say, "Folks, we've,
we're, we're working this.

841
00:39:53,847 --> 00:39:55,196
We've got this
contained somewhat.

842
00:39:55,370 --> 00:39:57,459
Don't make this worse. Go home."

843
00:39:57,633 --> 00:39:59,243
Mr. Attorney General,
we, we have, he has called

844
00:39:59,418 --> 00:40:00,810
for the people to
disperse from the Capitol.

845
00:40:00,984 --> 00:40:03,117
Maybe we should just reiterate
what he's already said,

846
00:40:03,291 --> 00:40:04,553
that the people should
disperse from the Capitol.

847
00:40:04,727 --> 00:40:06,163
Well, but I'm
talking

848
00:40:06,337 --> 00:40:08,165
specifically to his viewpoint.
- Quote unquote, my people.

849
00:40:08,339 --> 00:40:10,080
Yeah.

850
00:40:10,254 --> 00:40:11,299
- But you're not, you're being
- So how do you say

851
00:40:11,473 --> 00:40:12,822
to those folks?
- You're being the president

852
00:40:12,996 --> 00:40:13,867
right now. You're not
being a candidate right now.

853
00:40:14,041 --> 00:40:15,042
So you need to be
a president to everyone.

854
00:40:15,216 --> 00:40:17,348
That's true. Mr. President...

855
00:40:17,523 --> 00:40:19,916
Mr. President,
you know, you got four years

856
00:40:20,090 --> 00:40:22,310
where you're gonna be
serving this country.

857
00:40:22,484 --> 00:40:25,661
A lot of how you're gonna
be perceived in your second term

858
00:40:25,835 --> 00:40:27,837
is gonna be established today.

859
00:40:28,011 --> 00:40:31,972
And so the question is, what's
the headline that you want?

860
00:40:32,146 --> 00:40:36,933
I recognize your hesitancy
to escalate this legally,

861
00:40:37,107 --> 00:40:40,241
but I think you have to think
about if at the end of the day

862
00:40:40,415 --> 00:40:43,462
what there is
as a military coup,

863
00:40:43,636 --> 00:40:46,595
then have you made
the right decisions today?

864
00:40:46,769 --> 00:40:48,554
And, and,

865
00:40:48,728 --> 00:40:51,992
and so that's a balancing act
and only you can decide where,

866
00:40:52,166 --> 00:40:54,342
where that balance is.
But I would just urge you,

867
00:40:54,516 --> 00:40:56,039
and I know you've been resistant

868
00:40:56,213 --> 00:40:58,738
to doing
surveillance on certain people,

869
00:40:58,912 --> 00:41:01,567
but you have to assume about
the worst case scenario today.

870
00:41:01,741 --> 00:41:03,046
- No, no.
- What is your..?

871
00:41:03,220 --> 00:41:05,048
I think that's right.

872
00:41:05,222 --> 00:41:08,443
And to be clear, my only
hesitancy was FISA on
Strickland.

873
00:41:10,227 --> 00:41:12,534
Everybody else, I'd be fine.

874
00:41:12,708 --> 00:41:16,843
This is about, "What
if?" What if the, the military

875
00:41:18,018 --> 00:41:20,499
becomes engaged in

876
00:41:20,673 --> 00:41:22,718
civilian politics
- Yep.

877
00:41:22,892 --> 00:41:25,416
in a way
that we haven't seen before?

878
00:41:25,591 --> 00:41:27,941
And how do you prepare for
that? How do you manage that?

879
00:41:30,683 --> 00:41:35,035
I do not think there
is universal acceptance

880
00:41:35,209 --> 00:41:37,777
among political leaders

881
00:41:37,951 --> 00:41:40,910
that a coup could
happen in this country.

882
00:41:41,084 --> 00:41:43,565
And I always say, "Look,
is it probable? Probably not.

883
00:41:43,739 --> 00:41:46,002
Is it possible? Absolutely."

884
00:41:51,094 --> 00:41:52,574
Okay, we're
getting some new details

885
00:41:52,748 --> 00:41:54,358
that are just coming into us,

886
00:41:54,533 --> 00:41:56,360
that I wanna
bring to you right now,

887
00:41:56,535 --> 00:41:59,494
as the situation
is fast developing.

888
00:41:59,668 --> 00:42:01,714
Army Lieutenant
General Gabriel King

889
00:42:01,888 --> 00:42:05,282
is urging all
military forces to not follow

890
00:42:05,456 --> 00:42:07,807
any orders from
President Hotham.

891
00:42:07,981 --> 00:42:09,330
Our military
sources are reporting

892
00:42:09,504 --> 00:42:11,811
that while most
officers are condemning

893
00:42:11,985 --> 00:42:14,509
the statement
privately and online,

894
00:42:14,683 --> 00:42:16,685
there are other senior officers

895
00:42:16,859 --> 00:42:19,296
and retired flag
officers expressing

896
00:42:19,470 --> 00:42:22,691
varying degrees of support
for the Lieutenant General

897
00:42:22,865 --> 00:42:25,215
to the press and online.

898
00:42:25,389 --> 00:42:27,130
If you are just joining us,

899
00:42:27,304 --> 00:42:29,698
the military is now split.

900
00:42:29,872 --> 00:42:33,006
And it is unclear
whether the Commander in Chief

901
00:42:33,180 --> 00:42:37,010
has control of
the country's armed forces.

902
00:42:37,184 --> 00:42:40,143
What started as
a terrible security situation

903
00:42:40,317 --> 00:42:44,060
at the US Capitol now appears,

904
00:42:44,234 --> 00:42:46,976
the United States
could well be on the brink

905
00:42:47,150 --> 00:42:49,718
of a second civil war.

906
00:42:49,892 --> 00:42:51,502
Oh, Jesus.

907
00:42:51,677 --> 00:42:53,983
Look, we got
a serious issue here.

908
00:42:54,157 --> 00:42:55,332
We got a serious issue.

909
00:42:55,506 --> 00:42:57,073
- First... No, wait.
- That's a crime.

910
00:42:57,247 --> 00:42:59,554
- You order Ken to go on
- So what you gotta do is...

911
00:42:59,728 --> 00:43:01,512
You order Ken to go on

912
00:43:01,687 --> 00:43:02,644
television.
- Go on television.

913
00:43:02,818 --> 00:43:04,472
- And it's complete false,
- Okay.

914
00:43:04,646 --> 00:43:06,779
or he will be court
martialed and imprisoned.

915
00:43:06,953 --> 00:43:09,695
Yeah. I, I just wanna say
this isn't about the election.

916
00:43:09,869 --> 00:43:11,653
This is about a potential coup.

917
00:43:11,827 --> 00:43:13,568
And if you play into the theory

918
00:43:13,742 --> 00:43:16,049
that this is about an election,

919
00:43:16,223 --> 00:43:18,312
you're on the wrong playground.

920
00:43:18,486 --> 00:43:20,140
I agree with the chief.

921
00:43:20,314 --> 00:43:22,490
We've gotta secure the homeland

922
00:43:22,664 --> 00:43:24,361
against a very serious threat.

923
00:43:24,535 --> 00:43:27,060
My biggest concern right now

924
00:43:27,234 --> 00:43:29,932
is this claim that there
is a divided military.

925
00:43:30,933 --> 00:43:33,501
Thank you. My
name is Marshall Williams.

926
00:43:33,675 --> 00:43:35,242
I am the Secretary of the Army.

927
00:43:35,416 --> 00:43:39,855
I want you to know
that I'm immediately suspending

928
00:43:40,029 --> 00:43:41,988
Lieutenant General King

929
00:43:42,162 --> 00:43:45,078
and will initiate
an immediate investigation

930
00:43:46,166 --> 00:43:48,821
against him for
the actions that he's taken.

931
00:43:48,995 --> 00:43:51,737
General [indistinct] please.

932
00:43:51,911 --> 00:43:53,347
Thank you sir.
And I'd like to reiterate

933
00:43:53,521 --> 00:43:55,392
that once you deploy,

934
00:43:55,566 --> 00:43:58,091
if you are not
upholding your duty,

935
00:43:58,265 --> 00:44:00,659
you will be punished.

936
00:44:00,833 --> 00:44:03,749
Once you cross that boundary
and you step out of line,

937
00:44:05,489 --> 00:44:09,102
there is no
going back. Thank you.

938
00:44:09,276 --> 00:44:11,321
All right. So I'm
going to have the patriarch say

939
00:44:11,495 --> 00:44:13,889
that the fake Secretary
of the Army does not have

940
00:44:14,063 --> 00:44:17,023
the authority to quote
suspend Lieutenant General King.

941
00:44:18,154 --> 00:44:20,113
King is under my
command.

942
00:44:20,287 --> 00:44:24,465
To all those members
of the armed forces watching

943
00:44:24,639 --> 00:44:29,296
and listening, join with us
to defend our liberty and land!

944
00:44:30,427 --> 00:44:33,300
Fellow soldiers, do
not follow orders from Hotham.

945
00:44:33,474 --> 00:44:34,605
His power is illegitimate.

946
00:44:36,999 --> 00:44:40,176
And I'm gonna
retweet that video.

947
00:44:40,350 --> 00:44:44,485
Antifa has been deployed
by

948
00:44:45,616 --> 00:44:47,009
President Hotham

949
00:44:48,663 --> 00:44:51,100
to illegally

950
00:44:51,274 --> 00:44:54,538
detain our members.

951
00:44:54,713 --> 00:44:56,540
All right,

952
00:44:56,715 --> 00:44:57,716
so I'm gonna send this
out

953
00:44:57,890 --> 00:44:58,064
and I'm gonna make
this an Antifa thing.

954
00:45:00,327 --> 00:45:02,764
Look at
the video I just tweeted.

955
00:45:02,938 --> 00:45:04,810
Go!

956
00:45:09,553 --> 00:45:10,772
Here's one of
our knights being kidnapped

957
00:45:10,946 --> 00:45:12,426
by these rogue thugs.

958
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:14,297
That is great.

959
00:45:14,471 --> 00:45:16,865
Our knights are now
authorized to use deadly force

960
00:45:17,039 --> 00:45:19,650
against Hotham's Antifa
agents, engage on site.

961
00:45:19,825 --> 00:45:20,782
Yeah, I'm
gonna hammer the fact

962
00:45:20,956 --> 00:45:22,479
they haven't offered updates.

963
00:45:22,653 --> 00:45:24,655
Look how much misinformation
we're just churning out

964
00:45:24,830 --> 00:45:26,657
and they're not fighting it.
- Mm-hmm [affirmative].

965
00:45:26,832 --> 00:45:28,834
Slothman's
asleep at the wheel.

966
00:45:29,008 --> 00:45:30,705
Oh, there you go.

967
00:45:30,879 --> 00:45:32,185
I said, live
picture of the situation room,

968
00:45:32,359 --> 00:45:33,926
because they're not
responding. Look at this.

969
00:45:34,100 --> 00:45:37,277
It's silence, official
silence. FEMA put something out,

970
00:45:37,451 --> 00:45:39,366
but nothing from the
White House, nothing from DOD.

971
00:45:39,540 --> 00:45:41,455
Insurrection is as
much about information

972
00:45:41,629 --> 00:45:42,804
as it is about
the actual physical stuff.

973
00:45:42,978 --> 00:45:44,414
- White House votes.
- Yeah.

974
00:45:44,588 --> 00:45:47,374
They're getting spun
up on all the physical stuff

975
00:45:47,548 --> 00:45:49,550
and they're just
ignoring the information space.

976
00:45:49,724 --> 00:45:51,073
Yeah. Yeah.

977
00:45:51,247 --> 00:45:53,946
The character
that I play in this war game

978
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,035
is I play myself.

979
00:45:56,209 --> 00:45:57,906
I just interpret my history

980
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,823
in a different way.

981
00:46:01,997 --> 00:46:05,914
I go back to a bad
place that I once was for real.

982
00:46:06,088 --> 00:46:07,829
You know, I, I was a 16-year-old

983
00:46:08,003 --> 00:46:09,657
in Long Island where I grew up,

984
00:46:10,701 --> 00:46:14,401
when, when the Twin Towers were
attacked and when they fell.

985
00:46:14,575 --> 00:46:17,578
It made me want to
go out and kill bad guys.

986
00:46:17,752 --> 00:46:21,669
By January of 2005, I was
boots on the ground in Iraq.

987
00:46:21,843 --> 00:46:25,020
From that experience,
I understand what it is

988
00:46:25,194 --> 00:46:28,589
to face off against
religious fundamentalists.

989
00:46:28,763 --> 00:46:30,765
I also understand what
it is to have lost faith

990
00:46:30,939 --> 00:46:32,854
in my country and my government,

991
00:46:33,028 --> 00:46:37,641
and democracy. I fought
a war that was based on lies.

992
00:46:38,860 --> 00:46:41,036
It is our goal to
provide these testimonies

993
00:46:41,210 --> 00:46:44,083
as a means of
bringing Iraq from the abstract

994
00:46:44,257 --> 00:46:46,215
so that the American
public can see it

995
00:46:46,389 --> 00:46:49,740
from a soldier's perspective.
Kristofer Goldsmith.

996
00:46:51,307 --> 00:46:52,265
Next slide.

997
00:46:53,527 --> 00:46:56,138
These are the things
that haunt American soldiers.

998
00:46:56,312 --> 00:46:57,574
This is an image
I was forced to take

999
00:46:57,748 --> 00:46:59,533
for intelligence reasons.

1000
00:46:59,707 --> 00:47:01,665
I was told
that I was taking this picture

1001
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:02,579
to identify this man.

1002
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,583
No one in the world can identify

1003
00:47:06,757 --> 00:47:09,151
that man by that photograph.

1004
00:47:09,325 --> 00:47:13,025
Since I have
returned, I attempted suicide.

1005
00:47:13,199 --> 00:47:15,462
Because of that,
I received a general discharge

1006
00:47:15,636 --> 00:47:17,899
and I lost my college benefits.

1007
00:47:18,073 --> 00:47:20,859
The $40,000 promised to
me in the Montgomery GI Bill,

1008
00:47:21,033 --> 00:47:23,209
I will not be
eligible to receive.

1009
00:47:23,383 --> 00:47:25,733
I was unemployable.

1010
00:47:25,907 --> 00:47:27,996
I had severe
post-traumatic stress disorder,

1011
00:47:28,170 --> 00:47:30,433
which hadn't been
diagnosed immediately.

1012
00:47:30,607 --> 00:47:33,045
I have since been
through years of therapy

1013
00:47:33,219 --> 00:47:36,526
after a very dark
year's long period of my life.

1014
00:47:36,700 --> 00:47:38,354
Veterans are not
being taken care of

1015
00:47:38,528 --> 00:47:42,315
after they return
home.

1016
00:47:42,489 --> 00:47:45,057
For those of us
who served in combat, like

1017
00:47:45,231 --> 00:47:48,103
we've all faced some
serious disillusionment.

1018
00:47:48,277 --> 00:47:50,584
We watched, over
the course of 20 years,

1019
00:47:50,758 --> 00:47:52,978
a bunch of
our friends lose their lives

1020
00:47:53,152 --> 00:47:55,067
or have their lives
irreparably damaged

1021
00:47:55,241 --> 00:47:57,330
by these wars.

1022
00:47:57,504 --> 00:48:01,116
Those types of things
can be all consuming.

1023
00:48:01,290 --> 00:48:04,424
It can fill
you with anger and rage.

1024
00:48:04,598 --> 00:48:08,036
So I'm coming
into studying extremism

1025
00:48:08,210 --> 00:48:10,778
and sharing my
knowledge of extremist movements

1026
00:48:10,952 --> 00:48:12,911
from that perspective.

1027
00:48:13,085 --> 00:48:16,044
I do understand the insurgents.

1028
00:48:16,218 --> 00:48:19,395
I understand what
led them down that path,

1029
00:48:19,569 --> 00:48:21,789
because I, I was there
after I got home from Iraq.

1030
00:48:30,232 --> 00:48:32,234
I think
we're ready to pull people back.

1031
00:48:32,408 --> 00:48:33,714
Who wants to go
first?

1032
00:48:33,888 --> 00:48:36,108
Mr. President,
Congress is still suspended.

1033
00:48:36,282 --> 00:48:38,371
They have not
reconvened.

1034
00:48:38,545 --> 00:48:41,156
We do know that there
are crowds assembled in six

1035
00:48:41,330 --> 00:48:45,769
state capitals demanding
decertification of the votes.

1036
00:48:45,944 --> 00:48:48,816
In response to Lieutenant
General King's statement,

1037
00:48:49,948 --> 00:48:52,080
we are concerned
certainly that there could be

1038
00:48:52,254 --> 00:48:55,040
individuals out there
in the military that might,

1039
00:48:55,214 --> 00:48:57,085
or in the National Guard
especially,

1040
00:48:57,259 --> 00:49:00,349
that could possibly
follow their, their lead.

1041
00:49:00,523 --> 00:49:03,439
And so it's difficult to
find out what is the real deal

1042
00:49:03,613 --> 00:49:05,485
and what is
misinformation, disinformation.

1043
00:49:05,659 --> 00:49:08,488
It's like the fog of war,
basically what we're seeing.

1044
00:49:08,662 --> 00:49:11,447
Joel, let me ask
you... Is there a right wing,

1045
00:49:11,621 --> 00:49:13,536
White Proud Boy
can, that kind of stuff,

1046
00:49:13,710 --> 00:49:16,104
like is in the 82nd?

1047
00:49:16,278 --> 00:49:20,108
And would it interfere with
the performance of the guard?

1048
00:49:20,282 --> 00:49:24,417
I've had units that have had
some history, racial history,

1049
00:49:24,591 --> 00:49:26,201
and they were
gonna deploy together.

1050
00:49:26,375 --> 00:49:29,335
So it was definitely
like we had to work that out

1051
00:49:29,509 --> 00:49:31,859
before they went on deployment,
and there were cases where

1052
00:49:32,033 --> 00:49:34,775
I had to replace people.
- Yeah.

1053
00:49:34,949 --> 00:49:39,040
January 6th and
some of the racial tension

1054
00:49:39,214 --> 00:49:42,435
that has come out of
that, I've lost some friends.

1055
00:49:45,177 --> 00:49:47,831
We're at war in our own country.

1056
00:49:48,006 --> 00:49:49,703
There is a level
of white supremacy

1057
00:49:49,877 --> 00:49:52,271
and extremism within the ranks,

1058
00:49:52,445 --> 00:49:54,099
but wishing
that it just goes away?

1059
00:49:56,536 --> 00:49:58,581
It's not gonna happen.

1060
00:49:58,755 --> 00:50:01,062
Elizabeth,
do you wanna add something?

1061
00:50:01,236 --> 00:50:02,759
Uhhh... I was going to say,

1062
00:50:02,933 --> 00:50:05,458
when you look at extremists

1063
00:50:05,632 --> 00:50:08,026
and how you can get
somebody to disengage,

1064
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:09,984
if they're fully
bought into their ideology,

1065
00:50:10,158 --> 00:50:12,726
you cannot talk them
out of it. They're, they're,

1066
00:50:12,900 --> 00:50:15,294
it is a long process
even just to get disengagement.

1067
00:50:15,468 --> 00:50:17,339
So from an audience standpoint,

1068
00:50:17,513 --> 00:50:19,820
you definitely wanna go after
those who are in the bubble,

1069
00:50:19,994 --> 00:50:22,083
those who are
contemplating going out,

1070
00:50:22,257 --> 00:50:24,694
those who are thinking about

1071
00:50:24,868 --> 00:50:27,306
maybe this is
the time to take up the fight.

1072
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,830
We wanna figure
out the right messengers

1073
00:50:30,004 --> 00:50:31,658
to be able to
convince them to stay home.

1074
00:50:31,832 --> 00:50:33,616
Yep.

1075
00:50:33,790 --> 00:50:36,532
And, and Mr. President,
Department of Justice is,

1076
00:50:36,706 --> 00:50:38,099
we have a number of tools.

1077
00:50:38,273 --> 00:50:39,840
I'm cognizant, Mr. President,

1078
00:50:40,014 --> 00:50:42,625
of your concern
about the politics.

1079
00:50:42,799 --> 00:50:45,889
However, if we develop,

1080
00:50:46,064 --> 00:50:49,284
whether Strickland
or any of his lieutenants

1081
00:50:49,458 --> 00:50:52,374
are engaged and in
communication with these folks,

1082
00:50:52,548 --> 00:50:54,028
we will need to act.

1083
00:50:54,202 --> 00:50:55,986
Attorney General,
just to be clear,

1084
00:50:56,161 --> 00:50:58,424
I'm not concerned
about the politics.

1085
00:50:58,598 --> 00:50:59,947
No, no. I know.

1086
00:51:00,121 --> 00:51:03,124
What I'm
concerned about is making sure

1087
00:51:03,298 --> 00:51:07,955
that the day after
the certification, that's when

1088
00:51:08,521 --> 00:51:10,000
we have to start
- Yeah. Yeah.

1089
00:51:10,175 --> 00:51:12,612
figuring out a way
to heal this country.

1090
00:51:12,786 --> 00:51:16,355
My concern isn't the politics,
my concern is this country.

1091
00:51:16,529 --> 00:51:18,270
I, I didn't
mean to imply otherwise.

1092
00:51:20,663 --> 00:51:22,448
Goldsmith reading
out, we're about to hit it.

1093
00:51:22,622 --> 00:51:24,102
Order of
Columbus Knights currently

1094
00:51:24,276 --> 00:51:25,886
occupy
the Arizona State Capitol.

1095
00:51:26,060 --> 00:51:27,670
We have intelligence
from ground commanders

1096
00:51:27,844 --> 00:51:29,977
that regime aircraft are
bombing civilians in Virginia.

1097
00:51:30,151 --> 00:51:31,805
And there is intense fighting

1098
00:51:31,979 --> 00:51:33,633
between Order of Columbus troops
and regime forces in Iowa.

1099
00:51:33,807 --> 00:51:35,635
Yep. Hit
it. Hit it?

1100
00:51:35,809 --> 00:51:36,897
All right. We're,
I'm gonna start getting up

1101
00:51:37,071 --> 00:51:39,595
protest footage
together that shows like

1102
00:51:39,769 --> 00:51:41,249
shit gettin' lit on fire.
- Mm-hmm [affirmative].

1103
00:51:44,426 --> 00:51:47,342
And then we've
got this clip of all...

1104
00:51:47,516 --> 00:51:49,953
Can we speed up right
where the people are walking

1105
00:51:50,128 --> 00:51:50,606
to make it look
like they're running?

1106
00:51:50,780 --> 00:51:51,781
Yes. Yes we can.

1107
00:51:53,740 --> 00:51:55,002
One of the things we have to do

1108
00:51:55,176 --> 00:51:57,222
is the oppositional
forces, the Red Cell,

1109
00:51:57,396 --> 00:51:59,049
is we have to try and encourage

1110
00:51:59,224 --> 00:52:01,748
the government to over respond.

1111
00:52:01,922 --> 00:52:04,577
That's huge for
an insurgent group, right?

1112
00:52:04,751 --> 00:52:07,580
If they, if on
January 6th the Capitol police

1113
00:52:07,754 --> 00:52:10,409
had just started spraying
bullets into the crowd there,

1114
00:52:10,583 --> 00:52:12,367
do you think that that situation

1115
00:52:12,541 --> 00:52:15,022
would've been
contained by now? Probably not.

1116
00:52:15,196 --> 00:52:18,286
What we want is
US troops mowing down

1117
00:52:18,460 --> 00:52:20,723
Patriots in the streets.

1118
00:52:20,897 --> 00:52:23,900
If you do that, you play
directly into
the narratives that

1119
00:52:24,074 --> 00:52:27,034
the US government is massively
overreaching their power.

1120
00:52:27,208 --> 00:52:29,036
If you don't do exactly
what they say when they say it,

1121
00:52:29,210 --> 00:52:30,429
they're gonna shoot you.

1122
00:52:30,603 --> 00:52:32,213
And if they do
get killed, you know,

1123
00:52:32,387 --> 00:52:34,172
then you become
a martyr for this cause

1124
00:52:34,346 --> 00:52:36,522
and you're
a huge recruitment tool.

1125
00:52:41,831 --> 00:52:44,443
So going in guns
blazing

1126
00:52:44,617 --> 00:52:45,922
is not the solve.

1127
00:53:31,054 --> 00:53:32,882
I haven't been back
here since the sixth.

1128
00:53:33,056 --> 00:53:35,624
Here's, I watched
the CNN crew get all their shit

1129
00:53:35,798 --> 00:53:37,887
stolen off of 'em
and like smashed up

1130
00:53:38,061 --> 00:53:39,802
and they're trying to
light it on fire and stuff.

1131
00:53:47,810 --> 00:53:49,203
Well, after
being in the military,

1132
00:53:49,377 --> 00:53:51,379
I was a journalist
until after January 6th

1133
00:53:51,553 --> 00:53:53,033
and I just decided
like, nope, you know what?

1134
00:53:53,207 --> 00:53:54,513
It's time to start
doing something about it.

1135
00:53:56,863 --> 00:53:58,081
I was like standing right there

1136
00:53:58,256 --> 00:53:59,953
and just like
watching this shit happen.

1137
00:54:00,127 --> 00:54:01,563
And they're like,
like old men walking up

1138
00:54:01,737 --> 00:54:02,825
and being like,
"Where's it happening?

1139
00:54:02,999 --> 00:54:04,174
Where are we going,
brothers?" You know?

1140
00:54:04,349 --> 00:54:07,308
And I was just like, "Dude, like

1141
00:54:07,482 --> 00:54:09,354
why the fuck was I shooting
farmers in Afghanistan

1142
00:54:09,528 --> 00:54:12,879
while you're breathing?"
You know? "Fuck you dude."

1143
00:54:13,053 --> 00:54:14,794
These motherfuckers
are traitors!

1144
00:54:14,968 --> 00:54:17,927
They're fuckin'
traitors!

1145
00:54:18,101 --> 00:54:20,452
That was a day where
you picked a side and like

1146
00:54:20,626 --> 00:54:22,671
pointing camera
at somebody who's like

1147
00:54:22,845 --> 00:54:25,979
beating people to
death so they can get in here.

1148
00:54:26,153 --> 00:54:28,286
Like nah dude,
this is my house, not yours.

1149
00:54:33,552 --> 00:54:35,815
The only reason the people
in the crowd who had guns

1150
00:54:35,989 --> 00:54:38,774
didn't pull their guns
out is, they weren't told to.

1151
00:54:38,948 --> 00:54:40,646
You know, one of
the like foundational rules

1152
00:54:40,820 --> 00:54:44,693
of insurgency theory and like
counterinsurgency theory is,

1153
00:54:44,867 --> 00:54:48,262
when you start shooting
at one, you've lost. You know?

1154
00:54:48,436 --> 00:54:49,611
And it was just this weird,

1155
00:54:52,484 --> 00:54:54,834
weird moment of like
kind of trying to square like

1156
00:54:55,922 --> 00:54:59,665
that awareness versus
like that really visceral sense

1157
00:54:59,839 --> 00:55:01,841
of like, I just
wanna start swinging.

1158
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:08,064
We have this like myth
that America is different,

1159
00:55:08,238 --> 00:55:10,632
that America isn't
susceptible to the same sort of

1160
00:55:10,806 --> 00:55:13,679
insurgent forces
that can cause really widespread

1161
00:55:13,853 --> 00:55:16,421
political violence
and destabilize a society

1162
00:55:16,595 --> 00:55:20,468
and a state very fast.
Like that can happen here.

1163
00:55:20,642 --> 00:55:22,470
What prevents it from
reaching that level is not,

1164
00:55:22,644 --> 00:55:24,864
well we've always
got more guns than them.

1165
00:55:25,038 --> 00:55:27,083
What prevents
it reaching that level is, hey,

1166
00:55:27,257 --> 00:55:30,957
what are the best ways to
address the underlying issues

1167
00:55:31,131 --> 00:55:32,350
that cause people
to go down this path?

1168
00:55:35,309 --> 00:55:36,745
It's always kind of frustrating

1169
00:55:36,919 --> 00:55:41,184
to take something
that you use in a war

1170
00:55:41,359 --> 00:55:43,099
and now you're running
around in your own country

1171
00:55:43,273 --> 00:55:46,451
because there are people
who want to do that, right?

1172
00:55:46,625 --> 00:55:51,499
They wanna bring the reality
of an insurgent war here.

1173
00:55:51,847 --> 00:55:53,588
And like, I've been
through that already.

1174
00:55:53,762 --> 00:55:55,503
And like, I don't
care what your ideology is,

1175
00:55:55,677 --> 00:55:56,199
you don't want that.

1176
00:56:02,554 --> 00:56:04,686
On January 6th,
I had cable news on.

1177
00:56:04,860 --> 00:56:05,948
All of a sudden when

1178
00:56:06,122 --> 00:56:08,429
it began to escalate,
- Watch your back!

1179
00:56:08,603 --> 00:56:11,824
it took me back to
a very dark place in childhood.

1180
00:56:11,998 --> 00:56:14,174
I was a little
over two years old.

1181
00:56:14,348 --> 00:56:16,829
I had vivid memories
of being in my preschool,

1182
00:56:17,003 --> 00:56:18,700
looking down in
the streets of Shiraz

1183
00:56:18,874 --> 00:56:20,746
as people were
looting and breaking windows.

1184
00:56:23,879 --> 00:56:26,229
This was in the peak of
the revolution at that time.

1185
00:56:26,404 --> 00:56:29,929
I remember as a child
with this searing memory of

1186
00:56:30,103 --> 00:56:32,845
what it was like to
see authority break down,

1187
00:56:33,019 --> 00:56:35,325
to see what you perceived
as stability and safety

1188
00:56:35,500 --> 00:56:37,197
and security all of
a sudden violated and breached.

1189
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:42,463
And now here was
arguably the seat of power

1190
00:56:42,637 --> 00:56:45,248
being ransacked and desecrated.

1191
00:56:45,423 --> 00:56:48,556
Nothing strikes fear into the
hearts of people more I think

1192
00:56:48,730 --> 00:56:51,124
than when they realize that
there's no one to protect them.

1193
00:56:53,343 --> 00:56:56,869
What January
6th, 2021 demonstrated

1194
00:56:57,043 --> 00:56:59,654
to many of us who have
that kind of trauma is that,

1195
00:56:59,828 --> 00:57:02,875
you know, there is a possible
false sense of security.

1196
00:57:12,362 --> 00:57:13,842
We've got
activity in state capitals,

1197
00:57:15,844 --> 00:57:17,411
reliable press reports.

1198
00:57:17,585 --> 00:57:19,500
The crowds are
demanding decertification votes

1199
00:57:19,674 --> 00:57:21,197
inside their capital buildings.

1200
00:57:21,371 --> 00:57:23,548
Arizona, Texas,

1201
00:57:23,722 --> 00:57:27,595
Colorado, Michigan, and
Pennsylvania. I think it's just

1202
00:57:27,769 --> 00:57:29,423
touching base with
the governors, making sure that

1203
00:57:32,252 --> 00:57:33,862
they have it under
control.

1204
00:57:34,036 --> 00:57:35,560
So we just saw a Facebook post

1205
00:57:35,734 --> 00:57:38,084
that you're illegally in office

1206
00:57:38,258 --> 00:57:40,478
and just when asked whether
we're talking to Facebook

1207
00:57:40,652 --> 00:57:43,481
and asking them
that any such statements

1208
00:57:43,655 --> 00:57:46,092
violate their terms
of use of service

1209
00:57:46,266 --> 00:57:48,921
and they should lock
down some of those accounts.

1210
00:57:49,095 --> 00:57:51,967
Yes. We are actively looking
at that and we are seeking

1211
00:57:52,141 --> 00:57:54,709
information from our
counterparts around the country.

1212
00:57:54,883 --> 00:57:55,928
Homeland Security.

1213
00:57:56,102 --> 00:57:57,625
Sir, the information we have

1214
00:57:57,799 --> 00:58:00,323
is that the disruptions
and security incidents

1215
00:58:00,498 --> 00:58:02,195
are localized, contained,

1216
00:58:02,369 --> 00:58:05,415
and not compromising
our overall security plan.

1217
00:58:05,590 --> 00:58:08,810
There is no imminent danger
to the persons we protect,

1218
00:58:08,984 --> 00:58:10,290
the facilities we protect,

1219
00:58:10,464 --> 00:58:12,597
or any of
the locations that we utilize

1220
00:58:12,771 --> 00:58:14,512
for certification of the vote

1221
00:58:14,686 --> 00:58:16,339
or proceedings
surrounding the election.

1222
00:58:16,514 --> 00:58:17,950
Sir, we have
information coming to the FBI

1223
00:58:18,124 --> 00:58:19,429
that's slightly
different than that.

1224
00:58:19,604 --> 00:58:20,866
Yeah. And
reporting we're getting in

1225
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:22,215
that there are still
several thousand protestors

1226
00:58:22,389 --> 00:58:23,695
who are being held back.

1227
00:58:23,869 --> 00:58:25,653
While violence is contained,

1228
00:58:25,827 --> 00:58:28,613
there are reports of
firearms being brandished.

1229
00:58:28,787 --> 00:58:31,267
And what started out as
a couple of thousand protestors

1230
00:58:31,441 --> 00:58:35,837
is now well over 10,000,
including pro Hotham supporters

1231
00:58:36,011 --> 00:58:37,883
who are now clashing
with Strickland supporters.

1232
00:58:38,057 --> 00:58:40,059
So there's, there's different
reporting and that's natural

1233
00:58:40,233 --> 00:58:41,843
in something like this.
- But I would suggest that

1234
00:58:42,017 --> 00:58:43,541
that volume does not compromise
the overall security plan

1235
00:58:43,715 --> 00:58:45,020
that we are prepared for, sir,

1236
00:58:45,194 --> 00:58:49,111
based on lessons
learned from 2021,

1237
00:58:49,285 --> 00:58:51,853
as well as the assets and
augmentations we have in place.

1238
00:58:52,027 --> 00:58:53,986
I'm not suggesting
it is not an issue

1239
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:55,727
that needs to be addressed.

1240
00:58:55,901 --> 00:58:58,294
What I'm suggesting is
that it is not compromising

1241
00:58:58,468 --> 00:59:00,688
the proceedings of
the election or the...

1242
00:59:00,862 --> 00:59:03,430
l- Yeah, it is compromising
the proceedings of the election

1243
00:59:03,604 --> 00:59:05,824
'cause they're not certifying

1244
00:59:05,998 --> 00:59:08,217
the way they would
otherwise be certifying.

1245
00:59:08,391 --> 00:59:10,045
I'm just looking at this

1246
00:59:10,219 --> 00:59:12,526
as if I were sitting
home watching my television.

1247
00:59:12,700 --> 00:59:15,094
And you're saying, "Kumbaya,
man, we gotta contain."

1248
00:59:15,268 --> 00:59:17,226
And I, I see that the,

1249
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:19,402
the entire congress
is still in a bunker.

1250
00:59:19,577 --> 00:59:20,839
That doesn't look like

1251
00:59:21,013 --> 00:59:22,841
you've got
the situation under control.

1252
00:59:23,015 --> 00:59:24,582
Yeah, I never
used Kumbaya, ma'am.

1253
00:59:24,756 --> 00:59:25,234
I'm saying it is a problem.
- Yeah. No, I...

1254
00:59:25,408 --> 00:59:26,584
And I'm saying

1255
00:59:26,758 --> 00:59:27,759
we're addressing it.
- I get it.

1256
00:59:27,933 --> 00:59:29,064
What I'm,
what I'm saying is that

1257
00:59:29,238 --> 00:59:30,936
it is not compromising
the overall security.

1258
00:59:31,110 --> 00:59:32,328
- Heidi, are you..?
- Yeah.

1259
00:59:32,502 --> 00:59:33,591
And that's,
that's, that's something

1260
00:59:33,765 --> 00:59:35,244
that the public
doesn't understand when

1261
00:59:35,418 --> 00:59:37,159
you say that.
- I'm not making this

1262
00:59:37,333 --> 00:59:38,552
for a public statement, ma'am.
I'm making this to this room.

1263
00:59:38,726 --> 00:59:40,554
Mr. President, are you and
Heidi comfortable if Peter

1264
00:59:40,728 --> 00:59:41,599
and Homeland Security
- Yes.

1265
00:59:41,773 --> 00:59:43,296
get together,
- Yeah.

1266
00:59:43,470 --> 00:59:45,515
come up with something
which recognizes the gravity,

1267
00:59:45,690 --> 00:59:47,213
but also addresses that we're,

1268
00:59:47,387 --> 00:59:48,736
we're not just falling over.
- Yes. Yes.

1269
00:59:48,910 --> 00:59:50,303
Yes. But bring it back

1270
00:59:50,477 --> 00:59:51,957
before it goes out.
- Yes. We will do that.

1271
00:59:52,131 --> 00:59:54,873
Is there anything
else from the military side

1272
00:59:55,047 --> 00:59:57,266
that I've not been briefed on?

1273
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:58,964
Yes sir. I recommended,

1274
00:59:59,138 --> 01:00:02,010
we bring that brigade
from the 82nd to the NCR.

1275
01:00:02,184 --> 01:00:03,838
That gives
you an additional 4,000 troops

1276
01:00:04,012 --> 01:00:05,797
from the federal capability.

1277
01:00:05,971 --> 01:00:08,626
If we need to go
there, we have 'em close by

1278
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:10,584
and able to
respond in a quick order.

1279
01:00:10,758 --> 01:00:13,282
Yep. Have them
prepared outside the Capitol.

1280
01:00:15,197 --> 01:00:16,721
Mr. Secretary,
I think the goal

1281
01:00:16,895 --> 01:00:20,115
is to make the other side fold.

1282
01:00:20,289 --> 01:00:23,031
We are targeting
our, some of our messages

1283
01:00:23,205 --> 01:00:25,730
to the opposition
leadership, "You need to fold."

1284
01:00:25,904 --> 01:00:27,253
We're more than adequate,

1285
01:00:27,427 --> 01:00:28,384
militarily,
- Yeah.

1286
01:00:28,558 --> 01:00:30,299
to handle
anything you had to do.

1287
01:00:30,473 --> 01:00:32,214
You will answer to
the full letter of the law.

1288
01:00:34,216 --> 01:00:38,046
And you know,
sooner you stand down,

1289
01:00:38,220 --> 01:00:41,267
better this is all gonna be
for lives, limbs, and your own

1290
01:00:41,441 --> 01:00:43,922
personal wellbeing.
- Yeah.

1291
01:00:44,096 --> 01:00:47,403
No, but actually, this
is a really good opportunity

1292
01:00:47,577 --> 01:00:50,015
to clean up the armed forces.

1293
01:00:50,189 --> 01:00:50,929
Well I agree with
that.

1294
01:00:51,103 --> 01:00:52,670
That is the goal.
- Good, good.

1295
01:00:55,368 --> 01:00:56,891
I gotta say, DHS and DOD

1296
01:00:57,065 --> 01:01:00,416
are playing
the roles with intensity.

1297
01:01:00,590 --> 01:01:01,983
Yeah. No,
they're really way into it.

1298
01:01:02,157 --> 01:01:02,680
Commitment. Yeah.

1299
01:01:06,553 --> 01:01:07,380
- Goldsmith?
- Yes.

1300
01:01:07,554 --> 01:01:08,076
I'm sending you a,

1301
01:01:11,732 --> 01:01:14,779
a picture map that we just
made that you can tweet out

1302
01:01:14,953 --> 01:01:17,738
as current sitting rep in DC.
- Okay.

1303
01:01:17,912 --> 01:01:20,088
Oh, got suspended.

1304
01:01:20,262 --> 01:01:22,090
Oh, I can't tweet
anymore?

1305
01:01:22,264 --> 01:01:24,702
Yeah, you got, you just
got kicked off of social media.

1306
01:01:24,876 --> 01:01:25,615
You gotta make a new name.

1307
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:42,110
We'd like to welcome our
viewers as we continue to follow

1308
01:01:42,284 --> 01:01:45,026
the fast moving developments
from Phoenix, Arizona.

1309
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,507
We can report
that approximately half

1310
01:01:47,681 --> 01:01:51,598
of the state Senate and State
House are being held hostage

1311
01:01:51,772 --> 01:01:55,645
by a group of those
loyal to the Order of Columbus.

1312
01:01:55,820 --> 01:01:58,823
The force that has
overtaken the state legislature

1313
01:01:58,997 --> 01:02:01,564
includes members
of the US military

1314
01:02:01,739 --> 01:02:05,090
who have stolen
military weapons with them.

1315
01:02:05,264 --> 01:02:07,919
We can report at this
hour that the same unrest

1316
01:02:08,093 --> 01:02:10,486
and dissension
unfolding in the military ranks

1317
01:02:10,660 --> 01:02:12,837
is also now manifesting across

1318
01:02:13,011 --> 01:02:16,057
local and
federal law enforcement.

1319
01:02:16,231 --> 01:02:19,147
That civilians who
support Robert Strickland

1320
01:02:19,321 --> 01:02:22,977
are coordinating with so-called,
"Constitutional Sheriffs,"

1321
01:02:23,151 --> 01:02:26,415
and rogue members of the US
military with plans to quote,

1322
01:02:26,589 --> 01:02:30,071
retake their states
and establish seats of power

1323
01:02:30,245 --> 01:02:32,421
from which they plan to overturn

1324
01:02:32,595 --> 01:02:35,076
the most recent
election.

1325
01:02:35,250 --> 01:02:37,470
I think you're going
to the Insurrection Act.

1326
01:02:37,644 --> 01:02:39,341
The FBI Director
has some news for us.

1327
01:02:39,515 --> 01:02:41,735
So sir, reporting that we
received in Phoenix, Arizona...

1328
01:02:41,909 --> 01:02:44,390
A dozen law
enforcement officers are beaten,

1329
01:02:44,564 --> 01:02:46,696
the armed insurrectionists
quickly have gained control

1330
01:02:46,871 --> 01:02:48,742
of the State House
and have established

1331
01:02:48,916 --> 01:02:51,136
a defensive
perimeter around the grounds,

1332
01:02:51,310 --> 01:02:54,095
manned by a combination
of civilian militia,

1333
01:02:54,269 --> 01:02:57,229
rogue military
personnel and law enforcement.

1334
01:02:57,403 --> 01:02:58,578
If you have
a hostage situation,

1335
01:02:58,752 --> 01:03:00,710
wouldn't we be looking at SWAT?

1336
01:03:00,885 --> 01:03:02,887
Group this
size, armed as they are,

1337
01:03:03,061 --> 01:03:05,280
may quickly be
beyond the capabilities

1338
01:03:05,454 --> 01:03:08,370
of the FBI SWAT team
and, and the local SWAT teams.

1339
01:03:08,544 --> 01:03:10,111
- Okay.
- For sure.

1340
01:03:10,285 --> 01:03:11,852
First off, this is
still Arizona's jurisdiction.

1341
01:03:12,026 --> 01:03:14,159
Arizona has to take the lead

1342
01:03:14,333 --> 01:03:17,466
on reestablishing
their credentials and, and,

1343
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,208
and taking back
their state government.

1344
01:03:20,382 --> 01:03:22,384
And this is gonna sound callous,

1345
01:03:22,558 --> 01:03:25,648
but they've overplayed
their hand by doing this, that,

1346
01:03:25,823 --> 01:03:30,349
that this is a, a opportunity
to define who they are.

1347
01:03:30,828 --> 01:03:32,655
So just keep in mind,

1348
01:03:32,830 --> 01:03:35,310
rather than jumping
to the Insurrection Act,

1349
01:03:35,484 --> 01:03:37,530
coordinating with
Arizona, making sure

1350
01:03:37,704 --> 01:03:40,968
that it's not an overreaction
to the Arizona situation,

1351
01:03:41,142 --> 01:03:42,796
which is kind of
unique because I'm the one

1352
01:03:42,970 --> 01:03:46,452
who's been arguing about
reacting more dramatically.

1353
01:03:46,626 --> 01:03:48,236
Mr. President, I think
this is an appropriate time

1354
01:03:48,410 --> 01:03:50,238
for you to put
a call into the governor.

1355
01:03:50,412 --> 01:03:52,937
And you may want
even broach the topic,

1356
01:03:53,111 --> 01:03:56,244
whether they want you to
invoke the, the Insurrection Act

1357
01:03:56,418 --> 01:03:58,203
Command,
can we call the governor

1358
01:03:58,377 --> 01:04:01,075
of Arizona?

1359
01:04:01,249 --> 01:04:03,904
Could you please give
the question for the governor?

1360
01:04:04,078 --> 01:04:06,820
What she needs from
the federal government.

1361
01:04:09,083 --> 01:04:11,129
Because I also think like,

1362
01:04:11,303 --> 01:04:12,086
to your point...
- Okay, hold.

1363
01:04:12,260 --> 01:04:13,827
We're gonna ask the governor.

1364
01:04:14,001 --> 01:04:15,873
Ru, Ruby Ridge,

1365
01:04:16,047 --> 01:04:17,352
Balhauer.
- Right.

1366
01:04:18,527 --> 01:04:20,138
We want to be prepared
and we want to help folks,

1367
01:04:20,312 --> 01:04:23,054
but this is a hostage situation,

1368
01:04:23,228 --> 01:04:24,664
where hopefully, damn straight,

1369
01:04:24,838 --> 01:04:26,666
they just overplayed their hand.

1370
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:27,493
Mr. President,

1371
01:04:27,667 --> 01:04:29,060
thank you so much for calling.

1372
01:04:29,234 --> 01:04:30,322
It's an honor to speak with you,

1373
01:04:30,496 --> 01:04:31,801
although at this
time I'm not confident

1374
01:04:31,976 --> 01:04:33,760
that we have
control of the situation.

1375
01:04:33,934 --> 01:04:36,589
And I'm requesting that you
authorize the federal government

1376
01:04:36,763 --> 01:04:39,331
to use all tools to
regain control of the Capitol,

1377
01:04:39,505 --> 01:04:41,768
whatever help
you can land. Mr. President?

1378
01:04:43,901 --> 01:04:44,727
Yes, governor.
Thank you.

1379
01:04:44,902 --> 01:04:46,294
I'm sorry Mr. President.

1380
01:04:46,468 --> 01:04:47,600
We're, we're having
to evacuate the building.

1381
01:04:50,255 --> 01:04:51,343
Mr. President,
I would ask a specific question

1382
01:04:51,517 --> 01:04:53,562
about the Insurrection Act.

1383
01:04:53,736 --> 01:04:54,955
- She answered it.
- I think she answered it.

1384
01:04:55,129 --> 01:04:56,391
- Well...
- It would've been nice

1385
01:04:56,565 --> 01:04:58,132
to hear...
- She said, "All action."

1386
01:04:58,306 --> 01:04:59,264
All action to
the federal government.

1387
01:04:59,438 --> 01:05:00,134
- I agree.
- Yeah.

1388
01:05:00,308 --> 01:05:01,135
To restore order, which

1389
01:05:03,529 --> 01:05:04,530
is a request.

1390
01:05:04,704 --> 01:05:05,792
You know,
the public doesn't know

1391
01:05:05,966 --> 01:05:07,663
what the Insurrection Act is.

1392
01:05:07,837 --> 01:05:09,448
They just wanna
know what you're doing.

1393
01:05:09,622 --> 01:05:11,406
And does
the situation warrant it?

1394
01:05:11,580 --> 01:05:13,974
I would
recommend that we go ahead

1395
01:05:14,148 --> 01:05:18,370
and ask all the governors
to activate their guard

1396
01:05:18,544 --> 01:05:21,242
in the right status
to secure the capitals

1397
01:05:21,416 --> 01:05:24,811
so that we automatically
have that taken care of.

1398
01:05:24,985 --> 01:05:26,726
It's unfortunate
that the conversation

1399
01:05:26,900 --> 01:05:30,121
with the Arizona
governor was so brief that

1400
01:05:30,295 --> 01:05:32,601
if she hasn't even
activated her National Guard,

1401
01:05:35,953 --> 01:05:39,478
having our soldiers,
regular army, coming in

1402
01:05:39,652 --> 01:05:42,133
could just actually
pour more gasoline on the fire.

1403
01:05:46,311 --> 01:05:48,878
At its base, the
Insurrection Act is saying,

1404
01:05:49,053 --> 01:05:51,098
"The federal
military will not be turned

1405
01:05:51,272 --> 01:05:53,318
against
its citizens domestically,

1406
01:05:53,492 --> 01:05:56,321
unless this act is invoked."

1407
01:05:56,495 --> 01:06:00,673
Might be a power that we need
our chief executive to have.

1408
01:06:00,847 --> 01:06:04,851
But it's also a power
that in the wrong hands

1409
01:06:05,025 --> 01:06:07,071
potentially could be abused

1410
01:06:07,245 --> 01:06:09,421
to great great
consequence to this country.

1411
01:06:12,293 --> 01:06:13,903
So I think it's
interesting that they're like

1412
01:06:14,078 --> 01:06:16,210
not convinced by
the governor saying...

1413
01:06:16,384 --> 01:06:18,647
Well, it's what we thought.
Like it's such a drastic act.

1414
01:06:18,821 --> 01:06:19,561
They're gonna try to
talk themselves out of it.

1415
01:06:19,735 --> 01:06:21,433
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

1416
01:06:21,607 --> 01:06:22,608
Even though they're trying
to talk themselves into it.

1417
01:06:22,782 --> 01:06:24,740
The Insurrection Act
allows the president

1418
01:06:24,914 --> 01:06:27,395
to federalize
the National Guard,

1419
01:06:27,569 --> 01:06:30,442
taking away control of
the guard from state governors,

1420
01:06:30,616 --> 01:06:32,661
but also it allows
rogue members of the military

1421
01:06:32,835 --> 01:06:34,315
and law
enforcement to basically,

1422
01:06:34,489 --> 01:06:36,665
act as their own independent
constitutional authority.

1423
01:06:36,839 --> 01:06:38,102
From their perspective,
they are authorized

1424
01:06:38,276 --> 01:06:39,581
under the Insurrection Act

1425
01:06:39,755 --> 01:06:41,583
to follow
the orders of whom they believe

1426
01:06:41,757 --> 01:06:44,021
to be the duly elected
president,
to maintain law and order,

1427
01:06:44,195 --> 01:06:45,935
to neutralize
the enemy and the threat.

1428
01:06:46,110 --> 01:06:47,241
They're not launching a coup.

1429
01:06:47,415 --> 01:06:48,851
They are stopping
a coup from happening.

1430
01:06:51,332 --> 01:06:55,771
It is undeniable that this
past election was stolen,

1431
01:06:55,945 --> 01:06:58,948
and it is Hotham
who is attempting a coup

1432
01:06:59,123 --> 01:07:01,473
to consolidate
his illegitimate power

1433
01:07:01,647 --> 01:07:03,997
and eliminate
our God-given freedoms.

1434
01:07:07,740 --> 01:07:10,830
Mr. Van Tatenhove,
in the run up to January 6th,

1435
01:07:11,004 --> 01:07:13,398
Stewart Rhodes publicly
implored President Trump

1436
01:07:13,572 --> 01:07:16,705
to invoke the Insurrection Act,
the 1807 law,

1437
01:07:16,879 --> 01:07:19,404
that allows the president
to call up militias

1438
01:07:19,578 --> 01:07:21,667
to put down a rebellion
against the United States.

1439
01:07:21,841 --> 01:07:23,625
Why was he so fixated on that?

1440
01:07:23,799 --> 01:07:25,279
And what did
he think it would enable

1441
01:07:25,453 --> 01:07:27,238
the Oath Keepers to do?

1442
01:07:27,412 --> 01:07:30,980
Well, I, I think it gave
him a sense of legitimacy

1443
01:07:31,155 --> 01:07:33,418
that it was a path forward

1444
01:07:33,592 --> 01:07:37,248
to move forward with
his goals and agendas.

1445
01:07:37,422 --> 01:07:39,076
Uhmm...

1446
01:07:39,250 --> 01:07:41,948
I, I, I think we need
to quit mincing words

1447
01:07:42,122 --> 01:07:44,211
and just talk about truths.

1448
01:07:44,385 --> 01:07:48,476
And what it was gonna
be was an armed revolution.

1449
01:07:48,650 --> 01:07:51,871
He had these grand visions
of being a paramilitary leader

1450
01:07:52,045 --> 01:07:54,395
and the Insurrection Act

1451
01:07:54,569 --> 01:07:57,137
would've given him
a path forward with that.

1452
01:07:57,311 --> 01:08:00,706
This could have been the spark
that started a new civil war.

1453
01:08:06,059 --> 01:08:07,321
Mr. President,
you'll want to see this

1454
01:08:07,495 --> 01:08:10,324
from your special advisor.

1455
01:08:10,498 --> 01:08:12,848
MacDill Air Force Base
appears to have been taken over

1456
01:08:13,022 --> 01:08:14,459
by insurgents.

1457
01:08:14,633 --> 01:08:16,025
Active duty
soldiers across the country

1458
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:17,940
are leaving their posts
or being removed from duty,

1459
01:08:18,115 --> 01:08:19,768
including 12
special operations forces

1460
01:08:19,942 --> 01:08:21,596
based in MacDill Air Force Base,

1461
01:08:21,770 --> 01:08:23,337
who have declared
the base to be sovereign land

1462
01:08:23,511 --> 01:08:24,730
no longer subject
to the jurisdiction

1463
01:08:24,904 --> 01:08:26,601
of this illegal government.

1464
01:08:26,775 --> 01:08:28,995
Further reports indicate
that at many of these bases,

1465
01:08:29,169 --> 01:08:30,475
there are corresponding
accounts of ammunition,

1466
01:08:30,649 --> 01:08:33,130
explosives, and other
weapons missing from armories.

1467
01:08:33,304 --> 01:08:35,175
Lastly, several
disloyal forces have been caught

1468
01:08:35,349 --> 01:08:36,611
trying to steal weapons

1469
01:08:36,785 --> 01:08:38,874
and become
trapped inside the armory,

1470
01:08:39,048 --> 01:08:40,702
creating complicated
standoffs between loyal forces

1471
01:08:40,876 --> 01:08:42,051
and entrapped disloyal ones.

1472
01:08:44,837 --> 01:08:46,795
You have 12 special ops.

1473
01:08:46,969 --> 01:08:47,970
Yeah, it says that.

1474
01:08:48,145 --> 01:08:50,059
- You reading this?
- Yeah.

1475
01:08:50,234 --> 01:08:52,584
So remember
that Abraham Lincoln

1476
01:08:52,758 --> 01:08:54,890
suspended habeas
corpus.

1477
01:08:55,064 --> 01:08:56,065
There are times when you so,

1478
01:08:58,807 --> 01:09:00,157
throw in the bullshit flag

1479
01:09:00,331 --> 01:09:03,551
and you stop fiddling
around with niceties.

1480
01:09:03,725 --> 01:09:04,944
You know what I'm saying?
- Yep.

1481
01:09:05,118 --> 01:09:06,772
Mr. President,

1482
01:09:06,946 --> 01:09:09,470
we're picking up intercepted
chatter among military,

1483
01:09:09,644 --> 01:09:12,169
that they're taking
what happened in MacDill

1484
01:09:12,343 --> 01:09:14,997
and now they're trying
to spread that to other bases.

1485
01:09:15,172 --> 01:09:16,651
How many
soldiers are at MacDill?

1486
01:09:16,825 --> 01:09:18,784
Well, that have gone
rogue is what I understood.

1487
01:09:18,958 --> 01:09:22,135
Not that many.
These are 12, you know,

1488
01:09:22,309 --> 01:09:24,137
gung-ho killers out there

1489
01:09:24,311 --> 01:09:26,008
who decided to take
it in their own hands.

1490
01:09:26,183 --> 01:09:27,096
- So, so that didn't achieve.
- You've got a 4,

1491
01:09:27,271 --> 01:09:29,360
you've two 4-star
generals down there.

1492
01:09:29,534 --> 01:09:31,405
The concern we're
getting is the chatter,

1493
01:09:31,579 --> 01:09:34,016
that this may spread and
y'all need to be aware of that.

1494
01:09:34,191 --> 01:09:36,149
At every base
you have a base commander.

1495
01:09:36,323 --> 01:09:37,672
Yep.

1496
01:09:37,846 --> 01:09:39,413
At every base
you have military police,

1497
01:09:39,587 --> 01:09:41,763
air police,
something, who's there.

1498
01:09:41,937 --> 01:09:44,810
This is
a series of local problems

1499
01:09:44,984 --> 01:09:48,379
underneath the overall
commands of the armed services.

1500
01:09:48,553 --> 01:09:50,163
I would let
them deal with that.

1501
01:09:50,337 --> 01:09:51,643
It's, it's
a million rabbit holes.

1502
01:09:55,951 --> 01:09:58,171
Hold on.
White House just tweeted.

1503
01:09:58,345 --> 01:09:59,520
- We're pretty close.
- Oh. All right.

1504
01:09:59,694 --> 01:10:01,783
So President's focus
is back on securing the,

1505
01:10:06,179 --> 01:10:09,138
securing Congress and
allowing them to move on

1506
01:10:09,313 --> 01:10:11,053
with their constitutional
duties.

1507
01:10:11,228 --> 01:10:12,098
So they're gonna
try and ignore the fact

1508
01:10:12,272 --> 01:10:13,534
that the,
- We just took

1509
01:10:13,708 --> 01:10:14,753
there's open...
MacDill Air Force base.

1510
01:10:14,927 --> 01:10:16,320
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yes.

1511
01:10:16,494 --> 01:10:18,104
Yeah.

1512
01:10:18,278 --> 01:10:20,759
That's a move. It's getting lost

1513
01:10:20,933 --> 01:10:23,501
as the higher ups are
looking for ground truth.

1514
01:10:23,675 --> 01:10:25,242
So they're just
pushing requests down

1515
01:10:25,416 --> 01:10:26,895
that don't match
the reality of the,

1516
01:10:27,069 --> 01:10:28,984
you know, threat landscape.

1517
01:10:29,158 --> 01:10:30,290
I mean, it sounds
like they're feeling

1518
01:10:30,464 --> 01:10:32,510
pretty...
- Good about work.

1519
01:10:32,684 --> 01:10:34,773
Well, it sounds
like the blue four is

1520
01:10:34,947 --> 01:10:36,775
struggling, which is fine.

1521
01:10:38,994 --> 01:10:40,692
All right, so I'm having
the patriarch put out an order

1522
01:10:40,866 --> 01:10:42,476
saying the constitutional
sheriffs

1523
01:10:42,650 --> 01:10:45,349
are the supreme law enforcement
officers of this land.

1524
01:10:45,523 --> 01:10:47,525
We're calling
upon all OC sheriffs

1525
01:10:47,699 --> 01:10:50,615
who are not currently
engaged in Operation Alamo

1526
01:10:50,789 --> 01:10:53,792
to immediately report
to your nearest military post

1527
01:10:53,966 --> 01:10:56,621
to aid in,
- Yeah.

1528
01:10:56,795 --> 01:10:58,057
In consolidating
the security situation.

1529
01:10:58,231 --> 01:11:01,016
Yeah, in, there
we go.

1530
01:11:01,190 --> 01:11:02,453
Excuse me sir.

1531
01:11:02,627 --> 01:11:03,671
We have reports that

1532
01:11:03,845 --> 01:11:05,630
a armed group of
men wearing clothing

1533
01:11:05,804 --> 01:11:07,501
emblazoned with
the Order of Columbus symbols

1534
01:11:07,675 --> 01:11:10,069
have assembled outside
the Michigan Governor's mansion.

1535
01:11:10,243 --> 01:11:11,766
Governors of
Michigan and North Carolina

1536
01:11:11,940 --> 01:11:13,028
have mobilized their guard,

1537
01:11:13,202 --> 01:11:15,727
are asking
the president to consider

1538
01:11:15,901 --> 01:11:19,339
mobilizing federal support
as soon as possible and agree

1539
01:11:19,513 --> 01:11:21,776
with need for Insurrection Act
if the president wants.

1540
01:11:23,169 --> 01:11:25,476
The question is,

1541
01:11:25,650 --> 01:11:27,216
if you can federalize
your National Guard right now,

1542
01:11:27,391 --> 01:11:28,305
do you need
the Insurrection Act?

1543
01:11:30,350 --> 01:11:32,744
This is
the dicey piece of this.

1544
01:11:32,918 --> 01:11:37,357
You don't know which side
your law enforcement partners

1545
01:11:37,531 --> 01:11:40,099
are on in this.

1546
01:11:40,273 --> 01:11:43,450
Immediate intel in
terms of social media

1547
01:11:43,624 --> 01:11:47,324
for anyone who leads
a law enforcement agency

1548
01:11:47,498 --> 01:11:49,891
needs to be
understood and advanced.

1549
01:11:50,065 --> 01:11:52,633
Mr. President, when
you invoke the Insurrection Act,

1550
01:11:52,807 --> 01:11:55,462
do you actually have
to declare a proclamation

1551
01:11:55,636 --> 01:11:58,073
immediately ordering
the insurgents to disperse

1552
01:11:58,247 --> 01:12:00,641
and retire peaceably to their
abodes within a limited time?

1553
01:12:00,815 --> 01:12:02,121
Can you direct
that your counsel prepare

1554
01:12:02,295 --> 01:12:03,731
such a proclamation?
- Please.

1555
01:12:03,905 --> 01:12:04,906
- Okay.
- Yeah.

1556
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:06,125
They're talking about it now.

1557
01:12:06,299 --> 01:12:07,518
That's what is
supposed to happen.

1558
01:12:07,692 --> 01:12:09,084
They drafted
an insurrection proclamation,

1559
01:12:09,258 --> 01:12:10,695
but they haven't made the
decision to implement it yet,

1560
01:12:10,869 --> 01:12:11,870
standing by if we need it.

1561
01:12:15,177 --> 01:12:17,005
They need to clarify
that that's the Insurrection Act

1562
01:12:17,179 --> 01:12:18,964
that they're about to...

1563
01:12:19,138 --> 01:12:20,531
Well, they're standing by,
but what do you think is the...

1564
01:12:20,705 --> 01:12:23,490
I'll be curious
to know what the,

1565
01:12:23,664 --> 01:12:24,970
what is the delineation point.
- Question.

1566
01:12:25,144 --> 01:12:26,101
What are they doing
with their national guards?

1567
01:12:26,275 --> 01:12:27,842
What help do they need from us?

1568
01:12:28,016 --> 01:12:30,236
The biggest challenge is
to have the Insurrection Act

1569
01:12:30,410 --> 01:12:33,195
as an option invoked
towards the end of this game,

1570
01:12:33,370 --> 01:12:35,328
'cause it can be used
to catastrophic effect.

1571
01:12:35,502 --> 01:12:36,851
I, I remain concerned.

1572
01:12:37,025 --> 01:12:39,637
We have not
decided who is in charge

1573
01:12:39,811 --> 01:12:41,073
of what's going on in Arizona.

1574
01:12:41,247 --> 01:12:42,857
This confusion is really good.

1575
01:12:43,031 --> 01:12:44,381
They're like not
sure who's in charge.

1576
01:12:44,555 --> 01:12:47,209
The governor might
be under a hostage situation

1577
01:12:47,384 --> 01:12:51,126
or she's evacuating. She asked
clearly for federal support.

1578
01:12:51,300 --> 01:12:54,521
The implication was, "There
is nobody in charge right now."

1579
01:12:54,695 --> 01:12:57,698
I mean, everything that we're
getting through these channels

1580
01:12:57,872 --> 01:13:00,048
is it's clear
that they want us to federalize.

1581
01:13:00,222 --> 01:13:02,529
So I guess I'm not sure...

1582
01:13:02,703 --> 01:13:04,792
What are the downsides
to using this tool,

1583
01:13:04,966 --> 01:13:08,056
other than there's
obviously some huge PR concerns?

1584
01:13:08,230 --> 01:13:10,755
Well, Mr. President,
if I could, right now,

1585
01:13:10,929 --> 01:13:13,322
we're not
putting active military

1586
01:13:13,497 --> 01:13:15,716
into these states to do things.

1587
01:13:15,890 --> 01:13:19,198
What we've done is they're
using their own National Guard.

1588
01:13:19,372 --> 01:13:21,374
So they have law
enforcement authority.

1589
01:13:21,548 --> 01:13:23,898
All we're doing is
providing them the support,

1590
01:13:24,072 --> 01:13:25,900
communications,
logistics, et cetera

1591
01:13:26,074 --> 01:13:27,815
that they're asking for.

1592
01:13:27,989 --> 01:13:30,470
But Arizona and North Carolina
are saying they need more.

1593
01:13:30,644 --> 01:13:33,081
I guess I'm trying to
understand the disconnect.

1594
01:13:33,255 --> 01:13:36,302
Certainly if you don't have
an active hostage situation,

1595
01:13:36,476 --> 01:13:38,260
then I can understand why

1596
01:13:38,435 --> 01:13:41,481
it makes sense for
us to use National Guard.

1597
01:13:41,655 --> 01:13:44,310
But we have an explicit request

1598
01:13:44,484 --> 01:13:48,053
for the Insurrection Act
to be invoked and I think we,

1599
01:13:48,227 --> 01:13:51,709
we need to be able to
explain why we wouldn't,

1600
01:13:51,883 --> 01:13:55,190
in this particular circumstance,
given historically,

1601
01:13:55,364 --> 01:13:59,412
in lesser circumstances, the
Insurrection Act has been used.

1602
01:13:59,586 --> 01:14:02,197
President Bush did invoke
it for the Rodney King riots.

1603
01:14:02,371 --> 01:14:04,069
That was a far
cry less than this.

1604
01:14:04,243 --> 01:14:06,593
Yeah. The question
is, what is it

1605
01:14:06,767 --> 01:14:09,857
that they're facing
that is beyond the capacities

1606
01:14:10,031 --> 01:14:12,599
of their normal law enforcement?

1607
01:14:12,773 --> 01:14:15,297
If there's any state
that might be a candidate

1608
01:14:15,472 --> 01:14:18,649
for an Insurrection Act,
it may be Arizona.

1609
01:14:18,823 --> 01:14:21,042
Because people in
that state have taken over

1610
01:14:21,216 --> 01:14:23,610
the seat of government and
are holding elected officials

1611
01:14:23,784 --> 01:14:26,004
hostage with
threats to kill them.

1612
01:14:26,178 --> 01:14:28,049
In North Carolina, we don't
have any evidence of anything,

1613
01:14:28,223 --> 01:14:30,182
except they're worried.

1614
01:14:30,356 --> 01:14:32,401
What's a bunch of active duty
Army guys are gonna do there?

1615
01:14:32,576 --> 01:14:35,317
This is a really
a, a hostage situation.

1616
01:14:35,492 --> 01:14:37,929
It's the people that are
best able to deal with that

1617
01:14:38,103 --> 01:14:39,234
are local law enforcement.

1618
01:14:39,408 --> 01:14:42,411
I mean, we did
it at Waco in 1993.

1619
01:14:42,586 --> 01:14:45,458
My division gave up one VTR

1620
01:14:45,632 --> 01:14:48,461
to sort of puncture this thing.

1621
01:14:48,635 --> 01:14:52,291
And it's all over
the internet 25 years later

1622
01:14:52,465 --> 01:14:54,467
that the 1st Cavalry Division

1623
01:14:54,641 --> 01:14:57,296
killed all these
people because of a fire.

1624
01:14:57,470 --> 01:15:00,168
If you can keep
the military out of it,

1625
01:15:00,342 --> 01:15:01,779
it's much better.

1626
01:15:05,652 --> 01:15:07,001
Mr. President,

1627
01:15:07,175 --> 01:15:10,004
they're asking you to
take more responsibility,

1628
01:15:10,178 --> 01:15:12,746
is what this issue is. In
my view, you shouldn't do that.

1629
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:14,531
You should force the governor

1630
01:15:14,705 --> 01:15:16,315
to do the duty,
- To do...

1631
01:15:16,489 --> 01:15:18,447
to do her job.
- Absolutely.

1632
01:15:18,622 --> 01:15:20,188
There's no
reason for you to become

1633
01:15:20,362 --> 01:15:22,582
personally
the officer in charge.

1634
01:15:22,756 --> 01:15:24,541
The, the only reason
you don't do Insurrection Act

1635
01:15:26,499 --> 01:15:27,587
is that the president
becomes responsible.

1636
01:15:27,761 --> 01:15:28,936
- Right.
- Right.

1637
01:15:29,110 --> 01:15:30,547
That's what
presidents normally,

1638
01:15:30,721 --> 01:15:33,854
good presidents normally
do, they take responsibility.

1639
01:15:34,028 --> 01:15:35,203
And the way you do
that, and the way you do that

1640
01:15:35,377 --> 01:15:37,684
is that you go out to
the governors and you say,

1641
01:15:37,858 --> 01:15:39,686
"I am strongly considering

1642
01:15:39,860 --> 01:15:41,906
Invocation of
the Insurrection Act.

1643
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:44,865
If any governor
doesn't wish me to do that,

1644
01:15:45,039 --> 01:15:46,127
please let me know because

1645
01:15:46,301 --> 01:15:47,825
that's now under
positive consideration."

1646
01:15:47,999 --> 01:15:50,044
Right.

1647
01:15:50,218 --> 01:15:51,916
Taking responsibility for
a president is not a bad thing.

1648
01:15:52,090 --> 01:15:53,918
Can I play devil's
advocate for a second?

1649
01:15:54,092 --> 01:15:55,484
You know, when
we think Insurrection Act,

1650
01:15:55,659 --> 01:15:57,399
we think about
deploying paratroopers.

1651
01:15:57,574 --> 01:15:59,227
That's a bunch of
hammers looking for nails.

1652
01:15:59,401 --> 01:16:01,360
What if
you have a President Trump

1653
01:16:01,534 --> 01:16:04,929
who's considering
invoking the Insurrection Act,

1654
01:16:05,103 --> 01:16:07,018
who has the authority to do it,

1655
01:16:07,192 --> 01:16:09,368
to use federal
troops to enforce law.

1656
01:16:09,542 --> 01:16:11,544
But in this case, right,
it's flipped the other way.

1657
01:16:11,718 --> 01:16:12,806
So that's...
- We're advising this guy.

1658
01:16:12,980 --> 01:16:14,591
This ain't Trump.

1659
01:16:14,765 --> 01:16:15,374
I know, but you, I'm
just...

1660
01:16:15,548 --> 01:16:16,984
That's three states requesting

1661
01:16:17,158 --> 01:16:18,638
federalization
of the, of the guard.

1662
01:16:18,812 --> 01:16:20,684
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 states.

1663
01:16:20,858 --> 01:16:22,337
I mean think
about this scenario.

1664
01:16:22,511 --> 01:16:23,991
The president of the
United States has five governors

1665
01:16:24,165 --> 01:16:26,254
requesting federalization.
That's a pretty strong push

1666
01:16:26,428 --> 01:16:31,129
towards the Insurrection Act.

1667
01:16:31,782 --> 01:16:34,001
We have multiple
governors now publicly saying

1668
01:16:34,175 --> 01:16:35,655
they're asking
for federal support.

1669
01:16:35,829 --> 01:16:38,440
We need to be able to
explain to the American public

1670
01:16:38,615 --> 01:16:40,529
why we're not using
the Insurrection Act.

1671
01:16:40,704 --> 01:16:42,575
Michigan,
Arizona, North Carolina,

1672
01:16:42,749 --> 01:16:45,186
Florida and Pennsylvania have
requested the federalization

1673
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:47,667
of the troops, but the two
who have not are Oklahoma,

1674
01:16:47,841 --> 01:16:50,061
as we suspected, and Colorado.

1675
01:16:50,235 --> 01:16:52,237
The question is,
what's driving that?

1676
01:16:52,411 --> 01:16:54,413
I mean because
there's gotta be a reason.

1677
01:16:54,587 --> 01:16:57,285
And saying, "Just
because," is not a good reason

1678
01:16:57,459 --> 01:16:59,026
to bring them on Title 10.

1679
01:16:59,200 --> 01:17:00,332
You're taking 'em
out of their law enforcement.

1680
01:17:00,506 --> 01:17:02,290
- They requested...
- This is what I'm saying.

1681
01:17:02,464 --> 01:17:04,031
So the essence of
being a federal government

1682
01:17:04,205 --> 01:17:05,642
and not a national government,

1683
01:17:05,816 --> 01:17:07,556
is these governors
are asking you to do this.

1684
01:17:07,731 --> 01:17:09,254
I'm going to governors saying,

1685
01:17:09,428 --> 01:17:10,734
"What do you need from
your federal government?"

1686
01:17:10,908 --> 01:17:12,387
And they are
telling me what they need.

1687
01:17:12,561 --> 01:17:14,041
Except for two of them.

1688
01:17:14,215 --> 01:17:16,000
I don't know how to
go back to the governor

1689
01:17:16,174 --> 01:17:18,655
as the Commander in
Chief of the National Guard.

1690
01:17:18,829 --> 01:17:20,439
And this is gonna
be a defining moment

1691
01:17:20,613 --> 01:17:22,746
of your presidency.

1692
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:25,096
Here's what's missing in this.

1693
01:17:25,270 --> 01:17:29,317
We have to understand why
they want to give command and

1694
01:17:29,491 --> 01:17:30,971
control to the president.
- Yeah, we do.

1695
01:17:31,145 --> 01:17:32,886
The Insurrection Act
is a trap.

1696
01:17:33,060 --> 01:17:34,279
We need to have
a further conversation.

1697
01:17:34,453 --> 01:17:36,324
It's a defining
moment in their governorship.

1698
01:17:36,498 --> 01:17:37,761
- Mr. President,
- We have what?

1699
01:17:37,935 --> 01:17:39,501
your audience is
the American public.

1700
01:17:39,676 --> 01:17:40,894
And they want to know

1701
01:17:41,068 --> 01:17:43,288
that Congress is
coming back to certify.

1702
01:17:43,462 --> 01:17:45,507
So we do have to
come into agreement here,

1703
01:17:45,682 --> 01:17:47,379
'cause time is moving on.

1704
01:17:47,553 --> 01:17:50,077
You have to decide which way
you are gonna want to move.

1705
01:17:56,170 --> 01:17:58,259
Mr. President,
10 minutes remaining.

1706
01:17:58,433 --> 01:18:00,827
The president is sweating.

1707
01:18:01,001 --> 01:18:03,090
He's gonna have
to make a decision.

1708
01:18:03,264 --> 01:18:04,875
Mr. President, are you
invoking the Insurrection Act

1709
01:18:05,049 --> 01:18:06,528
or Federalizing National Guard?

1710
01:18:06,703 --> 01:18:08,095
Neither has happened
yet.

1711
01:18:08,269 --> 01:18:09,444
I'm not asking you.
I'm asking the president.

1712
01:18:09,618 --> 01:18:12,621
Ere you doing
either?

1713
01:18:22,022 --> 01:18:23,197
- Mr. President?
- Mr. President.

1714
01:18:23,371 --> 01:18:24,459
- Mr. President.
- Mr. President.

1715
01:18:24,633 --> 01:18:25,547
- Mr. President.
- Mr. President.

1716
01:18:25,722 --> 01:18:26,984
- Mr. President.
- Mr. President.

1717
01:18:27,158 --> 01:18:28,725
Put your fucking
cards on the table.

1718
01:18:28,899 --> 01:18:29,943
- Mr. President.
- Mr. President.

1719
01:18:30,117 --> 01:18:30,596
- Mr. President.
- Mr. President.

1720
01:18:30,770 --> 01:18:31,205
No.

1721
01:18:37,559 --> 01:18:39,170
That's exactly what
they should be doing.

1722
01:18:39,344 --> 01:18:42,216
Okay, good, good, good, good.

1723
01:18:42,390 --> 01:18:45,350
There's 9,000
officers in Metropolitan police.

1724
01:18:45,524 --> 01:18:47,700
We can't make the mistake of
not having the guard deployed,

1725
01:18:47,874 --> 01:18:50,616
but having people
wear military uniforms

1726
01:18:50,790 --> 01:18:52,400
is going to make
- Absolutely.

1727
01:18:52,574 --> 01:18:53,488
a lot of people think
that we are overreacting.

1728
01:18:53,662 --> 01:18:55,795
We need to have
the civilian authority

1729
01:18:55,969 --> 01:18:57,928
and law enforcement
really in the lead on this

1730
01:18:58,102 --> 01:18:59,930
to the greatest extent possible,

1731
01:19:00,104 --> 01:19:02,541
because they want
to bait us into using

1732
01:19:02,715 --> 01:19:03,847
lethal force in response.
- Yeah.

1733
01:19:09,417 --> 01:19:11,593
Mr. President,
current situation...

1734
01:19:11,768 --> 01:19:15,249
We believe we have a handle
on containing the protestors.

1735
01:19:15,423 --> 01:19:17,556
Capitol is secured.

1736
01:19:17,730 --> 01:19:20,211
The critical infrastructure
from on the eastern seaboard,

1737
01:19:20,385 --> 01:19:22,691
including all
the ingress and egress points

1738
01:19:22,866 --> 01:19:24,389
into the national Capitol region

1739
01:19:24,563 --> 01:19:26,043
is secured.
- Right.

1740
01:19:26,217 --> 01:19:28,262
Sir, last
comment from my perspective.

1741
01:19:28,436 --> 01:19:30,917
We're standing by. We've
increased the alert posture.

1742
01:19:31,091 --> 01:19:33,006
Right now, we're
available.

1743
01:19:33,180 --> 01:19:35,617
And the forces have
an increased readiness posture,

1744
01:19:35,792 --> 01:19:38,142
obviously to ensure that we have
continuity of government

1745
01:19:38,316 --> 01:19:39,839
and continuity of operation.

1746
01:19:40,013 --> 01:19:42,799
Thanks General. Let's
get this thing certified.

1747
01:19:44,496 --> 01:19:45,714
Say that members of Congress

1748
01:19:45,889 --> 01:19:48,630
are returning to...
- The chambers.

1749
01:19:48,805 --> 01:19:50,981
Certification,

1750
01:19:51,155 --> 01:19:55,681
certification process
to resume within the hour.

1751
01:19:55,942 --> 01:19:56,290
There you go.

1752
01:19:59,467 --> 01:20:00,381
Okay.

1753
01:20:06,692 --> 01:20:09,477
Welcome back everyone
to our breaking news coverage.

1754
01:20:09,651 --> 01:20:11,305
INN has just learned
that the National Guard

1755
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:13,090
and local law enforcement

1756
01:20:13,264 --> 01:20:15,701
have officially
secured the US Capitol,

1757
01:20:15,875 --> 01:20:18,965
and Congress is reconvening
to certify the electoral votes

1758
01:20:19,139 --> 01:20:21,228
for President-elect,
John Hotham.

1759
01:20:21,402 --> 01:20:24,014
Master Speaker,
the Vice President,

1760
01:20:24,188 --> 01:20:28,453
and the United States Senate.

1761
01:20:32,587 --> 01:20:34,415
In Phoenix, Arizona,
the local law enforcement,

1762
01:20:34,589 --> 01:20:36,461
and the Arizona National Guard

1763
01:20:36,635 --> 01:20:38,855
operating under
the governor's direction,

1764
01:20:39,029 --> 01:20:40,813
are praising Hotham's decision

1765
01:20:40,987 --> 01:20:44,556
not to send in federal troops
and escalate the situation,

1766
01:20:44,730 --> 01:20:47,646
saying they are making
progress in the negotiations

1767
01:20:47,820 --> 01:20:49,561
to release the hostages.

1768
01:20:49,735 --> 01:20:52,085
The crisis has further exposed

1769
01:20:52,259 --> 01:20:56,089
the deep divisions in American
society and the US military.

1770
01:20:56,263 --> 01:20:58,135
And the burden
will now fall on Hotham

1771
01:20:58,309 --> 01:21:01,138
to heal a fractured nation.

1772
01:21:01,312 --> 01:21:03,140
We're getting word that the
President is about to address

1773
01:21:03,314 --> 01:21:06,230
the nation live
regarding today's events.

1774
01:21:06,404 --> 01:21:07,579
Mr. President,
you ready for the briefing?

1775
01:21:07,753 --> 01:21:08,972
Mr. President, I can tell you,

1776
01:21:09,146 --> 01:21:10,538
you're doing
the exact right thing

1777
01:21:10,712 --> 01:21:13,280
by trying to keep the military
out of this politics.

1778
01:21:13,454 --> 01:21:14,760
Mr. President,
are you comfortable

1779
01:21:14,934 --> 01:21:16,631
with the same four
people being behind you?

1780
01:21:16,805 --> 01:21:20,200
- Uhhh... Sure.
- Okay, let's go.

1781
01:21:20,374 --> 01:21:22,289
Mr. President, at,
at the end of the day,

1782
01:21:22,463 --> 01:21:23,987
I think you have to think about,

1783
01:21:24,161 --> 01:21:26,337
how do we convince
the American public

1784
01:21:26,511 --> 01:21:27,991
that we still have a democracy?

1785
01:21:28,165 --> 01:21:28,905
Yeah.

1786
01:21:29,079 --> 01:21:30,819
And Mr. President,

1787
01:21:30,994 --> 01:21:33,344
talk about the constitution
has served us well.

1788
01:21:33,518 --> 01:21:35,215
Not just people
condemned violence,

1789
01:21:35,389 --> 01:21:37,609
but people support
a constitution that has
served us well

1790
01:21:37,783 --> 01:21:42,048
for 250 years and it's, it's
a living, breathing documented

1791
01:21:42,222 --> 01:21:44,355
and is still strong
today as it was yesterday.

1792
01:21:44,529 --> 01:21:45,878
That's a great way to end it.

1793
01:21:46,052 --> 01:21:47,749
Closing argument.

1794
01:21:47,924 --> 01:21:49,708
Good lawyer, right?

1795
01:21:49,882 --> 01:21:50,970
Now they're
walking. They're walking.

1796
01:21:53,842 --> 01:21:57,281
Ladies and gentlemen, the
President of the United States.

1797
01:21:57,455 --> 01:21:58,630
Good afternoon.

1798
01:21:58,804 --> 01:22:00,588
Thank you for being
here throughout what has been

1799
01:22:00,762 --> 01:22:03,852
a difficult and
challenging day for all of us.

1800
01:22:04,027 --> 01:22:06,986
The peaceful transfer of power

1801
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:09,858
is at the core of
who we are as a nation,

1802
01:22:10,033 --> 01:22:11,991
and we will not allow
a violent group of protestors

1803
01:22:12,165 --> 01:22:13,906
to interrupt Congress

1804
01:22:14,080 --> 01:22:16,735
from fulfilling
their constitutional duty.

1805
01:22:16,909 --> 01:22:18,606
Even beyond what's happening

1806
01:22:18,780 --> 01:22:22,784
in the District of Columbia,
we continue to make sure

1807
01:22:22,959 --> 01:22:26,266
that our federal
government is running.

1808
01:22:26,440 --> 01:22:28,965
Our message to
Lieutenant General King,

1809
01:22:29,139 --> 01:22:30,792
to Robert Strickland,

1810
01:22:30,967 --> 01:22:33,621
to Roger Simms and members
of the Order of Columbus,

1811
01:22:33,795 --> 01:22:37,103
and anyone
intent on using violence,

1812
01:22:37,277 --> 01:22:41,107
to address election grievances,
we have a system of courts,

1813
01:22:41,281 --> 01:22:44,589
where these questions
can and should be addressed.

1814
01:22:45,764 --> 01:22:48,723
Armed mobs,
they will face the force of law.

1815
01:22:50,987 --> 01:22:54,512
We will protect the
peaceful transition of power

1816
01:22:54,686 --> 01:22:58,995
and we will protect
and uphold the rule of law.

1817
01:22:59,169 --> 01:23:02,520
As you have seen in Arizona,
there's a hostage situation.

1818
01:23:03,521 --> 01:23:05,523
And as the President
of the United States,

1819
01:23:05,697 --> 01:23:07,655
but also as a father,

1820
01:23:07,829 --> 01:23:11,181
I pray for those family
members and those hostages.

1821
01:23:11,355 --> 01:23:14,662
Look, at times,
we may seem divided.

1822
01:23:14,836 --> 01:23:16,882
Elections do that,
Thanksgiving dinners do that.

1823
01:23:18,449 --> 01:23:20,625
But we are actually united

1824
01:23:20,799 --> 01:23:22,366
in what the promise
of this nation is.

1825
01:23:24,803 --> 01:23:26,587
And the promise of this nation,

1826
01:23:27,588 --> 01:23:30,809
it's built on those
essential building blocks.

1827
01:23:30,983 --> 01:23:34,334
We're all treated
equally, we have opportunities,

1828
01:23:34,508 --> 01:23:37,772
and we have stability
in representative democracy.

1829
01:23:37,946 --> 01:23:39,948
That's the American
promise

1830
01:23:40,123 --> 01:23:42,995
and what this
country is based upon.

1831
01:23:43,169 --> 01:23:47,043
What we are doing is working
with the states to ascertain

1832
01:23:47,217 --> 01:23:49,088
what specifically they need
from the federal government,

1833
01:23:51,395 --> 01:23:52,309
and we'll work to provide that.

1834
01:23:56,052 --> 01:23:58,054
This is a 250
plus year experiment

1835
01:24:00,143 --> 01:24:01,187
called, "Representative
democracy."

1836
01:24:03,755 --> 01:24:06,236
And it's challenged at times.

1837
01:24:06,410 --> 01:24:09,891
Today, it wasn't the first
time it was challenged.

1838
01:24:10,979 --> 01:24:14,200
January 6th, 2021 wasn't the
first time it was challenged.

1839
01:24:16,463 --> 01:24:19,814
The Civil War
was even necessarily

1840
01:24:19,988 --> 01:24:22,121
the first time
that it's challenged.

1841
01:24:22,295 --> 01:24:25,472
And the Patriots aren't
somebody posting on social media

1842
01:24:25,646 --> 01:24:27,300
talking about an insurrection.

1843
01:24:28,388 --> 01:24:31,043
The Patriots are
the good people of this country

1844
01:24:31,217 --> 01:24:35,308
that choose to
have trust in the system.

1845
01:24:35,482 --> 01:24:37,267
So the American
people, thank you.

1846
01:24:38,268 --> 01:24:41,706
Thank you for what has
been indeed a challenging day.

1847
01:24:41,880 --> 01:24:45,101
And this challenge is
not over by any measure.

1848
01:24:45,275 --> 01:24:49,061
Remember what brings us
together, not what divides us.

1849
01:24:49,235 --> 01:24:52,760
And may God
bless you, your family,

1850
01:24:52,934 --> 01:24:54,022
and these
United States of America.

1851
01:25:02,944 --> 01:25:04,120
That was fuckin'
awesome.

1852
01:25:04,294 --> 01:25:06,948
Did we do that?
- Well, I dunno about that.

1853
01:25:07,123 --> 01:25:10,300
Trust me. And I don't
often use words like awesome.

1854
01:25:14,217 --> 01:25:15,957
Mr. President,
that was very beautiful

1855
01:25:16,132 --> 01:25:20,440
and I wish it was
real.

1856
01:25:20,614 --> 01:25:22,007
Not the scenario.
- Not the day.

1857
01:25:22,181 --> 01:25:22,921
- Yeah.
- Not the day.

1858
01:25:23,095 --> 01:25:24,575
Not the day, not the scenario.

1859
01:25:24,749 --> 01:25:26,838
Just the leadership.
- Okay, everyone,

1860
01:25:27,012 --> 01:25:28,274
thank you very much.

1861
01:25:28,448 --> 01:25:29,623
What we're gonna
do, we're gonna sit down.

1862
01:25:29,797 --> 01:25:31,669
We're gonna close the
end of this exercise.

1863
01:25:31,843 --> 01:25:33,323
Quiet everybody,

1864
01:25:33,497 --> 01:25:35,325
nice and quiet in
the situation room please.

1865
01:26:04,876 --> 01:26:07,487
Okay, everybody, big cheese.

1866
01:26:07,661 --> 01:26:09,185
Ready on 3.

1867
01:26:09,359 --> 01:26:10,621
1, 2, 3.

1868
01:26:11,665 --> 01:26:14,538
One more. 1, 2, 3.

1869
01:26:14,712 --> 01:26:15,234
Thank you very much.

1870
01:26:17,628 --> 01:26:19,195
The big question
in the room is this,

1871
01:26:19,369 --> 01:26:22,023
insider threats, it's a reality.

1872
01:26:22,198 --> 01:26:25,679
In this scenario
it was what, 6, 7% of the force.

1873
01:26:25,853 --> 01:26:28,116
That's probably representative
across the country.

1874
01:26:28,291 --> 01:26:29,944
So that means
you have insider threats.

1875
01:26:30,118 --> 01:26:32,512
What are we doing
to, to screen those out?

1876
01:26:32,686 --> 01:26:34,775
The military is one
of the last institutions

1877
01:26:34,949 --> 01:26:38,431
in our society that has
been and should be apolitical,

1878
01:26:38,605 --> 01:26:41,173
in the sense that it is
supposed to be a space where

1879
01:26:41,347 --> 01:26:42,783
everybody,
you know, regardless of

1880
01:26:42,957 --> 01:26:45,003
their political
backgrounds in private,

1881
01:26:45,177 --> 01:26:46,613
will come together
to achieve a mission

1882
01:26:46,787 --> 01:26:48,572
towards a common cause.

1883
01:26:48,746 --> 01:26:53,272
That to me, is what
our society could and should be.

1884
01:26:53,446 --> 01:26:55,840
So the only pushback
on that I'd give you is, yeah,

1885
01:26:56,014 --> 01:26:58,973
you might have a few
rogue military officers.

1886
01:26:59,147 --> 01:27:00,671
The vast majority
of military officers

1887
01:27:00,845 --> 01:27:02,107
are exactly where we were.

1888
01:27:02,281 --> 01:27:03,674
I think, you know,

1889
01:27:03,848 --> 01:27:05,937
the effective
training of the armed forces

1890
01:27:06,111 --> 01:27:10,158
is just a really powerful
preventive to the insider stuff.

1891
01:27:10,333 --> 01:27:13,031
I would worry about specialists,

1892
01:27:13,205 --> 01:27:16,252
like people who have control
of sensitive information,

1893
01:27:16,426 --> 01:27:18,341
or nuclear weapons
or something like this

1894
01:27:18,515 --> 01:27:20,691
who could,
you know, be seditious.

1895
01:27:20,865 --> 01:27:23,955
But for the average
guy, we can handle that.

1896
01:27:24,129 --> 01:27:27,350
I would slightly disagree.
I would say, it is a problem.

1897
01:27:27,524 --> 01:27:30,222
So what is
going to be the process

1898
01:27:30,396 --> 01:27:33,138
for us to be able to screen,
monitor, and deal with it?

1899
01:27:36,228 --> 01:27:42,103
The veteran brand has been
damaged in the United States.

1900
01:27:42,278 --> 01:27:45,411
A lot of people now
when they think of veterans,

1901
01:27:45,585 --> 01:27:48,458
they think of
violent insurrectionists.

1902
01:27:58,772 --> 01:28:01,384
Well, there's
a growing group of veterans

1903
01:28:01,558 --> 01:28:05,213
working with nonprofits
and political action committees.

1904
01:28:05,388 --> 01:28:07,259
And we are here for the people

1905
01:28:07,433 --> 01:28:11,481
who want to be
prepared to defend democracy

1906
01:28:11,655 --> 01:28:14,919
from all possible
threats.

1907
01:28:15,093 --> 01:28:19,271
We have a choice. We can
either be afraid and do nothing,

1908
01:28:19,445 --> 01:28:22,405
or we can continue
our service to our country.

1909
01:28:22,579 --> 01:28:24,972
I'm struggling to
contain myself right now

1910
01:28:25,146 --> 01:28:29,368
because I am
frustrated with the belief that,

1911
01:28:29,542 --> 01:28:32,328
that we're addressing
the problem of insider threats.

1912
01:28:32,502 --> 01:28:35,461
What folks of higher
rank are insulated from is

1913
01:28:35,635 --> 01:28:38,595
when a Neo-Nazi
joins the Marine Corps,

1914
01:28:38,769 --> 01:28:40,553
doesn't have to
be Special Forces,

1915
01:28:40,727 --> 01:28:43,426
doesn't have to be
a Ranger, but if that ideology

1916
01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:47,038
is to accelerate the destruction
of the United States,

1917
01:28:48,474 --> 01:28:50,041
they're determined.

1918
01:28:50,215 --> 01:28:54,088
And if, and if one
slips through, which many have,

1919
01:28:54,262 --> 01:28:58,789
there's ample opportunity
for them to do serious damage.

1920
01:28:58,963 --> 01:29:03,359
And this is so pervasive
through the force right now.

1921
01:29:03,533 --> 01:29:06,057
It's true. I'm worried,

1922
01:29:06,231 --> 01:29:10,148
but I have a lot of confidence
in the leadership we have.

1923
01:29:11,192 --> 01:29:13,543
We've always been
able to unite the country

1924
01:29:13,717 --> 01:29:15,414
when the threat is external.

1925
01:29:15,588 --> 01:29:17,329
The question that I have is,

1926
01:29:17,503 --> 01:29:21,289
can we have
that same level of cohesive

1927
01:29:21,464 --> 01:29:25,424
American commitment to
this country and our democracy

1928
01:29:25,598 --> 01:29:26,991
when the threat is internal?

1929
01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:31,952
On January 6th, I was weeping.

1930
01:29:32,126 --> 01:29:36,522
Just watching it unfold
and feeling all of the stress

1931
01:29:36,696 --> 01:29:38,959
and pressure. Yeah,
I just started crying.

1932
01:29:39,133 --> 01:29:42,136
I mean, I was like crying for

1933
01:29:42,310 --> 01:29:44,051
my friends
who were in the building

1934
01:29:44,225 --> 01:29:47,315
and for our country
and what it meant.

1935
01:29:49,187 --> 01:29:52,146
So yeah, I wanna
do everything possible

1936
01:29:52,320 --> 01:29:53,496
to make sure
that doesn't happen again.