national guard including the joint task force d.c. mr. brooks now works at a company that seeks to protect a national economic security from undue foreign influence for generally six, 2020 what mr. brooks was advisor to major william walker advised on all illicit matters. our next witnesses colonel earl matthews decorated with long accomplished career in government and private sector but colonel matthew served deputy assistant to the president senior director for the defense of policy and strategy on the national security council stand. he also served army acting general counsel and principal deputy general counsel as well as the deputy legal counsel to the charm of the joint chiefs of staff. generate six, 2021 colonel mathis was a chief legal advisor to major general william walker and was with him all day. our next witness brigadier general aaron dean and cruel general dean served in operation desert storm in a combat tour in iraq. he also served d.c. national guard for over 35 years. exemplifying what it means to be a capitol guardsman.

and an advocate for the national guard. aren't higher reserve component makes an indispensable contribution to our national security. throughout our nation's history and certainly in the decade since 9/11, we've depended on our citizens, soldiers and airmen to help defend us, our allies and interests. at home and abroad, the national guard service with courage, discipline and skill and distinction. i'm proud to be their chairman. the chairman of the total joint force, active and reserve, civilian and a family coming and i take seriously my responsibility to give voice to their achievements and to their needs. i ensure their voice, including the voice of the chief of the national guard bureau is heard. this said, i joined the secretary of defense and the service chiefs and counseling against making the chief of the national guard a statutory member of the joint chiefs of staff. there is no compelling military need to support this historic change. two primary concerns lead me to this conclusion, representation and accountabili

the national guard is no differentt. d personnel have fought i will rock in afghanistan, aided countless civilians to natural disasters and providing essential health care andal support to fight the current covid pandemic. yet, they suffer from a convoluted understaffed system of sexual assault and sexual harassment prevention program, complex and cumbersome reporting process and lack of justice. the numbers are staggering yet the data is lacking according to the dod 2019 annual report on sexual assault in thehe militar, the number of reported sexual assault in the guard jumped wide from 173 in 2009 to 607 in 2019. more than a three 100% increase. beyond that, little data exists. i've been advocating for progress for more than ten years, the numbers don't tell even a fraction of the story. the individual stories of guard personnel caught in a web of confusingca bureaucracy are harrowing. stories like the west virginia army national guard officer then lieutenant teresa james was raped in her hotel room by superior officer,

second, the army national guard responds rapidly. the past dozen years of war have demonstrated that even the largest guard formations can be deployed well within the timelines required by combatant commanders. the experience of deploying repeatedly over the past decade has honed this training regiment and significantly reduced postmobilization training time. the army force generation cycle provides a rotating pool of about 55-60,000 army guardsmen in their ready cycle available for employment each year. most companies and company-size units complete their postmobilization training in approximately 30 days. brigade combat teams take a little longer, averaging 50-80 days of training. and, again, it all depends. the active army takes about that long as well depending on what level you go into that training regiment. if you go in at platoon, the it takes a little longer. if you go in at company, it doesn't take quite as long. and while predictability of scheduled deployments is preferable for soldiers, families and civilian m employers,

national guard to arrive at the capitol. the 113th awaiting capitol guardians have a proud history of protecting our nations capitol and serve our nation's leadership. nations leadership. nevertheless new jersey state police for delete one or 50 miles away it responded to the capitol before the d.c. national guard. additionally the pentagon knew there was a threat to governmental operations caused by 3:30 7:00 p.m. the pentagon send its own security forces to guard the homes of defense leaders. at 3:30 7:00 p.m. note deceit national guard forces were on the way for the capitol. throughout my subcommittee's extensive investigation into the events of generate sixth and the select committee on january 6, we have uncovered concerning and inconsistencies regarding mobilization of the d.c. national guard. phone records, first-hand accounts, sworn testimony after action reports we have gathered there appears to have been a significant delay that the the departmentof defense and dee national guard or communicating the order of deploy

since september 11th, the men and women of the national guard have answered the nation's call to deployover, get this, 787,000 times. and as a result, today's guard is battle tested, agile, flexible, with combat experience and a broad range of skills, gain on the battlefield and civilian life. the national guard is a critical component of our total force bringing to bear the experiences of citizen wars -- warriors wherever needed and we've got them, today our nation faces and the guard is helping us to meet no fewer than five major immediate and evolving challenges. first countering russia personal swri in europe. historical king in china pacific. china is rising, which is fine but behaving aggressively, which is not. strengthening our deterring and defense forces to north korea's missile and provocations, checking iranian aggression and malign influence in the golf and confronting terrorism including accelerating the certain defeat of isil and its parent tumor in syria and wherever it metastizies. it perfectly shows the opposite of that, we must be flexible and agile and preparing for

in the early 1990s which the national guard's in a number of physicians in the united states and around the world. sometimes in more of a guarded capacity or part-time capacity. sometimes full-time and for the last eight years has been at the leadership of the national guard here in washington. were really privileged to have him today be prepared for his very well earned retirement and getting back to the rotc great country into the air force in the graduation from the program and it was 1981 so he's been serving his country long and very well despite his youthful appearance, he has been it at it quite a while. we wish him well. and we look forward to rich conversation today at the end of which we will be able to handle some of your questions if you wish to these events at the d brookings .edu protect first were going to hear from him with opening thoughts on the state-of-the-art. and also on its admirable and much appreciated help in responding to the covid-19 crisis in the united states. will not be our only topic but also an opportunity to think broadly in the nation. with the return

all members of the guard are members of oath state and national guard and the federal national guard of the united states. the army and air national national guard of the united states are two of the six reserve components of the department of defense. the army-navy air force and marine corps reserves or the other for reserve components. members of the national guard conserved in three distinct statuses each of which has differing responsibilities and authorities. first, national guard members may serve in what is known as state active duty. state law dictates when guard members assumed the status. typical state active duty missions include first responder responsibilities after a natural disaster. the state pays for and the governor of that state commands the national guard when it is on the state active duty. the department of defense placed no direct role in that status. second, national guard members may be ordered to duty under title xxxii of the united states code which i will call title xxxii. when the card performs a title xxx to duty it is performing federally funded military

africa command in the national guard. a national group is senators propose a gun regulation bill they testify at the hearing committee. >> at a senate confirmation hearing, the nominee of the u.s. military africa command they discuss libya's civil war and u.s. strategy in the region. committee members also question the national guard bureau chief nominee, senator john mccain chairs the armed service committee, this is one hour, 15 minutes. >> good morning senate the armed service committee meets this money to consider the nominations of lieutenant general waldhauser to be commander of u.s. africa command and lieutenant general joseph ling gal to be chief of the national guard bureau. i welcome both of our nominees and thank them for their continued willingness to serve our nation. general waldhauser, africa has reemerged as an active front in the global war on terror with isil, al qaeda, boko haram, and al shabab. to commanding territory and launching successful attacks are at the and threatening her interest in those of o

and to have over 2000 national guard personnel deployed. so what about that capacity? and then to have those different nations and then those observations to enforce the treaty between israel and in afghanistan and in kuwait and iraq to send a helicopter company very shortly and in a year and a half with those apaches and every year we continue. we have one in every region of the world supporting america. >> chief, you talk about your duties in aviation support. and to clear vegetation what else are they involved in? >> we want to make sure the stories are not accurate. >> repairing infrastructure with those improvements that are down there. so they are doing different support roles working in dispatch centers where we have the greatest personnel. >> what about those assigned to you are accurately involved ? >> the vast majority had a have a percentage at the top of my head but those two areas right now that consumed the largest rd aviation piece and the surveillance. >> and to have no contact with any of the families. >> and very quickly with my last minute that i have

national guard remains at the forefront of building enduring partnerships with local, state, federal,globe federal, global partners. although we are proud of our heritage and our past and more excited about her future. the guards evolution is it operational force of the chapter in a nation scaredy at home and abroad that is written through the incredible skill and devotion of americans. the development are most in port and asset our people, will be a foremost task. if confirmed, i will strive to grow and train leaders who innovate and motivate force. we must ensure that ethical behavior goes from the top down, act to demoralize readiness and kings such as sexual assault and discriminate can never be tolerated. in short time comes for the national guard will strive to be ready and be the most diverse and inclusive force that we can be. thank you again for allowing me to be here today. i would look for to working with congress, the department of defense, the interagency of the governors, the generals, governors, the generals, and all stakeholders to ensure that we were maintained the mo

in the last three years alone the national guard has rescued or saved 18,826 individuals. in the midst of all those events our formation met every one of our overseas deployments, this included the nation's final days in afghanistan where national guardsmen helped at the kabul airport, activated dotage evacuated refugees and assisting with operation allies refuge. one of our other missions is the joint multinational training group ukraine. in concert with california's 30 year state partnership with ukraine our guardsmen helped establish a training center in ukraine after russia's first invasion in 2014. focused on combat arms and lessons learned, national guard trainers were some of the last to leave ukraine before russia's unprovoked invasion. a few months after the war began we reestablished our training group and been training our partners every single day since then. today, every combatant commander leverages our state partnership program which was recently mentioned, now includes 100 nations around the globe. always ready always there is not just our motto, it's a prom

of arms to request assistance of the national guard and mr. irving stated he was concerned about the guard being deployed. >> that is correct. on the fourth, it wasn't a phone call, it was an in person visit to his office where i requested that national guard. >> could you clarify, when you use the turn, maybe you could talk about this, the optics of the national guard, could you elaborate on what you meant by that? ... he had received an offer from the national guard and when we include mister steiger we discussed a specific issue as to whether the intelligence warranted the proof and the answer was number then mister steiner, his recommendation was to have been on standby and my recollection was mister son was satisfied with that and he believed the following day he was satisfied and i'd heard no concern anytime thereafter >> were you concerned and his use of the word optics, what it would look like to have the guards for mister son s testified was a concern on january 4. there was a reluctance because of the appearance. was there something,

in the midst of these headline grabbing events the national guard, national disasters whether it is floods in michigan, wildfires in kansas, tornadoes in tennessee to name a few and it has been a crazy year and it is early july. if you look at the totality of the effort of the national guard including federal missions more than 120,000 members of the national guard were mobilized, 45,000 more doing birx operations in every district in territory in the district of columbia, 40,000 more were doing operations in support of civil disturbance operations in 33 states. all across the country the national guard was delivering personal protective equipment and in some cases manufacturing personal protective equipment. food banks and test centers protect protesters first amendment rights that protest peacefully. sharing best practices as we learn how to do these things and did this difficult time it is a time of great flexibility and innovation and showcasing capabilities of the national guard. we are doing these while we sustain federal commitments to combatant command around the world as part of t

>> thank you for the question and thank you, sir for your service in the national guard as well. women look at the army guard in particular, last year we were able to start realigning the eight divisions of the national guard with a supportive brigades, brigade combat teams, combat aviation brigade tenth maneuver enhancement brigade. we're trying to provide our nation not only ten active duty army divisions but also ate national guard divisions. that's where this specific case comes into play. when you look at it the station level as so we noted we need to modernize affirmations and we work very closely to make sure whatever the army modernizes we have the same equipment in the national guard so we're an operable on the battlefield. when we look what the army under long-term work with that program, we want to be part of that to make sure we look, act and operate the same. >> mr. rogers, i don't know if are having a technical issue. you had about 20 seconds left. it looks like we're having a technical difficulty, and if your staff gets hold of our staff we will add that on to your

to thank you for the opportunity to highlight your national guard airmen. speak more than 20 farm national men and women from all 50 states three territories and the district of columbia are here in support of the lead federal agency for the presidential inauguration. i visit with these men and women every night and they understand the importance of this mission. they also have proven, prepared, proud to their part to ensure peaceful and safe inauguration for our 46 commander-in-chief. they are providing security, communications, logistics and coordination support to local and federal law enforcement and if met every request promptly and professionally. looking across the entire national guard we have 91000 on duty today to include 22000 supporting covid-19, 16000 deployed overseas, and over 6000 protecting key infrastructure and capitol buildings in 30 of our states. although 90 what is a lot, 91000 it's less than 20% of your national guard. so we have additional capability if and when needed. upon completion of the inauguration, we will continue to suppor

national guard dated january 5th ruling those national guard restrictions. former house sergeant of arms, paul irving, concurrent resolution expressing support for law enforcement officers that explicitly have united states capital police, a copy of amendment offered in the rules committee by ranking member to the capital police, who protected the capital on january 6. a copy of the vote tally and amendment which was to needed 8-3 vote all republicans voting against, a tweet by representative matt gates december 14, 2023 he pledges to hold speaker mccarthy to his promise to release the full january 6 tapes, dated september 18th, 2023 which demands full release in exchange for funding the government, finally a letter from capital police chief, tom manger in which he renews his request to review all video footage request received by the committee addressing security sick -- concerns without objection. >> without objection, now recognize the gentleman from new york, mr. esposito. >> i just want to make it very clear that i think all of our colleagues, republica

the national guard is no different. guard personnel have fought in the wars in aided countless natural disasters, and are providing healthcare and support to fight the current covid-19 pandemics. yet they suffer from a convoluted and understaffed system of sexual assault sexual harassment prevention program. cumbersome and lack of justice. the numbers are staggering to get data is lacking. according to the dod in ain report on the sexual assault in the military, the number of reported sexual assaults in the guard jumped nationwide from 173 and 2009 to 607 and 2019. more than a three 100% increase. beyond that, little data exists. i've been advocating for progress for more than ten years. those numbers do not tell even a fraction of the story. the cot in a web are harrowing. teresa james, who was raped inr her hotel room by a superior officer. consistently disbelief and retaliated against until the national guard bureau investigation finally found the perpetrator quote used intimidation and fear to sexually assault her re

the unique role in the national guard has been more visible than ever in the past few months. in march members of the guard were called to help with the coronavirus pandemic and while on the frontlines of the pandemic they have risked their own health and the infection rate have been high and we thank those in their families for their sacrifice and dedication. while covid-19 is a very real threat we are battling many guard members have also called in recent weeks to insist governors and law enforcement during a recent nationwide protests. for this mission the guard has had to strike their fine balance between forming their duties while ensuring that they do not engage in any unlawful acts or even the perception of unlawful acts against the citizens of our nation. recent weeks show just how difficult the position of the chief national guard bureau is and will remain perhaps throughout your tenure in this position. general hokanson, i look forward to hearing your approach on how you will approach this job in these trying times. general perna, you've been nominated to serve as the

irving in his office making the first request to the national guard to say i don't think the intelligence supports it if we needed them on wednesday is there a way to beep report on - - prepare for a request? at that .125 national guardsmen supporting if we needed a response quickly he could repurpose them to get them to the armory and to get them to us as quick as possible the next day i met with mr. stinker he came for the video call i posted with those officials and we spoke about it briefly there as well as i passed on to mr. irving later that afternoon. >> i understand you have some disagreement with that characterization about the concern of the optics to relay your best recollection on january 4th. >> my best recollection was a phone call indicating he had received an offer 125 on armed guards as we followed up the three of us engaged in a conversation we left at the light of the existing intelligence the intelligence did not warrant the national guard and that intended that discussion rather than the offer should we perform any follow-up and he recommended they were placed on stan

that was the initial deployment of national guard forces along the southwest border. ave roughly 6000 national guardsmen deployed over a two- year period along the southwest border. we spend a lot of time together, stephen drive, discussing the rules of the use of force and everything and what status the national guard would have during that order of deployment. my recollection is became to the conclusion the guard would be entitled 32 status. that's the middle ground where gubernatorial command and control would be exercised over those forces but dodpay for tho. in general answer to your question, the type of funding used to pay for the national guard forces, traditionally along the southwest bodborder, would be adversely impacted by sequestration. >> a think that is an accurate answer. just to give you a little bit more, the unintended consequence would be -- dod would be faced with less money than it would normally have to do that mission. it was painful to dod to do it when we were better-resourced. it created frankly great thank you to -- great angst. where were t

fugate, but to comment on your perspective on the national guard the role of the national guard and do you find it to be essential? how do you want to position your organization with it and then if you could do that in one minute or less or two and also comment on this idea that's been moving around about a sort of civilian ready reserve that could supplement both fema and the national guard in terms of trained personnel that could be called out in the event of a catastrophic disaster which obviously we can't maintain, you know, on call every day but it would be nice to maybe have something like that. maybe we don't need it. maybe that is what the red cross is going to do or maybe that is the will of the national guard plays but if there is a gap comment on the national guard and then the ready reserve idea. >> thank you, madame chair. national guard is a component of any ability to respond to disasters. they are a force multiplier for the local and state responders and again, after with your leadership upon my confirmation one of my first visits is general mckinley commanding the nati

the texas national guard comprises 24000 army, air, civilians and volunteers. they're working across the state. we respond in to texas in times of need and also the nation. we help with border security in the department of homeland security. we help the texas department of emergency management fighting fires and hurricane harvey. we participated in her harvey and maria. the general is also a texan, he'll tell you and i agree, our main mission is defense of america. we are fighting america's wars. our ability to train,'s and fight is our number one roll. that's the reason why we exist and why we are funded through federal funding through our existence. we are always deployed when asked since 2001 we deployed 2000 members. second is to protect our communities for whatever may hit us including man-made terrorism, border security or natural disasters. currently we have 2300 members deployed supported america overseas. we have members on the border and members supplying counter drug and people fighting fires as we speak. earlier, president trump authorized federal tr

nation's defense. there is no distinction between our active guard and reserve airman. we are lethal, and privilege to defend this great nation to where honor to serve alongside our joint partners and our allies, and ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country. during last years posturing i spoke about the pilot and maintenance retention challenge that we faced. during -- today the flight line manny for a part-time of citizen airmen remains very strong. it's nearly 100%. however, the steady demand on airline pilots and civilian industry aircraft maintainers continues to impact the retention for our full-time technician force. in response to the challenges we continue pursue the use of bonuses, and set the special salary rates for our pilots and our maintenance force. though this approach has positively impacted retention, it may not be sufficient for long-term, for the long-term solution. we need to continue to discuss other full-time options with you all and incentives with your staffs, and we need to garner support for the options to group are manning over tim

to request approval to bring in the national guard. let me run it up the chain and i will get back to you was his response. it would be 71 minutes before that approval would finally come. between 12:58 and when i finally received approval for the national guard, i made 32 calls coordinating support for my officers including 11 frustrating cost of the sergeant at arms regarding my request to the national guard. my calls resulted in hundreds of police officers from around the national capital region and as far away as new jersey responding to assist. after i received approval to call in the national guard i had to beg the pentagon officials to send us hope. i was denied assistance by lieutenant general pi had siding concerns over optics of the national guard on capitol hill. the d.c. national guard, many of whom were standing within eyesight of the capital and whose motto is capital guardians, would not arrive until almost 6:00 p.m. after the fighting was over and the capital ground secured, the new jersey state police arrived before the

texas air national guard and texas state guard. received his bachelors in finance and aeronautical engineering at the u.s. air force academy and graduated from u.s. air force -- major general michael maguire is the the adjutant general in arizona and the department of military affairs. in this role he is responsible for managing arizona's army and air national guard. joint programs along with division of emergency management. he is in command of 8000 members ranging from federal military and civilian personnel to state employees. general maguire was commissioned in the u.s. air force academy. in 1987. the chair recognizes chief harris for five minutes. >> thank you. chairwoman, ranking member, distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today on behalf of the u.s. customs and border protection. i have served as border patrol agent for more than 30 years and i am honored to currently serve as chief patrol agent for tucson sector. it is one of the busiest in the nation. in my experien

california national guard, california national guard member appointed by the california national guard activated when appointed to that position. as we look at the way these cases are set up, making a recommendation with regard to limited number of cases, 50% or something, california national guard looked at that. when we look at these things we have enforcement discretion. we don't have to say the auditor did this and before we get to the point of establishing the debt we determine if it is in our interest to establish the debt or not. we look at other states, smaller numbers and lower error rates, some of the other states where you had eight cases only two center for recruitment or only 3% for recruitment or 40 cases only 5%. they make those judgments. what california did and it was within their discretion and given they said they had another review of 91%, i can't say it is wrong to do this but they not only referred all the cases for recruitment but also said we would do 100% review of everybody else, not only refer recruitment to those cases but go to the rest of the universe whic

national guard? are you familiar with those memos? >> i became familiar with them after january 6. yes, sir. >> as i read the material, among others, the -- they were told that the guard could not be issued weapons, helmets, body armor. they could not interact physically with protesters. they could not employ any riot control agents and they could not make arrests and could not make a quick reaction force. is that your understanding now of the correspondence that went on between the secretary of the army and the secretary of defense? >> correct. the secretary of defense wrote the first memo january 4th in the secretary of army put the additional restrictions on what's called the url. the quick reactionary force to after the fact. >> you said you did not know leading up to january 6 that those restrictions were in place? >> that is correct. >> i assume, at the time, you would have been led to believe that the national guard was essentially a phone call away if necessary, no? >> i was under that belief after i requested the national guard sunday morning the two sergeant arms had me re

it's not just the air guard it's the national aviation as well. e look a disasters be as critical, and i will give you one example and the department of defense not just the guard. when we did the exercise last year for the earthquake it became readily apparent that one of our concerns would be the isolation of the population areas due to failures of infrastructure by the event of the earthquake. you face very similar threats to some of your basis. traditionally we have been looking at transport aircraft that can operate limited capability short takeoff and ability to fly adverse conditions. when the guard has had these capabilities organic to them, you are able to call the resources up or get them from the emergency management contact rapidly to move those resources. if that capability isn't there it will then be turning to active duty and potentially reserve units. fewer resources spread out upon more participants. we will still be able to mobilize the response. the question is what have the speed and the capacity that is currently present in the

little low on the ufr list and this benefit camp shelby if we can get it done but the entire national guard in the entire nation and the proposed project would expand the facility to add 12 vehicle base and at a cost of $15 million. i can't ask you to absolutely commit that you will move this up but tell us your view of the facility and the importance of getting this done sooner rather than later? >> senator, thank you for that question but we look at our main facilities across the country and they provide tremendous value, not just to the national guard but to our nation and their ability to maintain our equipment that they have divided for national guard forces. they have absolutely critical that we do every thing we can in a transparent process to get that funded so that they can repair and maintain the equipment so it is ready whenever our nation calls. >> okay. i hope you will work with us and this is a priority down the mississippi and i think you'll agree that it benefits everybody, not just the one state they are. let me ask you, also, general hokanson, talk about the effort underwa

and with this event on a national guard scale as of this morning we have 43500 national guard members across the nation including 1200 here in louisiana responding to the covid-19 pandemic. these are continuing to rise over the next week or so and those men and women that are called to do that and since 2005 and katrina with men and women in every state and territory participate more than 50000. that assist in that event in every state this is happening in every state not just in the gulf region of louisiana. this is a historic event i just need to express my supreme gratitude for the men and women for those that would maintain their lives as a civilian the president needs them but to come to serve the country and towns and homes that is special and we should be as a nation the first responders in doing that response to be very grateful we think our families and spouses and employers with the nation to come when they need them to come away from the civilian up one - - occupation. louisiana is no stranger to the families that lost someone. as the governor mentioned here four years ago

national guard, the commander of the d.c. national guard.here was some kind of swearing in, i'm not sure what it was, but there was some kind of swearing in and everyone else who came in so that they were either sworn in at the national guard, or it -- it occurred, even though these were national guard. now, the d.c. national guard is a little different. because we're not a state. and therefore, -- but these were reserves people. they were on the ground at the inauguration. and my recollection is that although the d.c. national guard is technically under the president, that the commander of the d.c. national guard for in these troops as something other than reserve troops for purposes here, that may suggest there's some parallel there to avoid any constitutional issue of rising. because i do think we are truly preparing for the next one. we'd better assume, assume, that you will need to go beyond the national guard. national guard is best thing to do this. no question about it, from across the country. there are a whole lot of guards. it's n

to be very specific, the national guard is the national guard, as we would envision it today.so it's people that are volunteer military forces and historically, the national guards were used for strike breaking. the miners were also refer to them as the court of state militia. and the reason they call them the cadre state militia is kind of a coking at them, saying you're not really in the army, you're just a militia that you've raised of yourselves. okay. so this the strike will happen. the governor of the state of colorado, governor ammons, he sides with the national guard, with a company. the company in denver. they will tell other denver businessmen, hey, you don't really want to support the strikers because if they're strikes in the coalfields of southern colorado, this could extend throughout the rest of the nation. and this could affect you negatively. so the governor of the state of colorado, ammons, actually puts together what he'll call insurrection bonds. and you have a group of denver businessmen that will pay to fund the national guard. so it very clearly becomes

he surged the national guard, encouraged states to accept their national guard. he went on and on with several various actions to give very powerful speech saying if you don't act i will. he noted that the military would be on hand should it be necessary. his bold action, his swift action made d.c. a much different story monday night. and contrasting the images of new york -- excuse me-- d.c. on monday night and new york on monday night where there was rampant looting, where we saw macy's department store looted, coach store looted, violence in the streets, new york didn't deploy the national guard. they set an 11:00 p.m. curfew, even after they saw the disastrous results in the 11:00 p.m. curfew and the president said i will call antifa a domestic terrorist group. new york was arresting people on burglary charges and letting them go. the weak-kneed policies of new york stand in stark contrast of the policies of this president has secured this city as we've seen in the last two nights. reporter: thanks, kayleigh. the individual conduct of officers, does the presi

we talk about the deployment our lack of deployment of the national guard. and one of the questions is the fact the district did not have the ability to bring the guard to the table because frankly they were not treated in a fair fashion. this may be outside your lane but with that ability to bring the guard to me is a reflection. but on a going forward basis sent the mayor of the district of columbia do that in terms of a checklist. >> and anybody else is a question as well. >> and for the capital police it is included and against the district we have seen it's they did not's we see the same level of support that other states did that we saw that play out on january 6th from the previous administration i have concerns that the deployment of the guard. i hope that we in the congress see that move forward but even short of that that the mayor has appropriate powers going forward with the fbi in coming out of the outfits if they could ever fully relate to all of you individuals. but katie talk more generally about the fbi sharing of intelligence? i had a number

coordination of the disasters with the national guard does. we also have another issue called flooding over the mississippi river that in south and new orleans, but it comes down through illinois roaring like a mack truck doing 90 down highway 55 and leaves in its way a lot of flooding and i was just wondering how does north comm. coordinate with the national guard in terms of the disaster coordination? does it go through the national guard first or who is in charge? >> senator, to answer your question, our coordination as with national guard bureau but the first response will always be with national guard supporting state and local officials. we've go immediately upon indications that there is a disaster pending we will begin to coordinate with the national guard in case there are gaps in the capability to respond, and i talked with the national guard chief of operations daily and looking across the country, looking where they have forces deployed so we are prepared to respond if they have caps and we've recently responded to the flood in the

does it can through the national guard first? who is really in charge there? >> to answer your question, our coordination is with the national guard bureau but the first response will always be with the national guard supporting the state and local officials, we, though, immediately upon indications that there's a disaster pending will continue -- will begin to coordinate with the national guard in case there are gaps in their capability to respond. and i talked with the national guard operations daily and looking across the country, looking at where they have forces deployed so we're prepared to respond if they have gaps. we recently responded to the flood in the red river of the north in north dakota working with the national guard in north dakota and minnesota and we provided some of active duty forces to back them up at the request of the federal emergency agency and we prepositioned -- >> pardon me, so you say your request can come from fema to you. now, does that have to originate at the state level? >> senator, the process by which we would activate nor

national guard in emergency situations. one of many absurd and tragically sad situations was that day when of course there had been messed up said not requesting the guard earlier which could have changed things dramatically. but on that day the chief had to try to call the sgt of arms of both chambers of both of whom were leading the fight against the insurrection with thee police. he felt he needed that permission to call in the national guard. what our bill simply does is give the capitol police chief in this higher emergency situations a power to do that the agreement announced yesterday would also go a long way toward implementing another of her recommendations which is the most crucial to ensure the capitol police have sufficient personnel with equipment to fulfill its mission. crucially yesterday agreement included essential funding for the capitol police and national guard including funding for exactly was called toward our reports. this comes at a critical time of the capitol police is expected to run out of fundin

just a few short years ago calling on the national guard to meet thater mission the north dakota national guard to help be appropriate to recognize this relationship they are thout-of-state actors with no interest of north dakota to protest the dakota access pipeline. absent federal health the governor called on the national guard as a last resort and you would think that would have serious ramifications with the quality of the guardsmen and they did with the previous administration would not to stand up for the rule of law ands, radical protesters even as families were targets from everywhere other than north dakota and did that without provocation or escalation they did not run they answer the callro to defend the state from the chaos thank you is an adequate and i would just compel people to say thank you more often as you see that person make it a point to say thank you. out loud. i yield back honor the men and women who wear our nation's uniform, those who have worn it in the past and those who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom. as a senator and a combat veteran with over 2

the national guard will discuss and address questions regarding the national guard support to civilian authorities including supporting the u.s. secret service, the capitol police, the metropolitan d.c. police and the d.c. homeland security and emergency management agency among others. the responsibilities related to traffic control and crowd management activities in and around the inauguration, and logistical considerations and military staffing aspects for the more than 7500 national guard soldiers and airmen supporting the inauguration. ladies and gentlemen, it's now my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, major general bradley becker. >> well, good morning, everyone. i would like to thank you all for attending today's rehearsal of concept drill. 36 days from today the nation will witness our 58 presidential inauguration as we can celebrate the peaceful transfer of power and inaugurate our 45th commander-in-chief. members of the armed forces have been involved in every presidential inauguration since april 30april 30, 1789, when sos and militia escorted president george washingt

it will be air national guard members was alongside with army air national guard. we are going to be there and i always tell people if you are in the national guard you are always on a mission. you are part time. you can have somebody returned from afghanistan during a war fight in the next day tornado, flood, earthquake, fire. if that happens you can bet they will be called up the next day and put to work on behalf of their community and their state, always on a mission. the same people might be involved with security quaff russian details come planning something and getting ready for a bilateral event. we stay very active in all of that and we are very proud of that. so in conclusion i just want to tell you that we had an opportunity to become a part of the different air force, the same five core mission areas that general welsh often talks about but also in three domains. airspace and fiber and we are involved in all of those activities. indeed we do almost every mission set in the united states air force and there's not a single mission that we can do. trained

telephone conferen conference, the one thing every governor has in common is how excellent the national guard performed and that has a lot to do with the generals leadership as well as just the quality of the guardsmen and the airmen around the country. to see the international guard perform this tremendous service in difficult circumstances, but this is very different than what we have seen before. we have had more than our fair share of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, you name it. but this pandemic is very different. you should note we have over 1425 soldiers and airmen assisting with the response that you probably don't know what they are doing. these are just some of the things that they are doing. they are providing medical services and doing engineering assessments, commodities distribution support, managing the warehouse and lots of other things. to the operation centers they did the assessments for different facilities all across the state in louisiana as we were looking regionally to identify the best places to serve the medical capacity on modeling and so forth. and me, many other fu

that was the initial deployment of national guard forces along the southwest border. we have roughly 6000 national guardsmen deployed over a two- year period along the southwest border. we spend a lot of time together, stephen drive, discussing the rules of the use of force and everything and what status the national guard would have during that order of deployment. my recollection is became to the conclusion the guard would be entitled 32 status. that's the middle ground where gubernatorial command and control would be exercised over those forces but dodpay for tho. in general answer to your question, the type of funding used to pay for the national guard forces, traditionally along the southwest bodborder, would be adversely impacted by sequestration. >> a think that is an accurate answer. just to give you a little bit more, the unintended consequence would be -- dod would be faced with less money than it would normally have to do that mission. it was painful to dod to do it when we were better-resourced. it created frankly great thank you to -- great angst. where we