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"harvin asked his counterparts to share what they were seeing.tes an avalanche of new tips began streaming in. self-styled militias and other extremist groups in the northeast were circulating radio frequencies to use near the capitol. in the midwest men with violent criminal histories were discussing plans to travel to washington with weapons. 48 hours before the attack harvin began pressing every alarm button he could. he invited the fbi, the department of homeland security, military intelligence services and other agencies to see the information in real time as his team collected it. he took another extreme step. he asked the city's health department to convene a call of d.c.-area hospitals and urged them to prepare for a mass casualty event. empty your emergency rooms, he said, and stock up your blood banks." that was the intensity and severity of the information d.c.'s head of intelligence, donald harvin, was shouting from the rooftops. and yet, and yet on january 6th complete failure to heed the warnings resulted in a capitol and a capitol

harvin, the head of intelligence at d.c.'bout the violent chatter online two days before the attack but he also alerted the city's health department to call up d.c.-area hospitals to prepare for a mass casualty event. empty your emergency rooms, he said. stock up your blood banks. donnell harvin joins me now. it's good to see you, sir. >> thank you, sir. >> what did you know? >> well, it's not what we knew. it's the threat picture that we had seen. and so leading up to january 6th we started seeing a lot of concerning information surrounding the events that were planned. information from particular actors that we hadn't seen before, specifically looking at what we call ttps, tactics, techniques and procedures that indicated they would be intent on performing acts of violence interpersonal violence and possibly even smuggling weapons into the district. >> so how come we weren't more prepared? >> well, you know, like you and other americans, i'm looking forward to seeing the conclusion of multiple investigations into that. i ca

what do you make of this reporting this the post about donald harvin.enforcement? >> it's a big deal. it's significant. january 6th was not an intelligence failure. it was a leadership failure. people like harvin played a key role in ringing alarm bells as loudly and as widely as they could. but people in law enforcement in positions of leadership made deliberate choices no to the do what people like harvin knew needed to be done. one thin that you and i talked about on this show a couple months back was a phone call where 300 law enforcement leaders around the country just a day or two before the january 6th attack talked about how to coordinate if january 6th turned into a mass casualty event. harvin played an instrumental role in coordinating that call, bringing literally hundreds of law enforcement leaders together the talk about the possibility that the nightmare situation would play out. and that situation did play out. it's important. it's also a no-brainer, frankly, that the committee would want to get his expertise. we also learned the committe

donnel harvin, an intel operate for a for the d.c.n center created as a wing of the department of homeland security to gather this intelligence was doing exactly what you said in the days before january 6th. basically clanging a bell saying, everybody come on down to my office, you can see how scary this is. but what we revealed in this reporting and in this investigative series was even a shock to me. in late december n the final sort of two weeks of december, the fbi, the preeminent entity responsible for gathering, collecting, and assessing the potential threat to our country was getting warnings on a scale that was stunning. one from december 17th in which a person involved in extremist chat alerted the fbi that they saw a conversation happening in which leaders of this organization were not only plotting to come to january 6th, but were encouraging each other to weapon up, giving them specific instructions for firearms they could bring without being detected. and also, to be prepared to draw down on police. one of them wrote, you

security official tonight named darnell harvin about the red flags. >> we started seeing a lot of concerning information surrounding the events that were planned. information from particular actors we hadn't seen before, specifically looking at ttps, tactics, techniques and procedures that included they would be intent on performing acts of violence, interpersonal violence and possibly smuggling weapons into districts. >> he was with the district of columbia department of homeland security. he speaks from experience. what were some of the other red flags that looking back on them are glaring now? >> brian, there were so many red flags. there was a wealth of chatter on social media sites and other online forums among trump supporters about gathering in washington on january 6th just as then president trump had urged them to do but importantly to do so armed, to bring their weapons, to prepare for violence. there were threats made against the lives of sitting members of congress, including senator mitt romney, the utah republican who was the chief foil to trump all of those years. there were o