the d.c. national guard. to begin, i would like to think our national guard soldiers and airmen for the hard work, swift response, and steadfast dedication. they have committed ensuring that our capitol remains secure. i am incredibly proud of our airmen and soldiers. this mission shows the breadth, flexibility, and resolve of the national guard and the service it provides our nation. i would like to think the governors who volunteered the guardsmen, our mayor in d.c., and our local and federal partners. the national guard has been requested to continue supporting federal law enforcement agencies with about 7000 personnel for the coming weeks. that will likely draw down to 5000 by mid-march. i will go through the specifics of that. we received request for follow-up assistance. the requests have come from u.s. park police, u.s. secret service, the capitol police, and the metropolitan police department of washington, d.c. all four requests have been approved. the municipal requests by myself. the national guard

to come in, to bring the national guard in. all throughout the afternoon, he resisted, refused to authorize or agree to the authorization of the national guard to come in. and he was only moved to change his mind on that after the intervention of other white house officials who told him that for the sake of the country, the national guard needed to be called in and convinced him and urged him that if he did not do this, the situation would get worse. the situation would become more dire, and would spread beyond washington, d.c. and he finally agreed to do it. >> jon karl, i don't have to remind you, how many times last summer did the president call democratic mayors and governors weak for not calling in the national guard to take on black lives matter protests. >> i mean, over and over again throughout the protests after the killing of george floyd, this was his theme over and over again. if only they would call in the national guard. i'll do it if they won't do it. you've got to be tough. at one point, you remember him repeatin

the d.c. national guard. this was the chief of the national guard bureau, which is kind of the umbrella. he was not called in until later in the day when they started talking about going outside of d.c., so he was brought in a little bit later and did not have a lot more information as to the back and forth between the chief and the sergeant at arms, all those other conversations. so we have gotten some work to do to tease that out. we are in the process of getting that information, but those will be key conversations. the lag in the original request , as the chief stated, and the department of army stated, and then the timeframe, the lag between when the dc national guard was able to get there and the original 340 that were activated, later the whole 1100. the lag time was completely inadequate. that is what we are trying to learn from this. how do we cut through that. a lot more national guardsmen on the ground to act quickly, to support, if needed. they will be around for that. we will make sure. reporter: to follow up, there seems to be confusion as to the guidance of the use of leth

well i mean throughout those black lies about a protest the police and the national guard on that particular case it was both national and the police who assaulted everyone who was in the vicinity of the white house in order to facilitate president trumps to the church that is adjacent to the white house actually just a and interesting thing is just broken record a washington post article was clearly during this black lives matter protests the national guard was stationed around around d.c. and we were often told we could be in d.c. with a band that had guns within half an hour and they were deployed in mass ranks on several of the days when when they were just normal peaceful demonstrations the washington post is now reporting with the public a defense has denied a request by d.c. officials and d.c. officials have to request a national guard to deploy the national guard to the u.s. capitol in washington d.c. off the protesters stormed the building this is the washington post now saying according to that sources the pentagon has denied a request by d.c. officials to bring in the national gua

certainly upon entering the national guard, each one of - fbi? national guard, each one of these individuals would have been vetted and likely screened, had their tattoos and screened to look for extremist insignias, neo—nazi, with the princes and others, their social media would have likely been observed. that doesn't preclude them going to morph range of sites where we know many people do engage in conversations —— more extremist sites. while the scrutiny might be more intense from the fbi, you are talking about 25,000 national guard centres in a really short amount of time. it can only really be a cursory review at best. anyone who is smart about _ cursory review at best. anyone who is smart about it _ cursory review at best. anyone who is smart about it will— cursory review at best. anyone who is smart about it will have - cursory review at best. anyone who is smart about it will have kept - is smart about it will have kept quite a low profile for the last six months, year or longer. i quite a low profile for the last six months, year or longe

on the national guard. tors say the order for national guard to move from being on the capitol buildings to the parking garage was a mistake made lower in the chain of command rather than from on high. a republican said it came from a uniformed police officers who issued an order without authority. chuck schumer said something similar. let's bring in jason and juan. mistake or not, somebody thought had a had the authority to do something they didn't do. jason, you wonder where was the chain of command here? >> yes, the optices are horr 55ic. -- are horrific. how could somebody not think through what to do with the thousands of national guard's men at night. isn't that an obvious question? >> john: is came on the heels that all 25,000 national guard members were veted to see if they were threats to the inauguration. >> well, i think that's right. there were a few who had some ties. it was about a dozen that were withdrawn. overall, i think it's outrageous you would not take care of the people who secured the

we are kind of a family in the national guard. we grow up together we work up , together, and we keep an eye on each other. if there are any indications we address it to the chain of command or law enforcement the appropriate level of agency. but i am not concerned as a large part of our organization for it if you like 25000, we have had 12 identified. some of those they are just looking into may be unrelated to this. but we want to make sure out of an abundance of caution that is stated earlier that we do the right thing. until that gets cleared up. >> i do not win to get into the actual vetting and what the organizations have found, but much of the information that the general mentioned is unrelated to the events taking place of the capitol or teak at the concerns that many people noted on extremism. these are vetting efforts that identify any questionable behavior in the past. or any potential link to questionable behavior, not just related to extremism. but as the general mentioned we , are not asking questions right now but we

with respect to the army of the national guard, the authority rests with the secretary of the army andbased on their mission," a nation with the supported law enforcement agency and the chain of command which is commanded by major general walker of the d.c. national guard. our ability to move 25000 soldiers and airmen to d.c. from every state and territory less than two weeks would not have been possible without the support of our governors and their adjutant general's. it speaks volumes of america's investment in the national guard and most importantly, the support of our service members and what they get from their family and their employers. also, the outpouring of support to her national guard across the entire country and here in the district is a story in itself for it i want to particular thank the citizens of the district of columbia. without a look forger questions. >> if you have questions just please identify who we like to answer them. it's going to be a covid safe dance over here with just one podium bright will go first to toledo ap. reporter: hi thanks a lot. this questi

i don't have a guard under my command, in other words. the d.c. nationalcretary of the army, who reports to the president. so when i need national guard support, i request it from the secretary of the army, which is what we did. our national guardsmen were deployed in the district before the rally or whatever you want to call those demonstrations began. and it is important also to note that i advocated, when i learned that the capitol had not in fact made that request of the army, to get those troops moving to the capitol as soon as possible. >> so i just want to flag, for clarity, you wrote, the letter of january 5, to the pentagon and the justice department, that said you were not requesting other federal law enforcement personnel, which could be homeland security or fbi or others, because, you wrote, we are mindful that in 2020, mpd, metropolitan police, was expected to perform the demanding task of policing large crowds while working around unidentifiable personnel deployed in the district of columbia without proper coordination. so -- >> in that -- >>

the first guard troops arrived at the building. >> hi senator. just a bit more on the national guard front. can you give us a bit of a tiktok. that viceerstand president pence got involved at any point? about know anything potentially the president slow walking the request for the card? aboute seen the reports the interaction between vice president pence and the national guard. there's nothing in existing protocols or statute that requires the vice president to request national guard troops to the capitol. my understanding is that currently, the request needs to be made by the mayor and corneille did through the capitol police. reports ofhe communications the vice president had. i understanding is that those came later in the day, that the process was already underway to bring the national guard to the capitol before any conversations happened with the vice president. i do not know -- we were tracking that day, stories about , thatpartment of defense they refused to approve the diploma and if national guard. learned that there was any refusal of requests made. it seems to be th

i'm a vice president but i used to be a governor so i have a special place in my heart for the national guard. thank you all for stepping forward to serve your country, to provide security here in our nation's capitol at such an important time in the life of our nation and i want you to thank your families as well. i know you all had to -- out to get here and being here at the capitol providing the level of securities that's going to make it possible for us to have an historic transfer of power. inauguration of a new president of the united states. you all are going to make that possible. i just came from a briefing where i has homeland security and i heard about the great efforts that our national guard is making and literally thousands and thousands of men and women in universal are going to make it possible for us to have a safe inauguration and i just wanted to step out today to say thank you. thank you for your service, thank you for stepping forward and god bless you in the days ahead and it's been my great honor to serve as your vice president and i want to thank you for your service,

when blm protestors swarmed oregon, the president offered them support from the national guard. kay brown would not consider it. >> trump wants governors to deploy the national guard as a show of force to intimidate the public. i want to ensure that the public can safely raise their voices in this much needed call for reform. >> laura: it became about respond and not responding to the violence. the democrats ideology may not justice violence but it can explain violence. blm protestors invaded the capital, they would not have been treated like the trump protestors. democrats would have urged restraint and dialogue. trump would have been blamed for pushing those people to the edge. that's what happened last summer when protestors threatened the white house. remember how funny the left thought it was when president trump was taken to a skier location because the secret syracuse was concerned about his

the u.s. army national guard. from their mission to secure the presidential inauguration day trying to vigils are reportedly tied to too far right to far right women who lives here in the united states we should note however that there was no plot against joe biden that was found this is it seems to be more of a precautionary measure but again if we're talking about the mood here in the city it's a very different washington d.c. than people are are used to but. the security perimeter continues to expand new street closures are announced every day but we haven't seen anything in the way of protests certainly not anything that we could consider to be violent protests but we have heard that authorities are prepared for any eventuality what about the people who sort of wanted to go and attend to many of the other ways a finding of watching this. we know that this is going to be very very limited there are the v.i.p. tickets they are the people that have received their invitations but unlike previous inaugurations where

a congressman's broad accusations against the national guard for the inaugural have reaction to the januaryapitol breach. as kevin reported, 12 national guard members have been pulled over concerns that they have ties to malitia groups. so what is behind all of this? acting dhs deputy secretary ken cuchenilli is here for that. and we'll talk to georgia brother brian kemp on his efforts to keep america safe and the future of the gop. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) once-weekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. a majority of adults who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. here's your a1c. oh! my a1c is under 7! (announcer) and you may lose weight. adults who took ozempic® lost on average up to 12 pounds. i lost almost 12 pounds! oh! (announcer) for those also with known heart disease, ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. it lowers the risk. oh! and i only have to take it once a week. oh! ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) ozempic® is not for people with

that offended governor abbott of texas as, indeed it should infect mike offend anyone with the national guard. but the bedding continued. 12 army guard national members were removed from inauguration duty for extremely vague indication. >> we were kind of a family in the national guard. we grew up together, work together, and we keep an eye on each other. if there is any indications we immediately addressed through the chain of command and law enforcement. we want to say as i stated earlier that we do the right thing until that gets cleared up cleared up. >> laura: we have to find out what that actually means. does it mean you were like a lifetime member of the nra or some other conservative organization? i don't understand what that means. now, he's talking about my family. is that how a family operate? apparently they think so. according to "the new york times" d.o.t. accelerating efforts to root out "far right extremism in the ranks." never mind during four years of democrat led military coup, there was apsley no evidence that the military was anything other than loyal to its duties. the d

city council and the mayor they all asked for the national guard to be deployed and the pentagon said no they refuse to allow the deployment of a national guard beardy denies that and we understand that the national guard rumbling through but the comparison that's being made clearly if. she had i'm going to interrupt you i apologize for interrupting you because president elect joe biden is speaking right now found his hometown of a den away let's listen in to what he has to say all of you've been watching i've been watching at this hour our democracy is under unprecedented saw unlike anything we've seen in modern times. and assault the citadel of liberty the capital self an assault on the people's representatives in the capitol hill police sworn to protect. the public servants who work at the heart of our republic an assault on the rule of law like few times we've ever seen an assault on most sacred of america not undertake it's the doing of the people's business. it may be very clear. the scenes of chaos at the capitol do not reflect the true america do not represent who we are what

surrounded by sirens steel and soldiers in a military occupation never before seen in the american capital 25000 national guard troops secure the national mall that's twice the number here after the 1968 assassination of martin luther king jr and then there are the thousands of u.s. capitol police city police f.b.i. border patrol and others. the mob assault on the capitol on january 6th shown here in a video released sunday by the new yorker magazine has left a city and a nation grappling with the aftermath of an insurrection fearing another possible assault on democracy and traumatized. i think. joe biden's january 20th inauguration comes with crowds reduced by the pandemic on ground trampled by a riot under the shadow of his predecessors 2nd impeachment. pennsylvania avenue is usually one of the busiest thoroughfares in washington d.c. now it is the center of a green zone a security area that stretches 3 kilometers from capitol hill behind me to the potomac river this is now a city in lockdown. everyone entering the largest secure a zone in presidential inauguration history is screened for weapons inside fen

members of the national guard are patrolling the streets around the capitol in washington, followingtorming of the building by supporters of president trump. so far, there have been none of the mass protests that had been feared. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. america on high alert like never before. the nation plasma capital has turned into a fortress. with security worthy of a war zone, the national guard has been deployed to try to ensure a smooth transition of power when joe to ensure a smooth transition of power whenjoe biden is inaugurated on wednesday. in the meantime there is concern that harm supporters of donald trump may try to stage more protest, still refusing to accept the result of the election. the capitol building, which was stormed by a mob earlier this month, is now surrounded by a high fence, and the city is under lockdown. it's a place in our history that i'm sad we've come to. american troops should not have to be armed against their fellow americans. but what we saw was an unprecedented attack on our democracy in the cradle of that democra

the national capital area in washington, d.c. or close by. we are of course part of a national effort. our guardlways is part of that national force. we have unique capabilities. we have special personnel, special equipment that has been specifically requested by the federal government for us to deploy to washington. we have responded and done so. along with speaker cupp, these -- we are announcing that the statehouse will be closed this coming sunday, monday, tuesday, and wednesday. further, i am ordering all office buildings in downtown columbus to be closed on these four days as well. state personnel will work from home or from other assigned places. finally, it is time for us to come together as a country. as we always do after elections. it is time for us to observe the peaceful transfer of power and to remind ourselves that what brings us together, binds us together, holds us together as americans. our love for freedom, he left for liberty, a love for our constitution. that is what we will celebrate in the days ahead. let me now turn to mayor ginther. we have done press conferences before

>> you know, the fbi sets the standards for the investigate of our national guard troops. this is something that's very uncommon. four years ago for the inauguration we had over 8,000 national guard that came into the capital region. they were all vetted by the same fbi. they set a bar and members that don't meet that threshold are asked to be removed off that have particular mission. >> so you're saying it's not unusual -- at least it's happened before that the fbi vets the national guard troops who are at the inauguration? >> absolutely. you know, the national guard, we participate in several national security events at these she-profile events. we go through basic investigate and joining the military. there was a program in place, continue to vetting to make sure we ensure our security clearances and that we're not involved in nefarious activities. having as many members here for the inauguration so they just stepped up the -- the background checks, make sure that we've all met that threshold. once again, the lead federal agency, the federal bureau of investigation, they

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question of who is in charge and now we know we understand that the national guard is coming in federal authorities and d.o.d. and also what we were making all resources available to the city council. issued a printed statement which said we also for the national guard to be deployed and we were refused by the pentagon i guess we have to figure out who was telling the truth and then the final point the recent because donald trump did give that message from the rose garden we understand he prefers the rose garden because he feels the lighting is better in the rose garden he gave that to he said we love you but go home but then put it promptly put a warning label on it this claim of election fraud is disputed in this tweet colby replied to read tweeted or liked due to a risk of violence or his message that was all started simply to calm things down was deemed too dangerous for twitter and can't be read tweeted because of the risk of violence this is the reality that we are now experiencing indeed very interesting she had thank you very much for bringing us the latest there from washington

o'donnell: maximum security: with the nation's capitol locked down, the new warning tonight from the f.b.i.-- members of qanon have discussed posing as national guard members. could domestic violent extremists use drones to disrupt the inauguration? arrested for conspiracy: what we're learning tonight about the man accused of coordinating the capitol assault. plus how militia members the hill. extraordinary rebuke: the senate's top republican says president trump is responsible for the riot. >> the mob was fed lies. they were provoked by the president and other powerful people. >> o'donnell: less than 24 hours as president, and who will trump pardon as he hints at the future? the race to vaccinate: we'll show you a car repair shop that's now a vaccination center as new york city says it will run out of doses by thursday. t,nighl's hed bois.to li earns her a spot at the inaugural celebration. ral celebt >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. the next president of the united states arrives in the nation's capitol

now it's reporting by cnbc the request has been made for the national guard to come in and clear the halls, which would be an astounding thing to see there's been so much concern based -- expressed by 10 former national security chairmen, 10 living national security chairmen that the president might, in some way, invoke the military against the people. that was from their statement. that now it would be required that the national guard would have to clear the people from the people's halls is extraordinary. >> yeah. well, look, the district of columbia has a very unusual legal status when it comes to both the national guard and federal police federal government, obviously, has, at the end of the day, summary authority over the districtbiacolumbia. the white house, the capitol and other federal buildings are carve-out zones where essentially it's not d.c. police it's a federal security force. in this case, the capitol hill police that are responsible. so, the mayor really doesn't have the authority to send her national guard into the capitol building this would be a federal respon

why the delay in allowing the maryland national guard into the district? >> so, with respect to the maryland national guard, jake, when i first found out that they had been contacted by d.c., both virginia and maryland, i reached out to both virginia and maryland national guard at 3:55 in the afternoon that i actually spoke with their general and at that time they told me they were assembling 100 national guardsmen at their armory southwest of baltimore. he told me it would be eight to ten hours, which is our normal planning factor when we talk about our national guard response force, before they could get into washington, d.c. and so from 4:00, eight to ten hours after that, it actually wasn't until 11:00 p.m. that evening that unit was fully assembled and ready to go. another thing to add in there, when they come into an environment like that, we need to make sure we in-process them, make sure they're properly equipped and also that we brief them so they know exactly what they're going to be asked to do. once again, so they could be part of the solution a

i heard some talk of, look, the national guard is not the first line of defense. the specially trained police are. because the guard is not really trained for that. i don't know all the reasons for the delay. i can just tell you that we were taking actions immediately, we were ready, and there was a delay. and i was getting called from the leaders of congress pleading with me to get our guard into the city. and we were mobilizing to do that. and we were waiting to get the -- to get the okay. i can't tell you why. >> why did it take until the next morning for the first maryland national guard units to actually arrive in d.c.? >> it takes about 12 hours for guard units to mobilize. these are folks that are doing something else. they have to pack their bags, get their uniforms, show at the armories. we were the very first ones to arrive in the city. so those extra three hours or so that we had to get ready certainly helped us get in there a little sooner and be the first ones. but the big issue is why were the capitol police and federal law enforcement agencies not p

. >> good evening, joining me are major general tim gowen of the national guard and doctor chan the department of health. we began 2021 at a critical moment in the war against covid-19 which continues to pose a serious threat to our state and our nation. while the initial launch of the vaccine distribution, this does offer a glimmer of hope, we still have a long way to go in this fight, distributing and administering vaccines throughout 2021 will be without question the greatest peace time undertaking in american history and it will be a massive all hands on deck ongoing operation involving the federal, state and local government and the private sector. over the last nearly three weeks, we have already successfully allocated deployed and distributed 270,000, 150 doses of vaccines directly into the hands of our front-line vaccinate her's at hospitals, nursing homes and local health departments to begin phase one a of vulnerable population vaccinations. this represents 98.7% of all of the doses that the federal government allotted to the state of maryland. only 1.3%, 3727 doses have been retaine

guard, to the s national brands. i can do it in the district with the approval of the secretary of the army. we called up our guards. we've had guard support throughout the pandemic, but specifically for public safety issues, i will issue an additional request to the army, which i think i did at the end of december. the secretary of army approved that request and we put our guard troops on the ground to support mpd. yes? said thereayor, you was a state of emergency that you were declaring for a guest two weeks. from whatt different we would expect anywhere within the next two weeks? bowser: the state of emergency is aware that i can organize the resources of d.c. government to move on an emergency basis. some things you might expect would have coveted to notice, we may not be able to have that type of notice because we need to move urgently. it helps me organize my work your meant resources on this issue, all administrative. but more than that, it is a notice to the public that we may have to do some extraordinary thi

why are the democrats forcing the national guard to stay in d.c. while ignoring the antifa riots? e: national guard troops will be staying in d.c. through mid-march instead going to cities that actually need them like portland and seattle. charlie kirk and leo terrell join me now with reaction. leo, i will start with you. you know, we could have national guard there to protect a burning church when donald trump was president. but let's lock down washington with national guard. >> the democrats are antimilitary, anti-police. they defund the military and defund the police. they are using national guard troops in washington, d.c. as a prop. nothing more. where is the credible threat? the credible threat is in portland and seattle. they won't send them there because they are left wing socialist criminals that's the base of the democrats. the democrats will do anything. joe biden and jen psaki to talk about the criminal misconduct in portland and seattle. but they won't. because those are democrats and they won't do anything about it. but the national guard are going used as props. ther

the nation's capital braced for violence. checkpoints and barricades throughout the city. arm national guard patrolling capitol hill. and with just four days before joe biden is sworn in, unprecedented shutdowns. >> as of this morning, the secretary of the interior has officially closed areas in the national mall. >> reporter: and an inaugural rehearsal planned by the biden postponed according to sources. among the fbi's top concerns for inauguration day, substantial threat of improvised explosive devices and the ongoing threat to members of congress and political leaders. and tonight, we are learning just how close the rioters who stormed the capitol last wednesday got to vice president pence. "the washington post" reporting pence was rushed from the senate chamber one minute before this group reached the second floor, only led away by officer eugene goodman, who acted as a decoy. that scene playing out while pence, his wife and daughter were just 100 feet away. after he was rushed to safety, one of the first people to reach pence's desk, jacob chansley, the so-called qanon shaman. prosecutors arguing he should rema

that's if that issue about who why mike pence called out the national guard maybe more complex than we think could might simply be that donald trump even though he was he was very keen at the drop of a hat basically to call out the national guard on the peaceful protesters who were protesting against the killing of black people by police officers for all summer the national guard on the streets pretty quickly as well as all sorts of weird uniformed paramilitary units and they were very quick to put down even the slightest bit of peaceful protest with pepper spray. when it came to his own supporters clearly he wasn't prepared to do that or that would be the input all these that didn't come up perhaps because it was mike pence in the end who gave the order you say she had that politically no one's deserted him yet and you're right in saying that there sell these senators you know who are trying to object to the set of occasion of binding. but i wonder what do they gain what do they stand to gain from still backing donald trump but this made stage very late stage of his presidency. well t

mayor requested assistance from the national guard that was denied and if i understand the reporting correctly the national guard is now i'm coming in but the simple fact is that the capitol police police were outnumbered they were outgunned and they were just more people that were part of the law less mob than there were police men and women who were able to stop them i mean these are scenes that are just unbelievable to see people with guns in this senate chamber in the statuary hall it's just an unbelievable and i'm hoping that when the national guard comes and they will be able to you know put it back in order but you make an excellent point imagine if these were black lives matter activists i can imagine a very different scene what responsibility does a president have for they seems that was saying. i think the president is emperor kate in all of this and he tweeted earlier that something along the lines of you know the protests should be should be peaceful but look at the language that he's used over the last 4 years the conspiracy theories that he has had older regarding fraudu

the d.c. national guard general, see if he can have people ready if needed. that's not the way it works with the national guard. these are firemen, police officers. these are office workers in some cases and it takes hours for them to get back, get their gear and mobilize, even in the most urgent situations. so he was not only shot down by superiors, but then on the day of the siege taking place, there was a phone call in which he made, as he tells it, an urgent request of the pentagon to deploy the national guard, to bring them to the capitol and he says that on that call as well a general, secretary of state of the army's office, secretary of state of army staff, said we were bore worried about optics be soldiers there with policemen out there at the capitol wall. so it took, then a period of time after that for the department of defense, the pentagon, to fully mobilize the national guard. two areas of real big concern now, the chief sund saying this was dismissed before the siege and during the siege it went too slowly. >> we've seen a lot of video after th

the circumstances are unclear about where and how the national guard was mobilized. it was muriel bowser who thought the national guard should not have weapons, they would have to go back to their barracks if they wanted to get weapons to help stop the mob violence yesterday. can they do it? it would require ending the filibuster, they would have to buy brute force all 50 democratic senators along with kamala harris vote to overturn the filibuster. joe manchin has said he won't do that, not just because of d.c. statehood, it would then put them on the spot for terrible things like the green new deal

army has the story the national guard has arrived on the scene. it is absolutely astounding astounding view here at the united states capitol the heavily armed national guardsmen coming in to secure the united states capitol. it is so far. i'm sorry quicker action air force. with armored vehicles. to mean that i'm on the air right now but. just to have a look at the scene the united states capitol how they got in the building is beyond me so far from this side it looks like the doors are holding but we've seen police in riot gear pull up and now we're seeing the united states national guard coming into the capitol to try and secure. the united states capitol again this is a remarkable unprecedented scene it's tense but there's also a feeling of solidarity among these protesters that i haven't seen any confrontations as yet but again take a look at what you're seeing here this is people penetrating the united states capitol thousands of people descended here the u.s. national guard quick reaction force at. i think patty can you hear me. i think we'v

the circumstances are unclear about where and how the national guard was mobilized. it was muriel bowser who thought the national guard should not have weapons, they would have to go back to their barracks if they wanted to get weapons to help stop the mob violence yesterday. can they do it? it would require ending the filibuster, they would have to buy brute force all 50 democratic senators along with kamala harris vote to overturn the filibuster. joe manchin has said he won't do that, not just because of d.c. statehood, it would then put them on the spot for terrible things like the green new deal which was devastate his state's economy were packing the supreme court or anything else on the far left of the democratic agenda which is a reminder that they have a radical agenda but they actually have historically small margins. 50/50 in the senate and nancy pelosi has the smallest margin in the house in decades. >> tucker: if you are putting your hopes in joe manchin, you've reached a pretty desperate place, no offense to joe manchin but seriously, he should not be in

we have got the national guard. as we mentioned earlier. of law enforcement and its footprint as well as the litary is significant. and i think it will, i'm optimistic that it will discourage anyone from comin to at least the u.s. capital with the intent of disrupting the inauguration. >> you're a former advisor to the department of homeland security. what advice would you give to the authorities in the next coming days? >> just urge people to continue to remain calm, to remain vigilant. i know that the national guard --repeatedly through drills and trainings well as the police officers assembled there. i thing to remain calm, to remain vigilant, to be aware of your surroundings and to be on the alert for any kind of deviations from the norms. i know they have been trained on various tactics and strategies here. so, i think in 48 hours' time, i am hoping that we will have a successful outcome in washington, d.c. >> the team of climbers has safely descended after becoming the first ever to reach the top of k2 in winter. k2 along the pakistan

i immediately deployed the national guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and excel the intruders. america is and must always be a nation of law and order. the demonstrators who if filtrated the capitol have defiled the seat of american democracy. to those who broke the law, you will pay. we have just been through an intense election and emotions are high, but now tempers must be cooled and calm restored. we must get on with the business of america. my campaign vigorously pursued every legal avenue to contest the election results. my only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. now congress has certified the results. a new administration will be inaugurated on january 20th. my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. >> it's our reporting along with a number of others that the national guard was actually authorized by pence and not trump. late tonight the secretary of education betsey devos resigned blaming trump for the rhetoric that fueled the violence. she was unbothered serving from for all these years but just couldn'