Maj. Gen. William Walker, commander of the D.C. National Guard, was asked by Sen. Amy Klobuchar about the delay he faced in getting full approval to deploy help to the Capitol during the riot on January 6 during a Senate hearing.
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D.C. National Guard Commander Discusses ‘Unusual’ Delay For Approval To Help During Capitol Riot
He has now been appointed Sargent at Arms of the House of Reps. Hopefully now the Capitol Police will be more willing to shoot now.
D.C is the most secure city than any U.S cities
Republicans can reduce the risk of political violence by saying one simple, yet truthful sentence: The election was not stolen. Their refusal to do so is why the National Guard is still in DC
The communist have taken over the Capital.I don't mean the gaurd I mean comrade biden and fellow commies.If I'm not mistaken the Kremlin has the military guarding the grounds in russia.You asked for it and here it is.
She is so dumb
Is that like the unusual delay, like in counting votes.
The people who ordered the Cheif to not ask for help should be prosecuted
Appreciate his honesty!!
GEORGE FLOYD ACT MUST PAST. LIKE THE POPE SAID RACISM IS A SIN, ANTISEMITIC, IS A SIN. GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER. IM SO TIRED OF RACISM. PLEASE GOD HELP US YAHWEH.
So why did Kayleigh Macaroni say Trump called in National Guard? Was she lying?! Omg 😱 no way!! 🙄
The most popular president ever is scared of the people what’s that tell ya ?
Idk why they have not just quit 🙄 I would not defend a bunch of worthless politicians…
The ex C-IN-C Donnyboy Heelspur and his cronies bear the complete blame for the delay and handling the situation with kid gloves only emboldens them. They should all be rounded up and tried for treason. What's the difference between them and foreign terrorists who want to do us harm ??
This smells like rotten fish
We have to make DC a state so that the govenor call National guard.
Why arent Ryan Mcarthy, the Former defense Secretary and Donald Trump in jail already?? This country is a joke!!
At any time that day our commander in chief of the USA could have called out the National Guard.
NO WHERE NEAR A NEWS NETWORK
The so-called delay along with the unusual decision making process implemented especially for January 6 are most suspicious.
If we hadn't have known exactly who sent the Jan 5th memo to the Guard to stand down, this would have become the subject of more conspiracy theories about "us" being under attack by some all powerful "them". But we know exactly who "them" is, which is one specific tiny individual in Trump's administration.
Pinky power and colonial cronyism are the world's biggest threat both domestically and internationally.
140 Capitol police suffered brain injuries, smashed spinal cords, cracked ribs, eye injuries, stabbings and 5 related deaths.
Criminal Lawsuits can now proceed for the 140 Capitol cops, 550 congressional staffers, 531,652 dominated Covid families and Trump rapes.
35 Officers have been investigated and found to have helped the rioters. How do you open a locked door? Ask a cop to open the door with the key.
America's real enemies are the israel lovers in our Congress and Senate. Vote the bums out. 🙂
When will the FBI investigate the Congressmen and Senators who worship Apartheid israel? 🙂 ah ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah
The Secretary of Defence & Chief of Army seem to be responsible her. They need to be prosecuted. They were derilc and led to the loss of lives. They should also be personally liable in civil suit by the families that lost their lives. Further proves that #Trump attempted a coup. And these two are the link to that attempt
I had chills watching Gen. William Walker testify. I wish our lawmakers had his dignity. Thank you for your tremendous service.
There is video of a Trump supporter looking down at his fone, he then shouts that the Pentagon refused to help them, they were told no,and that's when the rioters knew, that they were given the green light to do what they wanted , but whom sent the text ? This was before the policeman was murdered , only those inside would have known ,that help wasn't coming, but if Trump really did not know what was about to happen, then why did he not go ? It was after all, his idea, I'm leaving here and walking to the capital building and you are all coming with me, that's what he said .
The other obvious benefit to not delaying the response, is these people could have been captured arrested on the scene, instead of being allowed to scatter all over America.
3 hours and 19 minutes of delay this was a setup from the inside it doesn’t take long 3 hours and 19 minutes before they got some HELP people lost their life’s behind their behavior .Who’s going to be held accountable for their actions?
General David Flynn working at the Pentagon who is Michael Flynn's brother. David Flynn said he wasn't in the room but he was a part of the stalling
This delay was definitely planned by trumps co-conspirators, there is no other explanation, period!
Lot Trolls out on these sites. For all those say that the left was in on the Capital Riot>>> you should sit on the jury of the charged and make sure the suckers get a long sentence. Especially the ones holding the Trump Flags. Talk about betraying your brothers>>> WOW ! >>>Yeah, and the Left tries to overturn an election that just elected who they wanted. I swear some of these Trumpers would FART in bed and blame it on the Dog.
Had no problem with optics when it came to BLM. Sounds like high ups in Military have some White Supremacy Issues .
This is the reason Trump replaced Esper with Chris Miller. They need to put Miller under oath and tear him a new one.
Governor Hogan called in 500 guard members ready to go, yet no one was giving permission; he assembled them anyway. He could see what was called for, why couldn't everyone else?
Subpoena trump. he was the actual hold up, he made sure help was not forthcoming. It is trump the psychopath's doing.
Walker and Flynn are traitors for delaying the deploymen
they lied with delay mail from the postal office we hate approval
Fire him, and all those agencies.
My heart breaks I'm so sorry for the grey area and the loss of life it produce. With that said they helped well to keep our leaders safe 😢ðŸ˜ÂÂ😩 glad you found gaps and we move forward to a better America, one where you never experienced Jan 6 again. God bless you all
Quid pro quo Sleepy Joe and Cocaine Hunter alive and well.
It looks like our government was in greater peril from Trump’s January 6 resurrection than we had previously realized — that there could have been support from within the Pentagon. The undisputed three hour delay for the Pentagon to authorize the dispatch of 155 ready troops to the Capitol is all we need to know to appoint an Independent 1/6 Commission.
Show the clip where they denied using the words optics from Charlie Flynn (Michale Flynn’s brother) that’s the story or should be the lead.
Some traitors at the pentagon. Remember a number of jobs in the pentagon were given to trump loyalists in the last month. So yes the riots were planned by trump and the pentagon officials
Isn't security of the capitol Nancy Pelosi's legal duty/responsibility as the Speaker of the House?
This is what really confuses me about all this. Where was she in the chain of command?
Where is she now to answer questions?
If it was a black lives matters members that raided the capital bldg, the national guard would’ve been there at the drop of a dime.. no room for debate
Biden is president there won't be another delay. Let these idiots attack all they want.
WORLD WATCH: THIS IS VERY SAD…. TO SEE DEMOCATIC LEADERS AND
REPUBLICAN LEADERS GO HEAD TO HEAD ABOUT THE LAW, YET THEY ARE ALL THE
ONES CORRUPTING THE LAW AND LYING TO THE AMERICAN CITIZEN AND THEIR VERY
OWN PEOPLE….???