Lieutenant general Russel Honor joins us now, welcome
back general. Always good to see you. We're gonna get
to the gas issue that you're bringing forward to toda
shortly. But given this morning's news about the
january 6th insurrection, we wa to get your take on
some of the developments given you oversaw security
review for Congress following the assault on the
capitol. So initially, what are your thoughts on the
new developments this morning and what the House select
committee has presented so far Well, our report focused
on the actions of the capitol police uh securing the
capital along with the D.C. Metropolitan Police and
what actions needed to be taken to secure the capital.
Uh well, the House put forward about a $2.9 billion
plan and ended up being 1.8 billion. Uh Senator Leahy
in the Senate did not approve many of the
recommendations that were made to add police. Uh we
recommended 400 additional poli that could be used as
security capital as well as secure members. That was
not approved in the Senate. And as far as what I've
seen come out of the committee, it is evident my
perception was that the White House was complicit and
the president, former president trump motivated the mob
to go to the capitol and disrupt the child of the
balance. That's my perception f the day I watched it
on television and the actions that the president is now
trump has now been documented by people who worked for
him have come forward and said that he was not involved
in preventing the mob but motivating the mob to go to
the capitol to disrupt the election process. Quite
unexpectedly, the investigation now taken a little
bit of a turn examining Secret Service, the very men
and women who are responsible for for protecting
President of the United States taking the bullet uh if
need be. And now there's a case of all these missing
missing text messages from the fifth and the sixth the
day of the ride that they say was part of a device
replacement program. Just to normal purge. Many people
are skeptical about that and now it's on their
investigation and some folks are lawyered up. What what
is your read of that situation That text from two ve
critical days in our history were not saved or
preserved some way by all agencies. The Secret Servic
You know, at the end of the day when we did our
internal investigation with the capitol police and
other government agencies. I said, don't worry,
everything happened at the between the Secret Service
will be recorded. I said the Justice Department wil
have access to that. The things that we can't see
conversations we didn't hear because I've always was
concerned about the coordination between the
President's Secret Service team and the Vice
President's Secret Service team I said don't worry
about the team is what I told my team task force that
was working on this. All that is preserved. The uh that
information will dot the eyes across the tease of what
we didn't see then lo and behold the Secret Service
have lost their records. That's very precarious move.
And it gives rise for many americans to believe. Can
now trust the Secret Service which one of the world's
preeminent law enforcement agen is now tied into a
political mess. Uh Inferring that some of the Secret
Service may supported the big lie and collaborated with
the outgoing president in him achieving his objectives.
So over the weekend Maryland Republican Governor La
Hogan spoke about his efforts to get the National Guard
on scene during the January six attacks. Let's take a
quick listen I was taking action nonstop for three
hours. You know I was on the phone twice with the
leaders of Congress. I was talking to the mayor of D.C.I
sent in a couple of 100 riot trained Maryland state
police. Almost immediately I called up the Maryland
National Guard and we were attempting for several hou
to get approval of the Secretary of Defense which we
didn't get. And I finally several hours later got Ryan
McCarthy acting Secretary of th army to say we could
send the National Guard and we were watching minutes
second minute by minute second by second how violent
things started to progress as we're watching this all
unfold on tv can imagine several hours later. But how
does this what what Hogan said align with your findings
from the security report. Well when we saw that the
transmission in our investigati um when we looked at
the participation of the D.C. Guard with the Maryland
guard prepared to come in. Uh It's disgraceful because
the whole system didn't work. That thing. We had
federal agents all throughout the sea that we're
waiting for. Some invitation from the capitol police.
Hey come help us. That's a crying damn shame our
government didn't work that thing. It did not work.
Even the FBI let us down. Uh Christopher Wray said
didn't know about the intelligence coming in for a
possible attack. Hell if he don't know who knows Uh It
was a lot of complicity going on uh in the federal
agencies uh that day. And everybody looking the other
way you know here not see not no not too much of that
happened. And the 1/6 commission is exposing much of
that. But Governor Hogan did do all he could. The
question is why did people wait our nation. Democra
was on the line. Why would the pentagon, wait till
somebody tell them to go protect the capital. The
United States Department of Defense is raised budgeted
for one reason to protect the United States. They
should not need prevention to go protect the damn
capital. That's their damn job protect the United
States against all enemies. Foreign and domestic yet.
They're waiting for somebody to invite them to go to
the capital because of the way to set these internal
bureaucracies up. That don't make sense. You know, fire
departments don't wait to be invited to go to the fire.
Yet the Department of Defense and area of law
enforcement, many of them waited for permission or
request from the capitol police who were in the middle
of a fight for their lives to be invited to the capital.
That's a crying damn shame. Government didn't work t
big for the work of the police and the metro police who
held the line and prevented the, uh, the balance from
being destroyed by the trump mob.