January 6 Oversight with No Bull

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🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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On Wednesday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee and the Senate Rules Committee held their second hearing to examine the January 6 attack on the Capitol. What explains the delay in deploying National Guard troops? What reforms are the agencies planning to implement in order to better handle the threat posed by domestic extremist violence and white supremacist groups? And why was the intelligence reporting late and insufficient? Four officials from different agencies testified: Melissa Smislova, who performs the duties of the undersecretary of homeland security for intelligence and analysis; Jill Sanborn, assistant director of the FBI counterterrorism division; Robert Salesses, who performs the duties of the assistant secretary for homeland defense and global security at the Defense Department; and Major General William Walker, the commanding general of D.C.'s National Guard. We took out all the nonsense, the opening statements and the repetition, and brought you every question and every answer, only once.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:34.1	And during that call, Chief Sun pleaded to have National Guard support at the Capitol
0:41.7	immediately.
0:43.5	That was reinforced by Chief Conti.
0:46.8	We need them there right now.
0:49.0	The Capitol will be breached.
0:52.8	I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast March 5th, 2021.
0:59.6	On Wednesday the Senate Homeland Security Committee and the Senate Rules Committee held their
1:04.2	second hearing to examine the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
1:10.2	Four officials from different agencies testified from the Department of Homeland Security
1:16.1	from the FBI, from the Pentagon and from the DC National Guard.
1:22.4	These witnesses were Melissa Smithlova who performs the duties of the Undersecretary at DHS's
1:29.4	Office of Intelligence and Analysis.
1:32.2	Jill Sandborn, Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division.
1:38.2	Robert Celessis who performs the duties of the Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense
1:44.0	and Global Security at the Defense Department and Major General William Walker, the Commanding
1:49.4	General of DC's National Guards.
1:52.4	We took out all the nonsense, all the opening statements, all the repetitions and brought
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