I'm Ben Micellis from the Midas Touch Network, one of the revelations that we're learning

from the final report that was published by the January 6th committee was that leading

up to January 6th, Donald Trump had floated the idea to some of his closest advisors

and on January 6th, he wanted a procession to be escorted military coup style by 10,000

national guard soldiers into the Capitol building.

Now, we haven't really heard much about this revelation, although we heard that number

before, 10,000 national guard troops and specifically, Donald Trump had mentioned that number,

10,000 national guard troops before that he said that he wanted there on January 6th.

Now, we know from the acting Secretary of Defense at that time, Christopher Miller,

through his testimony before the January 6th committee that at no point in time were 10,000

national guard troops or more or less or any amount of national guard troops ever requested

by Donald Trump or any formal request like that ever being made to him.

In fact, in the only memo that we have, it's a very strange memo from Christopher Miller,

this acting Secretary of Defense at that time to the Secretary of the Army, saying that

if the DC national guard wanted to have any presence there on January 5th or January 6th,

they would need to completely not use their weapons.

I'll read for you that memo.

It's a very, very strange memo.

But first, let me read for you from the January 6th committee report, which references

these 10,000 national guard troops that Trump wanted the procession to march in Napoleonic

military coup style to overthrow our democracy on January 6th.

Then what I want to do is play for you the testimony by Christopher Miller before the

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