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[00:00.000 --> 00:01.960]  I'm Dave Champion.
[00:01.960 --> 00:10.720]  There have been a lot of theories expounded or spread across social media concerning exactly
[00:10.720 --> 00:17.000]  how the Capitol building protesters or rioters or insurrectionists, whatever you'd like to
[00:17.000 --> 00:22.200]  call them, ended up gaining access to the Capitol building.
[00:22.200 --> 00:27.720]  Some of them are, I'll just be kind and say, really unusual.
[00:27.720 --> 00:36.360]  So I'd like to offer my personal opinion on how that went down and why I believe that
[00:36.360 --> 00:41.400]  my personal opinion is perhaps a bit more sensible.
[00:48.920 --> 00:52.160]  Two things need to be said right off the bat.
[00:53.000 --> 00:58.720]  On a reference to what I said just a moment ago, this is my opinion.
[00:58.720 --> 01:03.280]  Oftentimes I speak about legal facts or scientific facts or physiological facts.
[01:03.280 --> 01:06.040]  This is my personal opinion.
[01:06.040 --> 01:11.160]  And of course, you are more than welcome to disagree with my opinion or anybody else's opinion.
[01:11.160 --> 01:17.960]  Secondly, will we ever know factually what went down that day?
[01:17.960 --> 01:18.960]  I don't know.
[01:18.960 --> 01:26.440]  Hopefully there will be some sort of like multi-agency investigation that will in time
[01:26.440 --> 01:28.760]  tell us exactly what went down.
[01:28.760 --> 01:34.440]  And there's been allegations that local police officers from around the country use their
[01:34.440 --> 01:37.080]  badges to badge their way into the building.
[01:37.080 --> 01:41.800]  Again, that may be true, but I don't believe that's the problem.
[01:41.800 --> 01:46.400]  There have been accusations that Capitol police basically opened everything up and let them
[01:46.400 --> 01:47.400]  in.
[01:47.560 --> 01:54.080]  That might have happened with a particular Capitol building police officer who was sympathetic.
[01:54.080 --> 01:56.320]  But again, I don't think that was the systemic problem.
[01:56.320 --> 01:57.520]  I don't think that was the reason.
[01:57.520 --> 02:05.360]  I don't think that was how hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people bent on preventing
[02:05.360 --> 02:09.680]  the constitutional process of electoral vote counting from continuing that day.
[02:09.680 --> 02:15.640]  I don't think that's how that large group made entry into the Capitol building.
[02:15.680 --> 02:20.360]  As many of you know, long ago I used to be in law enforcement.
[02:20.360 --> 02:25.320]  There may have been people who were left leaning in law enforcement.
[02:25.320 --> 02:31.040]  Very few, and the few that were there generally kept their mouths shut because law enforcement
[02:31.040 --> 02:35.240]  generally is relatively right wing.
[02:35.240 --> 02:42.320]  Let me give you my opinion on how people on the left view getting their way in use of
[02:42.480 --> 02:46.480]  force and how people on the right view getting their way and having use of force.
[02:46.480 --> 02:48.320]  What I'm about to say are generalizations.
[02:48.320 --> 02:52.200]  I always have to qualify this because people are so nutty about this kind of stuff.
[02:52.200 --> 02:53.440]  What is a generalization?
[02:53.440 --> 02:59.800]  A generalization means it is not always true, but it's mostly true.
[02:59.800 --> 03:00.800]  It's generally true.
[03:00.800 --> 03:06.160]  Before people go, that's not always true, yeah, I know, it's a generalization.
[03:06.160 --> 03:16.720]  People on the left, they want the power of government used to enforce their will on other people.
[03:16.720 --> 03:21.880]  They want men with guns and batons and tasers and pepper spray and so forth.
[03:21.880 --> 03:29.140]  They want those people to go out and force the leftist's view on the public.
[03:29.140 --> 03:33.800]  But the leftist, again, generally speaking, the leftist, ooh, they don't want to dirty
[03:33.800 --> 03:34.840]  their hands with that.
[03:34.840 --> 03:40.600]  They want to pay rough men with guns and tasers and pepper spray and handguns.
[03:40.600 --> 03:47.360]  They want to pay an army of blue or tan to go out and enforce their will on others.
[03:47.360 --> 03:49.120]  Now my view of the right.
[03:49.120 --> 03:56.080]  The right wants government to enforce their will on everyone who doesn't think like them.
[03:56.080 --> 04:02.760]  But the distinction is people on the right, they're more inclined to want to be the guy
[04:02.960 --> 04:07.800]  with the baton and the gun and the taser and the mace and the handcuffs and so forth, okay?
[04:07.800 --> 04:16.280]  So both sides want force used to enforce their views on everybody who doesn't think like them.
[04:16.280 --> 04:20.980]  But one group is not, their tendency is not to get their hands dirty doing it.
[04:20.980 --> 04:25.120]  The other group, their tendency is much more likely to want to be an enforcer.
[04:25.120 --> 04:28.440]  I'll share with you also that my experience in law enforcement is that this thing where
[04:28.440 --> 04:33.880]  most people in law enforcement are fairly right-wing goes right up the chain of command.
[04:33.880 --> 04:44.280]  I think the only person I know who was an avowed leftist who wore a badge was a gentleman
[04:44.280 --> 04:49.920]  I used to know who was a lieutenant on the Washington, D.C. police department.
[04:49.920 --> 04:56.240]  Other than that, I can't think of any people in law enforcement who were at least overtly leftist.
[04:56.280 --> 05:02.640]  All right, so now let's take this dynamic back to Washington, D.C., January 6th, the Capitol building,
[05:02.640 --> 05:06.960]  the Trump rally in front of the White House, they all march down to the Capitol building
[05:06.960 --> 05:08.400]  and we all know how that went up.
[05:08.400 --> 05:17.720]  Okay, so if I'm right that law enforcement is predominantly right-wing,
[05:17.720 --> 05:24.400]  then whether it's the street cop, which that term would not necessarily apply to Capitol police,
[05:24.400 --> 05:29.400]  the guy working the Capitol grounds, all the way up the chain of command, the supervisors,
[05:29.400 --> 05:34.680]  the sergeants, middle level management, executives, and so forth, you're going to find primarily
[05:34.680 --> 05:37.500]  people who are on the right.
[05:37.500 --> 05:48.280]  If they're on the right, they probably fully accepted the narrative that Trump supporters
[05:49.280 --> 05:55.280]  and do not damage the property of others.
[05:55.280 --> 06:01.480]  Remember how people who were on the right generally, but most specifically Trump supporters,
[06:01.480 --> 06:09.280]  were just livid and condemned the hell out of the protesters who were damaging the federal courthouse in Portland.
[06:09.280 --> 06:18.200]  So if you watch that and you look at all those people who support Trump condemning damage to that courthouse,
[06:18.200 --> 06:23.200]  you would, if you were on the right, think, you know, hey, these are my people and they don't damage
[06:23.200 --> 06:26.200]  a government property and they respect law enforcement.
[06:26.200 --> 06:33.200]  So with that as the construct and knowing that these are Trump supporters who you imagine,
[06:33.200 --> 06:39.200]  if you were one of these law enforcement executives, you imagine, fit the profile I just described,
[06:39.200 --> 06:46.200]  why would you take all sorts of anti-violent rioter precautions for a group that you bought
[06:46.200 --> 06:48.200]  into the narrative that they're totally peaceful?
[06:48.200 --> 06:56.200]  Why would you prepare for violence if you believe they were totally peaceful?
[06:56.200 --> 07:03.200]  We know that the Capitol Police did a little bit of preparation in case there was a little bit of rowdiness
[07:03.200 --> 07:10.200]  because as you can see a small number of DC police officers in full riot gear, you can see them lined up.
[07:10.200 --> 07:13.200]  So we know that there was at least a small contingent.
[07:13.200 --> 07:14.200]  That's probably just SOP.
[07:14.200 --> 07:20.200]  So we can presume that was the minimal preparation under the standard operating procedures
[07:20.200 --> 07:23.200]  for the Capitol Police when a group is supposed to show up.
[07:23.200 --> 07:31.200]  We know from statements made by both DC Capitol Police management and from spokespeople at the Pentagon
[07:31.200 --> 07:38.200]  that there was no advanced coordination with the Pentagon concerning the Washington DC National Guard.
[07:38.200 --> 07:45.200]  In fact, what we know now is that when the DC police reached out by phone to the Pentagon and said,
[07:45.200 --> 07:52.200]  hey man, we need the National Guard here right now, the Pentagon was like, what do you mean right now?
[07:52.200 --> 07:55.200]  And the Pentagon wanted to know to do what?
[07:55.200 --> 07:58.200]  There had been so little communication in advance.
[07:58.200 --> 08:04.200]  The Pentagon didn't even know specifically when the DC, when the Capitol Police were calling.
[08:04.200 --> 08:05.200]  They didn't even really know what they wanted.
[08:05.200 --> 08:10.200]  They were like, OK, so stop telling us numbers because apparently we need you to send hundreds of guys.
[08:10.200 --> 08:15.200]  And so the Pentagon was like, stop talking to us about numbers and talk to us about what your goals are.
[08:15.200 --> 08:17.200]  Oh, they're rioting. They're tearing the place up.
[08:17.200 --> 08:19.200]  OK, so riot control.
[08:19.200 --> 08:25.200]  So then the Pentagon, they did fire up the DC National Guard,
[08:25.200 --> 08:32.200]  but the DC National Guard doesn't run around with batons and shields and all the riot gear and riot helmets.
[08:32.200 --> 08:34.200]  They don't run around with that stuff all the time.
[08:34.200 --> 08:42.200]  So it took them 90 minutes to equip the National Guard troops who were already for other reasons in DC.
[08:42.200 --> 08:47.200]  It took them 90 minutes to equip them as riot police and get them over to the Capitol building.
[08:47.200 --> 08:50.200]  And of course, by then, pretty much it was all over with the shouting.
[08:50.200 --> 09:01.200]  So I believe a much more reasonable, sensible alternative is not that there was some vast conspiracy
[09:01.200 --> 09:08.200]  to allow these crazy, of course, people who are Trump supporters falsely claim that it was Antifa.
[09:08.200 --> 09:13.200]  Even the people who are experts both in the intelligence community,
[09:13.200 --> 09:19.200]  law enforcement and in the media who are experts on Antifa have said, no, it's not.
[09:19.200 --> 09:24.200]  And even some of the Fox News commentators have said, no, just stop with that story.
[09:24.200 --> 09:26.200]  It wasn't Antifa.
[09:27.200 --> 09:35.200]  There are a ton of stories that you can choose to grab on this issue and make them your own.
[09:35.200 --> 09:40.200]  There's got to be, I don't know, 15 or 20 different narratives on what happened that day and how the crowd got access.
[09:40.200 --> 09:42.200]  I'm sharing mine with you by all means.
[09:42.200 --> 09:45.200]  Choose the one that makes the most sense to you.