Kash Patel on January 6 National Guard and FBI Deployments

Some Republicans, Mr. Director- Mm-hmm ... argue that Nancy Pelosi staged January 6th and the select committee covered it up.

Based on what you personally- Mm-hmm ... know, what are the verifiable events, um, in the lead up?

A- and, and do you... I know you don't speculate.

You just deal with facts. I'm in a unique position.

Remember, I was the chief of staff for the Department of Defense on January 6th.

We were responsible for the deployment of the National Guard, and what I was forced to testify two years ago, at great personal cost, has now once again, just like Russiagate, been proven true, because all I do is speak the truth.

On January s- actually, in the days before January 6th, we were in the Oval Office where the president, President Trump at the time, authorized, pursuant to law, up to 10 to 20,000 National Guard.

We took that authorization because the law's second part required a request from who?

Nancy Pelosi and the Metropolitan Police and mayor B- and the mayor at the time.

And what did they say? No. And remember what happened for the next two years?

They say, "Oh, Cash is lying. Trump's lying."

And what did we find? Letters of their declination of the National Guard, refusing to have the National Guard show up.

So all I can speak to is the facts, and the facts are those plus this.

Nancy Pelosi and her team were busy filming a movie on January 6th- Her daughter ... while this so-called chaos around her was going down.

If she had... Just look at it this way. If she had said yes to the National Guard and we had 10,000 uniformed military officers establish a secure perimeter, do you think January 6th would have gone differently?

It is intriguing that 250 FBI plainclothes agents were inside the Capitol on January 6th.

I've saw the president's tweet- Mm-hmm ... to get to the bottom of it.

Who placed them there? What were they doing?

Were they inciting violence? What can you tell us, Mr. Director?

This is a great example of the president's initiative to solve all the answers on January 6th, and it's another example of our transparency efforts.

Pursuant to the president, we investigated the matter and found out why FBI agents were placed there in the first place, and it turns out we found documentation and witnesses and whistleblowers that said, "We were forced to go there to do riot control."

Armstrong, do you know what the FBI does not do, ever?

Riot control. Riot control. We don't do that.

So the prior leadership sent 250 some odd men and women into a situation they're not trained for, put them in harm's way, put the individuals out there in harm's way, and also, those individuals have collectively responded or said beforehand that they were forced to go there.

They didn't volunteer to do that. And you believe them?

That's their word, not mine.