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On August 10th, Tucker Carlson released an interview on his Platform X account which featured Steven Sund, the former Capital Police Chief who was in charge on January 6, 2021. Carlson said they had previously done a lengthy interview with Sund, which was supposed to be released in April, but never was, so he redid the interview asking Sund about everything he saw on that day that wasn’t made known to the public.

"This feels like the dam breaking to me," North Carolina representative Dan Bishop said. "So many obvious and unanswered questions One of them: Why are we 8 months into GOP control of the House without this being fully accounted for? Leadership and chairmen of committees of jurisdiction must act or answer for not acting."

Sund, who has over 30 years of law enforcement experience in Washington D.C., explained how this event was handled very differently and strangely compared to all other similar occurrences in the Capitol. He was left out of intelligence reports from the FBI, DHS, and General Mark Milley who were not telling him the details of potential danger they had received.

“I’ve done many national special security events and this was handled differently,” Sund said. “No intelligence, no JIB [Joint Intelligence Briefing], no coordination, no discussion in advance, it’s almost like they wanted the intelligence to be watered down for some reason. It wasn’t right, the way intelligence was handled and the way we were set up on the Hill.” (10:00)

Sund explains how there is a law requiring him to seek approval before activating any federal agencies in the Capitol, even in an emergency. When the attack started on January 6, he made the calls for that approval to Paul Irving, the Sergeant at Arms at that time, and Michael Stenger, the chairman of the Capitol Police Board, and both tell him they will wait for a response from the chain of command before responding, despite having the authorization to grant him approval in face of emergency.

“For the next 71 minutes I make the 32 calls to a number of agencies, and 11 of those calls are follow-up calls,” Sund said. “Finally at 2:09 pm, 71 minutes later, I’m finally given approval.” The 55-minute interview was posted to Carlson’s X platform page. “That sounds like a setup to me,” Carlson said. “I’m sorry, it does.”