After what happened on January 6, all of the National Guard was mobilized to defend the inauguration of Joe Biden. Remember, there was this idea that it could happen again. Well, I was one of those members who had orders to go defend the inauguration. And a day before I was going onto orders onto duty to defend it, I got a call from a commander saying, stand down, we don't need you. (03:45–03:49)
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Asserts that Pete Hegseth had orders to defend Biden's inauguration.
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