Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. reacts to the ongoing presence of troops in the nation's capitol on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'
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Right now, plans are made to
right now. Plans are made to
keep national guard troops,
possibly into March, partly due
to concerns about the incoming
impeachment proceedings, as well
as major political events that
could attract violent fringe
elements to the nations capital
capital.
Thousands of
soldiers are in our capital city
and CNN is not curious about
that at all. Happy to just
repeat the talking points stop
asking questions:
is it good for the country? What
is it about
represents a state of Louisiana
enjoins us tonight,
im glad you came on tonight.
I think this is a huge topic
being ignored by everybody. Why
do we have thousands of soldiers
in our capital city Greg
seriously?
I have some things to look
out for on judgment day, but one
of them will not be being
ungrateful for our
national guard and
law enforcement officials-
God bless them.
Weve got some nut. Jobs violate
the capital. On January sixth,
we brought in National guard
troops to ensure President Biden
had a safe inauguration.
He did inauguration is over,
but if you look around
Capitol Hill parts of it, look
like a scene from mad max.
There is razor wire fences,
barricades, humvees automatic
weapons, they had tanks and the
news media is always filming
this stuff.
If you ask our democratic
leadership, which is in charge,
theyll tell you, we have all
this here to keep you safe
im, a pretty simple guy Tucker.
I like breakfast food and
straight answers
and im, not accusing anybody of
anything but Washington, D, DOT, C,
being Washington D, DOT c. Someone
might think theres a political
angle here
they might surmise that the
democratic leadership within
news media is trying to send a
message to the american people,
and that message might be the
Republicans. Couldnt keep you
safe, but we, the Democrats, can.
May I interrupt you
right there.
I spent my whole life in d, dot c in
a neighborhood where I spent my
life. No one is protecting the
people of Washington.
We had riots in the city,
they tried to burn the episcopal
church in the city and no one
did anything about it.
This isnt protecting anybody,
except for the people in power,
truly
youre right and the Senate,
who just might be seeing. The
message I just described would
also see the irony because the
Democrats want to defund the
police, but the second message
in the Senate writes: he is a
message from the elites and
that message would be something
along. The lines of uber elites
are very busy important people
very smart, very virtuous. We
have a second home with the
driveway and we are telling you
we need to be very, very afraid
of anybody who didnt vote for
Joe Biden and thats. Why we need
to call in the National Guard
now im, not accusing anybody of
anything- and I probably just
blew any chance I ever had of
having Katie Couric, be a friend
of mine on Facebook, but I think
thats a legitimate point of
view.
I think it is too
its great to see you tonight.
Thank you for that.
At some point, somebody and.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-29.