. >> mr. stenger, did you get the report? >> no. >> mr. irving? >> i did not. >> then there's the issue of what took the national guard so long to get on the scene. acting chief of d.c. police robert contee said the first guard members didn't show up until 4 and a half hours until after his initial request. >> chief sund was pleading for the deployment of the national guard. and in response to that, there was not an immediate yes. the national guard is responding. yes, the national guard is on the way. the response was more asking about the plan, what was the plan for the national guard. the response was more focussed on in addition to the plan the optics about how this looks with boots on the ground on the capitol. and my response to that was simply, i was just stunned that, i have officers that were out there literally fighting for their lives and, you know, we're kind of going through what seemed like an exercise to really check the boxes. and there was not an immediate response. >> let me be clear, optics as portrayed in the media played no ro