{"id":54012,"date":"2025-03-07T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54012"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:04:55","slug":"cruz-focused-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54012","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Focused On >>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-343.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-343.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-343-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A newly surfaced video clip shows Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questioning Kash Patel during his FBI director confirmation hearing about security decisions before Jan. 6, 2021. Cruz focused on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s rejection of National Guard support ahead of Trump\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, Patel was chief of staff to acting Defense Secretary Christopher C. Miller and had direct knowledge of security arrangements. Patel stated the Defense Department had prepared days in advance, and Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard troops. However, local officials needed to request them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cruz asked if Capitol Police declined assistance, to which Patel confirmed multiple requests were rejected. Patel also affirmed that the Capitol Sergeant at Arms, reporting to Pelosi, had denied National Guard support. Additionally, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser formally declined extra troops in writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund previously testified that Pelosi\u2019s team dismissed his request for National Guard support, stating she \u201cwould never go for it.\u201d Sund believes the troops\u2019 presence that day could have been a \u201cgame-changer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=53956\">ALSO READ&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly surfaced video clip shows Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questioning Kash Patel during his FBI director confirmation hearing about security decisions before Jan. 6, 2021. Cruz&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54014,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54012\/revisions\/54014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}