Andrew McCabe: National Guard Doesn’t Have the Skill Set of Going on a Police Beat

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>> Andrew, what do the National Guard. He‘s talking about the FBI going on patrol in the streets of D.C. what does that help the situation? Does it? I mean, Jeff Zeleny was saying, you know, this wasn‘t done in coordination with. So I‘m not sure how much even if they know how this is going to work.
>> So, as we understand from the reporting today, there was essentially no coordination with the with, D.C. political or law enforcement leaders. The times when plussing up the manpower contingent on the streets can help is during periods like a presidential inauguration or a national security special event where you need just bodies out there lining, you know, the, the, the path that the president will take as he‘s walking to the White House or something like that, like crowd control. You know, working magnetometers to let people into a secure area, policing night by night on the streets of D.C. is a very different thing. And I can tell you that FBI agents are not trained to do that. That is not what they do. Most FBI agents were not police officers before they came into the FBI. Even the most tactically astute, highly trained FBI agents, those who serve on swat teams. I know this as a former swat team member. They don‘t know. They don‘t do community policing. They don‘t walk beats the way that police officers do every day day in and day out. And if FBI agents don‘t have that skill set, I can tell you for sure. National guards, people don‘t have that either. So it is totally unclear how this infusion of manpower is actually going to have a meaningful impact on the crime rate, which we know is not as it was described by the president today in his justification for calling this emergency. So the entire predication, as it were, the factual basis for this act, for this declaration, we know, is false, because the things he said in the press conference were not true.