Thread by @willchamberlain

Listening to the National Guard briefing now

There are still 13,000 National Guard members in DC, conducting "security missions" according to the brass

This is decreasing down to "only" 7,000 by the end of this week

Press is asking about how many Guardsmen had COVID

No questions yet about why on earth they were all stuck in a parking garage with access to only a single bathroom

Finally a foreign correspondent asks about the National Guard in the parking garage

Head of the DC Guard said - every guardsman has a hotel, they aren't sleeping there, they were just taking a break

Neither member of the brass explained how that happened

Now a journalist is saying "you're not supposed to talk against your employer" and is asking for an investigation into the troops that leaked that they were in the parking garage

Enemy of the people

Head of the DC Guard sounds annoyed by this whole thing, suggesting that the guardsmen should have gone up the chain of command while they were stuck in a parking garage with one bathroom and one power outlet for 5,000 people

30 minute press briefing and it's still not clear why 5,000 National Guardsmen were put in a parking garage

Embarrassing