Annie Jacobsen

And that is not what we see happening.

Well, I appreciate that a lot.

I think in any situation you want to have your North Star.

You want to have your guiding principles.

You want to be able to refer to a set of, you know, organized ideas so that you can course correct your own potential triggers.

Which is also in our DNA.

I mean, we wouldn't have survived if we if we if we weren't a bit tribal and we didn't sort of have a little bit of protect your own.

And so this is this is the balance.

I think the easiest way for people to understand, because sometimes you just want it to be simple.

It's like boil it down.

That's why I go to the smartest people.

They make this simple for me to understand.

The Insurrection Act allows the president to use military force inside the United States of America.

That's just the simplest, clearest and most important component of it.

The National Guard is there to function at the behest of the governor.

until you know and then you get into title 10 versus title 32 here's where a lot of people's eyes glaze over so we won't but

Once the president says, I'm declaring the Insurrection Act, all sort of states bets are off the table.

All state authority is in deference now to the military.

And if the military moves in following the directives of the president.

The authorization of military force is on the table and soldiers are trained in very specific ways.