Counterterror Nominee Says Trump’s Intelligence Community Is Actively Investigating if the FBI Helped Direct the Trump Supporters on Jan. 6

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KELLY: “This concerns January 6th. Do you believe that the violence on January 6th was intentionally organized or directed?”
KENT: “Still under investigation. We're looking into whether elements of the government could have enhanced the criminal acuity of some of the rioters that day.”
KELLY: “So you've said on Twitter that the FBI and the intelligence community were involved in planning and directing the riot. Is that correct?”
KENT: “Sounds like something I said, yeah.”
KELLY: “And what evidence do you have for that claim?"
KENT: "So we've already identified that there were multiple confidential human informants ran by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies that were present in the crowd that day directing, removing barriers, those types of things. This has been investigated widely. We're continuing to look into it. The intelligence -- I would say the FBI and other elements of the law enforcement apparatus attempted to suppress the fact that there was undercover confidential human informants that were part of these different groups. We also had intelligence leading up to January 6th, that there was going to be violence that day.”