>Van Orden did not dispute the exchange and defended his actions when asked by The Hill.

>“The history of the United States Capitol Rotunda, that during the Civil War it was used as a field hospital and countless Union soldiers died on that floor, and they died because they were fighting the Civil War to end slavery. And I think that place should be treated with a tremendous amount of respect for the dead,” he said.

>"If anyone had been laying a series of graves in Arlington National Cemetery, what do you think people would say?”

Journalism is way to soft these days…

I don’t know how no one asked him what he thought about 1/6