LAURA INGRAHAM (FOX NEWS HOST): I was at Lafayette Park the weekend of Memorial Day, on that Monday night when the St. John Church was set on fire and the utility building. It's a historic building, a small building in Lafayette Park, it was smashed into and they tried to burn that down, too. I mean, that was chaotic. Bricks were thrown, I got a lot of it on video. A lot of the people who are, I'm glad, condemning any violence or intrusion into federal installations and so forth were markedly silent when there was widespread violence and pushing back on police and National Guard troops and attempts to breach that fence right outside the White House perimeter.
And so that was happening and that was terrifying, I got to tell you. I was there. It was terrifying, it wasn't all roses and sunshine and peaceful. They tried to burn down St. Johns's church. So we all have to be, as Americans, concerned when the system of government is not trusted by tens of millions of people on both sides.
In 2016, the left tried to take down a duly elected president. In 2020, we have tens of millions of Americans who believe that state legislatures and state officials didn't follow their own rules and laws and did not properly account for votes. That has to be addressed. So we need to restore faith in the system and what we're seeing today I'm afraid is not going to restore faith in the system and probably not going to accomplish a hell of a lot either.