WASHINGTON – By the busload and planeload, National Guard troops were pouring into the nation's capital on Saturday, as governors answered the urgent pleas of U.S.

defense officials for more troops to help safeguard Washington even as they keep anxious eyes on possible violent protests in their own states.Military leaders spent chunks of Thursday evening and Friday calling states in an unprecedented appeal for more National Guard troops to help lock down much of the city in the days before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

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