New footage released by House Republicans investigating the Select Committee on Jan. 6 from last Congress exposed then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledging her own culpability in the Capitol turmoil.
On Monday, the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight released the tape obtained from HBO and filmed by Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra, who published a documentary on the former speaker with the network. Pelosi is captured on camera in an SUV speaking to her chief of staff, Terri McCullough, as the speaker and her team were taken to Fort McNair.
“Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?” Pelosi asks incredulously, adding the lack of preparation for mass demonstrations in the capital that day was her responsibility. “They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more.”
🚨 Since January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi spent 3+ years and nearly $20 million creating a narrative to blame Donald Trump.
NEW FOOTAGE shows on January 6, Pelosi ADMITTED:
“I take responsibility.”
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/95a0totTWB
— Oversight Subcommittee (@OversightAdmn) June 10, 2024
The failure to preemptively deploy the National Guard or even adequately arm the Capitol Police to confront the potential for unrest on the day of the joint session of Congress was at the center of a minority report published by House Republicans in December 2022. Republican House members barred from Pelosi’s select committee established to investigate the riot went on to probe the security failures at the Capitol anyway and found Pelosi’s office coordinated closely with senior security officials in
