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New video shows Nancy Pelosi 'taking responsibility' for breakdown of security on Jan. 6 appeared on nbcmontana.com by KECI.
WASHINGTON (TND) — Newly released, never-before-seen footage from Jan. 6 appears to give more context on the security breakdown that enabled the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The video published by the House Republicans shows then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi evacuating the Capitol. In the footage Pelosi is talking to her chief of staff, blaming herself for not having the National Guard on hand.
We did not have any accountability for what was going on there … and we should have,” said Pelosi. “Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with … I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more.”
The video was shot by Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, for an HBO documentary.
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After the video release, Pelosi went on MSNBC calling the release a Republican attempt to rewrite history.
“The former president of the United States and his toadies do not want to face the facts… They’re trying to do revisionist history on January 6,” Pelosi said.
Republicans argue this upends Democrats’ claims that Donald Trump bears sole responsibility for the time it took to deploy the National Guard. However, the National Guard is under the Army and Air Force, which report directly to the president, not the house speaker.
The speaker does have authority over Capitol Police.
In an interview with WJLA just days after Jan. 6, Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund, who stepped down after Pelosi called for his resignation, stood by his claims that superiors in Congress and the Pentagon rebuffed his requests for National Guard help before and during the riot.
“Quote, ‘I don’t like the optics of the National Guard standing line with the Capitol in the background. I was perplexed, I felt like am I really hearing what I think I’m hearing?” said Sund.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is calling for the members of the Jan. 6 Select Committee to be indicted. Trump alleges the committee deliberately withheld information. So far there’s no strong evidence backing up the former president’s claims.
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