Posted on 08/28/2024 6:04:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
"We will have totally failed. And we've got to take some responsibility," Pelosi can be heard saying as she fled building in footage shot by her daughter.
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As she fled the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear she did not want to evacuate the building and expressed regret that the National Guard had not been pre-positioned to protect Congress ahead of the contentious certification of the 2020 election results, according to video footage turned over this week to House Republican investigators and obtained by Just the News.
“We're calling the National Guard now? They should have been here to start out,” Pelosi can be heard saying as she flees through a tunnel under the Capitol on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, as her daughter Alexandra videotaped her for an eventual HBO movie.
Pelosi’s expressions of personal regret were not fully aired in that documentary and only recently were turned over to House Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk, who took over the congressional investigation of Jan. 6 security failures when Republican came into control of the House in January 2023.
The most recent footage given to Congress provides a stark contrast to Pelosi’s public insistence she had no responsibility for security arrangements by Jan. 6 even though the top House security officer, Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, reported to her.
In the footage, Pelosi can be seen pressing for Irving to resign immediately. And she acknowledged that her fellow lawmakers had repeatedly pressed her ahead of Jan. 6 to ensure there was adequate security.
“How many times did members ask, are we prepared? Are we prepared? We're not prepared for the worst,” Pelosi stated on the tape.
Later, she added: "We will have totally failed. And we've got to take some responsibility."
Just the News reported two years ago that President Donald Trump’s outgoing Pentagon leadership team offered the National Guard to Congress via the Capitol Police four days ahead of the Jan. 6 crisis but was turned down.
The offer and its rejection by Deputy Police Chief Sean Gallagher was memorialized in an after-action timeline created by the Capitol Police to review security failures.
"Carol Corbin (DOD) texts USCP Deputy Chief Sean Gallagher, Protective Service Bureau, to determine whether USCP is considering a request for National Guard soldiers for January 6, 2021 event," the timeline stated in the lone entry listed for Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021.
The following morning, the timeline states, "Gallagher replies to DOD via text that a request for National Guard support not forthcoming at this time after consultation with COP Sund."
You can read the full police timeline here:
File USCPJan.6Timeline.pdf [LINK AT SITE]
The rejection came as the Capitol Police department was beginning to change its assessment, recognizing that the massive Trump rally to protest the November 2020 election results planned for Jan. 6, 2021, had the potential for violence.
Earlier analyses suggested such violence was unlikely and the Jan. 6 event was likely to be “similar to the previous Million MAGA March rallies in November and December,” police records show
But by late December, Capitol Police internal emails and documents show, information began flowing in that some groups expected to attend the Jan. 6 were talking on social media or fringe websites about tactics like blocking tunnels leading to the Capitol.
In bombshell testimony last year, ex-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told Congress he wanted the National Guard in advance of Jan. 6 but was denied permission to ask for them by the top security officials reporting to Pelosi and incoming Senate Leader Chuck Schumer.
“On January 3, I requested the assistance of the National Guard to support my perimeter and was denied by the two Sergeants at Arms over the concerns for politics and optics,” he testified.
The new footage turned over to Congress also shows that Pelosi was already plotting even as she was exiting the building to exact political revenge on Trump for staging the rally the same day as the vote certification.
“I just feel sick about what he did to the Capitol and the country today,” the then-speaker could be heard saying as she left in an SUV after order was restored and she returned to the Capitol to certify the vote. “He’s got to pay a price for that.”
Earlier during the initial evacuation, Pelosi made clear her resistance to leaving the Capitol was driven by a desire to get Biden approved for president and not let the protesters prevail.
“First of all, I don't agree with this, taking me out of the chair,” she said. “But if they stop the proceedings, they will have to succeed in stopping the validation of the president of the United States.”
Weird how the main stream media isn’t I terested in the story, but had it been a republican who refused security, the media would be all over it and the gop peep would be out of a job
The general feeling among Rats, and critical observers on our side, AND ESPECIALLY Pelosi Queen of the Rats, is that J6 was a masterstroke.
Some loose ends like Mr. Pipe Bomb and the guy with the MilSpec haircut ushering people in, but generally very effective.
Outcomes: Our side will not question elections or even think about presenting themselves to protest at the time of certification, which is a crucial time to prevent POTUS election theft.
So well done, Rats. Wish we had tacticians with this kind of brains on our side. Alas.
She was probably drunk and polishing her industrial strength gavel and forgot all about the National Guard.
She was so made about Trump cancelling her vacation during the government shutdown she’s pleading insanity ?
Failed, my derriere.
It was THE PLAN.
BS ... she knew exactly what she was doing and made the recording for such a time as this!
• The election in 2004 was no different than 2000, with Democrats once again denying the results of an election they did not agree with.
• In 2005, then-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and then-Rep. Stephanie Tubbs (D-OH) filed an objection to the certification of Ohio's electoral college votes.
• 31 House Democrats voted to reject electoral votes from the state of Ohio, including Reps.:
• • Barbara Lee (D-CA)
• • Bennie Thompson (D-MS)
• • Corrine Brown (D-FL)
• • Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
• • Ed Markey (now Senator) (D-MA)
• • James Clyburn (D-SC)
• • Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)
• • Maxine Waters (D-CA)
• • Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
• • Sam Farr (D-CA)
• • Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX).
• In 2005, House Democrats authored a report claiming there were "numerous, serious election irregularities" in Ohio's presidential vote.
• In 2004, then-DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe commissioned a "comprehensive investigative study on election practices in Ohio" to address "legitimate questions and concerns."
• In 2006, then-DNC Chairman Howard Dean stated that he was "not confident that the election in Ohio was fairly decided" in 2004.
• • In 2008, Dean accused Republicans of stealing elections and inferred they stole the election in 2004.
• Then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) questioned the "integrity" of electronic voting machines in the 2004 election.
We’ve got to take some responsibility.
Then drop all charges on Trump you own the problem.
never forget the reason for the left’s treason, a peaceful protest to protect election integrity.
https://rumble.com/v181401-january-6th-rally-2021.html
This is done by her deliberately to infer she had nothing to do with the setup of the “insurrection”.
That’s all.
This video statement was made as part of a cover story — as if she takes responsibility for underestimating the violent insurrectionists. This is virtue-signaling theater.
We know the whole thing was a setup, and she had to be in on it.
If you watched this expose “exclusive” supposedly to CBS, aired this morning., the BEST PART was the commentator following the video who said this proves the whole thing was Trump’s fault.
I rolled over laughing and looked at the wife, OK Jan 6th resurrected and now a crazy blame Trump conclusion....it must be their contribution to the Kamala campaign.
That is only half the story.
She wanted a crisis, and had rewritten the procedures in the event of a crisis/threat...so that the hours of debating questioned Electoral submissions would be eliminated.
Nobody is tying these two things together.
Apologizing for not bringing in the National Guard is a distraction from the Selection of Joe Biden.
“Outcomes: Our side will not question elections or even think about presenting themselves to protest at the time of certification,”
My thoughts are that next time people won’t show up with signs and flags and casually hold the door for each other. If it happens again the results will be shocking, to some.
Listen, liar! Face on fire! (seems to be melting)
With a mask on, a person can say anything while being video tapped, and can deny saying anything. No matter what end anyone goes to prove it is really her saying anything, she will deny it based on her wearing a mask and nobody could see her lips moving to make those awful sounds that only her voice makes..
She regrets not bringing in the national guard to kill even more patriots.
BTTT
I listened to it, I think less than a minute. If she talks like that in real life I'd commit hari kari as her voice is that annoying.
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