WASHINGTON — Hours after a mob Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building and attacked dozens of police officers in an attempt to reach members of the US Congress, then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
The comments came in a video shot by Pelosi’s daughter, documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, that HBO recently released. to Congress. On Tuesday, NBC News reviewed more than 30 minutes of nearly 48 hours of video covering the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including footage showing Pelosi being led away from the building by a security detail. The National Guard will respond to the Capitol.
Emerging expressions go further public ones he did on Jan. 7, when he said Trump had “incited an armed insurrection against America” and “instigated” an attack that “will forever stain our nation’s history.”
A video aired on HBO later that day shows Pelosi speaking to her staff while sitting under a broken ornate mirror. When a pro-Trump mob ransacked his office a few hours earlier.
“We have sworn to protect our country from all foreign and domestic enemies,” he said. “There is an internal enemy in the White House. Let’s not talk about it.”
The previously unreleased video shows Pelosi taking responsibility for not pressing law enforcement agencies harder about their pre-attack preparations.
“Why wasn’t the National Guard there from the beginning?” Pelosi asked. “They obviously didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not preparing them for more,” he said on Jan. 6 as he was escorted away by security. “It is stupid that we are in such a situation.”
“They thought these people were going to be civilized? Did they think these people were cursed? What’s missing here in terms of expectation?” he added.
The comments also suggest that Pelosi is skeptical of the motivations of law enforcement, which generally tends to be conservative. (For example, a senior FBI official was warned (In the hours after the attack, many in the office “sympathized” with the Capitol rioters.)
“Shame on you,” Pelosi said as security escorted her to nearby Fort McNair. “Shame. I’m suspicious of them and their motivations, to be honest.”
Finally, the House Committee on January 6 refrained from is in focus the law enforcement failures in the year causing an attack. Instead — as Pelosi did immediately after the Capitol riot — he zeroed in on Trump’s role.
The new video also shows Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., making a mockery of Trump’s pardon rioters, a position again confirmed by Republican presidential nominee Trump in reference to the Jan. 6 indictments.”pledges“and”incredible patriots.”
Asked by Pelosi’s daughter on Jan. 7 how she felt about “ending it” with Trump after Congress confirmed she lost the election, a weary Pelosi says in a new video that there must be consequences for her actions.
“I feel bad for what he did to the Capitol and the country today,” Pelosi said. “He has to pay for it.”