They should have been here to start out.”
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded congressional leadership "Take some responsibility" over the Capitol security failures on Jan. 6, 2021, in newly unearthed video footage.
According to Just the News, the tapes were obtained and released by the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee led by Chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga. "We will have totally failed," Pelosi said on camera, "And we've got to take some responsibility."
Previous footage of the speaker's evacuation on Jan. 6 released in June showed Pelosi admitting her own culpability in the failures to secure the Capitol.
"Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?" Pelosi asked incredulously in the back of an SUV. "They clearly didn't know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more."
As speaker of the House, Pelosi had been urged to deploy the National Guard multiple times ahead of the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6.
Pelosi refused to accept an offer from the White House at the time to station National Guard reinforcements at the Capitol, and her hand-picked panel to investigate the riot concealed evidence of then-President Donald Trump's requests for added security.
Republican House members barred from Pelosi's select committee found the speaker's office coordinated closely with senior security officials in the run up to Jan. 6, 2021, but failed to accept support from the National Guard over concerns surrounding "Optics." Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who resigned in the riot's aftermath, said Pelosi's deputies turned down requests for preemptive deployment of the National Guard six times before the date of electoral certification.
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