The footage shows Nancy Pelosi admitting to her chief of staff Terri McCullough that she participated in the refusal to have National Guard presence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Pelosi says, "I take responsibility."
The official Oversight Subcomittee X account wrote in a post on the platform formerly known as Twitter:
"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."'
Here is the video and the full transcript:
BREAKING 🚨 Newly released footage shows Nancy Pelosi taking responsibility for not having National Guard presence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
— Toria Brooke (@realtoriabrooke) June 10, 2024
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Nancy Pelosi: "We have responsibility, Terri. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have."
"This is ridiculous. You're gonna ask me in the middle of this thing when they've already breached the inaugural stuff that we should call the Capitol police? I mean, the National Guard?"
Pelosi continues, "Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?"
Terri: "They thought that they had sufficient--"
A masked and seemingly incoherent Pelosi responds, "No, that is not a question or they had. They don't know. They clearly didn't know. And I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more."