For those Republicans involved?
‘Never Forget’???
Politico goes to the video tape and then House Speaker Pelosi……..
The same video tapes the Jan. 6 House Lawmakers of BOTH Parties , saw in the investigation of the situation that day….
The faults come from the top to the bottom, which got beat up and hurt…..
How can these same people can stand up and defend their party leader?….
The then President of the United State who URGED the crowd to protest and action, is shameful, and more than that?
The same man who did NOT move to give the commands to have the situation quelled sooner, or al at until cornered?
Disgraceful…..And that same ex-President who swore on Bible to serve and protect this country is out saying he’ll pardon these criminals is beyond belief….
At the center of their confusion was the status of their request for help from the National Guard. Questions around that issue began as they were leaving the Capitol, continued through a series of phone calls placed from Fort McNair to nearby governors, top military officials and D.C. leaders, and have carried over into the work of the previous Jan. 6 committee and current GOP-led subcommittee.
In one clip at Fort McNair, Schumer is speaking with then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and asking him if he denied a request for the National Guard. He argued as the Capitol was being overrun that “we’re like a third world country here.”
In the days leading up to Jan. 6, Capitol security officials had initially expected street violence and skirmishes, not a concerted mob attack, so they did not seek preemptive support from the National Guard. But as the crowd swelled outside the building — fueled in part by Donald Trump’s promise to join his supporters — overwhelmed Capitol Police sought assistance from other police departments and the guard.
Despite their urgent pleas, it took more than three hours for the guard to arrive. Four former members of the National Guard — in private interviews and a subsequent public hearing in April with the current subcommittee — described a frustrating experience of being prevented for hours from being able to respond on Jan. 6 and recounted senior Army officials expressing concern about the “optics” of deploying the Guard.
But they saved their fiercest criticism for McCarthy, who they described as unresponsive to their outreach in the midst of the chaos. McCarthy and then-acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller have acknowledged in their interviews with the previous Jan. 6 committee that they had a miscommunication about the deployment. Two of the four also said that Trump could have expedited the process by cutting through the bureaucratic clutter and calling Pentagon leaders directly on Jan. 6, which by all accounts he didn’t do….
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In other clips newly provided to House Republicans, congressional leaders appear confused about whether the request for National Guard assistance was denied. They ask, multiple times, if anyone has heard about it being turned down.
McCarthy, in a phone call, tells Schumer that he “never said no” but that he had to “get permission” and “talk to my boss,” though he doesn’t specify who he is referring to. Pelosi, in a separate phone call, tells then-Vice President Mike Pence, who was sheltering at the Capitol at the time, that they “were disappointed that the [Secretary of Defense] took so long to approve the National Guard.”
She noted guard personnel were already at the Capitol but didn’t have permission to act.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser also told Pelosi and Schumer in a phone call around 3:30 p.m. — based on the time on a television in the same shot — that Capitol security officials requested help “probably more than an hour ago” but there have been “mixed messages” about the status.
“I thought there was some resistance from the secretary of the Army,” Bowser is heard telling Schumer and Pelosi over the phone…..