The House Select Committee on Thursday aired previously unseen footage from Fort McNair, the DC-area Army base where congressional leaders took refuge during the insurrection and scrambled to respond to the unfolding crisis.
The dramatic footage shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top officials working the phones and coordinating with Trump Cabinet members and other officials to attain the resources needed to quell the attack and secure the Capitol.
The video also shows two phone calls between Pelosi and then-Vice President Mike Pence, who took on an impromptu leadership role on January 6, coordinating the emergency response s then-president Donald Trump watched his supporters storm the building on live TV.
The new footage revealed how Schumer implored then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to intervene directly with Trump and tell the president to call off the mob.
During the call, Pelosi told Rosen that the pro-Trump rioters were “breaking the law… at the instigation of the President of the United States.”
“The concern that we have for personal safety transcends everything,” Pelosi told Rosen.
Watch the video below:
7 minutes of newly released footage shows congressional leaders responding to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. https://t.co/KSGveNFqLf pic.twitter.com/9pZswk55c0
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 13, 2022
