by Christian Toto at Just the News
HBO eventually gave House Republicans video clips from filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi documentaries on the Jan. 6 riot, including her mother, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, taking “responsibility” for inadequate security, including the National Guard not being at the Capitol beforehand. But the cable TV network has still not given an answer about why those clips never made the final cut.
“We’re calling the National Guard now?” Pelosi is seen saying in one of the videos, amid the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. “They should have been here to start out.”
In another clip, also received this summer by the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, Pelosi is heard saying about those in charge of Capitol security, “I take responsibility for not having them just prepared for more.”
The California Democrat’s comments appear to undercut a key J6 narrative that then-President Trump was responsible for the Guard not being at the Capitol.
Trump said the day before the riot to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller that “they” were going to need 10,000 troops, according to a statement Miller provided to a House committee in May 2021. However, there is no evidence that Trump signed an order requesting 10,000 Guard troops, amid domestic law enforcement believing they had sufficient personnel, according to the Associated Press.
Alexandra Pelosi used footage shot Jan. 6 in not one but two HBO documentaries – “Pelosi in the House” and “The Insurrectionist Next Door.” The aforementioned clips didn’t make the final cut on either.
When asked earlier this month for an explanation, HBO had no comment.
The request for all of the video was made by
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