Pelosi and Schumer showed true grit and leadership as democracy and their own lives almost ended, in this new footage of them right after they fled the US Capitol on January 6 and transformed a nearby military base into a command center, where they coordinated with Mike Pence to try to quell the insurrection and certify the 2020 election.
Pelosi went on to tell Pence that she had been told it would take “days” for the Capitol to be secured, and thus, “we logistically want to bring all the members here, House and Senate.” But that never materialized: rank-and-file lawmakers and congressional staffers stayed inside the Capitol throughout the siege, with many barricading themselves in their offices.
“I worry about you being in that Capitol room,” Pelosi tells Pence, who was holed up in a loading dock underneath the Capitol with his security detail. “Don’t let anybody know where you are.”
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The shaky video footage shows Pelosi and her entourage of staff and family members getting whisked away from the building, escaping the fast-approaching rioters and descending down a narrow staircase
“If they stop the proceedings, we will have totally failed,” Pelosi says, as she evacuated the Capitol, adding later, “We have got to finish the proceedings, or else they will have a complete victory.”
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approximately 10 lawmakers huddle around a phone in a bipartisan scrum to speak with Miller, the acting Defense secretary. Schumer presses Miller on the slow National Guard response, and informed Miller that some senators were trapped in their hideaway offices near the breached Senate chamber.
McConnell tells Miller that troops need to be “getting there in one hell of a hurry, you understand?”
“This is an emergency,” Schumer says, “where life and limb are at stake.”
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CNN just posted this video, obtained from Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra Pelosi, who was with her mother on Jan. 6, 2020. It is terrifying but also inspiring, as it shows how close we we were to losing our democracy as well as the lives of our courageous Democratic leaders.