Nancy Pelosi claimed on ABC’s “This Week” that she and others were urgently requesting the National Guard during the Capitol Riots.
“It’s very clear what happened that day,” Pelosi said.
“And at that same time, from the undisclosed location, Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell and I were begging the administration to send the National Guard, to send the National Guard.” (Trending: First Moon Mission In 50 Years Blasts Off)
“We spoke to the Army, the Secretary of the Army,” she added. “‘Well, I don’t know. It takes time. I have to talk to my boss about it.’ His boss being the acting Secretary of Defense, who that one thing and another.”
“So it took hours, hours of what we have seen transpire, hours where we saw people going under the dome that Lincoln built,” she added. “Lincoln built the dome during the Civil War. People said, ‘don’t build the dome, use the steel, and then person power, the manpower for the war. And he said, ‘no, I must show our resolve and our strength to build the dome’ and to see the confederate flag under that dome, to see the disrespect.”
“They’re coming,” she said. “A bullet in my head, hanging Pence, and the President being so casual about it. So it’ll be interesting to see how we proceed. But remember this, whether it was our testimony for the Electoral College case, whether it was what the January 6th committee put forth and what you’re hearing today, overwhelmingly coming from the Republicans.”
However, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund contradicted her, stating that Pelosi and McConnell denied his requests for National Guard assistance due to “optics” and lack of intelligence support.
Sund detailed the 71-minute delay in receiving approval, highlighting the frustration and anger at the delayed response.
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“Big picture, just to restate,” Tucker Carlson said. “You’ve seen many things like this, and as you just said, this was very different. This was handled very differently. By whom?”
“By the intelligence. I’d say one, by the intelligence agency, two by the military,” Sund said. “So the reason why I say the military, think of this, by federal law, Congress passed a law that requires me to go to the Sergeant at Arms, Capitol Police Board, in advance of an event and to request federal resources such as the National Guard.”
“So, Congress passed the law,” he said. “It’s 2 US Code 1970. Look it up. Just make sure you look it up before December 22 when they changed it. So what was in effect on the 6th? That requires me to go and get approval for bringing in National Guard or federal assistance in advance.”
“I have to go to the Capitol Police Board and get approval from congressional leadership in advance like I did on January 3rd. I’m denied twice because of ‘optics’ and because the intelligence didn’t support it. So think about that.”
“Let me ask you, who made that decision?” Tucker asked. “Who denied you?”
“I was denied by Paul Irving, House Sergeant at Arms, and also Mike Stenger, Senate Sergeant at Arms,” Sund said. “January 3rd.”
“Who do they work for?” Tucker pressed.
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“Everything appears to be a cover up,” Sund said.
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“It would’ve been working for Pelosi on the House side,” Sund said. “Pelosi was the number one boss, and then McConnell on the Senate side.”
“So effectively Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi shut down your request,” Tucker said.
“My requests were shut down,” Sund said.
“One because of ‘optics,’ which is interesting. You’re going to hear that term come up a couple more times. Optics over the look of the National Guard on the Hill.”
“But yeah, and the Capitol Police Board. I mean, it’s unbelievable that I’m the only Chief of Police in the United States that has a law preventing me. Not just regulations, rules, that say I got to go and get approval to bring in the National Guard. A law.”
“So that’s crazy that Congress is going to pass a law that controls what I can do to protect the Capitol, and even in emergency, so think of this, even while we’re under attack, I have to go to those same two people to request the National Guard to be brought in,” he said.
“I have 340 National Guard that have been activated,” he remarked. “At least 150 to 180 of those are in the city, many of them within eyesight of the Capitol. We got to come under attack at 12:53, 12:55. I called the Washington D.C. Police Department.”
“I talked to their assistant chief, Jeff Carroll, thank God I had talked to him at 10:59 in the morning and asked him if he could possibly put some additional resource on Constitution Avenue.”
“And he had some CDU platoons up there called him, said, ‘Hey, please send those in right away.’ Because we knew as soon as they came up to their West front, they started attacking. It was going to be bad. 12:58. I make my first call to the Sergeant at Arms asking, saying, ‘Hey, it’s bad. We need assistance. I need a declaration of emergency. I need to bring in the military immediately. And federal resources.’ ”
“I’m told by Paul Irving, quote, ‘I’m going to run up the chain. I’ll get back to you’,” Sund said.
“Chain is Pelosi… his chain would be up to Nancy Pelosi,” Sund added.
“He didn’t have to do that, but he wouldn’t give me authorization. The law says in emergency he can grant me authorization, but he didn’t. He said he’d run up the chain.”
“My next call was over to Mike Stenger,” Sund said.
“He’s now with the Chairman of the Capitol Police Board, told him the same thing. We’re getting our asses handed to us on the West front. I need federal resources. He says, ‘what did Paul tell you?’ He said, ‘he’s running it up the chain,’ goes, ‘let’s wait to hear what we hear from Paul.’”
“For the next 71 minutes, I make 32 calls. I’m in the command center. I’m calling my partner agencies, and by law, one of the first people to offer assistance was United States Secret Service. And by law, I shouldn’t have requested their assistance. I shouldn’t until I had approval.”
“But I’m looking at my men and women having their asses handed to them and my first thought was, ‘f— it, I will take whatever discipline there is. Send me whatever you got.’”
“That’s the one text Secret Service turned over,” Sund said. “You know how they lost all their texts? It’s the text between their Chief Sullivan and myself. Thank God for him.”
“So you make this call immediately, immediately to the House Sergeant Arms, Mr. Irving, who reports to Nancy Pelosi,’ Tucker commented. He says, ‘I’ll call Pelosi’.” He says, ‘I’m running up the chain. Running up the chain. But that is the chain.”
“I want to tell you exactly what said,” Sund said.
“What happens then? Does he get back to you?” Tucker asked.
“So for the next 71 minutes, I make the 32 calls to a number of agencies,” Sund said.
“11 of those calls are follow-up calls. And look in the Senate combined report… they have a great infographic of the call, after call, after call, after call…”
“Where are we on the approval? Where are we on the approval?” he continued.
“He goes, any minute now. Any minute I’m going to get any minute. Finally, at 2:09, 71 minutes later, 2:09, I’m finally given approval. Think about that. 71 minutes later.”
“I immediately call Mike Stenger, say, ‘we’ve got approval.’ I was so pissed off. I made sure that the watch commander, I’m in the command center.”
“I yelled to Jon Wisham, the lieutenant, that’s my watch commander. I said, Jon, mark the time as 2:10, I finally got approval for the National Guard. I was that mad.”
This presents a stark contrast to Pelosi’s narrative and raises questions about the handling of the situation.
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