Pelosi Says Jan. 6 Was ‘As if Somebody in the White House Dropped a Bomb’ on Congress
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) described the events of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, saying it “breaks your heart.” NBC’s Lester Holt asked Pelosi Thursday night if she thinks about what would have…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) described the events of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, saying it “breaks your heart.”
NBC’s Lester Holt asked Pelosi Thursday night if she thinks about what would have happened if she had not left the House floor that day.
She responded, “Well, the security was very definite, and when they pulled me down from the podium, I said, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ They said, ‘No, you must go.'”
Pelosi added, “We don’t even have a conversation. You want to do your job. They have to do their job. The visuals of what was happening outside the Capitol and now inside the Capitol…It breaks your heart. It breaks your heart. It’s as if somebody in the White House dropped a bomb on the Congress of the United States.”
Watch her comments below:
Holt also mentioned President Joe Biden’s speech, asking Pelosi, “Do you wish that speech had come sooner than today?”
The House speaker replied, “Well, it came today and is what our country needed right now. And I’m very proud of the president’s speech. It was forceful, truthful, and a wake-up call to some in our country of how close we came to catastrophe for our democracy that day in a way that was unprecedented.”
Biden blasted former President Donald Trump over his false election claims during his speech, as IJR reported.