- A video released by the House panel investigating the Capitol riot shows Pelosi talking to Pence.
- During their call, Pelosi told Pence she worried about him still remaining in the Capitol building.
A video newly released by the House panel investigating the Capitol riot shows the camaraderie between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Mike Pence as they tried to figure out what to do on January 6, 2021.
The video, which $4 obtained exclusively from the January 6 select committee, shows Pelosi getting on a call with Pence from a secure location in which she and other lawmakers were being kept during the riot. Pence, meanwhile, was being held in a garage under the Capitol.
"How are you? Oh my goodness, where are you? God Bless you," Pelosi can be heard telling Pence in the video, reassuring him that he was "very safe."
During the call, Pelosi told Pence that she was told it "could take days to clear the Capitol" but that there were places the House and Senate could meet to certify the 2020 election.
"I worry about you being in that Capitol building," Pelosi told Pence. "Don't let anybody know where you are."
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Pence was, per $4, under immense pressure from Trump to help him overturn the election. Trump, for one, $4, that he wanted Pence to "do the right thing" and have "courage."
Protesters were $4 during the riot that started after Trump's speech. Pence, his wife, and their daughter $4 who were storming the Capitol.
Sources with knowledge of the matter $4 that Trump later expressed to aides that he was agreeable to the idea that Pence should be hanged.