“I hope he comes. I want to punch him out. This is my moment,” Speaker Pelosi said about then-President Trump on Jan. 6, according to newly released footage.
"Tell him if he comes here, we’re going to the White House," the speaker jokes, reacting to Trump's speech at the White House ellipse earlier in the day.Another clip shows Pelosi speaking to her staff as a crowd began to amass at the Capitol. In it, Pelosi's chief of staff, Terri McCullough, informs the speaker that the Secret Service had"dissuaded" Trump from coming to Capitol Hill to join his supporters.
"I hope he comes," Pelosi responds."I want to punch him out. This is my moment. I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I want to punch him out, and I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy." The montage presented during the hearing showed congressional leaders pleading for help from governors, the acting secretary of defense and the acting attorney general as rioters attacked the Capitol.
The video at the hearing also showed Pelosi speaking to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam in which she wondered if he could deploy his state’s National Guard troops to the Capitol. She told Northam that House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., was making the same request of Maryland's Gov. Larry Hogan. Schumer and Pelosi were also seen on the phone with acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen asking for him to get Trump to call off his supporters.
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