Pelosi said in new Jan. 6 video she wanted to 'punch' Trump out - NBC News

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on the time of the attack connected the U.S. Capitol that she hoped then-President Donald Trump would travel to the analyzable truthful that she could "punch him out."

Pelosi's daughter, documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, captured the infinitesimal and galore others connected Jan. 6 successful footage changeable for HBO and archetypal obtained by CNN. It aired a fewer hours aft the House prime committee investigating the onslaught played different clips from the footage during its ninth hearing Thursday.

"Tell him if helium comes here, we’re going to the White House," the talker jokes, reacting to Trump's code astatine the White House ellipse earlier successful the day.

Another clip shows Pelosi speaking to her unit arsenic a assemblage began to amass astatine the Capitol. In it, Pelosi's main of staff, Terri McCullough, informs the talker that the Secret Service had "dissuaded" Trump from coming to Capitol Hill to articulation his supporters.

"They told him they don't person the resources to support him here," McCullough says. "So astatine the moment, helium is not coming, but that could change."

"I anticipation helium comes," Pelosi responds. "I privation to punch him out. This is my moment. I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing connected the Capitol grounds. I privation to punch him out, and I’m going to spell to jail, and I’m going to beryllium happy."

The video aired by CNN showed different clips, akin to those played during the hearing, featuring Pelosi and different legislature leaders arsenic they scrambled to get assistance arsenic the Capitol was nether siege.

The montage presented during the proceeding showed legislature leaders pleading for assistance from governors, the acting caput of defence and the acting lawyer wide arsenic rioters attacked the Capitol.

"I’m going to telephone up the effing caput of DoD," then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said successful the montage, referring to the Department of Defense, portion sitting with Pelosi successful an undisclosed country astatine 3 p.m. The 2 Democratic leaders were seen calling then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller connected Schumer’s flip phone, requesting a “massive” response.

The video astatine the proceeding besides showed Pelosi speaking to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam successful which she wondered if helium 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 aforesaid petition of Maryland's Gov. Larry Hogan. Schumer and Pelosi were besides seen connected the telephone with acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen asking for him to get Trump to telephone disconnected his supporters.

“Why don’t you get the president to archer them to permission the Capitol, Mr. Attorney General, in your instrumentality enforcement work — a nationalist connection they should each leave?” Schumer said.

The footage besides showed Pelosi speaking to Vice President Mike Pence by telephone 2 abstracted times that time astir however they could resume the certification of the 2020 predetermination results.

In further footage obtained by NBC News that was not shown during the hearing, Pelosi, Schumer and different leaders tin beryllium seen successful an extended statement connected whether to reconvene the Congress astatine Fort McNair and decorativeness the proceedings instantly oregon hold possibly “days” until the Capitol could beryllium secured. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had conveyed that helium wanted lawmakers to instrumentality to the Capitol arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to amusement that the insurrectionists had not succeeded.

“The overwhelming happening we person to bash is validate the presidency,” Pelosi told her chap leaders arsenic they hunkered down successful a unafraid tract astatine Fort McNair. “That weighs against whether we bash it successful the Capitol oregon we bash it down the hallway here.”  

Eventually, members returned to the Capitol astatine a small aft 7 p.m. to decorativeness the process.

Pelosi and Trump had a highly strained narration passim his presidency, which included the infinitesimal successful 2019 erstwhile she and different Democratic leaders walked retired of a White House meeting with Trump aft helium had what Pelosi described arsenic a "meltdown." At the extremity of Trump's 3rd State of the Union code successful 2020, Pelosi famously ripped up a transcript of his address.