WATCH: Newly Released Unaired January 6 Footage Shows Speaker Nancy Pelosi Admit Its Her Fault For Not Securing The Capitol

New unaired footage from January 6 released this week reveals that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told staffers that she was "responsible" for not having the Capitol prepared and that she was intent on going after then-President Donald Trump amid the turmoil of that day. The unaired footage, filmed by Alexandra Pelosi as a part of a 2022 documentary on her mother, shows the California Democrat reacting to the lack of National Guardsmen at the Capitol.

"We're calling the National Guard now? They should have been here to start out," Pelosi said in the released footage. "We have totally failed. We need to take some responsibility for not moving to secure [the Capitol]." Other portions of footage showed Pelosi discussing the resignation of Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, with the Democrat leader explaining that she doesn't want to lose focus on putting the blame on President Trump. “I think our focus has to be on the president. Let’s not divert ourselves,” she said.

Other footage released earlier this year by the House Oversight Committee showed Pelosi expressing a similar sentiment about her role in the lack of security personnel, thus undermining the Democrat narrative that President Donald Trump was the sole individual responsible for the lack of security personnel at the Capitol. "We have responsibility, Terry," Pelosi told her chief of staff, Terri McCullough, while en route to Fort McNair, where congressional leaders were evacuated during the Capitol Riot. "We did not have any accountability for what was going on there when we should have. This is ridiculous. You're going to ask me — in the middle of the thing when they've already breached the inaugural stuff — 'Should we call … the National Guard? Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?"

While Democrats and the January 6 Select Committee have attempted to malign Trump for refusing to offer the National Guard to secure the Capitol, testimony not included in the J6 Committee's report from former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato refutes that narrative. As previously reported by the DC Enquirer, Trump offered to have 10,000 National Guardsmen stationed for security around the Capitol ahead of the certification of the 2020 election.

"I remember he had — he was on the phone with her, and we — I had walked in for something, and I was there, and he was on the phone with her and wanted to make sure she had everything that she needed," Ornata said. "Because I think it was the concern of anti and pro-groups clashing is what I recall. And not anywhere near the Capitol, this was just out on the mall area or at the event; and wanted to know if she need[ed] any more guardsmen."

"And I remember the number 10,000 coming up of, you know, the president wants to make sure that you have enough," he continued. "You know, he is willing to ask for 10,000. I remember that number. Now that you said it, it reminded me of it. And that she was all set. She had, I think it was like 350 or so for intersection control and those types of things not in the law enforcement capacity at the time. And then that's the only thing I recall with that number 10,000 National Guard guardsmen."

WATCH:

🚨BREAKING: Never before seen footage of Pelosi on January 6 filmed by her daughter shows her admitting that its her fault that the Capitol wasn't secure.

“We're calling the National Guard now? They should have been here to start out."

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