Two House Republicans are calling on outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi to testify before Congress after a GOP report revealed on Dec. 21 that her staff played a key role in the security planning that failed to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
โThe reason there wasnโt a proper security presence on that day goes right to the speakerโs staff and the speakerโs office,โ Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Just the News Wednesday following the release of the House Republicansโ report detailing the security failures that led to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
โAs you go back and look at the communications, thereโs this pattern that develops where the Sergeant of Arms is meeting with Pelosiโs staff,โ added Jordan, the incoming House Judiciary Committee chairman. โMany of those meetings, Republican staff wasnโt allowed to be there, but they had this pattern where everything had to run through her office, her staff, before the Sergeant of Arms could make a decision.โ
Security Failures
In a separate interview, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) told Just the News that the National Guard was delayed in arriving at the Capitol on Jan. 6 because then-Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving had been waiting on Pelosiโs guidance.
โItโs almost like there were individuals within the current administration that wanted this to happen,โ Nehls said. โAll the intelligence was there, and what did they have? What did they have? They had bicycle racks. โฆ A bicycle rack couldnโt keep your cat in your yard.โ
Jordan and Nehls were among the five House Republicans to release the GOP report Wednesday ahead of the release of the House Jan. 6 select committeeโs final report.
Nehls, noting that texts from Irving corroborated accounts that U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) had ushered protesters into the building, added, โThe American people arenโt hearing any of this from the sham [Jan. 6] committee.โ
Nehls also revealed that a former D.C. National Guard Commander had told him that, had the National Guard been called to the Capitol when police asked for help on Jan. 4, the events of Jan. 6 would have โnever, ever happened.โ
Byย Samantha Flom