Pelosi Goes Off on Reporter Who Asks Why She Refused National Guard Troops on Jan. 6
“SHUT UP! I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn’t send it.”
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi erupted in anger at a reporter who questioned why she had refused a National Guard presence at the Capitol Building ahead of Jan. 6, 2021. Apparently, she’d struck a nerve.
Lindell TV reporter Alison Steinberg approached Pelosi on the Capitol steps Wednesday morning and asked, “Congresswoman Pelosi, are you at all concerned that the new January 6th Committee will find you liable for that day? Why did you refuse the National Guard on January 6th?
Pelosi turned around, pointed at Steinberg, and replied, “SHUT UP! I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn’t send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?”
Pelosi turned away as the reporter said, “The American people want to know. We still have questions.”
BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi SNAPS at OUR Reporter – Points in Her Face and Hurls Insults
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— LindellTV (@RealLindellTV) October 15, 2025
Unfortunately for Pelosi, much has been revealed about the period leading up to that fateful day — and none of it reflects favorably on the former Speaker. After FBI reports warned of potential violence at the Capitol prior to January 6, President Donald Trump offered to deploy National Guard troops to protect the building. However, then-Speaker Pelosi and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser both inexplicably declined his offer.
In June 2022, Just the News editor-in-chief John Solomon obtained an official timeline from the Capitol Police of the events that occurred in the days leading up to the riot which validates the Trump administration’s account of events. It clearly shows that Democrats, including Pelosi, repeatedly rejected Trump’s offers of National Guard troops despite intelligence showing that violence was entirely possible.
In his article, Solomon detailed the communications between the Pentagon and the Capitol Police from the first offer of National Guard troops on Jan. 2 to Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser’s final rejection of troops on Jan. 5.
Discussing his findings on Fox News Hannity, Solomon said, “Four days of infamy, four days when the Capitol Police, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, leadership could have hardened the Capitol, could have gotten the resources in place, could have made the strategic decisions, could have accepted the National Guard help that would have saved all those men and women in blue on the Capitol who got injured that day.
“It is overwhelmingly clear that these were repeated political decisions made instead of security decisions,” Solomon noted.
In June 2024, a video emerged of Pelosi speaking with Terry McCullough, her then-chief of staff, in a car during the evacuation of the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. It was recorded by Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra, who was filming a documentary that day.
Pelosi is heard expressing frustration that the National Guard had not been called in earlier. Ultimately, she tells McCullough, “I take responsibility.”
🚨 Since January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi spent 3+ years and nearly $20 million creating a narrative to blame Donald Trump.
NEW FOOTAGE shows on January 6, Pelosi ADMITTED:
"I take responsibility."
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/95a0totTWB
— Oversight Subcommittee (@OversightAdmn) June 10, 2024
The following month, Solomon obtained memos and text messages that shed more light on why Pelosi “privately expressed she felt responsible for Jan. 6 security failures.” He reported that Pelosi’s top security aides had been warned the night before that there would likely be a breach of the Capitol.
According to Solomon, the documents revealed:
Two top House security aides under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi got stark warnings from police the night before the Jan. 6 riots that protesters might try to breach the U.S. Capitol through its tunnel systems and block lawmakers from voting to certify Joe Biden’s presidential election win.
The documents obtained by Just the News also confirm that Pelosi’s team played a role in the botched security planning for that fateful day.
“We have identified numerous open source comments indicating groups intentions of finding the tunnel entrances and confronting/blocking the MOCs (Members of Congress),” Capitol Police Deputy Chief Sean Gallagher wrote Deputy House Sergeant at Arms Tim Blodgett at 8:55 p.m. on Jan. 5, 2021 in an email that got forwarded less than an hour later to Blodgett’s boss, then-Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving. The second time is listed in UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time.
A second warning was sent later that evening about possible threats against Supreme Court justices, and the sergeant-at arms-office scheduled a briefing for Pelosi’s then-chief of staff Terri McCullough the next morning, hours before the breach occurred, according to the messages obtained by House Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk.
It’s become clear that, despite the House’s 2022 Soviet-style investigation into Trump’s role in the so-called “insurrection,” Pelosi played a significant yet entirely unexamined role. It’s time for the grand dame herself to be questioned about her actions under oath. House investigators should also subpoena her communications from that period to determine exactly what she knew, when she knew it, and what steps she took to prevent — or perhaps even permit — the chaos that unfolded on January 6.
Judging from her explosive reaction to the reporter’s question on Wednesday, it’s hard to shake the sense that she has something to hide.
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“what steps she took to prevent — or perhaps even permit — the chaos that unfolded on January 6.”
There are many who believe that she didn’t “permit” it, but that she actively orchestrated it. Let’s have a clear investigation…
“SHUT UP!!” she explained.
Looks like Nancy Pelosi and Katie Porter graduated from the same Dem school of charm.
Compare and contrast with how President Trump interacts with the press, even though he despises many of them.
Capital Police Chief Sund, today, in response to Pelosi (he regularly calls her out on this and has said the same things under oath in Congressional testimony):
Chief Sund wrote: “Ma’am, let me help refresh your memory. It was your Sergeant at Arms (SAA) who repeatedly denied my multiple requests for National Guard assistance before and on January 6. Even on Jan 6, your Sergeant at Arms denied my urgent requests for over 70 minutes, while he was “running it up the chain” for your approval. The Pentagon offered National Guard assistance, but I had to decline because your SAA would not grant me the legal authority as required under federal law (2 U.S.C. §1970).”
Is it possible the Sergeant at Arms was running his own game, and not consulting Pelosi? He wasn’t her man; he was appointed in 2012 by John Boehner.
Extraordinarily low probability. Occam’s Razor explains it better. He did what he said he did, and what the call logs verified.
In short, the Founding Fathers didn’t trust the various branches (for good reason). The Executive can NOT deploy National Guard or active troops to the Legislative building (Capitol) like some third-world coup. He can *offer* the National Guard to the Legislative branch to be deployed to that site, but they have to *accept* the offer, which they did not over several days before J6. The Sgt. at Arms could not make that acceptance without the authority given to him by both the Speaker (D) and Majority Leader (R), although he tried (as is documented). The authority was only given one hour *after* the Capitol Police opened up with flash-bangs, tear gas, pepper spray, and plastic bullets at 1:00, turning a rambunctious crowd into an angry riot. The Capitol Police were not even given the authority to draw riot gear for the most part, and the morning shift sent home instead of kept for reinforcements.
I know I shouldn’t but I quite enjoy seeing this wrinkled witch being consumed by old age.
It has to be quite the revelation that despite having risen to the very heights of power that your husband would rather get beaten by a gay prostitute than spend time with you.
Justice is coming for this evil woman.
I imagine her and Hillary in the same cell, but … that would be cruel to both of them.
But they both deserve it.
They’re both so old at this point that putting them in a cell is essentially moot. I’m rooting for them being in the same ring of hell.
First thing came to mind when I read that suggestion was the punchline from the old joke: “You don’t eat a pig that brave all at once.”
In the form of a green velvet suit?
But, but – she didn’t deny ARNG troops to Sund. The problem was her Sergeant at Arms (SaA) couldn’t contact her to get her approval for Sund’s request for troops. While at least one denial is directly attributable to the SaA denial as “not liking the optics” of troops at the Capitol, the remaining denials have been attributed to the SaA being unable to obtain clearance from Pelosi for use of troops. Perhaps the question should be was Pelosi being deliberately “off the air”, or just somewhat more inebriated than usual?
IMHO, it doesn’t matter why she didn’t or the how. It was her responsibility and she botched it. It was her job and she failed.
It was her responsibility, but it would still mean that she’s telling the truth that she didn’t refuse the Guard.
Also, it wasn’t her job to be available to answer the sergeant at arms’s phone calls at all times and immediately.
Either way, her not being available only explains the refusal on the day; it doesn’t explain the refusal a few days earlier. Either the sergeant at arms made that decision himself, or he did it on her orders. We should want to know which.
Dems wrap themselves in false flags when cornered, and sing the national anthem off-key with botched lyrics.
The warnings about going into the Capitol came from Ray Epps, their man who was tasked with making it happen.
(He was the #1 Google hit on a search for “j6 fed plant”.)
punklousy will blame her reaction on menopause claiming its sexism to ask her that question
tucker carlson,,,love him or hate him ,,he was fired for exposing the jan6 lies that the “conservative” foxnews knew was going to run afoul of the dnc and the possible/probably win in the next potus elections
No, he wasn’t. He was fired for costing Fox hundreds of millions of dollars by deliberately and maliciously lying about Dominion Voting Services, and for running an antisemitic and misogynist work environment on his show (as alleged by Abby Grossberg, a producer on his show).
Ashli Babbitt
Nancy on J6, “I take responsibility.”
Nancy Pelosi is a grifting, lying c*nt. If I were a woman I would revel in the opportunity to punch that bit*h in her lying mouth and knock those clackers out.
She should have quit when she was at her top position. Why not? Power?Greed? Fear? Anger? so many reasons “to stay” when it should have been reasons to go.
I keep waiting for someone to throw water on the Wicked Witch of the West so i can watch her melt but no one ever does. It be nice if someone threw water on the Wicked Witch of the East (Hillary) too for the same reason. Will no one rid us of these troublesome witches,
It would have to be holy water, drawn at midnight from a secret spring at Mar a Lago.
“Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?”
Serious journalists use only Democrat talking points!
oxymoron.
SF voters don’t care. They mindlessly vote Dem.