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Nancy Pelosi: “Even Mitch McConnell was on the phone with us saying, get…”

Featuring: Nancy Pelosi, Democratic | Speaker Emerita, U.S. House California, District 11

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Pelosi Speaks with Jonathan Karl on This Week with George Stephanopoulos

Published | Video Starts at 07:47

And we begged him to send the National Guard. Typical of him, he never represents the truth. He said, I was going to send it, but they didn't want get out of here. Even Mitch McConnell was on the phone with us saying, get them here right away. But they never sent them. This was one of the sad things. January 6th was really sad of itself. (07:47–07:52)

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