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Nancy Pelosi: “January 6 was the assault. That's when we found out that we…”

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

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Principals Live with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi

Published | Video Starts at 42:22

Mitch McConnell said, we're not in session. See what happens. We did win the Senate, but the two people were elected on January 5. January 6 was the assault. That's when we found out that we had won the Senate. But they couldn't get sworn in until the Senate came back into session. He kept them out of session. So when they were sworn in, he said, we can't accept this. (42:22–42:28)

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Asserts that the Senate win was confirmed on January 6, the day of the Capitol assault.

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