Previously unreleased video from Jan. 6, 2021, shows that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly identified Donald Trump as the force behind the violent attack on the Capitol. The video was turned over to the Republican-led House Committee on Administration by Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, a filmmaker who was there to document the Electoral College vote count.
The video shows that within hours of the insurrection, Pelosi identified Trump as "a domestic enemy."
“I just feel sick about what he did to the Capitol and the country today,” Pelosi said while slumped in the back of an SUV in the early morning hours of Jan. 7. “He’s got to pay a price for that.”
The video also shows the speaker’s reluctance about being removed from the House chamber by security forces, even as Trump’s rioters entered the building, because she knew exactly what was at stake.
“If they stop the proceedings,” Pelosi says in the video, “they will have succeeded in stopping the validation of the presidency of the United States."
The video showing the focus on Trump's instigation of events comes as special counsel Jack Smith has filed a superseding indictment in the case against Donald Trump for his role in Jan. 6
