2ND UPDATE: David DePape, the suspect arrested in the attack of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in their San Francisco home, pleaded not guilty to state charges Tuesday.
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New footage from January 6, 2021, shows a candid moment where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened to physically strike then-President Trump, should he have joined those protesting at the Capitol. In the video, which was publicly shared Thursday, Pelosi admits the actions could have resulted in her going to prison — a consequence she said she would "be happy" to accept. "I hope he comes, I’m going to punch him out," Pelosi tells her Chief of Staff Terri McCullough, who discourages her boss from making the comments.
"I’ve been waiting for this, for trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I’m going to punch him out." A split photo of former U.S. President Donald Trump during a campaign rally on October 09, 2022 in Mesa, Arizona and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on October 6, 2009 at the White House in Washington, DC.
(Mario Tama/Getty Images/MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) "I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy," the Speaker added. The new footage, recorded by filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, the Speaker’s daughter, was released during the House Jan. 6 Committee hearing on Thursday afternoon.
CNN later released more context to the clip during a segment on CNN’s "Anderson Cooper 360." "Tell him if he comes here, we’re going to the White House," Pelosi also said in the clip. At the time of Pelosi’s remarks, Trump was holding a rally at the Ellipse, about two miles away from the Capitol. During the rally, Trump said he would join his supporters at the Capitol, where lawmakers were officializing the presidential election results.
Trump ultimately did not join those who marched on the Capitol, which swiftly turned deadly. On Thursday afternoon, the committee, chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, held potentially, its final
.2ND UPDATE: David DePape, the suspect arrested in the attack of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in their San Francisco home, pleaded not guilty to state charges Tuesday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom sat down with CBS News Chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett over the weekend and offered his candid assessment of the factors behind this week’s attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which left him in the hospital after being assaulted with a hammer at their San Francisco home.
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pic.twitter.com/wpUlvKoqwTCNN exclusively obtained the extended videos, and an edited compilation of clips aired at Thursday’s Jan. 6 hearing.Reactions to Pelosi’s fierce comment came in quickly and continued throughout the day and into the night and following morning, with many believing Pelosi was acting positively presidential. “The View” co-host Ana Navarro-Cárdenas tweeted the video, writing, “I could watch this on a loop.”Joy-Ann Reid, host of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” wrote, “Welp…that 5-minute montage the Jan 6 committee just played leads me to the conclusion that America did have a president on January 6th.
A southwestern Arizona woman who pleaded guilty to collecting four early ballots in the 2020 primary was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in jail and two years’ probation, with the judge saying he did not think she had accepted responsibility for her crime. The sentence for Guillermina Fuentes, a 66-year-old school board member and former mayor of the small border city of San Luis, caps a lengthy case that caught the eye of investigators the day of the August 2020 primary and eventually led to charges against Fuentes and another San Luis woman.
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Former President Trump "loves the idea of testifying" before the House select committee investigating January 6th, a source close to Trump told Fox News Digital just after the panel unanimously voted to subpoena him. The source said that if Trump complied with the subpoena and testified, he would "talk about how corrupt the election was, how corrupt the committee was, and how Nancy Pelosi did not call up the National Guard that Trump strongly recommended for her to do three days earlier on January 3, 2021." The source told Fox News Digital that it is unclear at this point if Trump actually will testify before the committee, but stressed that Trump "loves the idea." Former President Trump stressed the importance of restoring law and order in America in his first speech in Washington D.C.
President Biden will attend a big-ticket fundraiser for House Democrats Thursday evening alongside Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in Los Angeles. Tickets for the high-profile Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee event start at $5,000, with the top-spending attendees shelling out a whopping $50,000 per head, according to a Deadline report. Though the hosts of the event remain unknown, the fundraiser will be held in Brentwood, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Los Angeles and home to some of Hollywood’s biggest names including Gwyneth Paltrow, Lebron James and Tom Brady. The fundraiser is part of Biden’s four-day-long western U.S.
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