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The Beat with Ari Melber

Explosive Jan. 6 video reveals Trump's inaction during insurrection

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Friday, October 14 and reports on explosive newly revealed video from January 6 which shows Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer scrambling to save the Capitol and pleading for law enforcement help. Plus, Liz Cheney highlighting that 30 witnesses have plead the fifth amendment to the committee. Fmr. DNC Chair Howard Dean joins, alongside Michael Beschloss and Emily Bazelon. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat, everyone.

0:01.3

I am Ari Melba and we are continuing the story

0:03.3

that Nicole and I have been covering along with our colleagues.

0:06.4

And there's more.

0:08.0

There's even more footage than we covered yesterday

0:10.8

from inside the insurrection.

0:14.2

Speaker Pelosi is someone who of course has

0:18.6

voluminous experience with many different emergencies, many different aspects of government leadership, but boy, was this a test.

0:25.0

And there's video from inside. It is real. It is authentic. It is striking.

0:29.0

We should note, as journalists, that it was not captured independently. It was actually captured by her own daughter who has controlled some of the release.

0:37.2

So you can factor that into the context, because I always want you to know where we're getting what we show you.

0:43.2

But nobody is denying the authenticity, the vigor, the seriousness of these moments.

0:50.0

House Speaker Pelosi, majority leader Chuck Schumer, right here you see them.

0:58.6

Dealing with a physical security emergency.

1:05.4

And you have to remember, I'm about to show you one of the new pieces of footage, no one in that room knew what was going to happen.

1:11.6

No one knew whether these calls were going to bring in the help that was urgently needed or whether more people would be attacked hurt, like some of those police officers who were tragically

1:15.9

wounded, or whether politicians would start to be assassinated by Donald Trump's mob.

1:22.2

Here's new video of them talking, Pelosi specifically directly talking, to then Vice President Pence.

1:30.7

Well, that we're still not safe enough for us to go back, that they're even still trying to

1:35.9

penetrate the building, and it's not a safe thing, because we're trying to figure out how

1:42.3

we can get this job done today. I worry about you being in that capital building.

1:47.0

I'm literally standing with the super polishes of the U.S. Capitol Police, Stevenson.

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