Sean Hannity and Mark Meadows attempt to shift blame by pushing debunked claim blaming Pelosi for security failures on January 6
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Sean Hannity and Mark Meadows push conspiracy theory that Nancy Pelosi helped enable January 6 attack On Capitol
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From the December 14, 2021, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Well, Democrats seem to love whistleblowers. Politico chronicled one particular whistleblower, Colonel Earl Matthews. He put out a 36-page memo, and he sent it to the January 6th select committee. It includes details, recollections of the, you know, riot of that day, and how the deputy chief of staff for operations, quote, "Was -- were absolute and unmitigated liars in their characterization of -- of what happened that day, and every leader in the D.C. Guard wanted to respond and knew they could respond and stop what was happening at the Capitol."
And they were told repeatedly to stand down. And in addition to Matthews' memo, Politico obtained a document produced by a DC Guard official dated January 7th that lays out the timeline of January 6th, and at 2:37 P.M. points out that they recommended the D.C. Guard to be on standby, not deploying. Now that to me, would be under the -- if we wanted to make sure this never happens again, which I said on January 6th we can't have this happen again, you would want to get to the bottom of that. Are they investigating that part? Because I don't see it. Jim Jordan would. Jim Banks would.
MARK MEADOWS: Yeah, they both would, but really, they don't want to get to the bottom of it because the problem with those decisions is not in the West Wing. You know, they -- they want only something that actually goes and is attributed to President Donald Trump, and so that's where that's where they're hitting all of this. And the reason why they don't want to look too closely at that and they want to focus on a text message or two is because it will lead to a decision matrix that actually would -- would have some of their Democrat colleagues and decisions --
HANNITY: Well, I think it has to start with Nancy Pelosi. Wouldn't wouldn't they subpoena her home, her text messages, her emails, her phone calls leading up to the 6th and her are not taking the recommendations of you, the president and the Capitol Police chief?
MEADOWS: Yeah. I'm -- I've yet to get a phone call from Speaker Pelosi about that security decision. And so, you know, there have been reports of her talking to other people, but -- but I've yet to get a call, and -- and here's -- here's my concern, is this January 6th commission is going to refer me for criminal contempt today. At least that's the way it looks if the vote goes along party lines, which largely it's believed that that's what will happen. But this will -- will do nothing to actually get to the bottom of the problem, because what -- what they don't want is -- is actually a candid conversation about those -- those issues that -- that truly will make a difference, Sean. And I think the real key here is -- is when -- when we look at this at the end of the day, I think most Americans believe that this is all about politics.