January 6 Committee vice chairman, Representative Liz Cheney, revealed new video of the committee’s interview with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, stating that then-Vice President Mike Pence was the one who ordered National Guard troops to respond. Had given. The violence took place on January 6, 2021, but the White House told him it was former President Trump.
“Vice President Pence – There were two or three calls with Vice President Pence. He was very lively, and he issued very clear, very direct, clear orders. There was no question about it,” Millie says in the video.
“He was very animated, very direct, very determined to Secretary Miller. Get the army down here, the guards down here. Put this situation down, et cetera,” he said, referring to Pence.
Milley also described his conversation with Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows that day, a stark contrast between those conversations with Pence.
“They said: We have to dismantle the statement that the Vice President is making all the decisions. We need to establish the narrative, you know, that the President is still in charge and things are steady or stable, or words to that effect.” “What Meadows told her,” Miley says in the video.
“I immediately interpreted it as politics. Politics. Politics. Red flag for me, personally. no action taken. But I remember it clearly,” he said.
CNN previously reported that Pence, not Trump, helped mobilize National Guard troops to respond to the riots.
Video of the testimony of Milley, who now remains the top US military official in the Biden administration, speaks to how the committee will try to uncover what Trump was doing and not doing as the violence spiraled out of control. was happening – something CNN had previously reported during public hearings would be an area of focus.