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WASHINGTON (AP) From a secure room in the Capitol on Jan. 6, as rioters pummeled police and vandalized the building, Vice President Mike Pence tried to assert control. In an urgent phone call to the acting defense secretary, he issued a startling demand.
“Clear the Capitol,” Pence said, while, elsewhere in the building, the now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were making a similarly dire appeal to military leaders, asking the Army to deploy the National Guard.
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By: Lisa Mascaro, Ben Fox and Lolita C Baldor
From a secure room in the US Capitol on January 6, as rioters pummelled police and vandalised the building, Vice President Mike Pence tried to assert control. In an urgent phone call to the acting defence secretary, he issued a startling demand. Clear the Capitol, Pence ordered.
Elsewhere in the building, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were making a similarly dire appeal to military leaders, asking the Army to deploy the National Guard.
Pence pleaded with acting defense secretary to ‘clear the Capitol,’ timeline of riot shows 6 days ago In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, police stand guard after holding off violent rioters who tried to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. (Julio Cortez/AP) WASHINGTON From a secure room in the Capitol on Jan. 6, as rioters pummeled police and vandalized the building, Vice President Mike Pence tried to assert control. In an urgent phone call to the acting defense secretary, he issued a startling demand. “Clear the Capitol,” Pence said. Elsewhere in the building, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were making a similarly dire appeal to military leaders, asking the Army to deploy the National Guard.
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‘Clear the Capitol,’ Vice President Mike Pence pleaded, according to timeline of riot Lisa Mascaro, Ben Fox, Lolita C. Baldor
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WASHINGTON – From a secure room in the Capitol on Jan. 6, as rioters pummeled police and vandalized the building, Vice President Mike Pence tried to assert control. In an urgent phone call to the acting defense secretary, he issued a startling demand.
“Clear the Capitol,” Pence said.
Elsewhere in the building, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were making a similarly dire appeal to military leaders, asking the Army to deploy the National Guard.