New footage shows Pelosi reacting to Trump on Jan. 6: 'I'm going to punch him out'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told aides on Jan. 6, 2021, that if then-President Donald Trump made good on his promise to accompany his followers to the U.S. Capitol, she would "punch him out."

Speaking at a rally at the Capitol Ellipse, Trump urged his followers to head to the U.S. Capitol building to protest the certification of the Electoral College votes confirming that Joe Biden had won the 2020 election victory. Trump also assured the crowd that he would join them.

As Pelosi watched the conclusion of the rally, however, an aide assured her that the Secret Service had already decided they would not be driving Trump to the Capitol, where the beginnings of the violence were already underway.

"If he comes, I’m going to punch him out," Pelosi said. "I've been waiting for this, for trespassing on Capitol grounds. I'm going to punch him out, and I'm going to go to jail, and I'm going to be happy."

The footage of Pelosi's remarks, and her response to the riot perpetrated at the Capitol by Trump's supporters that unfolded after the rally, was shot by Pelosi's daughter, the filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, and was shown for the first time on CNN on Thursday night.

Earlier Thursday, the Jan. 6 select committee presented new evidence from the Secret Service that corroborated the testimony given to the panel by Cassidy Hutchinson in June. A former aide to the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, she had told the committee that after the rally, Trump had insisted that he be driven to the Capitol. A Secret Service agent, Tony Ornato, she said, had told her that Trump became incensed in the presidential limousine when the Secret Service informed him that they were driving him back to the White House.

Having allegedly failed to overrule the Secret Service, Trump was returned to the White House, where he watched the riot play out for hours before releasing a video statement grudgingly telling his supporters to go home.

The select committee also played other portions of the previously unseen footage that showed Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the Senate minority leader at the time, urging state governors, Vice President Mike Pence and others to mobilize the National Guard and and police to try to secure the Capitol.

“Oh, my God, they're just breaking windows or doing all kinds of — it's really that somebody, they said somebody was shot,” Pelosi told Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. “It's just horrendous, and all at the instigation of the president of the United States.”

Following the hearing, at which the members unanimously voted to subpoena Trump and call him to testify, Trump posted a response on Truth Social. "Why didn't Crazy Nancy Pelosi call out the 'troops' before January 6th, which I strongly recommended that she do," he wrote. "It was her responsibility, but she 'didn't like the look.' Crazy Nancy failed the American People!"

There is no evidence to suggest that Trump recommended that Pelosi mobilize the National Guard, and former members of his administration testified to the committee that he had not given any such guidance.