Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley is seen on video during Thursday’s hearing. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
Deputy Liz Cheney, vice president of the committee on Jan. 6, unveiled a new video of the committee’s interview with Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, saying that then-Vice President Mike Pence was the one who ordered that National Guard troops responded to the violence on January 6, 2021, but the White House told him to say he was former President Trump.
“Vice President Pence: There were two or three calls with Vice President Pence. He was very lively, and he gave very explicit, very direct and unambiguous orders. There was no doubt about it,” Milley says in the video.
“He was very lively, very direct, very firm with Secretary Miller. Lower the military here, lower the guard. Put this situation on, and so on,” he added, referring to Pence.
Milley also described his interactions with Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, that day, marking a stark contrast between those conversations with Pence.
“He said, we have to kill the narrative that the vice president is making all the decisions. We have to establish the narrative, you know, that the president is still in the lead and that things are stable or stable, or words in that sense “Milley says in the video, referring to what Meadows told him.
“I immediately interpreted this as politics. Politics. Politics. Red flag for me, personally. No action. But I remember it clearly,” he added.
CNN reported earlier that Pence, not Trump, facilitated the mobilization of National Guard troops to respond to the riots.
The video of Milley’s testimony, who is still the top US military official now in the Biden administration, talks about how the committee will try to highlight what Trump was doing and not doing, as the violence was getting out of control. , something CNN has done before. informed will be an area of attention during public hearings.