‘My God!’ Joe Scarborough Brutally Mocks Steve Scalise ‘Lying Through His Teeth’ In Questioning Pelosi’s Role in Jan 6

Joe Scarborough and the Morning Joe panel opened Friday’s show with a thorough takedown of Rep. Steve Scalise for his criticism of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her actions on January 6.

The show opened with a clip showing Rep. Jim Banks during a June 9 press conference asking, “Was Speaker Pelosi involved in the decision to delay National Guard assistance on January 6th?”

The clip then shows Scalise saying, “Jim Banks just raised some very serious questions that should be answered by the January 6th commission, but they are not.”

At issue is never before seen footage of Pelosi during the attack on the Capitol that was captured by her daughter, documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, and aired during the final January 6 Select Committee hearing. The video shows Pelosi and fellow lawmakers making numerous phone calls to various government officials to seek security and military help to secure the Capitol building overrun with Trump supporters trying to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election.

The video footage shows Scalise standing mere feet from the House Speaker as she implores someone on the phone to treat the Capitol building as if it were “the Pentagon or the White House, or some other entity.” The footage shows Pelosi as active, engaged, and leading an effort to bring order on that fateful day.

This is at odds with a narrative by former President Donald Trump and his many allies. They have repeatedly suggested that Nancy Pelosi is to blame for that day because she refused to call to secure the Capitol. However, that claim in and of itself is rather baseless, according to Fact Check.

Coming out of the clip, Scarborough said to his fellow panelists, “You know, I’m just a dumb country lawyer, Michael Steele, but they asked after Steve Scalise had known the answer.”

The gobsmacked host turned to Willie Geist and added, “Really just bad faith. I mean outrageous that Steve Scalise is there when — you look around everybody is going, ‘are we going to get out of this alive or not?’ And Scalise is in there. And then Scalise holds a press conference, and they’re like, ‘this committee is — we can’t be on this committee because, you know, they won’t even ask the question, did Nancy ever call the National Guard.’ Scalise was there when she was saying, ‘hey, pretend like this was the Pentagon. Pretend like this is the White House. Do something now.'”

“Yeah, I mean it is staggering to see this clip,” said Geist, who talked about what took place and describing the people in the clip, emphasizing the effort to get the National Guard.

“I couldn’t imagine in a million years holding a press conference as a member of Congress, I was there, being that cynical, lying through my teeth on an issue — on any issue, but especially an issue of this importance,” Scarborough added. “And even if, for some reason, I had fallen off a scooter the day before, and I was dizzy, there would have literally been 12 people on my staff grabbing me saying ‘you can’t do that. Go back into your office, you need to tell them you’re not going to do this.'”

“I don’t understand,” he concluded. “All the barriers that were up when you and I were there? All the rules that were in place, really just rules of common decency, not going out and lying through your teeth. My god.”

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