A spokeswoman for Liz Cheney, Jan. 6, released a new video from the committee’s interview with Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, saying then-Vice President Mike Pence was the one who ordered National Guard troops to respond to the violence. on Jan. 6, 2021, but that the White House told him to say he was former President Trump. “Vice President Pence – There have been two or three calls with Vice President Pence. He was very moving and issued very clear, very direct, clear commands. “There was no doubt about it,” Milley said in the video. “He was very moving, very direct, very stable with Minister Miller. Take the army down here, take the guard down here. “Let go of this situation, etc.,” he added, referring to Pence. Milley also described his interactions with Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, that day, creating a sharp contrast between those conversations with Pence. He said: “We have to kill the narrative that the Vice President makes all the decisions. “We have to define the narrative, you know, that the President is still in charge and that things are stable or stable, or words about it,” Milley said in the video, referring to what Meadows told him. “I immediately interpreted it as politics. Policy. Policy. Red flag for me, personally. No action. “But I remember it clearly,” he added. CNN previously reported that Pence, not Trump, facilitated the mobilization of National Guard troops to respond to the uprising. The video of the testimony of Milley, who remains the top U.S. military officer now in the Biden administration, talks about how the commission will seek to point out what Trump did and did not do as the violence spiraled out of control – something previously held by CNN will be the focus of public hearings.
