According to video, which Republicans unearthed as part of their push to discredit the findings of the House Jan. 6 committee, Ms. Pelosi's vehicle came within a few hundred feet of the makeshift bomb when her security detail drove her through a security perimeter and away from the Capitol.
Capitol Police officials responded Thursday by saying the makeshift bomb had been rendered mostly inoperable by the time Ms. Pelosi's motorcade came near it, and that the greater danger to her at that moment was from the mob laying siege to Congress.
Sean P. Gallagher, the assistant chief for uniformed operations for the Capitol Police, has acknowledged that the department made mistakes on Jan. 6, including allowing pedestrians too close to the makeshift pipe bomb at the committee headquarters.
We were dealing with a pipe bomb a couple blocks away at the R.N.C. We were dealing with a pickup truck that had 11 Molotov cocktails, machetes, rifles, handguns, ammunition in it.
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