>> (chanting): U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
>> This is our (bleep) country!
(people yelling)
>> Nancy!
Nancy!
>> Nancy!
Nancy Pelosi!
Where you at, Nancy?
Nancy!
>> Tell Nancy Pelosi we're
coming for her!
(people yelling)
>> Where are you, Nancy?
We're looking for you!
>> (chanting): Nancy! Nancy!
>> It was like a monster movie
or like a horror film.
>> (chanting): Nancy! Nancy!
>> "Nancy, where's Nancy?"
>> Oh, look what we have here.
>> (chanting): Nancy! Nancy!
>> That was pretty ominous.
>> Where is she?
Nancy Pelosi!
>> I knew that we really had a
problem.
>> Can I speak to Pelosi?
Yeah, we're coming, bitch!
>> There was an intent to harm
in the voices.
>> Check this out, we are
inside her, Nancy Pelosi's,
office.
>> I ask her if that made her
afraid.
Nancy said that they would've
had a fight on their hands.
They would've had a battle on
their hands, because she's a
street fighter.
And then she lifts up her foot.
And, you know, she always wears
those four-inch stiletto heels.
And she points at her shoe and
says, "Besides, I could've used
these as weapons."
♪ ♪
>> National Guard has been
called in to the Capitol.
The Capitol is secure now.
>> Tensions are still high
following the chaos at the
Capitol.
>> Our nation's capital under a
state of emergency, under a
citywide lockdown...
>> Law enforcement has
surrounded and secured the U.S.
Capitol complex.
>> Nancy understood that it was
the defilement of the
tabernacle of our democracy.
>> Busloads of National Guards
outside the Capitol.
Order has been restored.
The security perimeter has been
put back up.
>> Approximately 1,800 troops
are deployed around the Capitol
perimeter to prevent any more
violence.
>> There is, to her, a real
sacredness to it.
>> And everything that she
knows in life...
...January 6 upended.
That a president of the United
States is responsible for an
insurrection.
(cameras clicking)
>> Good afternoon.
My friends, we are in a very
difficult place in our country
as long as Donald Trump still
sits in the White House.
>> She really saw him as so
reckless and dangerous.
It was such a white-knuckle
moment.
Whatever the rules said, you
just had to hold down the fort
and make sure this thing didn't
get further out of hand.
(phone calling out)
>> NARRATOR: Alarmed, Pelosi
called the top general at the
Pentagon, Mark Milley.
>> Unexpectedly, Milley's
executive officer came into the
office and passed him a
handwritten note: "Speaker
Pelosi would like to speak to
you A.S.A.P."
>> When you read that
transcript, you're taken into a
moment of pure crisis in
American history.
It is an amazing historical
moment to be in on the call with
Pelosi and Milley.
>> "What precautions are
available," Pelosi asked, "to
prevent an unstable president
from initiating military
hostilities or from accessing
the launch codes and ordering
a nuclear strike?"
>> Pelosi, at her core, is a
realist.
She believes the country needs
to be protected.
She was going to do something.
>> "He's crazy and what he did
yesterday is further evidence
of his craziness."
"Madam Speaker, " Milley said,
"I agree with you on
everything."
♪ ♪
>> Pelosi takes charge.
She goes to Schumer and she
says, "We need to get Pence to
invoke the 25th Amendment."
>> We thought he didn't belong
as president.
And so our goal was to reach
the vice president and ask him
to invoke the 25th Amendment,
which allows the Cabinet to
replace the president
under dire circumstances.
This was dire.
(phone calling out)
>> And they call up Pence.
The phone rings and rings.
>> We asked for the vice
president.
We were waiting there for 20
minutes on the phone.
>> Pence won't take the call.
(busy signal buzzes,
phone hangs up)
>> Our thoughts were, the vice
president was scared and ducking
it and not living up to his
responsibility.
>> Pelosi turns to Schumer and
says, "If he's not going to take
this call, we need to move
toward impeachment."
>> There was a total void of
leadership in our country at
that moment.
Nancy Pelosi was the one leading
the country in that moment.
She had to be the one dealing
with this crisis.
And that's what she did.
>> She found herself in a
singular position of power, with
a singular responsibility at
this crucial and dangerous
moment.
And that was not an accident.
That was a long time coming.