WASHINGTON >> As Speaker Nancy Pelosi was evacuated from the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while the complex was under attack, her motorcade passed by a pipe bomb at the Democratic National Committee headquarters that law enforcement had yet to render safe, according to video and analysis released this week by House Republicans.

The revelation is the second known instance of a prominent Democrat coming close to the explosive device.

Capitol Police officials responded Thursday by saying the makeshift bomb had been rendered mostly inoperable by the time Pelosi’s motorcade came near it, and that the greater danger to her at that moment was from the mob laying siege to Congress. According to the video, which Republicans unearthed as part of their push to discredit the findings of the House Jan. 6 committee, Pelosi’s vehicle came within a few hundred feet of the bomb.

— The New York Times