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Nancy Pelosi: “Mitch was a problem every step of the way.”

Featuring: Nancy Pelosi, Democratic | Speaker Emerita, U.S. House California, District 11

Principals Live with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi

Published September 18, 2024 | Video Starts at 47:00

So she went from having like 13 votes to seven or something, which didn't take us to their infamous 60 votes to bring something to the floor. So that was too bad. So Mitch was a problem every step of the way. Not receiving the impeachment. We're going to tear it up and throw it away. He didn't say that, but staffed, not receiving the impeachment, not voting for the impeachment, nothing endorsing Trump. (47:00–47:03)

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Asserts that Mitch McConnell was an obstacle throughout the process.

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“I certainly don't think, as is what's happening now, that we could go for any long period of time where they're saying, we're taking social…”
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“We certainly have to have our presidents and our candidates for presidents protected as an appropriated.”
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“If a president of the United States wants to encourage insurrection on the capital of the United States, then we'll need to protect it…”
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“Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, and I begged the president to send the National Guard over and over again, and he would not do it.”
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“He [Mitch McConnell] was pleading for the National Guard [on January 6].”
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“He [Mitch McConnell] said the president was responsible [for January 6] and then he would not hold him accountable.”
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“The secretary of the army, which is really where that call comes, the secretary of defense, where it could come, and the commander in chief…”
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“Over 100 Capitol police [were] injured, attacked by these people.”
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“The head of the District of Columbia, the mayor of Washington, since it's not a state, does not have that authority [to call the National…”
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“The inciter of the insurrection, who would not send the National Guard.”
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“We had a bill of over 400 votes to three of establishing a favorable policy toward Hong Kong.”
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“Jimmy Lai, who was the journalist who's arrested now for four years for just speaking his truth in violation of the Basic Law.”
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“They said, oh, they're going to believe that they're going to honor the Basic Law, at least for 50 years. Of course, they didn't honor it…”
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“We keep persisting and shining a bright light on what they're doing in South China Sea, their threat to Taiwan, what the security issues…”
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“The trade deficit was $5 billion a year [when we had this fight originally].”
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“Now the trade deficit is closer to $5 billion a week.”
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“We never could get a president of any party to support what we were doing.”
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“I was leader or speaker 20 years.”
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“1615, 16 million jobs compared to the worst job performance of any president since Herbert Hoover.”
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“I think that what we have seen this summer is just such a response to moving forward and fundraising.”
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“This summer, the small donor just been a flood to all of our campaigns, House, Senate, and the presidential.”
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“I think America needs to have the filibuster removed.”
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“We have 40 million people in California and two senators.”
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“Some of our neighboring states have, like, fewer constituents than I have in my congressional district. And they have two senators in the…”
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“We have 52 members, 40 Democrats and twelve Republicans.”
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“Ted Liu, Jamie Raskin, and David Cicillini were writing the impeachment resolution while they were under chairs.”
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“We had Wednesday, January 13, the introduction of the impeachment resolution and the vote on the impeachment resolution.”
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“The Senate would not accept the resolution of impeachment.”
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“Mitch McConnell said, we're not in session.”
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“We did win the Senate, but the two people were elected on January 5.”
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“January 6 was the assault. That's when we found out that we had won the Senate.”
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“He kept them out of session.”
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“Overwhelmingly, the Republicans voted not to accept the results of the election.”
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“If we didn't have the democratic majority to accept the results of the election, God knows where they would have tried to take this.”
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“We will and must win the House.”
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“Every authority that he appealed to turned him down because he really just didn't have a case.”
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