nancy pelosi kept it there.hen i interviewed newt gingrich, he told me about an old movie which involved pirates. it's hard to explain this a little bit. he said when he saw nancy pelosi, he saw a fellow pirate. by that meaning, not that they were ideologically close, but that they were both very skilled in the business of politics. he said that with some admiration. host: you referenced earlier the three year battle with steny hoyer for the leadership position. when did that come to a culmination? guest: she won the election in the fall of 2001. she was installed as a weapon in -- as a whip in february 2002. she's been leadership ever since. that's pretty unusual. not since sam rayburn. that stint as head of the house democrats is pretty long. no one since sam rayburn has held the leadership position for that long. she held it when they were in the minority and the majority and the minority and back in the majority again. that's a sign of her hold on this caucus. she has managed to keep a hold of it for that pe

pelosi: no, no. it's important to note that the reason we could agree to that is because in the bill is all of the re-authorization for highway programs and the rest of that. so our best interest is served by passing this bill today. ms. pelosi: ok. what have you got? reporter: i don't have anything about the giants but we'll talk later. when you talk about these concerns and we ask you about what senator sanders says, i think it will blow up the bill on the floor. today the progressives say they have 50 bills. what do you say to those left of your caucus and the moderate segment of your caucus that they both feel things haven't gone the way they want? ms. pelosi: we're on a path to have something that i can say to my colleagues with integrity and certainty is the path we're on. and in terms of timing and the rest, i wish we had more time, i will say that. we only found a week and a half ago, over 95% of my caucus supports the 3.5 and it was all systems go, 3.5. the leader in the senate. so we're hav

pelosi: no. do you think when we came in with the majority that we have -- we have to remember we had more, but we had marcia fudge as the secretary of h.u.d. we are waiting for her replacement to come in in another four weeks. we had alcee hastings who pad away. passed away. i infer from what you say we should just have done nothing because we had a slim majority? that's not who we are. you shouldn't do these things because you have a slim majority, no. it will be a compromise. but it is -- let's recall our president, president biden has put forth. he put forth the rescue package. for us it was a great victory because it had the essence of the heroes act that we tried to get through with -- the former president. and now it's in that package. of course imbued with vaccination, vaccination, vaccination. which made a difference in it. now we have a couple hundred million vaccinations in people's arms. people back to work. children back to school. money in people's pockets because of that bill. stat

pelosi got elevated to speaker. i mean, first it was just this huge historic moment, right, the first female speaker of the house in american history. next in line to the presidency after the vice president. just a huge history-making deal. so she's always been a big deal simply because of her breaking that glass ceiling but the other thing that very quickly became clear about nancy pelosi as speaker, nancy pelosi as the leader of the that branch of government was that she's just technically quite good at it. she is specifically unquestionably good at the math part. she can count votes like nobody's business. if a piece of legislation needed to get passed, nancy pelosi knows whether and how she can get the votes for it. and she never brings a bill to the floor unless she knows she can pass it. and i mean, i've said it before. i'll say it again. whether you are aligned with her politically or not, whether you love nancy pelosi or hate nancy pelosi, it doesn't matter. what you must appreciate is that she knows what sh

that's speaker pelosi. on the larger bill, the reconciliation act, the social safety net spending bill, the one you're focused on in our conversation right now, how are you going to vote on infrastructure? are you not going to vote against it? >> well, we need a lot more work to happen to get votes to get both of these bills done. but i think what speaker pelosi did is put a date out there to keep negotiations so that people keep moving. the problem is, a few folks in the senate really are operating very slowly in telling us what they are for. we need to know what they are for so we can finalize this process. i understand what she's trying to do. she's trying to keep the go negotiations going, keep the conversations going. if there aren't the votes for the bill, there aren't the votes for the bill and i would not vote for the bill knowing that we're going to have both of these bills in the form we need to. i don't think there's going to be a vote on thursday. at the end of the day what i care about is what'

i'm here today because of what speaker pelosi announced last night. she announced to the world what we already know. she put herself in a box. that she -- she needs -- the legislative crisis that's before her is one by her own creation. she needs the progressives to bail her out of this situation of this week. that is why at 8:23 thursday evening, the budget committee noticed up to have a hearing at 2:00 on saturday. 2:00 on saturday. took eight hours. to mark up her $4.3 trillion spending bill. with only 1% of the total spending that has been scored by c.b.o. 1%. she moved this ahead, moved it forward, because she wanted to show some kind of fake momentum. with the progressives. that she was still having the reconciliation bill tied in with the infrastructure bill. this was the largest spending bill to be brought up in congress. it's the largest increase bill ever brought up in congress. we are facing the highest inflation that we have since 1981. this will only fuel the fire of inflation. this bill breaks the president's tax pledge that he will not

do you think nancy pelosi will put off this boat? how manchin and sinema are talked about, talked about as centrist or moderate democrats as opposed to conservative or corporate democrats. you have, for example, joe manchin, chair of the energy panel, the largest senate recipient of campaign donations from the oil, coal, and gas industries. and then you have the headline yesterday on arizona democratic senator kyrsten sinema holding fundraiser with five business lobbying groups that oppose the massive spending bill containing some of the biden administration's top legislation priority's according to "t new york times" which reported the attendees were being asked to pay up to $5,800 to senator sinema campaign saying she opposed the spending bills price tag of $3.5 trillion and ao increasi taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations in order to expand the social safety net, improve worker rights, and combat the climate crisis. so she goes back and forth from the white house to the fundraiser, david dayen. >> yh, i mean, this is abou

that's speaker nancy pelosi. she is fierce. she is a woman of courage and she still makes time to not only deliver for the people of san francisco, but also to show up for the people of san francisco. to show up for her community. and you know why because she's a woman and we know how to multi-task. we'll cook you dinner, do the laundry, save the country all at the same time. she had like five kids while she was running for office, a baby on her hip while she was asking for your vote. that's our speaker and that's women in general. it's what we do. it's why women make such great leaders and as we celebrated the fight that madam speaker talked about to ensure that women have a seat at the table, that we are able to vote and make our own decisions, today is a chance to recommit ourselves to what has happened in the past. today, we show up with our ballots so that our voices are heard so that regardless of who is in office, they know that they are accountable to women and what we care about. we know that there continues to be work

whether you are aligned with her politically, whether you love nancy pelosi or hate nancy pelosi, it doesn't matter. what you must appreciate is that she knows what she's doing she's very technically skilled at the job she holds and if you need proof of that, if you need evidence, you can do a little controlled experiment in recent history. look at what happened in the house in between her two stints as speaker because it was the first midterm elections of the barack obama presidency. the 2010 midterms when the democrats took what president obama called a shellacking, republicans won big everywhere in 2010, so in january of 2011 she had to hand over the comically guy nor mouse speakers gavel to the republicans, and in so doing, the country was soon treated to a live high stakes somewhat scientific demonstration of what it's like to try to run the house of representatives in this day and age if you don't have nancy pelosi's knack for it. here's a sample lead from beltway reporting around that time just minutes from a roll call vote pushed by house speaker john boehner, republicans stu

speaker pelosi is derelict in her duties. this government exists to preserve the rights of the american people. it exists to protect the rights of the american people from all foreign adversaries. i will tell you, i thought long and hard about it, whether it is incompetence, whether it is neglect, or whether it is something worse. can you imagine that, whether it is something worse, that this was supposed to happen this way? ladies and gentlemen, this is more than neglect. this is of a trail. this is a betrayal of their oath, it is a betrayal of the country, it is a betrayal of everything we hold dear. this is not surrender of america by american people, by american citizens. this is surrender by joe biden and the people around him that refused to stand up and say acellena. leaving america---and say absolutely not. leaving american citizens behind in the, reserved one party only. that would be the democrats. while we thought it would only have an invalid what you and never happen again, it is happening right now--always thoug

speaker pelosi: good morning, everyone. good morning it is. i am so excited and so grateful to president biden for the build back better vision that he has put forward. i want people to know that this bill is for you. if you are a woman with children at home and you want to return to the workforce, if you have people with disabilities at home and need home health care, if your children are little and you want universal pre-k, children learning, parents earning, if someone is sick and your familyt goes on. if your family needs economic assistance, the biden tax credit -- the child tax cut -- is a big middle-class cut in taxes. again, it is about the children and i'm so excited about how transformative it is. our members -- our committees are working feverishly and diligently and we respect them and wish them a happy new year. since --moving forward, they take turns and we will be ready to fulfill the president's vision. i am so proud that when the president passed the very important -- the senate passed a very important infrastructure bill, the

i think nancy pelosi has a plan here. i think what i'm looking forward is we haven't yet seen the progressives, actually i haven't seen it to the 1.5 number specifically. i think a big question is what is that ceiling with joe manchin and maybe sinema. if it's a hard 1.5, this will test nancy pelosi's skill. if you have a little room to move there, you can see how this comes together. the democrats will have to put away the swords. sand say, this is a historic achievement. a., make sure it gets executed well and make sure it gets out the door and do that local story-telling. which for the last few months, they haven't been able to do, because it's all been this haggling and big numbers which mean nothing to the average marine. >> it's interesting hearing david talk it through. you have been here, i'm running over because we have a lot of breaking news, libby, in 30 second, what should we watch for tonight? >> watch from the infrastructure passes or fails, it's passed in the senate, the house is where the action has to hap

don't look now as speaker pelosi all of sudden the pelosi magic as progressives mean business and so we're looking at stock market that became vulnerable during the month of sent. what happens if the calendar changes and we get a compromise bill? i wile

that's speaker nancy pelosi. she is fierce. she is a woman of courage and she still makes time to not only deliver for the people of san francisco, but also to show up for the people of san francisco. to show up for her community. and you know why because she's a woman and we know how to multi-task. we'll cook you dinner, do the laundry, save the country all at the same time. she had like five kids while she was running for office, a baby on her hip while she was asking for your vote. that's our speaker and that's women in general. it's what we do. it's why women make such great leaders and as we celebrated the fight that madam speaker talked about to ensure that women have a seat at the table, that we are able to vote and make our own decisions, today is a chance to recommit ourselves to what has happened in the past. today, we show up with our ballots so that our voices are heard so that regardless of who is in office, they know that they are accountable to women and what we care about. we know that there continues to be work

elizabeth: let's listen to this the president nancy pelosi jen psaki, dr.ci months ago said no, no to maxine mandy's this is not the role of the federal government to do this they n sad atov that time of government overreach to force americans to get vaccinated. >> no i wouldn't demand it would be mandatory but ihi would do everything in my power to psychedelic masks need to be mandatory nationwide. >> that's not the role the federal government that's the role the institution private sector entities and others may take. >> here's the thing we cannot require somebody to be vaccinated. that's not what we can do. it is a matter of privacy to know who is and who isn't. >> you don't want to mandate and force anyone to take the vaccine we've never done that. you can mandate to certain groups of people like health workers but for the general population you can't but we don't want to mandate from the federal government to the engeneral population. in be unenforceable and unappropriate. elizabeth: people are saying what change their mind in a years time is because o

pelosi on the matter related to the january 6th commission.ne as she is focusing on issues that are important to the democrats in washington, d.c., as they attempt to deflect attention from from the disaster that is the biden administration and she continues to bash president trump as well as citizens in wyoming. the fact is president trump won wyoming by over 70% of the vote, he had a higher percentage of votes than liz cheney did to. the citizens of wyoming sent her to washington, d.c., to be an ally of president trump, to pursue conservative values and fight against the biden-pelosi agenda and she aligned herself with pelosi agenda instead. >> laura: liz cheney reacted to president trump's endorsement of her campaign by saying in a tweet that shares a sound bite for you -- bring it. she's projecting a lot of confidence, i understand democrats can cross over and vote in this primary, your reaction? >> i'm not sure that projects a lot of confidence, that's an interesting response for her to make but it also shows she reacted immediately to pr

now nancy pelosi faces her hardest test. a house divided, a senate balking, and a lot on the line. >> we are bringing it up to do so in a way that can win and so far so good for today. it is goingings in a positive direction. it is positive to persuade people to vote without the reassurances of the reconciliation bill. i can't stay too long because i have to deal with step by step with this but i'm envisioning taking it up and winning it. let me tell you about negotiating at the end, that is when you really have to weigh in, you cannot tire, you cannot concede. it is this is the fun part. >> this is the fun part, she says. the speaker and no one knows this better. she is taking these negotiations one hour at a time and leaning in to get some extra innings with the president at the annual congressional baseball game last night. three democratic lawmakers will be joining us here on capitol hill to talk about how to break the current stealmate. and we're going to talk about cuba's response to protests and the pandemic. let's st

mark elias, nancy pelosi, the democrats in the house lost again. when all of a sudden, marinette's opponent withdrew her contested election request and marinette miller meeks was safe. now, i've got to be honest with you, the former political op operative, somebody who used to yell about fogarty's bills in a different position i was in, i was looking forward as i, as a former operative, the super bowl of elections, who raise it on the house of the representatives. i would have felt like tom freakin' brady. [laughter] unless i lost. but you know what? i'd much rather give up that opportunity to do that, to not have to go through it and know what the end result would have been. it would have been the voters, the will of the voters in iowa's congressional district that elected marinette, that will would have been thrown out. we would have fought hard, we would have fought valiantly and matter of fact i think we would have had enough moderate democrats who would worry this may happen to them. fear is an amazing thing in politics. and that's our message

joe biden and nancy pelosi said it will cost zero dollars, zero. i don't know that's common core math or not but that's a lie. their tax and spend plan costs $4.3 trillion. it might not cost nothing to the elites who think they'll vote for it, but it will cost almost every single american their hard-earned taxpayers money for it. and now democrats want to spy on anything you buy that costs $600 or more. government wants to know what you're doing with your money. by hiring 85,000 new i.r.s. agents to deal through every aspect of your life. the democrats want to enlist the bureaucratic army to achieve their goal of a big government socialist nation. so instead of waking up to a country in crisis, the democrats are asleep at the wheel and leading us to an unrecognizable future. our country is in a crisis and it's time the democrats focus and fix it. with that, let's open up. yes, ma'am? reporter: you're moving forward with bringing the bipartisanship vote to the floor, how confident are you that you have enough members that will take it over the edge

nancy pelosi met with jenny yellen last week. understand what the caller is saying, but i think it is important to look at -- you see middle-class families making $65,000 joint income per household and they are paying often times more in taxes when it comes to an overall percentage of their annual income than someone making $1 million a year. that is something the entire democratic caucus want to make more fair and equitable. you are not going to hurt the middle class families who have been constantly punished time and time again when it comes to taxes. there taxes will be lower. corporations will make up the bulk of the spending for this bill. host: joseph is in the empire state, democrat, good morning. do me a favor, joseph, turned on your tv. caller: my question is regarding tax the rich. my question is to the progressives and the bernie sanders supporters, whatever happened to the proposal several years ago when they proposed a robin hood tax to pay for these programs? host: adrienne elrod? guest: is he talking about a propos

speaker pelosi's first bill in this congress h.r. one aims to rewrite our voting laws and have democrats a permanent majority giving them permanent power. this visit a normal political game. it is the rigging of the rules of the game. the first bill that i and republican study committee which i'm proud you chair in this congress introduced was the save democracy act. it is an election integrity bill that requires valid voter id and boost voter integrity by banning practices like ballot harvesting, automatic mail-in voting and drop boxes in federal elections. it restores faith in our elections by proving that they are safe. it is the republican parties flagship election reform bill and i hope to see it on the house floor when we take back the house after the midterm election. republicans need to offer simple solutions to strengthen the underpinnings of our democracy. because the other party is trying to weaken our democracy each and every day that they are in power. so thank you for having me. i hope i haven't taken too long. i'd be h

he's been working mostly through schumer and pelosi in the house, particularly pelosi to let her blockeard her tell lawmakers, if you're going to be mad at someone, be mad at me. don't be mad at the president. he's doing his job, right. but if that plan isn't working, we may see biden potentially try to engage more. i'm just not sure that it's going to make a big difference. many of these progressives who are the biggest hold outs were never biden fans to begin with. never wanted him to be the nominee for president anyway. got behind him when they needed to, but it's always been a fragile piece. and i think -- i'm not sure what the carrot is he can do to bring these folks on board if they're not ready to come. >> keeping that baseball metaphor alive, you look at the team which is the democratic party. wow, what a wide range of opinions on that team. they're all on the same team, but are they, progressives and house moderates, agree on how to move forward? what do we know about communication, if any, between the two wings of the democratic party? >> yeah, it's been sort of all over the

professor paolo pelosi, thank _ extremely good. professor paolo pelosi, thank you _ extremely good.or _ extremely good. professor paolo pelosi, thank you forjoining - extremely good. professor paolo pelosi, thank you forjoining us l extremely good. professor paolo l pelosi, thank you forjoining us on bbc news. pelosi, thank you for “oining us on bbc news. . ~ pelosi, thank you for “oining us on bbc news. ., ~ , ., , pelosi, thank you for “oining us on sac news.— let's take a look at the latest uk coronavirus figures, and there were just over 37 and a half thousand new infections recorded in the latest 24—hour period, which means an average of 35,051 per day in the last week. the figures also show there were 7,5a1 people in hospital being treated for coronavirus two days ago. 120 deaths were reported in the latest 2a hour period — that's people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test. that takes the average deaths per day to 112 over the last week. 0n vaccinations, more than 88% of people over the age of 16 have had their first jab, and more than 79% of people over 16 hav

was he colluding with nancy pelosi second in line after vice president pence, was he colluding with pelosi to usurp the constitutional power and authority of the president of the united states or as he now, states, was he just performing routine procedural training regarding a nuclear strike? if millie was colluding -- milley was colluding with pelosi and taking away the president's ability to do his job as commander-in-chief, one of those jobs would be perhaps to launch a nuclear weapon. he would then be guilty of the very definition of insurrection. that is the democrat's favorite word. and again, the president is the commander-in-chief. our constitution is clear. it authorizes the president and the president alone with that power and authority over our military. there is no constitutional authority granted to the chairman of the joint chiefs general milley. not anyone else but the president. our republic is designed to prevent apolitical a political coup. so what we are describing here is the constitutional crisis of the highest order, "an act or instance of revolting against civil auth

pelosi's pulling the strings for joe biden as well, so employees employees -- so pelosi's going to gete committee hearings, and they don't allow republican amendments. so it's just very dispinting to see so many democrats -- dispints to see so many -- disappointing to see so many democrats be followers to a person like nancy pelosi. elizabeth: got it. congressman james comer, we'll continue to cover the story. it's good to have you on. >>> okay, up next, security or officials now really angry with the biden administration of they're saying, wait a second, you're securing the border in afghanistan, but you're weakening our own southern border here? up next foreman dhs -- former dhs adviser chuck marino. many border officials are calling this a slap in the face to men and women here in america fighting the border crisis. your watching "the evening (music) it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the heavy lifting, jess is busy moving her xfinity internet and tv services. it only takes about a minute. wait, a minute? but what have you been doing for the last two hours? ...delegati

according to an aide, speaker pelosi blamed it on the senate. she said, quote, i told all of you we wouldn't go on to the bipartisan infrastructure we had the reconciliation bill passed by the senate. we were right on schedule to do all of that until ten days ago, a week ago, when i heard the news that this number had to come down. they're reportedly hoping the president will publicly pressure members of congress to vote for the infrastructure bill. speaker pelosi is acknowledging she is still unsure what the final number will be. keep moderate senators joe manchin of west virginia and kerstin sinema of arizona have both publicly said they would not support the bill at its current price tag. the vote is expected this thursday. meanwhile senate republicans are making good on their promise not to raise the debt ceiling even if it leads to a government shutdown. every senate republican voted yesterday against a measure that would fund the government and make sure the country does not default on its debt. republicans argue that democrats should pass

that is what house speaker pelosi has said is the path she's pursuing. we should note no vote time has been put into the schedule so far and the facts on the ground are they don't have the votes and pelosi has said she won't bring a bill to the floor if it doesn't have the votes. so the the prpresident's strate been to focus on two people, two moderates, senator manchin and senator sinema. he has spoken to them at length this week. he has met with both of them in person. he talked to senator manchin on the phone yesterday. his aides went to capitol hill yesterday to meet with senator sinema in her office. there has been a lot of back and forth on this. the white house has been very hesitant to say what are the outlines they have heard so far from senator manchin and senator sinema. we heard from senator manchin himself and he said he did inform the president about that $1.5 trillion top line. and so you're seeing the progressives say that is simply not enough for them. they still want to know more about what these two moderates want. the president's main

elizabeth: let's listen to this, the president, nancy pelosi, jen psaki, dr.auci, just months ago said no, no to vaccine mandates, this is not the role of the federal government to do this. they said at that time this is a government overreach to try to force americans to get vaccinated. watch this. >> no i do not think it should be mandatory were not demanded to be mandatory but i would do everything by power just like i don't think basques need to be mandatory nationwide. >> that's not the role of the federal government that is the role of the institution, private sector entities and others may take. >> here's the thing we cannot require someone to be vaccinated. that is just not what we can do. it is a matter of privacy to know who is and who isn't. >> you don't want to mandate and force anyone to take the vaccine, we have never done that. you can mandate for certain groups of people like health workers but for the general population you can't. we don't want to be mandating for the federal government in the general population it would be unenforceable and a

house speaker nancy pelosi said they'll vote on the bill thursday. when the house is back in session find live coverage here on c-span. reset the scene would congresses facing and where the house has been, last week the house was in session and they passed a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded pass to the end of the fiscal year. it's a short-term measure. it passed in the house and now it has to make its way in the u.s. senate. it would fund the government through december 3 of this year. a nine week stretch and it would also suspend the debt limit until summer 16th of 2022. in that package in addition to keeping the federal government open and the other agencies open, they've added nearly $29 million for natural disaster relief, hurricane ida and wildfires. $6.3 billion for the resettlement of afghan refugees. that is just one of a number of items on the plate for the house and senate this week. our live coverage of the house all week on c-span and of the senate over on c-span two. this is from the new york times. for schumer

he just got out of a meeting with nancy pelosi.terday he claimed he'd be drinking champagne sometime today celebrating the passage of this bill. is your champagne still on ice? >> you know, i'm always an optimist and after this meeting with nancy pelosi and i agree with senator mccaskill, never second guess speaker pelosi and chuck schumer and president biden when they're going to work helping to get these votes. i believe we're going to get there and it's going to be a long day and night. we'll get there. but this is critically important, chuck. i think everyone recognizes what's on the line here so important to the president and the country. you are talking about a bill as we've talked about that had 69 votes in the senate. and that the country wants. this is an historic once in a century bill. we can get it done and we can get it done tonight and send it to the president's desk. >> you got out of the meeting so it sound like the plan is still to have the vote today. you heard this, what claire mccaskill is hearing about a skinny