After nearly 40 years of working in the nation's capital, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has played a central role in some of the most consequential American events of the last two decades.

And that is the focus of her new book. American events of the last two decades.

And that is the focus of her new book, The Art of Power.

My story as America's first woman speaker of the house.

Speaker, America Nancy Pelosi, welcome back to the news hour.

Thank you for being here.

Always a pleasure to be here.

So you have said this new book, The Art of Power, it's not a memoir, but it does have

a number of very personal, very intimate moments in it.

It's also just a sweeping collection of big moments through your leadership, through

American history, 9-11, the war in Iraq, the 2008 financial crisis how did you arrive at these

moments what's the common thread well I actually you said it well as it's not a

memoir when I was in the leadership, these were four areas that I

want to show our side from the House Democratic side where we were on the issue. So I intended to write this

book a long time ago. I just had no time. So by the time I wrote it when I was no

longer speaker and had the time to do so, people said well you have to write about

January 6th and Trump and you have to write about what happened to your husband and so I

have some other things there but there are other subjects that I will write

about Ukraine I will write about Ukraine, I will write about

climate, the climate issue and the rest, but that's for another book.

You talk about this in the book about male colleagues discouraging you from seeking leadership saying that

there was a pecking order and you write when the women members spoke out in

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