Pelosi ends 20-year run leading Democratic caucus

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi is stepping aside as the head of House Democrats while Republicans look to investigate Hunter Biden. Also, a look into the bankruptcy that is throwing the entire crypto market into a tailspin. Plus, Rep. Zoe Lofgren joins to discuss Mike Pence’s comments about testifying before the January 6th committee. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's a vibe shift in Washington.
0:04.8	The lead starts right now.
0:06.6	Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepping aside as the head of House Democrats.
0:12.8	I will not seek re-election to Democratic leadership in the next Congress.
0:18.4	Other top Democrats are also stepping aside as Pelosi makes her historic announcement
0:22.4	in Republicans naming the president's son Hunter as target number one.
0:27.1	In former Vice President Mike Pence, telling CNN the January 6th committee has no right
0:31.8	to his testimony, a member of that committee joins us to respond.
0:36.2	Plus the bankruptcy that has thrown the entire crypto market into a tailspin, the 30-year-old
0:41.5	former executive drawing comparisons to Bernie Madoff, with big name celebrities dragged
0:47.1	into the financial meltdown.
0:53.8	Welcome to the lead.
0:54.8	I'm Breonna Keeler.
0:55.8	The paper is on assignment.
0:57.4	We begin with the end of an era in Washington.
1:00.5	House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing today she is stepping down as leader of the Democratic
1:05.2	Caucus after serving for 20 years in that role.
1:09.0	Pelosi was the first woman to lead a political party in either chamber of Congress, the first
1:14.4	woman to serve as Speaker of the House.
1:18.8	Never would I have thought that someday I would go from homemaker to House Speaker.
1:23.6	When I came to the Congress in 1987, there were 12 Democratic women.
1:30.3	Now they're over 90, and we want more.
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