Who is Nancy Pelosi?
Who Is?
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🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is the most powerful woman in the United States. The first woman to lead the House of Representatives--and third in line to the presidency--she’s passed landmark legislation like the Affordable Care Act; has been the legislative partner, or adversary, of three presidents; and is playing a decisive role in the impeachment of President Trump. All that, and she didn’t even hold elected office until she was 47, after she had raised five children. Whatever your politics, this is Nancy Pelosi’s moment. Join Sean Morrow for this not-to-be-missed look at the woman who is, arguably, the leader of the democratic party.
- John Lawrence, former Pelosi Chief of Staff; Visiting Professor at the University of California's Washington Center; author of The Class of '74: Congress after Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship
- Paul Kane, Senior Congressional Correspondent and Columnist at the Washington Post
- Stephanie L. Young, former White House Senior Public Engagement Advisor in the Office of Public Engagement
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back and happy New Year. |
| 0:02.7 | I'm Sean Morrow, and this is Who Is, the podcast from Now This, where we examine power by looking at the people who have it. |
| 0:12.5 | Last year, beyond three Democrats who might challenge Trump in November, we told you about the massive power of a conservative Supreme Court Justice, the influence |
| 0:23.0 | of a radical mercenary and his cabinet-level sister, and a decades-long effort to control |
| 0:29.0 | politics through the news. |
| 0:31.3 | But we opened on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, someone who threw a mix of cunningly dexterous political skill and a deep |
| 0:40.1 | understanding of the rules of government and a will to play outside of them has managed to engineer |
| 0:45.7 | Republican dominance across all three branches of American government. So who do the Democrats |
| 0:52.1 | have that can also make things happen? |
| 0:55.6 | Who knows how to play the game? |
| 0:57.6 | You said, well, you've lost now three times. |
| 1:00.2 | Why don't you step side? |
| 1:01.3 | You've heard that question when we lost two times or one time. |
| 1:03.7 | And I said, what was the day that any of you said to Mitch McConnell when they lost the Senate three times in a row, |
| 1:14.0 | lost making progress and taking back the Senate three times in a row. Aren't you getting a little old Mitch? |
| 1:18.5 | Shouldn't you step aside? Have you ever asked him that question? Have you ever asked? |
| 1:23.1 | Has any of you ever asked him that question? So I don't understand why that question should even come up. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm here as long as my members want me to be here as long as there's a reason to be here. |
| 1:36.0 | That is Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, the first and second woman ever to be Speaker. |
| 1:42.3 | And that's only her career in the 2000s. |
| 1:45.2 | She's had a huge influence in national politics for more than 40 years. |
| 1:49.9 | But it's 2020. |
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