Everyone is crushing on Nancy Pelosi today after the January 6 committee played seven minutes of never-before-seen footage of her remaining cool as a cucumber while taking charge during the deadly Capitol attack.
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The dramatic recording was captured by Pelosi’s daughter, journalist and filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, who happened to be at the Capitol that day recording a documentary for HBO.
The AP reports:
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The recordings offer a rare glimpse into the real-time reactions of the most powerful members of Congress as they scrambled to drum up support from all parts of the government, including from agencies seemingly ill prepared for the chaos, and vented anger over a president whose conduct they felt had endangered their lives.
In the videos, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer negotiate with governors and defense officials to try to get the National Guard to the Capitol as police were being brutally beaten outside the building.
The deployment of the Guard was delayed for hours as Trump stood by and did little to stop the violence of his supporters.
Take 7 minutes to watch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others respond to the Capitol insurrection in previously unseen footage. pic.twitter.com/qFDdLSuMmM
— The Recount (@therecount) October 13, 2022
After yesterday’s hearing, which ended with the committee announcing it was subpoenaing ex-president Donald Trump, CNN broadcasted additional clips on Anderson Cooper‘s AC360.
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Several snippets have been going viral all over social media today, including this one of a fired up Pelosi saying she wanted to punch Trump out for what he had done:
Nancy Pelosi is a boss ?
It’s even better up close. I could watch this all night long on loop. pic.twitter.com/gyy1itjvtW
— Christopher Webb??VOTE (@cwebbonline) October 14, 2022
And this one of her ripping into a beef stick with her teeth while on the phone with Mike Pence (a girl’s gotta eat!):
Nancy Pelosi upwrapping a meat stick with one hand and her teeth and eating it while on the phone with VP Mike Pence on January 6th… iconic pic.twitter.com/F9e8htwlbr
— breton (@bretoncousins) October 14, 2022
Say what you want about the 82-year-old Speaker of the House, but there’s no denying she handled things like a total boss that day.
Now, some tweets…
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a boss, a badass, a national treasure. Who’s with me?
— dylan (@dylanmsmitty) October 13, 2022
Nancy Pelosi wasn’t hysterical or emotional during Jan. 6. She was cool and collected, determined to save our democracy. No plates or ketchup hurled.
Strong, wise women leaders. We need more of them in the U.S.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 14, 2022
Nancy Pelosi had 5 children in something like 7 years and that's all I can think about when I see her being calm under literal siege.
— Natalie Jennings (@nataliejennings) October 14, 2022
Nancy Pelosi is not only invited to the cookout, everybody better bring her a damn plate with the best food on it. And we will do the Electric Slide in her honor. Nancy is my damn hero.
— Sons of Killmonger & Disciple of Dark Brandon (@2Strong2Silence) October 13, 2022
Leadership is the difference. pic.twitter.com/a3eOv8lQ28
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 13, 2022
Nancy Pelosi has balls of steel.
— ???™?????????? (@Lady_Star_Gem) October 13, 2022
Welp… that 5-minute montage the Jan 6 committee just played leads me to the conclusion that America did have a president on January 6th. Her name was Nancy Pelosi.
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid ? (@JoyAnnReid) October 13, 2022
All those Republicans who vilified Nancy Pelosi probably owe their lives to her.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) October 13, 2022
Nancy Pelosi is basically a special ops grandma
— Liam Nissan™ (@theliamnissan) October 13, 2022
This is THE “alpha wolf” in these DEMOCRACY streets!!! @speakerpelosi
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•#democracy #nancypelosi pic.twitter.com/tzLlNimVbA— Jenifer Lewis (@JeniferLewis) October 14, 2022
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Fahd
The US would be so much worse off if Pelosi hadn’t been speaker during the reign of the Count of Mostly Crisco. She’s an historic figure.
Diplomat
I bet she throws a serious right hook. Giving new meaning to flying carpet. My kinda man.
bachy
Pelosi is a heroine of the first order. What would America do without the kind of integrity and courage she displays?
Ronbo
Nancy stood up for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which was passed by Bill Clinton and supported by President Obama (refusing to support us because “God is in the mix.” Fact check this if you were unaware of this.
So yes, Pelosi has supported this community more than everyone else, except President Joe Biden who as VP went on Meet the Press making waves with conservative and moderate Democrats – including forcing President Obama to stop preaching false conservative dogma.
God is NOT against us, we are here to save humanity! Why do human genetics create us in greater number when social and personal problem related stress increase? Could be that God keeps us in the mix intentiionallyt? Yes.
However, Pelosi was born before TV went nationwide, before the internet, before computers, before THIS world was formed. She may be a supporter; but, she is a horse and buggy in a technological world. Her opposition to progressive policy was formed in 1940 – when WWI was more recent memory than 9/11 now! Years before WWII!
I don’t object to her age. I object to her establishment mentality, allowing stock market cheating and using her post to help her family make over $430,000,000 and blocking legislation stopping all politicians from profiting from insider trading. Neoliberals like her and Republicans are the biggest obsticle to progressives and the youth vote.
I want to vote FOR people, rater than rejecting the most corrupt of the two parties. Establishment Dems are oftren only economic Republicans. The rich are getting richer and the poor continue to grow poorer under such neoliberal policies.
I hope the party catches up with the voters soon. These neoliberals reject progressive ideals and work PRIMARILy to maintain balance between the two conservative parties, R and D.
smittoons
@Ronbo Another reason Nancy Pelosi gets things done: proofreaders.
southernway
I would pay good money to watch her bitch slap him… a couple of times.
inbama
After the footage released today and the recording conversation of Pence in hiding, Trump should surely be facing the death penalty for having orchestrated this attack on the U.S. government.
Creamsicle
The political class will sabre rattle and admonish, but actually holding someone elected to high office accountable to the law is unlikely.
Dick Nixon admitted to his criminal conspiracy and never saw a day in prison.
But if it happens, I’m throwing a party on Trump’s public execution day
Kangol2
I don’t believe Don the Con should receive the death penalty but he should be tried and convicted for his multiple crimes, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Whether
1) it was serving as a Russian agent and obstructing that investigation repeatedly OR
2) stealing federal documents, including the most secret ones and refusing to and lying about returning them OR
3) aiding, abetting, furthering and participating in an attempted coup against the US government and trying to overturn a legitimate federal election and state elections, OR
4) engaging in massive tax fraud at the state and federal level for years on end,
he needs to be tried, convicted and rot in prison! If his former deputy Michael Cohen can go to jail for hush money payments for Don the Con’s affair and numerous of Don the Con’s associates can be tried and convicted for lying about their outreach to Russia, he should be convicted for FAR more serious crimes!
Kangol2
@Creamsicle, Dick Nixon resigned and then was pardoned by his former VP, Republican President Gerald Ford, remember? That’s why he never saw a day in prison.
Ronbo
Kangol appears to have dialed back the “full Maddow” into tRump’s actual, provable actions (except on the Russian agent propaganda). You know the corporate script: every allegation, every suggestion, every rumor made to lead us to think that tRump was just about to be caught. This is news manufactured FOR consumption – just like watching FOX. You know what you are going to get – and it’s rarely the full truth. Consumptive news is primarily propaganda with a grain of truth.
That tRump is a scummy economic carpetbagger with many, many corrupt and prosecutable actions, is not propaganda. Unfortunately, Maddow followed the establishment script of new daily scandals which muddied the waters on previous scandals. Every new allegation (thousands over the years) – resulted in nothing actually sticking! To stick, an issue has to be significant, true and provable. Hopefully prosecutors can nab him on tax evasion. Let’s hope the prosecutors don’t follow a political script and instead go after his real, documented crimes.
How do criminals like him get away with such crimes? As politics demand, a prosecuter can charge someone with what they did not do and when disproven in court the criminal will parade around newspapers that report “Innocent!”. The actual crime is never prosecuted. Politics and lawyering is an ugly business played for profit that most voters simply can’t afford to play. Buying prosecutors and shopping for judges is where wealth has an advantage over justice. It’s a two-tiered justice system adju$ted for the rich.
Creamsicle
I’d be on board with calling Pelosi a woke queen if she would get on board with a Congressional Stock Trading ban that includes Congress’s spouses.
Chrisk
Yeah, well it’s made her wealthy to the tune of 196 million so very unlikely to happen.
smittoons
We really missed out on the chance to see Nancy and Hillary kick some ass together. It would have been quite a sight.
FreddieW
Yes, it was great to watch her in that video. Doesn’t change the fact that she and McConnell and Biden and Feinstein too many others in our government are far too old to be working. We desperately need younger leadership.
dgsea06
Lots of younger people in that bldg. that day. Where were they? They were running their asses off!
These “too old” people were the only ones fighting to save the government.
What scares me is that when these “too old” people are gone, we’ll be left with chickenshits like Pence and Hawley, Mooseface Taylor-Greene, BoBo of Colorado, Traitor Tulsi, ad nauseum, but YOUNG!
FreddieW
What scares me is that these old folks from my parents’ generation are going to get us into a nuclear war or a civil war or some other calamity that entails dragging our nation with them into the grave.
johncp56
The latest clips were so damning, if the king of mar-A-Lardo he should have been called to court first, now he is closer to 2024, facts are facts he and his group of treasonist need accountability, christ sake look how many of his crew went to jail!! the Republicans will higher anyone to stay in power creep scum cheats
SDR94103
she is a legend.
scotty
nancy “the macho man” savage.
Karlis
I watched that video on Chris Hayes’ show last night. I was wondering what that was that the Speaker was gnawing on. Thanks for the info!
Tombear
I would pay to see Nancy sock Trump in the mouth! California women are outspoken and in most cases won’t take shit from a man!
RyanMBecker
Sources say that Pelosi was the congressperson Trump feared most.
On a related note, anyone watched the video of Roger Stone calling Ivanka Trump an “abortionist bitch”? That was his reaction after Daddy Trump failed to give him a second pardon. Google it.
scotty
no surprise that roger stone is a walking, talking piece of s h i t e
RyanMBecker
You can bet that the SlimJim makers are trying to capitalize on the free publicity. Maybe a slogan like, “The snack for strong women.” Feminist groups and female sports teams should try to get some sponsorship money from them.