Pelosi in the House (2022) - full transcript

For my entire adult life,

I have been two steps behind you,
with this camera,

trying to keep up with you.

Mom, do you realize that?

You walk at a pace.

Hard to keep up with you.

I am a workhorse
not a show horse.

Raise your right hand
and repeat after me:

"I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear."

I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear.

I, George Herbert Walker Bush,
do solemnly swear.



I, William Jefferson Clinton,
do solemnly swear.

I, George Walker Bush, do solemnly swear.

"I, Barack Hussein Obama..."

I, Barack Hussein Obama,
do solemnly swear.

"That I will execute the office
of President of the United States..."

"I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear."

I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

"That I will faithfully execute,"

That I will faithfully execute,

"The Office of President
of the United States."

The Office of President of the United States.

"And will, to the best
of my ability."

And will, to the best
of my ability.

"Preserve, protect and defend."



Preserve, protect and defend.

"The Constitution of the United States."

The Constitution of the United States.

- "So help me God."
- So help me God.

Follow me this way.

Please follow me this way.

Oh, I am. I really would love
to get a picture.

with her daughter, actually.

I hear she has a daughter.

Wonderful.

Wait, I want to-

And you are?

The State of the Union.

I'm going to call
the House to order.

I hope that it stays in order.

If it doesn't stay in order,
I'll call it to order again.

Anyway, just think
in a positive way,

then every moment takes us
closer to the next election.

And he's about to walk up there, Jake.

We're about to see the first interaction
with the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.

It's going to be interesting to watch
the body language,

what they say to each other.
We'll listen very, very carefully.

Members of Congress,
the state of our union is strong.

USA! USA! USA!

And the only thing that can stop it

are foolish wars, politics,

or ridiculous partisan investigations.

But we must reject

the politics of revenge,
resistance and retribution,

and embrace the boundless
potential of cooperation,

compromise, and the common good.

There's so much crap
in his speech.

He lied so much,

and he fear-mongered so much.
-Yes.

I wish I were free to say,

what I want to say about this,

because this is a very dangerous man.

A very dangerous man.

He's hiding behind World War II,
the Holocaust,

children's cancer and all the rest...

-Right.
-...to get applause lines.

And, by the way, 500 million dollars
over ten years,

-...for childhood cancer.
- A pittance.

Why don't I just give you
the change out of my sofa?

- Yeah.
- It's nothing.

It was a very strange speech.
- It really was.

It was disgusting.

And then to stand in the well
of the House of Representatives

and say so many things happened...
The abolition of slavery, this or that.

"But don't think you're going to exercise
your constitutional authority

"of oversight over the Executive Branch"

"in terms of the separation of power."

Was that a threat?

- Yes.
- Absolutely.

Make my day.

Okay Mom, here we go.
You've set-up an epic battle.

The press are now saying
it's you against the president.

- Good morning.
- How are you, George?

Oh, super! Tell me
when you've heard enough.

I'll give you some
of the top stuff,

it's unbelievable.

Look it says: "Dems celebrate
the Pelosi era after State of the Union".

- Pelosi era.
- Literally.

- It's the Pelosi Era.
- "Clap back at Trump."

That didn't take long.

- He's looking.
- He doesn't know what hit him.

Look at him.

The McDonald's Summit.

- Photoshopping gone mad.
- What has he got on? Oh, my God.

- Everywhere. Yes.
- That was terrible.

I'm going to rearrange
your pictures

so that I get more prominent
display in this household.

Look at that,
it's me and my mommy.

It looks like it's fading a little bit.

Okay, I want you to come sit down
and tell me your life story.

- Is this okay?
- I want to put you in these...

Look, I put the picture
of me and you there.

So that all my siblings

can see I'm your favorite.

See? Look.

See how long my hair is?

That was a hippie era,
long hair, purple jeans.

Mom, why did you choose this life?

I didn't really choose this life.
It chose me.

I was born into politics.
That was the life that we led.

I was born into a family
that was devoutly Catholic,

proud of our Italian-American heritage,

fiercely patriotic,
and staunchly Democratic.

When I was born,
my father was in Congress.

He was a "New Deal" Democrat

who worshiped at the shrine
of Franklin Roosevelt.

Then, when I was seven, he became
mayor of Baltimore.

And then, from first grade to college,
he was mayor.

So that was the only life
I really ever knew.

Every day was a campaign.

There was never an election
that we weren't involved in.

I learned from my father
that it was important to know how to count.

You had to know how many votes
it takes to win.

My fellow citizens...

Eight years after my father
was mayor,

my brother Tommy became
mayor of Baltimore.

He taught me how to own the ground,

that it was absolutely essential
to turn out the vote

in order to win the election.

What was Grandmom's role in all this?

My mom ministered to
the needs of the poor

and she considered public service
a very high calling.

She wanted me to be a nun...

But that didn't work out for her.

So then you met dad in college, got married,
had five kids in six years, then what?

Then I was a mom
for a very long time.

But I did have some
good organizational skills.

Years later, one of my friends said:
"I expected she was going someplace"

when I saw her having
those little children

fold and stack their own laundry,
right out of the dryer.

- So when did you go into politics?
- Well, I was a volunteer in politics.

Then I became the chair
of the California Democratic Party.

My hope is that this convention
will unite our party

and will lead us to a better world.

And after that I was
asked to run for Congress.

According to the official returns
of the special election,

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
was elected to the office

of United States Representative,

in Congress from the 5th District of California.

My father came to the floor
when I won.

Do you solemnly swear that you will
support and defend

the Constitution
of the United States?

He passed away about two months later.
So I was really very lucky.

...you are about to enter,
so help you God?

I do.

You are a member of the
House of Representatives.

There had been many sons who had followed
their fathers into Congress.

But here I was, the first daughter
of a member of Congress to serve.

I was born when he was in Congress.

He made us all very proud
in our family,

and he also taught us a tradition
of public service,

a tradition of commitment to making
government work for people.

And now we must take the leadership,
of course, in the crisis of AIDS,

and I look forward to working
with you on that.

Nancy Pelosi, come on!

Nancy Pelosi, come on!

Nancy Pelosi, come on!

I never asked anybody to vote for me
because I was a woman.

But I certainly did not want anybody
to vote against me because I was a woman.

I think it's a plus for the Democratic Party.

But if I didn't have the credentials,

I wouldn't be having a
majority of the votes right now.

The Chair announces that

Hi, Mr. President.

It was pretty big.

It was 23 votes, which is
a big, big margin, yeah.

Yeah, in our house that's a big margin.

Thank you, bye-bye.

Did I do-

Was that good, Mama?

If you're feeling good out there,
Let me hear you clap your hands!

Clap.

It's hot in here.

Tell them, Nancy Pelosi,
Nancy Pelosi

My colleagues just bestowed upon me

...the great honor to be
the leader of the Democrats

in the House of Representatives.

Wasn't it great?

Yes. Congratulations, Mom.
I'm very proud of you.

Put your hands up!
Hands, up!

We can do it!

Working together,
we will win the House of Representatives

and elect the first woman
Speaker of the House.

If you're feeling good out there
Let me hear you clap!

And she will soon make history
as the first female Speaker

of the United States
House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi!

It's crazy.

It's now my privilege to present the gavel
to the first woman speaker in our history,

the gentlelady from California,
Nancy Pelosi.

Nancy Pelosi will be the
highest-ranking woman

to ever hold political office,
two heartbeats away from the president.

This is an historic moment
for the Congress.

It's an historic moment
for the women of America.

It is a moment for which we have
waited over 200 years.

Let's hear it for the children.
We're here for the children.

For these children, our children
and for all of America's children,

the House will come to order.

MRS. PRESIDENT
CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES

And tonight, I have the high privilege
and distinct honor of my own

as the first president to begin

the State of the Union message
with these words:

"Madam Speaker."

In his day, the late Congressman,

Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.
from Baltimore, Maryland,

saw Presidents Roosevelt and Truman
at this rostrum.

But nothing could compare with the sight
of his only daughter, Nancy,

presiding tonight as Speaker
of the House of Representatives.

All right, let's do a little chant.

- What do we want?
- Impeachment!

- When do we want it?
- Now!

- What do we want?
- Impeachment!

- When do we want it?
- Now!

- What do we want?
- Impeachment!

How am I supposed to
explain this to my son?

Why are there all these war protesters
living outside of our house?

When I became Speaker,

there was a momentum
in the country

to impeach President Bush
for initiating the war.

And we're sleeping...

To me, the Iraq war was one of
biggest mistakes in our country's history.

I voted against the war,
spoke out against the war,

and yet these people were outside my house,
protesting the war.

It's the press. Hello.

Hi, Sean. I'm in a die-in
over at Pelosi's house.

Does it bother you that you guys are
outside of an empty house, right now,

where Nancy isn't even here?

Well last night we met
her husband.

- Where?
- He came out of the house.

- Would you care to join us?

No, thank you.

Impeach! Impeach!

I said if they wanted to register
their opposition to the war,

they should do so at the polls,

but I was not going to
impeach the President.

Impeach!

I'm going to vomit!

Who gave you the right
to take the Constitution

and shove it down the toilet?

Who gave you the right to
take impeachment off the table?

- So great.
- Thank you, bud.

- This is my daughter, Alexandra.
- Alexandra, yes. How are you?

How do you feel about having a
camera shoved in your face?

Well, you know what?
When I'm with the Speaker of the House,

I would have a
truck shoved in my face.

It doesn't matter.
I'm with the Speaker.

Thank you for being here tonight.

- We want to change.
- We're going to make it happen.

Remember how I told you
I was making a movie?

I'm putting you in it now.

Glad to be contributing
to this great work of art.

This election has never
been about me.

It's about you!

Now is the time to finally
keep the promise

of affordable, accessible healthcare
for every single American.

So we finally have a Democratic president
and a Democratic Congress,

and now you're going to try
and pass healthcare?

Yes.

For nearly 100 years,

there had been an attempt to pass
affordable, quality healthcare.

Barack Obama becomes president,

we had a Democratic Congress,
House, and Senate,

an opportunity of a generation.

We were not going to fail.

Thousands of demonstrators
and congressional Republicans

rallied at the Capitol
to voice their unhappiness

with the Democrats'
healthcare reform package.

This bill is the greatest
threat to freedom

that I have seen in the 19 years
I've been here in Washington.

Kill the bill!

The Speaker was very masterful
about rounding up

members who had difficulties,
with the Affordable Care Act.

for whatever reason.

She had to persuade those members,
kind of one by one...

...that they had to go on to the bill.

You do not take it
to the floor for debate

until you have the votes locked up.

There are no passes,
especially on something

as central to who we are
as Democrats.

No, but, I mean, this is it.

This is the defining moment
for the Democrats.

This is why we elect Democrats.
This is why we are here.

And you can't just be
on the taking end of it.

That's just the definition of saying,
"I'm not on this team."

There has to be some giving,
especially on a vote like this.

I don't want to take up
any more of your time, okay?

Thank you. Bye-bye.

He said, "I hope you don't think
I'm just a taker."

You vote "no" and then
you expect to get something?

I was really critical.

You know, I start with a feather
and I'm nice, nice nice.

And then that sledgehammer
comes out.

I can't even talk with him anymore again,
because I'm trying to pass a bill here.

Vote no. Vote no.

Vote no. Vote no.

Let them hear us!
See the lights up there?

That's where we need
to be yelling.

Kill the bill!

Did you hear that?

The guy said,
"We will remember in November."

Nancy Pelosi last night said

that they were answering
the call of history, right?

I gotta tell you, if the Democrats
keep ignoring the American people

their party's gonna be history
in about a year.

It is time to pass healthcare
reform for America.

And I am confident that you are
going to do it tomorrow!

Thank you very much,
House of Representatives.

Let's get this done!

Is there any sense of
trepidation from people

from people who are thinking
about voting for this?

I think some of them are just committing
political suicide and they know it.

186, 18, and 8.
Are you leaving somebody out of 8?

Okay, so what is this?
What does this add up to?

- 186 and 18 is 214.
- Okay, 186.

What is it 204 and 7, 211?

The lists are a way to sort of
do a whip tally of our caucus,

make sure that we've got every member
exactly where we want to be.

She wants to see, real time, where we are.
And she's always adding up the numbers.

Boucher, Bright, Chandler,
Childress, Costello.

We have to try it again.

I'll invite him to this other meeting.

Davis, Davis.

14, 15...

Some people count sheep at night.
I count votes.

It's really close.
I mean, it really is close.

Members are coming back saying,
"I can't do it. I can't do it."

And finally she just says:
"Give me the names

and leave me alone."

And only in that circumstance
would I call you

to see if you could influence
Mr. Donnelly to support the bill.

We were probably at 190 votes
48 hours ago.

Right now, we need 216 votes
to win in the House. That's the majority.

The Speaker's probably talked to
every single person on this list,

except her closest friends,
who she knows are gonna be with us.

Thank you, Father.
I'd love to come get your blessing.

You have been a leader,
an inspiration.

The Speaker has amazing
power of persuasion.

She's a heat-seeking missile
on votes.

She appeals to their moral fiber.

He said to me,
"I'm going to ruin my career here."

I said: "This is not a place for
people without options.

If the idea was to come because
you can't be any other place,

we don't want you here."

I would walk out of the Speaker's office
on Sunday night

and never come back, thrilled forever
that we have 32 million people.

They think their being here
is more important than that.

You want my job?

- These two make it 211.
- Right.

Plus these two make it 213.

4, 5...

We need 216 votes to win in
the House. That's the majority.

So right now we have 217.
We're across the finish line.

We've got one undecided left,
just one.

218. But I thought we were 219.

But every member that casts
a vote on a one-vote margin

could be accused of being the person
that put it over the line.

So you really tactically wanna have
two or three or four or five votes.

Kill the bill!

Speaker Pelosi leading House Democrats
up the steps of the Capitol.

The Speaker carrying the gavel
that the House used

when it voted
to create Medicare.

After we pass this bill,

being a woman will no longer be
a pre-existing medical condition.

On this vote, the "yeas" are 219,
the "nays" are 212.

The bill is passed!

History on the Hill.

Democrats finally accomplished
what they had been promising for decades.

healthcare for all Americans.

Well, I was pretty happy
last night,

but I'm not sure
I was happier

than when you got
elected president.

'Cause
Thank you, Mr. President. Bye.

I'm sorry you didn't...

So what does the president
have to say for himself?

He said he was happier

than he was the night
he got elected.

♪"KODACHROME"
BY PAUL SIMON PLAYING♪

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take
a photograph...

- Pick me, me.
- What's that?

Don't take
my Kodachrome away

Mama, don't take my
Kodachrome away

Mimi, up.

All righty.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome...

Come on, Paulie.
Show me the wave.

Yay!

Show me the wave.
- Let's do this.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome

There we go.

To Democrats,
this historic legislation

is their generation's
biggest accomplishment.

To Republicans,
it's the beginning

from a government takeover
of our healthcare system.

The American people are very angry
and they don't like it.

And we're going to try to repeal this.

And we are going to have
a very spirited campaign

coming up between
now and November.

And there will be a very
heavy price to pay for it.

- Are we going to fire Pelosi?
- Yes!

Are you going to take back your government?

Yeah!

So would you rather
pass healthcare or be Speaker?

Oh my goodness,
there's absolutely no comparison.

The fact is we're there
to do a job, not to keep a job.

I am so proud of
what we did in healthcare.

And if I have to go
have another line of work,

because I voted to give
the American people

security in their healthcare
in their country,

so be it. I'm proud to do it.

CNN can now project that Republicans
will have a net gain of 39 seats.

They will become the majority
in the House of Representatives.

John Boehner will become the next Speaker
of the House of Representatives.

Nancy Pelosi will not be the Speaker.

Nine out of ten voters in our exit poll
told us they are worried about the economy.

Hello Mr. President.
Not a good night.

Unemployment is over 9%...

Our members have said
they don't regret

their healthcare bill
right across the board.

Even if we never passed
healthcare reform,

we were still going to lose this election
because of 9.5% unemployment.

'Cause it wasn't about that.
It was about jobs.

The White male thing is just...
That's a dominant thing.

When they don't have a job,
they get in a mood. And, um...

So, we'll have to make some decisions
in our caucus about how we go forward.

So, did you ever intend to stay this long?

When Trump was elected,
I knew I had to stay

to protect the
Affordable Care Act.

Tonight I am also
calling on this Congress

to repeal and replace
"Obamacare".

To save Americans
from this imploding

"Obamacare" disaster.

When we first were passing
the Affordable Care Act,

I said:
"We view this as an opportunity.

and a responsibility
of a generation,

there with Social Security,
Medicare and Medicaid."

And we are not gonna let
anything stand in the way

of our passing
this legislation.

We pushed open the gate.

We're not letting them
push that gate back.

So, you went on the road
to defend the Affordable Care Act?

Oh, yeah. When it was clear
that the Republicans were out

to repeal the Affordable Care Act,

plans were placed into motion
for 10,000 events

across the country,
where people told their stories.

An estimated six thousand 6,000 people
showed up in Boston yesterday.

Six thousand people in support
of the Affordable Care Act.

People got up on stages
throughout the country

sharing their story
about the Affordable Care Act,

how it's literally
saved their lives.

Healthcare is a human right!

Thank you for not agonizing,
but organizing.

Kill the bill! Kill the bill!

Kill the bill!

All of you
are making a difference.

I'm feeling very optimistic.

The difference is made
by the outside mobilization.

You are making that difference.

On behalf
of the House Democrats,

I come to thank you for that.

Arizona Senator, John McCain,

this is his first trip
back to Washington

since being diagnosed
with brain cancer.

Isn't it ironic?
The guy who fought the hardest

against the Affordable Care Act...

Hey, guys. How are you?
Good to see you.

... is now going to cast
the deciding vote

on your signature legislation?

Well, it isn't ironic
as much as it is showing

how far the Republicans
were willing to go

to undermine the health security
of our country.

Senator?
Your courage, which is endless,

your coming back

to being an adult in the room

in addition to being a hero,

is really very valuable,

and I'm enormously grateful
for that.

No. Thank you, Senator.
You're wonderful.

Thank you,
thank you for everything,

again and again.

- Mr. Manchin.
- No.

- Mr. Markey
- No.

Mr. McCain.

The Republican effort to repeal

the Affordable Care Act
has failed.

Arizona Senator, John McCain
helped sink the effort,

along with Susan Collins
and Lisa Murkowski.

Hello? Hey.

Mr. Speaker,
thank you for calling back.

I called for two reasons.

One was to say, hopefully,
we can have regular order

and work together
to make the improvements

and updating
of the Affordable Care Act.

And then we can listen to,

you know, all the ideas
in the world

now that we have
not scared people to death

with a repeal. Thank you.
Have a good break.

Thank you, bye-bye.

So this is what
you do all day? You call people.

Well, it's not all
that I do all day,

but it's part of what I do.

And that's why when people look
at my schedule and say,

"You have free time."
I say, "I don't have free time.

I have a day job and I have
to make things happen."

So I can't make it happen
if I'm in a meeting every

You know.

I can make that happen,
but I have other things

that are going on.

So it's a working farm.

There are all kinds of things
going on here all the time.

Really? It is glorious.

And for me,
it was the reason I stayed.

It was just to protect
the Affordable Care Act,

because it means so much.

So how do you feel, Chuck?
You feel good?

You're a nut. Goodbye.

(Speaking Italian)

Look at the honeymooners.

No, I'm enjoying the
honeymooners. Hold on.

This is nice.

The honeymooners.

Aw. The honeymooners.

Woohoo!

Okay, let me get a sip.
Let me get a sip.

Go ahead.

Thomas, you have a sip, too.
Just taste it.

- Okay.
- First sip of champagne.

- She's coming.
- Take a... It's okay.

Just take a sip.

I heard a pop.
Oh, come on.

I don't want these boys
drinking alcohol.

He's just tasting it, Mimi.

This is one of my most
favorite places in the world.

The miracle
of carving this marble...

Out of one piece.

...so that it looks like
it's all folded like cloth.

Look at that...

It's an honor to meet you.

So- Oh, thank you,
your holiness, so much.

Yes. Thank you.

One hundred days now
to the midterm elections.

Republicans have the majority
right now, 235 seats.

The Democrats are at 193.

This is the most important
election of our time.

We have made a decision to win.

Onward to a great
Democratic victory.

The Democrats
sweep these toss-ups,

that would give them 230 seats,

more than enough
to be in the majority.

So you've been doing battle
with Trump for two years now,

and this is your moment
to rein him in.

What's your game plan?

The game plan is
to own the ground.

That means you must be able
to get out every possible vote.

It's about owning the ground
on election day.

Knocking on doors,
walking those precincts,

making those calls
for the American people.

Lower healthcare cost,
bigger paychecks,

cleaner government
for people to trust again.

We don't agonize, we organize.

Are you ready for that?
Are you ready for that?

- Yeah!

I think you can do
a little better.

- Yeah!

On our talking points
we have the economic message,

and that is what it has to be.

Look, I got the rainbow
on my arm.

I got the this for the that.

All these things are in our DNA,

but they're not
in our talking points.

It's all about the economy.

So people ask,

"Is it going to be a wave
or is it going to be a tsunami?"

And I said, "In any case,
it's a series of drops,

small drops of water."

How many drops of water
we have will determine

if it's a wave or a tsunami.

But all these races are going
to be very, very close.

Think of the Olympics.
One second,

gold, silver, bronze,

honored to be an Olympian.

I have a sixth sense about,

the scent of elections.

And I smell success
wherever I go...

You are impossible to crack.

- You're always on message.
- You know me.

How do you do it?
How do you always stay on

all the time?
You're impossible to crack.

- You know that.
- Yeah.

Well, I have my sensitivities.

What does that mean?

That means I have
to be sensitive

to the impact of my words
on certain other campaigns.

You know, if I'm saying,
"I can smell success,"

that means I can smell
lack of success as well.

You're a tough nut
to crack. You know that?

- There's no cracking you, huh?
- Hmm.

Well, if that's
what you want to do,

crack your mom.

Yes, I do.
I want to crack you.

Nancy Pelosi's already looking

beyond this year's midterm election

to taking back
the Speaker's gavel.

"I will run for Speaker
and I feel confident about it."

With Pelosi as Speaker,

everything we fought for
will come undone.

Mom, they're really
coming after you.

- Have you seen these ads?
- I don't see them

because they don't show them
in San Francisco.

But I've heard about them,
that they had

137,000 ads against me.

Once, Nancy Pelosi
was safely confined

to liberal San Francisco.

The Republicans knew
that I was a problem to them

because I was successful.
If I were not successful,

I would not have been
their target.

And by the way,
when you 're a woman

you're more of a target.

Vote November 2nd,
the day we fight back.

Mom, she's gonna win.
She's gonna win, 90 percent.

Delgado won.

Mimi, Mimi, Mimi.

Mimi, CNN, they predict...

CNN can now project
that Democrats

will win the majority

in the US House of Representatives.

This is a huge win
for the Democrats,

a huge setback for the president
and for the Republicans.

Last night,
the Republican Party

defied history
to expand our Senate majority

while significantly
beating expectations

- in the House.
- What is this?

- That's a big percentage
of the numbers.

I mean, really?
- So it really could be

a beautiful bipartisan
type of situation.

- Unless we...
- Listen.

Perhaps, looks like I would
think, Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

I give her a great deal
of credit for what she's done

- and what she's accomplished.
- And do you expect

that when the Democrats
take over the chairmanship

of all these important
committees

you're going to get hit
with a blizzard of subpoenas

- on everything from Russia.
- So, "Let's impeach

the president
and then we'll impeach

the vice president."

These people are sick.
And you know what?

They have to get their bearing.

Really they have
to get their bearing.

- And when you...
- There's something wrong with this man.

There's something
seriously wrong.

They're the ones
that cause the division.

- They cause tremendous division.
- Okay regarding all of your

Oh, my God
he's saying Nancy Pelosi

deserves to be
Speaker of the House.

And, "If they give her
a hard time,

perhaps we'll add
some Republican votes."

There are some Democrats
who are saying

they're not going
to vote for you.

Well, I've never had
a unanimous vote.

I've always had an opponent.

So I feel pretty comfortable
about it.

They have this fairly
elderly leadership in the House.

And there's certainly
a large portion of the party

that would like
to see some younger blood.

There are some people there

who probably have a legitimate
concern about succession.

There are others who don't.

They just have been negative
and almost haters.

The talking heads are saying
you're not going to be Speaker,

you don't have the votes.

The press likes to sell papers.

They all found it interesting
to exaggerate the opposition

to my becoming Speaker.

I wouldn't ask members
to vote for me

if I didn't know
I had the votes.

I have a good feel

for where the votes
are in my caucus.

Since the election,
she has met in person

with 67 members
or members elect.

How do you get people's votes?
Do you just break their knees

- and make them vote for you?
- No!

I'm very respectful
of people's views.

So I want to hear
what they are.

I want to hear
what people have to say.

You count votes by listening.

This is how the sausage is made,
these one-on-one conversations.

This is why she knows

how everyone's gonna vote
before the votes.

Well, now we have
170 publicly committed.

Some of them
will not be telling the truth,

and some of the others
that I discounted, would be.

And that would make it around there.
So we'll see.

Nancy has been with us.

And she will be with us now,
tomorrow, and in years to come.

I ask of you, I beg of you,
I plead with you,

to go and do what we must do

and cast the vote
for Nancy Pelosi

as the next Speaker
of the House of Representatives.

Votes for the election
of the Democratic nominee

for Speaker of the House,

results are,
out of 239 ballots cast,

Representative Nancy Pelosi received...

Nancy Pelosi has been elected
as the Democratic nominee

for Speaker
of the House over 100...

If we don't have
border security

we'll shut down the government

Because the people
of this country don't want

criminals and drugs
pouring into our countries.

You know, Nancy's in a situation
where it's not easy for her

to talk right now,
and I understand that.

But we have
to have border security.

Mr. President,
please don't characterize

the strength that I bring
to this meeting

as the leader
of the House Democrats

who just won a big victory.

At that now famous
Oval Office meeting...

...there was a lot of shade thrown.

But when Nancy Pelosi
put on shades

for exactly five seconds.

that became the moment
her fans immortalized.

"The new power suit for women.
Red coat. Sunglasses."

Nerves of steel.

I mean, look at the two of them.

He looks
like he had a panic attack

in a steam room,

and she looks like
Neo from The Matrix...

- ...if he shopped at Talbots.

Nancy Pelosi was
the first woman

to be elected
Speaker of the House.

Today she becomes
just the second person

to have lost that position,
then be elected Speaker again.

If the gentlewoman
from California

would please raise
her right hand.

Do you solemnly swear

that you will support
and defend the Constitution

of the United States
against all enemies,

foreign and domestic?

That you will bear truth, faith,
and allegiance to the same,

and that you will well
and faithfully discharge

the duties of the office
of which you're about to enter,

- so help you God?
- I do.

Congratulations, Madam Speaker.

I now call the House

to order on behalf
of all of America's children.

♪ I've got all the riches ♪

♪ Baby, one man can claim ♪

♪Well, I guess you say ♪

♪What can make me
Feel this way ♪

♪ Our girl ♪
♪ Our girl ♪

♪ Talking about our girl ♪

♪ Nancy Pelosi ♪

Liar, thief, predator in-chief.

Liar, thief, predator in-chief.

Is it all about taking down Trump?

I know you have a little
impeachment plan going...

I'm celebrating my grandson's
graduation tonight.

I'm not talking politics.

Totally okay.
Thank you very much.

- Thank you, bye-bye.
- Appreciate your time.

Oh, and if he does
get impeached,

- Will we see the clap again?
- We could.

That was epic.

Have a good night, Nancy,
thank you so much.

- Thank you.
-Take care.

Every day he is
obstructing justice by saying,

"This one shouldn't testify.
That one shouldn't test-"

So he's making the case.

But he's just trying
to goad us into impeachment.

So unless there is a case
that can be made to the public

in a bipartisan way,

I think it would be
very hard to...

Well, let's just see
what comes in.

A mysterious
whistleblower report

is consuming Washington,
but details are still limited.

The report appears to center
in part around communications

between President Trump
and the president of Ukraine.

The Wall Street
Journal reports during the call,

Mr. Trump pressured
the Ukrainian president

to investigate
former Vice President,

Joe Biden's son, Hunter.

- Hunter Biden was...
- This crossed a line

that we have to act upon.

As some of your members have said,

if all the other stuff never existed,

this would be reason
enough to go forward.

The White House
has just released a transcript

of President Trump's
July 25th phone call

with Ukraine's president.

You've been resisting the call
to impeach President Trump.

So what pushed you
over the line?

The president just didn't
seem to know right from wrong.

He thought
that releasing the transcript

was going to be a vindication
for him,

instead of an indictment...

which it was.

So this is the transcript.

Let me read you two sentences.

President Zelensky says,

"We are ready
to buy more Javelins

from the United States
for defense purposes."

The very next sentence
from President Trump,

"I would like you
to do us a favor, though."

Further into the transcript
he says,

"The other thing,
there's lots of talk

about Biden's son."

Trump describes how he
would like the president of Ukraine

to investigate
his political opponent,

Joe Biden's son, Hunter.

Telling him who he's going
to have call him

to help implement that,
including the attorney general

of the United States.

"I need a favor
I need a favor."

He didn't really know
right from wrong.

And what he had done
is crossed a threshold

into impeachment territory.

Somebody's just
sent me this picture,

which has been

in the public domain
for a while.

And it's a picture in which
I am saying to the president,

"With you, Mr. President,
all roads lead to Putin.

I'm out of here
in terms of this meeting.'

And the White House,

uh, put— took the picture,
'cause we're not even allowed

to bring cameras
into such a room.

The Pre- The White House
put this out to show

how out of hand I had become.

But in fact, what they did
was a giant favor to me

for people seeing me
stand up to the president,

especially in a room
of all these White men.

In the darkest days
of the revolution,

Thomas Paine wrote,
"The times have found us.

The times have found us."

We believe that the times
have found us now.

Not that we compare ourselves

to the greatness
of our founders.

But we do identify an urgency
of protecting our Constitution,

which this president

is not honoring
his oath of office to.

If we do not have
a system of checks and balances,

separation of power,

co-equal branches
of government,

we have a monarchy.

The actions
of the Trump presidency

revealed the dishonorable fact
of the president's betrayal

of his oath of office,

betrayal
of our national security,

and betrayal of the integrity
of our elections.

Therefore, today, I'm announcing

the House of Representatives
is moving forward

with an official
impeachment inquiry.

House Democrats,
they're ramping up

their impeachment inquiry.

The House Judiciary Committee
is taking the lead in holding

its first hearing
next Wednesday.

Chairman Jerry Nadler
has invited

President Trump's lawyers
to attend.

Jerry, Let me ask you
how do you intend to deal with

the questions
from the members?

Are you going to give them
a question and say,

"You have five minutes,
that includes the answer?

Hi, Jack. It's Paul Pelosi.

He's got to control that,
and I'm going to strive...

- The guys are there at the gate.
- to vote Thursday for the...

I let them get in the gate,
but they went up

up to the parking lot. And I had
them look for the key.

- The key's not on the hook.
- So that he's not actually

saying the articles
of impeachment,

- but kind of what direction.
- But when you get...

- I don't know what..
- But anyway,

- when you get up there...
- And I don't want that.

- there are those
- He...

- Oh, the house is unlocked?
- Yep.

- And then I said...
- What the fuck?

All right.
But the alarm's on, right?

The point is the witnesses.

You have good witnesses
to say...

I don't know what the fuck
happened to that key,

- but that's really annoying.
- ...we can have the articles

- considered...
- Really annoying.

- You can do the...
- I said, but basically,

here's what you say to Aaron,

- what I told you.
- We'll talk about,

measuring the TVs and that crap,
then we can open up...

They only are talking
about process.

- That's all they can about.
- Good. Good, okay.

Well, thank you, guys. Really.
And sorry for the wrinkle.

You're dealing with jerks.

That's why Ukraine
was so valuable to us,

because it was substantive.

It wasn't just a charge,

but it has a charge
about something

that people could understand.

He has put at risk
the separation of powers.

It seems to me that that
is the Constitutional argument

that we're here for.

Are we able to have oversight
of the President

of the United States?

If we're not,
then we don't have a democracy.

We feel comfortable
with all of the time

that has gone into this.

- Speaker, Speaker.
- H.R. 3

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Do you hate the president,
Madam Speaker?

- Because...
- I don't hate anybody.

- Representative Collins sug-
- I was raised

- in a Catholic house...
- The reason I ask-

...you don't hate anybody,
not anybody in the world.

- So don't accuse me of anything.
- I did not accuse you.

- You did. You did. You did.
- I asked a question.

Representative Collins yesterday
suggested that the Democrats

are doing this simply
because they don't like the guy.

That has nothing to do with-
Let me just say this.

As I Catholic,

I resent your using
the word "hate"

in a sentence that addresses me.
I don't hate anyone.

I was raised in a way
that is a heart full of love,

and always pray
for the president.

And I still pray
for the president.

I pray for the president
all the time.

So, don't mess with me

when it comes
to words like that.

We have two articles,

so we'll be debating
the two articles.

Then we vote
on each article separately.

So, that's the impeachment vote.

Then after that,
we have a vote empowering us

to take it to the Senate.

But I'm not doing that
until I see what the-

the process is in the Senate.
Then I'll determine who I send.

I mean, did you ever see
a situation where the jury says,

"I'm doing whatever
the defendant wants me to do?"

Really? I mean, it's sick.
It's sick.

He's impeached forever,
no matter what they do.

But if they want
to vindicate him,

they better come up
with some rules

that are appropriate.

I want to have the flag,
and then I want to have

something that goes across,
or next to, or above.

"And to the republic
for which it stands."

"The republic,
for which it stands,

is what we are here
to talk about, a republic.

If we can-"
I think the first page is good.

Thank you. Thank you, thank you.
And thank you, bye-bye. Bye-bye.

He told me in Hebrew.

(Speaking in Hebrew)

What was that?

"May God give you
very good luck."

You don't need luck.

We make our own luck.

There's one thing
I want to ask you to do.

Somewhere in here
I have a birthday card

for my granddaughter, Madeline.

21 years old.
I think it could be in one of

- that other folder.
- Other folder?

One of those two other folders

- that I brought in.
- Okay. We'll look through.

I'm gonna take a few, okay?

I'm gonna need them all today.

I'll keep them
in my pockets. I'll have them.

Just take one right now and
I'll keep the rest in my pocket.

Okay.

When our founders
declared independence

and established a new nation,

they crafted a system
of government

unlike one ever seen before.

A republic,
starting with the sacred words,

"We the people."

For centuries,
Americans have fought and died

to defend democracy...

for the people.

But, very sadly now,
our founders' vision

of a republic
is under threat from actions

from the White House.

That is why today,
as Speaker of the House,

I, solemnly and sadly,

open the debate
on the impeachment

of the President
of the United States.

Careful, careful.

When will you send over
the impeachment, Madam?

Madam, can you share
a message to the outside world?

Is American democracy
functioning well?

People behind me.
Please open the door.

So, that's it, Mimi.
Impeachment is over.

- How do you feel?
- It's not over.

I mean,
impeachment is over. But our-

the House's responsibility

to protect and defend
the Constitution

and the separation of checks
and balances is not over.

So, protecting Article One
will always be our mission

in the courts and in the court
of public opinion.

You made that joke last year.

Well, you know, it's nice

to be consistent.

Are you gonna be
on your best behavior tonight?

Yes, I am. Let me just go down
to the ladies' room.

Thank you.

- Okay, good luck, Mimi.

- Keep a straight face.
- I will.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do.

He will be
speaking to a room filled

with House Democrats
who voted to impeach him

just a month and a half ago.

On the other hand,
the President

does give this speech
with the certainty

that he will be
acquitted tomorrow.

You see the
Speaker of the House

just tried to shake
the President's hand

and he refused,

or perhaps
did not see her hand.

As I mentioned, there's a lot of
tension between the two of them.

And he did not
extend his to her.

Before I took office,
health insurance premiums

had more than doubled
in just five years...

We will always protect patients

with preexisting conditions.

And we will always protect
your Medicare.

And we will always protect
your social security.

We will never let socialism
destroy American healthcare.

On the coronavirus outbreak
in China,

my administration will take
all necessary steps

to safeguard our citizens.

And my fellow Americans,
the best is yet to come.

Thank you. God bless you.

And God bless America.
Thank you very much.

-So?

What were
the most egregious violations?

Well, every page.
I mean, it's like a hundred.

That was a piece of crap.
It was a total pack of lies.

It was a total pack of lies.
And anything that wasn't a lie,

we did
and he took credit for it.

-Right.
- It's like we demanded

we're not going to give you
a defense bill

unless we have parental leave.

So he said,
"And I signed a historic-"

Yeah, you signed it.
But you didn't have anything

to do with it. And we demanded
that you do it.

I feel very liberated
by that speech tonight.

If that's how he wants
to play it,

then we can have no holds barred.
We just have to call him a liar.

What's your next step
after State of the Union?

We're going to the UAW
to talk about workers.

I don't think
that was the answer

they were looking for.

That's the next step.
That's where I'm going.

The framers predicted
that factional fever

might dominate-

I don't want anybody
to hear you.

The World Health Organization

has declared the coronavirus
a global pandemic.

There are now more
than 120,00 known cases

in 114 countries.

In the United States,
the death toll is rising.

Over 1,000 cases
have been reported

with at least
30 confirmed deaths.

COVID-19 could cause
an economic tsunami.

The great shutdown
of 2020 is underway.

The country is at a standstill.

Nobody can go to work.
Nobody can leave the house.

We're in danger of going
into a great recession.

What's Congress gonna do
about it?

Congress must act
and Congress must act soon.

Of course, we wanted
the legislation

to be bipartisan.

But the Republican leadership
in the Senate

was really thinking more of
a trickle-down kind of a bill.

We want it to be more addressing
the needs of state

and local government,

in a way that enabled
our essential workers

to continue to work.

- Good morning, Speaker.
- How are you?

So, no deal that's bipartisan

- at this point?
- Right.

I said, "Leader McConnell

brought this bill to the floor

knowing what the outcome
would be, and knowing

negotiations were ongoing."

- So, who's he kidding?
- How about in that meeting

when I quoted His Holiness
Saint Fran- Pope Francis.

- Yeah.
- And then Mnuchin said,

"Well, you quoted the Pope.
I'm going to quote the markets."

- Yeah.
- "I'm going to quote the markets."

Look, Mnuchin and the
White House want a deal.

The guy who keeps screwing it up
is McConnell.

I can't quite figure it out.

Our first attempts
at bipartisanship

were not successful.

The election money

is a big deal to our folks.
They want to see us

put a mandate
that all the states

have to have vote by mail,

only now, just for
the coronavirus period.

I mean, nothing for postal.

And they said that's coming
directly from the White House.

He doesn't want any postal,
'cause he doesn't want any mail.

I mean, he doesn't want
any vote by mail.

Okay, thank you, dear. Bye-bye.

See, here's what happens
in negotiations.

When you get toward the end,
people get tired.

And that's what he is.

You can't get tired.
You can never get tired.

You can't wear yourself down
to the point of,

"Oh, forget about it.
Just let's do it this way."

They're terrible people.

They're the worst.
They radicalize you.

They really make you
some kind of a left-wing...

advocate.

- Hi, George, good morning.
- Morning.

Mnuchin said he talked
to the president ten times

at least yesterday.

And he said that the
President is onboard

with the direction
things are headed,

and would like to have a deal,

and is hopeful
he 'll do it today.

They will do terrible things
on immigration.

And I told Chuck that some
of the things

they're suggesting
are nonstarters.

They know it's a winning issue
for them at this time,

when people are saying,
"Well, we're trying to work

and she's holding up the bill
because of that." But I will.

Come on. That was their excuse
to begin with.

Okay, let me just call Meadows.
This is a waste of time.

What happened?

...so they didn't.
But they put it in here

the exact amount of money,
that it could be transferred

to another account.

It's a technique.

Hi, Mark. How are you?

I'm okay. I'm okay.
I have a problem here, though.

We want to get this done,
but I have one place I can't go.

And that is to have that money
that- As we review the bill,

we see is kind of disguised
in here,

which is
this 289 million dollars

to transfer to other agencies.

I had plenty other reasons

why members don't want
to do the bill.

I have four black books
full of their complaints,

'cause I take notes
on everything.

"How come big business get this
and small business doesn't get?

And how come this?
And how come that?"

And I have page, after page,
after page.

And I just say, I hope
you would just trust me

because, on balance,
I think we did very well

in this or that.

But I cannot take a bill
to the floor with this in it.

This is, you know,
a backdoor way for something

that I said we could not cross
the threshold of.

So, you cleaned up the bill,

they passed it in the Senate,

and now you have to get it
through the House.

Yes. What is important
about the negotiation

is to try to find
as much common ground,

knowing that each of us is
not going to have our own way

at least in this legislation,

we can live to fight
another day.

Okay. See what fires we need
to put out. Okie doke.

- All right, see you.
- I love that sweater on you.

Our nation faces an economic
and health emergency

of historic proportions,
due to the coronavirus pandemic,

the worst pandemic
in over 100 years.

Those in favor, say "Aye."

Aye!

Those opposed say "No."

- No.
- The ayes have it.

This 2.2-trillion-dollar relief bill

will now be enrolled
by the Speaker of the House

and sent to the
President's desk today.

2.2 trillion dollars
clearly wasn't enough

to handle the fallout.

You've reportedly
told House Democrats

another trillion dollars will
be needed in the next round.

It was clear,
even as we passed the last bill,

that it would not be enough.

Again, a template...

In your COVID legislation,

what's important to you?

We had to support state
and local government

in a way that enabled
our essential workers

to continue to work.

Good night, Jesus.
Thank you for everything.

God bless everyone,
especially Mom and Dad.

Amen. Godsend.

- Bye, sweetheart.
- Bye, Mimi.

- Good night, guys.
- Good night.

Bye, guys, I love you.

Okay, this could be the moment.

My members are on fire
on state and local.

This is who they represent.

The firefighters,
the police officers,

the teachers, everybody
that makes government run,

those people are being fired
as we speak.

- Hi.
- Well, we gave them something

- to think about, huh?
- Yeah. And look,

let's assume we get
what we want on hospitals,

This idea that he'll
announce it later,

I think it's bullshit.
Sorry bull-doody.

Yeah. We've got a lot, though.

I just think
that we have to make sure-

Hey Nancy.
we did pretty well...

- We did.
- They need us.

And if we don't give in
so fast we get more.

Uh, Madam Speaker?

Good morning again,
Mr. Vice President.

Thank you very much for being
with us this morning.

We look forward...

-Pop, she's got the Vice President now

we've got to keep it down.

...on how we can all
work together

for the good
of the American people

for their lives
and their livelihood.

You're doing your laundry

during Mike Pence's
presentation?

What is the point of this call?

Thank you very much,
Mr. Chairman.

I join you in thanking
the Vice President

and his task force.
This has been a useful exchange.

It gives us a measure
of what our challenge is,

in so many ways.
We'd like to see a figure

of how many people are tested.

We're gonna,
as the expression goes,

be flying blind
unless we take inventory.

In the intelligence community,
we had a phrase we used,

"Needs and leads."

Our communities can tell you
what our needs are.

We can also give you some leads
about things that work.

We really need to have
a racial record

of how this— how people
are affected in our country,

so we can track how everyone
in our society is affected,

again, in this Holy Week.
Happy Easter to you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Thank you very much,
Madam Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Vice President

And we look forward
to a continued dialogue

between you,
the administration...

- Am I a bitch or what?
- ...and the caucus

- who will, again...
- No, it was good.

- Good morning.
- How are you?

Are you on your way
to the airport?

Yes, I am.

Okay we got to get
our statement done.

Just if there's a deal
while you're on the airplane.

Okay, here we go again.

Going to pass
another trillion-dollar bill.

-Speaker.
- No, this is half a trillion.

Oh, only half a trillion.
Excuse me.

Today, the House gave
final congressional approval

to a 484-billion-dollar package

aimed at smaller employers
and hospitals.

"Just be you,"
that's the best advice

anybody can ever give anybody
in politics.

But in your case, especially,
don't go too far to the left.

You have to win
the Electoral College.

We can win the Senate.

We will win and grow
our majority in the House.

But we didn't get here

in the majority by going
to the left.

And I can say that
as a left-wing

- San Francisco liberal.
- I'm with you. I'm with you.

Look, I say to the people,

"Why are you trying to carve up
a pie we don't even have?"

Let us win, okay?

Then we can debate
how quickly we go to healthcare

for all Americans."
Okay, we all share those values.

We don't need any distrust
in that regard.

And good evening on day one

of what is the Democratic
National Convention,

originally set for Milwaukee,

now being held on TV, virtually.

Five, four...

Good evening. As Speaker
of the House, it is my honor

to bring you the greetings
of the Democrats of the House.

The most diverse majority
in history.

- How long is that? 4:20?
- 4:20.

- I still made a couple pauses.
- Yeah.

That is the guiding purpose
of House Democrats

fighting for the people.

Who is standing in the way?

Mitch McConnell
and Donald Trump.

Will you commit here today

to making sure that there
is a peaceful transferal

of power after the election?

Well, we're going to have
to see what happens.

You know that
I've been complaining

very strongly about the ballots.
And the ballots are a disaster.

- Do you commit to making sure...
- Oh, I know.

- that there's a peaceful...
- Now, we want to...

- transferal of power?
- We wanna have-

Get rid of the ballots,
and you'll have a very trans-

We'll have a very peaceful-

There won't be a transfer, frankly.

There'll be a continuation.

He's trying to say he's not
gonna count the votes.

I mean, it's just ridiculous.
This guy should be in jail.

I mean, he is encouraging

illegal behavior
in every possible way.

How are you feeling, Mimi?

- Come on. Game day.
- I feel good.

I think Joe Biden's
going to be president.

If that doesn't happen
I told my staff

at the Capitol, at the DCCC,
"If Trump wins tonight,

you're never going to see me
again. I'm out of here."

We knew because of the
unprecedented early vote

and the mail-in vote, that it
was going to take a while.

Keep the faith, guys.
We're going to win this.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

It's good that he came over.

He looks better tonight...

Uh, no matter what stunts
Trump may try to play,

but the Congress
has important power

when it comes to the election
of the president

and the election of Congress.

So, we're ready
for hard ball on that.

This is a fraud
on the American public.

This is an embarrassment
to our country.

We were getting ready
to win this election.

Frankly, we did win
this election.

It's now down to 515,000

outstanding votes in Arizona.

You know, we got
a relatively small tranche

- of votes earlier tonight...
- There you go, baby.

- that we might not know...
- What's that, hon?

- What is it?
- ...until Friday.

They're gonna do-
We might not get the results

- of all of this, Annie.
- Just towels.

That's just what she
needed right now.

Look at Georgia, 12 to 27.

I'm so glad you got
some election night dish towels.

So you're still confident that
Joe Biden's going to be president?

- Of course.
- What are you screaming at me for?

Cause that's what I do.

Yes, I'm absolutely confident

- that Joe Biden
- Positive.

- Yes, I'm confident-
- It's as plain as the mask on my face.

What were you saying, Mimi?

I said, yes, I am confident
that Joe Biden

will be president
of the United States.

He will be inaugurated
on January 20th, 2021.

Let's hope
it will be effort time

of peaceful transition.

If you count the legal votes,
I easily win.

If you count the illegal votes,

they can try to steal

the election from us.

If you count the votes
that came in late,

we're looking
at them very strongly.

- Oh, I can't stand him.
- Historic numbers.

He said if you count
the legal votes, he won.

- knowingly wrong.

- They got it knowingly wrong.
- He's a nut.

And this is a case where
they're trying to steal

an election. They're trying
to rig an election.

There's been a lot of shenanigans,

and we can't stand for that
in our country.

Thank you very much.

He's sick. He's insane.
He's totally insane.

It's really a sad thing.

CNN projects
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

is elected the 46th President
of the United States,

winning the White House
and denying

President Trump a second term.

Congress is getting ready

to count the electoral votes,

which will, of course,
confirm Joe Biden's victory.

At this hour, election results
still rolling in

from those Senate runoff races
in Georgia.

All of this,
as pro-Trump protesters

gather in Washington
for rallies.

Thank you very much,
Mr. Chairman.

When we say, "Good morning,"
it really is one today.

'Cause we're gonna have
two new senators,

no question about that.

I think that this victory

not only changes the dynamic
in the Senate,

but it changes the dynamic
in our country.

- Here you go.
- Thank you.

Oh, my God.
There's so many of them.

Today is a sacred day
for our democracy

as we mark the peaceful
transfer of power.

The Constitution gives us
a very specific role today.

We are there for one purpose,
and one purpose only,

to count the votes.
That is our role.

That is the beauty of these
mahogany boxes

that are being brought
over from the Senate.

They are the repository
of the certificates

sent by the governors,

which embody
the will of the people.

You're in the game.
This is it, you know?

And we have to be ready
in a timely fashion,

and the more quickly
we can have the votes,

the more quickly
we can designate Joe Biden,

Kamala Harris, president
and vice president

of the United States.

I just want to say this
and close in this way.

Today is the feast
of the Epiphany, January 6th.

Visit of the Magi,
the rest of the world

seeing the birth of Christ
and that.

Let us pray,
in any way that you do,

for our country.

And that today
will be an epiphany

for the American people
as they see the difference

between our respect
for the oath we take

versus what they're up to.
And let us hope that

they will see the light

and have their own epiphany
on the other side.

Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome

the 45th President
of the United States of America,

President Donald J. Trump.

Hundreds of thousands
of American patriots

are committed to the honesty
of our elections

and the integrity
of our glorious republic.

All of us here today do not want
to see our election victory

stolen by emboldened,
radical-left Democrats,

which is what they're doing.

And stolen
by the fake-news media.

That's what they've done
and what they're doing.

We will never give up.
We will never concede.

It doesn't happen.

You don't concede
when there's theft involved.

It's very dangerous,
what he's doing.

He's getting all these people
to show up and protest,

"Stop the steal."

He's putting all these
crazy ideas in their head.

And after this,
we're going to walk down.

And I'll be there with you.

We're going to walk down
to the Capitol.

And Mike Pence is gonna have
to come through for us.

And if he doesn't,

that will be a sad day
for our country.

They're marching up.
You can see them marching up.

Our country has had enough.

We will not take it anymore.

And that's what
this is all about.

They told him they don't have
the resources

to protect him here.

So at the moment,
he is not coming.

But that could...

Change.

I hope he comes.
I want to punch him out.

I would pay to see that.
I've been waiting for this.

For trespassing
on the Capitol grounds.

I want to punch him out,
and I'm going to go to jail,

and I'm going to be happy.

Look at the protesters
outside the Capitol.

USA, USA, USA.

You remember when
you were a boy

and all the protesters came

to protest the
Affordable Care Act?

Okay, go get them, Mimi.

Oh, my god, how did
that guy get up there?

Is the Speaker balcony open?

What if they try and run the Capitol?

USA, USA, USA.

USA, USA, USA.

Mr. Vice President,
I, Paul Gosar,

- from Arizona's 4th Congr-
- For what purpose does

the gentleman from Arizona rise?

I rise up for myself
and 60 of my colleagues

to object to the counting

of the electoral ballots
from Arizona.

Is the objection in writing
and signed by a senator?

Yes, it is.

The two houses will withdraw
from joint session.

Each house
will deliberate separately

on the pending objection

and report its decision
back to the joint session.

The Senate will now retire
to its chamber.

The voters...

the courts...

and the states...

have all spoken.

If we overrule them...

it would damage our republic...

forever.

You're our fucking brothers!
Wake the fuck up.

Rioters, see you at the top.

Go, go, go.

Watch out. Watch out.

Fuck you, police.

We're breaking the windows.

This is our country.

I'll be making a call,
head south.

- We're going in there.
- Okay.

Holy shit.

Nancy, Nancy, Nancy.

Holy shit.

We've paid for everything.
Fuck these people.

Hey, hey, anybody want
Nancy's fucking boxing gloves?

Hey, hey, dude, you want Nancy's
pink boxing gloves?

I'm not turning my phone off.

I want them to know I was here.
This is my house, my country.

Fuck Nancy Pelosi!

We're here until what?

Until the National Guard decides
to come

and get rid of these people?

Where the fuck are they?

Hey, let's take a seat, people.

There has to be some way
we can maintain

the sense that people have

that there's some security
or some confidence...

that government can function.
And that we can elect

the President
of the United States.

Did we go back into session?

We did go back into session,

but now apparently everybody
on the floor

is putting on tear gas masks
to prepare for a breach.

Let me see.

There's a picture
of someone sitting

in the chair of the Senate.

We've all been evacuated.

There's been shots fired.

We need a full
National Guard component now.

We have some senators

who are still
in their hideaways.

They need massive personnel now.

Can you get the
Maryland National Guard

- to come too?
- Yes, sir.

- Look at this.
- Okay.

Oh, my God.
They're just breaking windows.

They're doing all-
It's just horrendous.

And all at the instigation

of the President
of the United States.

Okay. Thank you, Governor.

Virginia Guard
has been called in.

You know, I'm just talking
to Governor Northam.

And what he said is,
they sent 200 state police

and a unit

of the National Guard.

debating in the House,
debating in the Senate,

And all of a sudden, John,
we're told there's not...

Okay, let's get him.

But all these senators
including the Vice President

of the United States,
they've been evacuated

Personal safety is, just-
transcends everything.

But the fact is,
on any given day,

they're breaking the law
in many different ways.

And quite frankly, much of it
at the instigation

of the President
of the United States.

Yeah, why don't you
get the President

to tell them to leave
the Capitol,

Mr. Attorney General,

in your law enforcement
responsibility?

A public statement
they should all leave.

We're treating this
with the greatest-

Will you ask the President
to make a statement

to ask them to leave
the Capitol?

So, as you might guess,
we're coordinating this quickly

No, no, no.

Please answer my question.

Answer my question.

Move out.

- Move out!
- Get back! Come on!

Got you loud and clear, Leader.

This cannot be just,
"We're waiting for so-and-so."

We need them there now,
whoever you got.

I'm handing the phone.

Hi, Mr. Vice President?

Hi. Yeah, we're okay.
We're here with Mr. Schumer,

Mr. McConnell, the leadership,
House and Senate.

And how are you?

Oh, my goodness. Where are you?

God bless you.

But are you in a very safe-

Well, we are still not safe
enough for us to go back.

We're being told
it could take days

to clear the Capitol

and that we should be moving
everyone here

to get the job done.

We're at Fort McNair
which has facilities

for the House
and the Senate to meet.

We'd rather go to the Capitol
and do it there,

but it doesn't seem to be safe.

Okay. And then call us back.

Okay, I worry about you
being in that Capitol, though.

Don't let anybody know
where you are.

This was a fraudulent election,

but we can't play
into the hands of these people.

We have to have peace.

So, go home. We love you.
You're very special.

So, we shouldn't let him
off the hook, Nancy.

We issued a statement saying,
he's got to make a statement,

he comes up with this BS.

Do you think we could
get to the Capitol

by 9:00, 10:00 tonight
and finish this?

Senator, I can't give you
how long it's going to clear out

or how many people are inside.

So it's a really
complex operation

we're going to have to conduct
to get to the inside

The sooner you can get us,

we have to make a decision

whether to go back
to the Capitol if it's safe,

which we prefer,

or do it here
if it's not gonna be safe

for a couple of days.

Fuck CNN! Fuck CNN!

Fuck CNN! Fuck CNN! Fuck CNN!

Finish it! Finish it!

Finish it!

Madam Speaker,
I'm at the Capitol building.

I'm literally standing
with the chief

of the US Capitol Police.

He just informed me
their best information

is that they believe
that the House and the Senate

will be able to reconvene
in roughly an hour.

Good news.

We're gonna have to keep

certain areas around
the Chamber off limits

because they're basically
gonna be a crime scene.

There's blood outside, you know,

the lobby on one side
by the parliamentarian.

Careful, it's slippery.

It's slippery.

Oh, my God.

They took the sign.

They took the sign.

Oh no, you shouldn't
have touched any glass.

- That's not up to you.
- Well, we..

There's nobody else
to do it.

- So we had to do it.
- No. There's

security people,
the cleaners who come.

Well, they're busy
getting the Chamber cleaned, so.

Your blue bag, we just
don't know, your blue bag,

all of the contents
were just thrown on your couch

from the blue bag.

- The blue bag's gone, but...
- There was nothing in it.

And your leather bag,

they've secured
in the Sergeant-at-Arms' office.

- Yeah.
- Your big leather bag.

They didn't know if anything
was in there, so they took it.

I'm totally fine.

I mean, none of this matters
at the end of it all, anyway.

- No, no, we don't. We just...
- It's good.

We're just tidying up know?

Fuck Nancy Pelosi.

Fuck Chuck Schumer!

- Fuck Mitt Romney!
- Let's go!

Our house! Whose house?

It is very, very difficult
to put into words

what has transpired today.

I have never lived through
or even imagined

the experience like the one

we have just witnessed
in this Capitol.

President Franklin Roosevelt
set aside December 7th, 1941

as a day that will live in infamy.

Unfortunately, we can now
add January 6th, 2021

to that very short list of dates
in American history

that will live forever
in infamy.

We know that we're in difficult times.

But little could we have imagined

the assault that was made
on our democracy today.

To those who engaged
in the gleeful desecration

of this our temple of democracy,

American democracy,
justice will be done.

We must and we will
show to the country,

and indeed to the world,

that we will not be diverted
from our duty.

That we will respect
our responsibility

to the Constitution
and to the American people.

We always knew
that this responsibility

would take us into the night,

and we will stay
as long as it takes.

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
of the State of Delaware

has received 306 votes.

Donald J. Trump
of the State of Florida

received 232 votes.

The announcement
of the state of the vote

by the President of the Senate

shall be deemed
a sufficient declaration.

Um, the security, I think-

that will be a subject of review.

But, right now,
we have to stop this man,

the insurrectionist
in the White House.

What do you think?

and there may not be enough time.

But there is enough time,

and it's rather simple,

to tag him with the uniqueness

of a second impeachment.

He's looking
for a unique niche in life,

being the first president
ever impeached twice.

And to put some kind
of a freeze on him,

because we don't know
what he will do next.

That's exactly right.

So, they got through
into this room?

- Yes, ma'am, they did.
- Yeah, you look on the left,

that whole door's broken.

- They broke the door.
- Right, they broke

they didn't break that one.

No, and the kids were in there.

Under the table.

- It's very messy in there.
- That's okay.

I think we have it locked.

- Sorry.
- So it's very messy in there.

Did they had to hide
under the table

-for almost three hours?
- Two and a half.

- Two and a half hours.
- And then just in the...

And they were here.

And were they banging
on this door?

Were you one of them?

Yeah, wow.

Were they... Do they know
people were in there?

So we turned off all the lights,
we hid under the table,

and no talking.
So we just said, "Do not speak."

We in a very difficult
place in our country

as long as Donald Trump
still sits in the White House.

By inciting sedition
as he did yesterday,

a threshold was crossed
of such magnitude

that there is no way

that this president
should be allowed

to make any decision.

He must be removed from office.

We are a country of law.

We are not a monarchy
with a king.

Article of impeachment exhibit

by the House of Representatives

of the United States of America
against Donald John Trump,

president of the
United States of America,

in maintenance and support
of its impeachment

against him for high crimes
and misdemeanors.

Article One,
incitement of insurrection.

The President must be impeached.
And I believe

the President
must be convicted by the Senate,

a constitutional remedy
that will ensure

that the republic will be safe
from this man

who was so resolutely determined
to tear down the things

that we hold dear
and that hold us together.

Let us be worthy of our power
and responsibility,

that what Lincoln thought
was the world's last best hope,

the United States of America,
may long survive.

This is absolutely essential.
I'm so proud of my members

because one week ago,

we had no idea
about impeachment.

We thought it'd be a calm day,
a little contentious,

to ascertain the president-
who the president would be.

We didn't think it would be
an assault on our democracy.

And so in that period of time,

we have drawn up the article
of impeachment

and now passed it
in a bipartisan way.

On this vote, the ayes
are 232, the nays are 197.

The resolution is adopted
without objection.

The motion to reconsider
is laid upon the table.

This is America's day.

We've learned again
that democracy is precious.

Democracy is fragile.

And at this hour, my friends,
democracy has prevailed.

For now,
on this hallowed ground,

where just a few days ago

violence sought to shake
the Capitol's very foundation,

we come together as one nation,
under God, indivisible,

to carry out the peaceful
transfer of power,

as we have for more
than two centuries.

It's over. How do you feel?

I feel as if...

an anvil has been lifted
from my shoulders.

How do you
make peace the fact

that because of your work,
people wanna kill you?

Being Speaker makes you a target.

A target of misinformation,
a target of mockery,

and sometimes a target
of violence.

This is not for the faint
of heart.

I always tell this story.

It was posted on a
hospital in Africa.

And it said,
"When one day I die

and happily go to meet my maker

and I go before him,
he will say to me,

'Show me your wounds.
Show me your wounds.'

And if I have no wounds
to show him, he will say,

'Was nothing
worth fighting for?'"

And I'm proud of my wounds.

Are you staying
in leadership, Madam Speaker?

What's on your mind today,
Speaker Pelosi?

Have you spoken
to any of your deputies?

When will you speak
on the floor, Madam Speaker?

How will you prepare
for your speech today,

Madam Speaker?

Have you told anyone
about your plans?

Scripture teaches us

that for everything
there is a season.

A time for every purpose
under heaven.

My friends, no matter what title
you all, my colleagues,

have bestowed upon me,

Speaker, Leader, Whip,

there is no greater
official honor for me

than to stand on this floor

and to speak
for the people of San Francisco.

And with great confidence
in our caucus,

I will not seek reelection
to Democratic leadership

in the next Congress.

For me, the hour has come
for a new generation

to lead the Democratic caucus
that I so deeply respect.

A new day
is dawning on the horizon

and I look forward,
always forward,

to the unfolding story
of our nation.

A story of light and love,
of patriotism and progress,

of many becoming one,
and always an unfinished mission

to make the dreams of today,
the reality of tomorrow.

Thank you all, may God bless
you and your families,

and may God continue
to bless our veterans

and the United States
of America.