Who?
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — Speaker Emerita
LISTEN: Laslo & Pelosi
Background:
After a handful of Democratic veterans in Congress released a video telling service members to refuse unlawful orders from their superiors, President Donald Trump tweeted, “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
Ask a Pol asks:*
President Trump even disregards the attack on your husband.
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Key Pelosi:
“Yeah, and he made a joke of it, as did [Charlie] Kirk, by the way,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics.
Like, how painful is that? Or are you just steel?
“It’s painful,” Pelosi tells us. “No, it’s painful. And I’m steel, but my grandchildren, my children are not steel. It’s a traumatic effect of his cruelty, is what it is.”
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Caught our ear:
“The Supreme Court has protected him from any responsibility, so it’s most unfortunate that they have crossed that line,” Pelosi tells Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo.
After rebuffing a question about Trump and Charlie Kirk making jokes about the attack on her husband Paul, Pelosi reveals the personal toll: “It’s painful. No, it’s painful. And I’m steel, but my grandchildren, my children are not steel. It’s a traumatic effect of his cruelty.”
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (11-20-2025)
SCENE: Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and her security detail are making their way to the House floor via an underground tunnel in the US Capitol.
After Pelosi rebuffs one reporter, Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo asks a personal question and gets the Speaker to open up about the lingering trauma hanging over her family since the brutal hammer attack on her husband in their San Francisco home.
Reporter I: “What are you guys going to do to ensure that your colleagues are kept safe?”
Nancy Pelosi: “Our leadership has put out a statement, you should….”
Reporter I: “Alright. Thank you very much, Madam Speaker.”
Matt Laslo: “Are you worried, though…”
Reporter I: “How are the grandkids…?”
ML: “…that this goes to a new low?”
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NP: “The President has been engaged in a limbo contest since he got involved in politics. He’s always trying to prove how low he can go.”
ML: “Yeah?”
NP: “And it’s getting almost impossible.”
ML: “Well, I mean, because he even disregards the attack on your husband.”
NP: “Yeah, and he made a joke of it, as did [Charlie] Kirk, by the way.”
ML: “Like, how painful is that? Or are you just steel?”
NP: “It’s painful.”
ML: “Yeah.”
NP: “No, it’s painful. And I’m steel, but my grandchildren, my children are not steel. It’s a traumatic effect of his cruelty, is what it is. But what he said about the other members...”
ML: “Yeah?”
NP: “…that they are — well, the Supreme Court has protected him from any responsibility, so it’s most unfortunate that they have crossed that line.”
ML: “Thank you, ma’am.”
Pelosi and her entourage head towards the Capitol and Laslo heads back down the basement tunnel looking for more members of Congress to interview.
ML: “Have a good one. Happy Thanksgiving, if I don’t see you.”*
*this exclusive was for one of Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo’s regionally-focused, national wire service, TheLCB.com, but it fell through the holiday cracks so this is an exclusive to Ask a Pol Politics.
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