'It's Ridiculous' - Nancy Pelosi Has A Meltdown During Live Interview

Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America and former House

Speaker and California Representative Nancy Pelosi of the Democrats. Well she had a little bit of a meltdown on a recent MSNBC interview and it was kind of epic

The former House Speaker sat down with MSNBC and she was asked about the impeachment inquiry

against President Joe Biden. Now what happened was McCarthy originally said that it would require a vote of all the

members of the House of Representatives and if it was approved then they would go to an

impeachment inquiry. But then he decided to bypass that and said no no no, I'm just starting the impeachment inquiry

And what he used as his talking point was that that's what former Speaker Nancy Pelosi

did when she started her impeachment inquiry against former President Donald Trump

She just did it unilaterally. There was no vote. So when she was pressed about this on MSNBC of all places, well, she didn't like it

Let's take a look. We have a Democratic president. And Speaker Pelosi, Speaker McCarthy made the argument the other day that well, Nancy

Pelosi set this precedent. She waited a long time to have a vote on the first impeachment of Donald Trump

You did hold a vote we should add. But he said you made the rules and he's just following them now by not holding this initial

vote for an impeachment inquiry. What do you say to that? I say that that's hogwash

I mean it's ridiculous. And I don't know why the press keeps repeating it

The fact is, we said we were going to I assign my committee chair, six of them, to develop

the facts because you have to act upon the facts. That's a strange thing to say

Maybe around here, but you have to act upon the facts. We had a couple of weeks of doing that, a few weeks of doing that and three or four weeks

We then prepared to bring the bill to the floor. They've had eight months of investigation, come up with nothing

And now they're trying to say, well, we're not going to have a vote because Nancy didn't

have a vote the first day. No, we had a vote. We were in preparation for a vote

But again, this is a big deal, an impeachment. You have to do it with care and not on impulse

And until we had the case ready, that's when we went forward

Now they again have been investigating for months, coming up with nothing

And now they're going to say on the basis of nothing, we're not going to have a vote

on how we go forward. Don't blame it on me. Just take responsibility for what you are doing there

And don't misrepresent the care that we took, the respect that we had for the institution

to go forward in a way that really addressed the high crimes and misdemeanors of Donald Trump

Madam Speaker, in terms of respect for the institution, you arrived at the institution

She could deny it all she wants, but she did set the precedent

She is the one who started the, hey, we can just unilaterally declare an impeachment inquiry

Now, you know, I don't know what you think about it. Do you think that she did the right thing when she did it

Do you think that McCarthy's doing the right thing now? It's all conjecture, you know, and it's all up to the individual observer

But I think there's no doubt that she did it. And so for her to play now like she didn't set the precedent is kind of wacky, in my opinion

I mean, it's on videotape. We have it in writing. You know, I don't understand how you're denying it

In either case, I do want to know what you guys think about all this. So please leave that in the comments below

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I'm Carmine Sabia. This is Explain America. We love you guys. God bless you