Welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. We heard President Trump make the case for his Supreme Court pick with fewer than two weeks in office. President trump made many bold moves provoking forceful rebukes from critics, many of whom turn a desperate eye to the opposition. What is the democratic strategy . Leader pelosi is one of the highest ranking democrats. From men and women in our audience, we reviewed the question to doffer a variety of subjects. Please join me in welcoming the House Minority leader, nancy pelosi. Please have a seat. You just heard President Trump nominate neal gorsuch and you said he is an opponent of womens rights. What do you mean . Let me say how happy i am to be here. I thought we would talk about how to go into the future. President trump found out about the town hall meeting and thought he would upstage us. This did just happen. I know. I want to say that elections have ramifications. Here is a living breathing example of it. The president and his first appointment to the court and hopefully his only appointment appointed someone who came down on the side of Corporate America with class action suits and securities fraud and came down against employers and employeess rights. Clean air, clean water, food safety, safety in medicine if you care about that. He is not your guy. Gabby giffords group, the group for responsible solutions relating to gun safety said he comes down on the side of felons over gun safety. Hostile to womens reproductive rights and hobby lobby case, for example. The list goes on and on and criticized progressives for cases relating to lgbt progress and taking the cases to the courts. What saddens me as a mom and a grandmother is his hostility towards children in school. Children with autism. He ruled that they dont have the same rights under the idea, the children that they could reach their intellectual and social advancement. He said that doesnt apply to them. He came down against them under the ada as well and again. Its a very hostile appointment. Lovely family, im sure. As far as your family is concerned and all those if you breathe air, eat food, take medicine or in any other way interact with the courts, this is a very bad decision. Well outside the mainstream of american legal thought. Not committed to Supreme Court precedence. Supreme court precedence. I want to get to the questions, but there is a big division in the Democratic Party about whether or not judge gorsuch should be treated the way nominees normally are or turn about his fair play given that republicans would not even hold a hearing for president obamas pick after the Supreme Court vacancy roughly a year ago. Where do you come down . Should democrats allow hearings and should they allow a vote on the senate floor . I come down where the democrats in the senate do. Its their prerogative to confirm a just its on the Supreme Court and will take it from them in the house. Our numbers are a diverse group. They have opinions and they have been over there to testify against the candidate for attorney general sessions and they will be there to express views on the subject where the Senate Leadership comes down. Of course its up to them where we would like them to come down is to make sure that this confirmation subjects the candidate to this strongest scrutiny when it comes to honoring the constitution of the United States. That is our litmus test. The constitution of the United States. So many decisions, so many issues that are important to the American People do come before the u. S. Supreme court and with that in mind, i would like to bring in allison, a democrat from midway, utah. Allison . Leader pelosi. My question is along the lines of what you have been discussing. Im a woman that made and lived through the very difficult decision of having a late term abortion. I had to make that decision when there were medical circumstances that jeopardized my life in a situation where i was carrying a fetus that had zero chance of survival no matter what medical science could do. The thing that made it the worst above and beyond the situation itself is the state where i live made it illegal to have a late term abortion in any circumstance unless it could be demonstrated that the mothers life was in danger. The guilt and the overwhelming intrusion i felt, the violation of being regulated by the state. A decision that was solely my husbands and mine to make and the worst thing i have ever had to go through. It was just incredibly difficult to deal with. My question to you is, i watched President Trump nominate someone who is hostile to womens rights, congress has already voted to get rid of protections for women and their Civil Liberties as far as autonomy with their owns, Birth Control and correct Sex Education are getting harder to get that makes it so we will have more unwanted pregnancy and more abortions, not less. Im wondering what you as the highest ranking woman in congress, i believe, if you have any ideas or what the democrats in particular intend to do to combat this trend with the republicans to gut the rights of women to make their own decisions in their lives. Thank you so much for your generosity of spirit to share your very personal decision and situation with all of us. Its clear from the way you speak that you know that that was a decision between you, your husband, your doctor, and your god. Its not a decision that should be made by politicians in washington, d. C. In congress or in the court or any other place. The issue of late term abortion is one that has been used by the far right to fight a womans right to choose because it sounds like something that shouldnt happen. But when its about a womans health, its a very personal individual decision. You very accurately portrayed what we are up against because i have been saying to my friends for over 25 years that have been in the congress, they dont support Birth Control. Contraception. Family planning. People usually dont believe that. One of the first bills that passed was a harsher hyde bill that made it very, very much more difficult for a woman to exercise her personal decisions. Its a reflection of the lack of respect for women that we saw in the campaign on the part of the president saying things you would now allow a person in your house if they said such a thing. That lack of respect is demonstrated in the appointment he made to the court. You have again gently and beautifully and almost prayerfully spiritually shared your story with us. When you ask what can we do . I believe what president lincoln said was the best advice for everything that is challenging us right now. Public sentiment is everything. The more the public knows about the choices that are made, the more families know how those decisions affect them. The more they may weigh in and hold elected officials accountable. By that i dont mean to be partisan, but of who you vote for, whatever party, hold them accountable to your beliefs. This is for me a big issue. My daughter who is here, the youngest of five, the week she was born, my oldest of five turned 6 that week. When i talk about this issue with my colleagues, i say step up, anybody who knows anything about this. They say nancy pelosi thinks she knows more about having babies than the pope. Yes, i do. Yes, i do. I respect what was wonderful for our family, but each family has to mick its own decision. If you are concerned about some of these issues in terms of termination of a pregnancy, you should love Family Planning and Birth Control, contraception. What is their plan . To defund planned parenthood that provides so much of that. Thank you for sharing your story. Im sorry that you had to go through that. Our fight is always to be concerned about the health of the mother and her ability to continue her family if he and her family decide that is the case and thats part of the decision i know that you had to make. Thank you for sharing your story. And by the way when jake said the questions had been reviewed. Not by me. She has no evidence of whats coming. Kristin roberts is a College Student from pennsylvania. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for sharing your story with us. Thats an incredible story and situation that you had to go through. I am part of the pro life generation. I believe that abortion is not the answer for unplanned pregnancy. My birth mother was faced with the decision that many women today are facing. Without the means of properly raising a child, she chose the most ethical decision and chose adoption. With her courageous and unselfish decision to make such an awesome decision, i have the ability to thrive and succeed in life. Dont you think that everyone has that option or needs the ability to thrive and succeed in life . I certainly do and i love the word you used. You said my mother chose. My mother chose. [ applause ] we want other people to have that opportunity to choose as well. When we do, my whole thing is when people ask me the three most important issues i say our children, our children, our children. Their health, the education and the Economic Security of their families and a Clean Environment in which they thrive and a world at peace in which they succeed and reach aspirations. Many of our friends who are so intent on when life begins and their view do not subscribe to that after the child is born to meet the needs of the children. I hope you will join us in our quest to say that all of the children in our country that in five children in america lives in poverty and goes to sleep hungry in the greatest country that ever existed in the history of the world. Why . Because we havent made the right decisions to lift all of those children up. Thats why i say to my colleagues, show me your values, show me your budget. What are you doing to lift these children up . I hope respecting your mother to make her choice, i hope you will help all of these children to be able to thrive when their mothers make their choice to have them as well. Thank you so much for your question. Thank you. Its likely the Supreme Court will be asked to weigh in on President Trumps executive orders that came down in the last week. One aspect of the order that came down friday evening. President trumps immigration executive order. The suspension of the Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days. I want you to meet a yemeni refugee who is personally affected by the executive order. Hello. My name is bushra. I am an artist and activist and refugee. Recently my mom was not able to come to the u. S. Because of the standard that donald trump signed recently. Four weeks ago my dad passed away because we didnt have medicine because of the siege and my mom is now recently living in a destroyed house because of the air strikes and was not able to come to the United States because of the decision that donald trump did. My question is, what can what is the democratic leadership could help us what could you help us and our people to ensure that more families are not torn apart . [ applause ] again, thank you for your courage and sharing your story. Im sorry about the loss of your dad and the situation that your mother is in. When i received this invitation to come here this evening, i thought i would be talking about the Affordable Care act and how we can address income inequality and how to protect gods creation of the planet from degradation. In the meantime we had this ban, ban, ban on people coming from the country. Largely muslim and prohibition on other people as well. They dont want to call it a ban even though they called it a ban and they said the press called it a ban because they reported on them calling it a ban. You see impatience in my voice bah your family is suffering because our president is reckless, reckless and his administration is incompetent. [ applause ] how and why they did this is because they are grand illusionists. Any time they have a problem with something, they create another problem. They see the immigration problem looming and decide they will on an earlier schedule appoint a justice of the Supreme Court to change the subject. Its a decoy, decoy, decoy. I was proud to scores of my members who were at the airports all weekend and some of them are there still now. This ban has not been rescinded. It is we follow the lead of our spiritual leaders when the pope talks about it is unchristian to turn away refugees. When some of our cardinals say its unamerican to not accept strangers as the bible says. Strangers into our country. In need. In need. The statue of liberty is in tears because of what they have done. This again comes back to Abraham Lincoln who probably has tears in his eyes as well. This is about public sentiment. Some of the polling looks like oh, i think the president is doing it because he doesnt understand. He made us less safe with what he has done. 900 diplomats sent him a letter saying you are making us less safe. This isnt the right thing to do. It is red meat for the people who he wants to continue to support him. That was increasing on the subject. I would like to personally take some responsible for the individual case. Thats what our members are doing around the country. I think we should be grateful to the women for marching on the day after the inauguration. That was spontaneous. You know. That was not organized by politicians or the establishment. That was organic. Women just said im going. Im showing up. All over the country and all over the world. All over the world. When this started to happen, people said im going to the airport because they showed their power. They knew they had power and showed their power. That was helpful in trying to get the cases made for individuals. And i it thank you for sharing your story which is the story of so many people and addresses our values as a country. Thank you. Appreciate it. [ applause ] not everyone shares that view. This is a lebaneseamerican muslim and has a different take on the refugee policy. Congresswoman pelosi. You opposed President Trump to top refugees from coming to the u. S. To stop . Yes, i did. Countries like syria. I am lebanese, american muslim. There are countries that harbor radical islamic groups and teaches teenagers to hate anyone who is not muslim. How can you as some of them come as refugees and create problems here. How can you grant the safety for all americans . Thank you. Are you finished . Im sorry. For all americans. If we let these refugees to come. Okay. Thanks to our comprehensive Immigration Reform which we had before, our country is blessed with many newcomers including yourself to reinvigorate america with your hopes, dream, aspirations, courage, determination to make the future better. That optimism is all american and every refugee and newcomer who comes with that determination makes america more american in my view. The reason i oppose this specific thing that President Trump did was the following. Refugees have the most stringent vetting of all newcomers to our country. The most stringent vetting. So when he cuts off syria largely those are refugees coming. The most stringent vetting. We take an oath to support and defend the american constitution. Its our first responsibility. We are not casual about our reasons and need to protect the American People. We have to be strong and we have to be smart. We dont have to be reckless and rash. We dont have to discriminate against people because of their religion. Thats why i oppose what he has done with the seven countries. He has no case in my view with the refugees. I identify with what pope francis said about that. Make mow mistake. I thank you for your question and i thank you for your courage coming to america. I have been there a number of times and seen the situation there and its a wonderful country and i hope the way things go that people can enjoy staying home and enjoy their lives there as well as exercising the right to come to america. What the president did and the manner in which he did it has not made us more safe. Thats why i oppose it. [ applause ] there are additional you oppose President Trumps executive order. Are there screening measures you do support separate from what President Trump did . President obama instituted more stringent vetting when we thought there was a threat to prevent a threat from happening. President trump now said i did the same thing president obama did. No. He did not. That was about vetting. It wasnt about banning. Of course we have to vet people coming into our country. As i said, for the refugees, thats the most stringent vetting process of all. Its mostly women and children. We have to make sure that the system that is there is thoroughly adhered to. So its not we are not indifferent to it. Whatever is there has to be executed meticulously to protect the American People. What we have a problem now is with homegrown threats of terrorism and what the president did with this ban is something that doesnt lessen the threat. It exacerbates the threat. We will take a quick break. President trump said he is going to build a wall and mexico is going to pay for it. We will meet somebody in the audience who lives where that wall would be built. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. Only at t offers you all your live channels and dvr on your devices, datafree. Its entertainment. Your way. So let me get this straight. Youre a rabbit . 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