Aspen for our Aspen Security Forum there. Here is ali for velshi ruhle. Hello everyone, i am ali velshi, it is wednesday, july 17th, stephanie is on assignment. House speaker is expected address last nights stunning vote. The first last night and again and this morning the president attacked the four women on twitter and calling them names and thanking them for his polling number. Demonizing not only immigrants but communities of color. There are no bottom of the barrel of this. To stifle those who wants to advance rights for all people of
the United States. Each of us bring our unique and authentic voice to this body. We govern in our own way. We are four women who have al n alignment of values. There is no insurgency here or for conspiracy. President trump is expected to continue his attack on these women in a rally. I want to talk a little bit more about the president and his comments. The house is going to vote today on a resolution to impeach President Trump as a measure thats being pushed by democratic representative, al green who says the president s recent comment demonstrates that hes unfit to be president. It all started when the president tweeted on sunday telling four congresswomen of
color toll thd them to go back where they came from. On monday, his attack continues. These people in my opinion hates our country. If you are unhappy and complaining all the time, you can leave. All i am saying is if they want the leave, they can leave. President trump is condemning those tweets but it was backed by four republican members. So far 36 of 250 republican lawmakers say they condemn the comment. Thats 14 of the house and the senate and trumps ally, Anthony Scarramucci called out trumps tweet as racist and unacceptable. America is a nation of immigrants and founded on the idea of free thought and free
speech. Anthony scarramucci is joining me now. We have to dip into pelosi when she talks about this. No problem. There is a sort of story where people become immigrant family, sort of a handshake and wink of an eye. Everybody who got an immigrant sounding last name or the colors are different have heard some version of go back to where you came from. Have you heard that . I personally have not heard it but my grandpa and grandma he heard it. They got here, where italians apply. So we had discrimination in our society and segregation of all these issues. Society is add vvancing and progressing, it is a wonderful experience to be in. I dont want to beat on it all day. I made my comment, the comments are unacceptable from the president. Theyre all racist. I support the president but i dont think we are advancing this societys agenda going that direction. The women hes attacking, hes giving them great standing and not just here on cable and developed ways. Totally. Theyre calling her racist and theyre fighting each other so the president could have let it go. He then called them racist or antisemantic based on their comments. Saying go back to their country, it is a whistle for everybody. First it is me and it is your family and it is the next family and at domino Effect Division i our country, it is not american. We dont think like that. I dont want to be on a dead horse. I am surprised republicans are not being honest with the president. Thats an interesting point. Being honest with the president is the question. Joe mccarthy exhausted this system. You get everybody riled up and they get exhausted and they drop it and the minute they drop it, you lose your standings so you get so many good things to run and economy and growth and Free Enterprise system and des desegregati desegregati desegregation. One of the reasons you were at the white house, you said you enjoyed a Good Relationship with the president. I have not talked him greatly, i like him a great deal, i like him enough to tell the truth. Whats the message for him right now. I get the point, you want to label the Democratic Party as that squad. If you do that successfully and they pull those candidates over to their positions, you are
likely get a 40state landslide. Drop the state rhetoric, thats going to upset 15 of the people in the middle that are moderates and would like to vote for you, wait a minute, thats not flavor full for me, im go with somebodys policy that i dont like. It is a one and house thing with the president. Focus on what you are doing. Very good for the country and how you are doing it. It is part of your narrative and you come from a family, this is not enough to cause donald trump your support at this point . Not at this point. If he keeps ongoing in that direction. Lets put up on the screen. I see the stuff he said. I know what i said. I have seen the whole thing. It is birthism and calling mexicans rapists and and hole countries. On the flip side, he has great
policies and lower employment rates in some area of the country. I see it. There is a mix bag of things. People can choose from the bag and say the president is racist or not. Knowing personally and seeing what he did during the Martin Luther king jr. Controversy 25 years ago where the New York Stock Exchange left open, getting close to honor dr. Martin luther king jr. To honor him on his holiday. Those are the kind s of things want to the see him do. The birther thing, i dont understand. I understand the average American Community let me
tell about the birther thing. He said president obama go ahead. I can go through the list. I am not here to defend the list. How do you come to the conclusion that hes not racist when you see that list . The Average American will say things they regret. Theyll say things they wish to take back. I got fired for saying something i wish i could take back. Obviously that happens and so hes 73 years old, he got seven things listed there. When it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, you are not prepared to call him a duck . I am. When he continues on this path. You cant choose the person over the country. You cant choose the policies over the country. At the end of the day, i like the president and i want to be a
loyal supporter to him but i love the country. And so you cant tell people go back to the other country. My grandparents who both have been dead for probably 20 or 30 years. They would cry at Something Like that. There is my uncle. What would they say that you are still not prepared to say that donald trump is racist. Those people or my cousins or blue collar workers, they like and support the president. If you are going to tell people to go back to the other country, theyre going to say okay at some point, we cant continue to support you. Tell us what you want to do. The republicans, if they all came out, there are 250 of them, hey, terrible, cant talk like that. I think the president would conform his behavior. He needs straightup, honest feedback and honest analytical assessment of Whats Going On. Whats happening in washington, i got to stay in power, i dont want to get primary or i dont want to say anything thats going to upset the president. I am going to keep my mouth shut. You are a good journalist, there are white house Aids Offensive what the president says is racist or unacceptable. Theyll whisper to you on the phone. You are one of my most wellrwell wellread friend. You quoted from kfjs book. In whatever arena of life one may meet the challenge of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces, if he follows his conscience the loss of his friends, his
fortune for this, each man must look into his own soul. We obviously read that book. The point john f. Kennedy was making in that book. You have to step out of the system and politics and reflects Whats Going On and stand up for the society. Thats what we have to do. I dont like the squad or ideology. They are democratically elected officials. One was naturalized and others were born here. You and i have argued, we dont have same views of things but we do not tell each other to go back. What john f. Kennedy said is that he studied the other side. He wants to understand them and let me understand what they are thinking and saying and hes a guy that can hold and he oppose ideas in his brain and
synthesize those. We need more statements like that. I got the president s point and the squads point. It is classically unamerican and we are progressing society now to a point where we should be postpartisan and identity for that. Nancy pelosi is speaking. Anthony scarramucci, thank you. Justice john paul stevens, he was a true guardian of the constitutions. He made history not only as long as serving as justice but one of its finest, our country mourns his loss. Hell be flying in state on monday, the service will be on tuesday and then again a great loss to our country. Last night i had a particular pleasant experience which was the sign of legislation which enables us to
use the Washington Monument as a backdrop for the moon launch. Pretty exciting, i hope everyone will take advantage of observing that as we observe that historic event in our country. Here we are campaigning for our jean agenda. This week well have three bills on the floor, raising the minimum wage, it will increase wages for up to 33 million workers and lift 1. 3 million americans out of poverty. It will help secure fairness and equality for women. Giving nearly 20 million working
women a raise and help narrow the gender gap, the disproportionately impacts women. We are proud to pass this bill tomorrow. All men and women were created equal. Well also continue doing our promises to workers. Today well honor our promise to the hardworking men and women of the labor as we lift the cadillac tax protecting Health Benefits that workers have negotiated. And next week, the house will move to pass the vote and ensuring millions of americans who receive requirementirements receive the retirements of benefits and security they have earned. These are the outcome of the back and forth on the census. Proud of the testimony the council makes for the supreme
court. The census is a pillar of our democracy. A shrine in our sacred constitution to ensure that we are all equally counted and represented. And so, well continue and holding the Administration Accountable for the policy decisions, this is not about bipartisan shshi bipartisanship. It as we approach the 200day mark of our transit majority. House democrats were blown by the cost. Benefits and lowering Prescription Drugs and preserving the Preexisting Conditio condition benefits and some of
that will be coming up next week. Hr1, part of hr1. We have divided into parts. Voting rights act and the rest and we are hoping to get some of these passed discreetly. Senator mcconnell have called himself the ripper, we have news for him as i have said before. These bills are alive and well with the public and Public Opinion and as lincoln have said we can make anything. Any questions . Is there a chance after this long wait t the report has brought some clarity and more people will know whats in the report. I think we should approach with all the appropriateness and seriousness of purpose. This is about our country and our constitution and the separation of powers of Obstruction Of Justice, issues like that. So i would say again it is about patriotism. Let us listen and see where the facts will take us and let us have this be as dig fnified as r constitution requires. Well go where the facts lead us. On the same subject . In terms of bringing up an impeachment. I have not seen his article of impeachme impeachment. Well deal with that resolution on the floor but i have said over and over again with all the respect in the world, hes a prayerful person and he cares a lot about your country. With all the respect in the world for him, we have six committees working and some on the facts and in terms of any abuse of power or Obstruction Of Justice that the president may engaged in. Not that mr. Green is not serious, well deal with it on the floor. I dont know what well do but well deal with it on the floor. Thank you. What are the counting blocks to get this done . Lets start with next week and engineer back. We would like to have something on the floor next thursday so that we can send it in a timely fashion so they can go through their shall we say particularly senatorial process. If we are talking about next thursday, we have to backup until this friday to have an agreement reached so we can dually noted because under the new rules, we dont count weekends in the 72 hours notice so well have to have something that we can post sometimes this weekend so that the time takes
away in order for us to go the floor. Well have to do all of that by friday evening. What are the policies [ Inaudible Question ] it is all about money, right . Is there a certain number . I said yesterday and if you read my letter, it was very clear. Our concern is the Additional Initiative that have been added for veterans whether you approve, to cover them, we dont think that should be becoming out of the regular base and so we dont want the veterans and resources to be competing with each other or competing with other very valuable domestic
priorities. I think we are understanding each other and when we have an announcement, you will be the first to know. Were you surprise that more republicans did not side with democrats and what did you think at the end of the day was achieved given it was essentially well, the fact that this is was a resolution of the house and not some legislation as you go to senate and be signed by the president and it was for us to say and by the way, in the most gentle way you have no idea the provisions that some people want to have in their resolutions. This is benign and it condemns the words of the president , not the president but the words of the president and doing so it anchored itself in the words of Ronald Reagan. Ronald reagan, beautiful speech
byr by Ronald Reagan which i referenced all the time. You would thought that benign approach may have appealed the them. When you say were you surprised or were you disappointed . My expectations were not great but you also hope they may do the right thing and say that language that the president used was underneath the dignity of the president and the president who hes criticizes and by the way, we were offended that he spoke in such a way of Members Of Congress and we are offended that he says things like that all the time go back to where you came from. By extension of his words are racism. Go back and look at ap or certain places thats where they define it. The words he used were races ir. That was as gentle as it could be in the appropriate nature of what the president said. We did what our members wanted us to do. We had a strong 100 vote. This fight is no, madominat the are you concerned . With all due respect, lets not waste or time on that. We are talking about what we are going to do to help the american people. Our caucus is unified on all of that, throughout the whole campaign. I said to the candidates dont everyone mention his name. Everybody knows who he is, you dont have to describe him to anybody. Well devote the whole month of august for the people which is
successful and connecting with people and their concerns. It is still the cost of healthcare and the stagnation of wages and distrust of government are still alegumlooming large a concerns for the american people. Thats what we are going to be about. We are not having him set our agenda, we are setting our own agenda. Do you have any concerns on the focus on impeachment day relating to or jeopardizing Robert Muellers appearance . No. We did our resolution and well deal with mr. Greens resolution. We do have to have a clear path. I do think that the president is trying to and we cant and you cant and we cant buy into his
false bidding. He knows, we all know the argument that can be made against us in terms of our philosophy or in terms of our priorities and the rest. The president knows the argument that could be made against him and therefore he wants to distract from him. You have to give him credit. Hes a great distractor and thats what it is about. Lets take it to a better place, america, the president wants to make America Great again, we all do. What does it mean . So many times we come together and we talk about america as our ideal in the constitution, an example of the world of the founding documents that rejected and put forth separations of power. The legislative of france having
the priority of listening and thats being dishonored by the president of the United States. There is america, we are the people. Nation of immigrants, by and large and hes demograding all the newcomers coming to our country. This america, this beautiful land from Sea To Shining sea and beyond. It is gods gift to us that hes almost everyday but certainly every week degrading and saying that not going to deal with climate on the basis of any science . Really . What is america . Our values and thats the debate we have all the time and the budget and the rest in terms of how we invest in our childrens future and how these things all come together and under the guidance of our founders, we the
people, they said in the preamble to the constitution. They also say for anyone could imagine how many or how different we would be. We had to be one. That beautiful guidance is something as constantly as we keep in mind as we engage in our differences. At the end of the day, we want to be refined and not divided. I wish the president knew that. Thank you all very much. Nancy pelosi delivering comments on the resolution to impeach President Trump today and what she thinks the president s strategy is verses what democrats strategy is with respect to the country and the president and respect to what she calls the president s remarkable ability to distract americans from issues they wo