Speaker emerita and democratic congresswoman from california, nancy pelosi. Speaker pelosi, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. So i have to say this was this may have been the highest stakes speech of President Bidens long career in politics. It may have been the highest stakes state of the Union Address that ive ever seen. I think he met the moment. Oh, i think he did definitely. Actually, i should quote him and just say, maybe i should go home right now because i think what he did was spectacular. He did it with vigor. He did it with vision, with patriotism. And i think it was one of the finest state of the Union Addresses i have seen. And ive seen many. So obviously a lot of republicans are critical of it. One of the things that theyre criticizing it for is for being political. And it was a very political state of the Union Address. Well, it had some political aspects to it, mostly generated by the audience saying four more years, but the perhaps amnesia has set in
u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, former nato supreme allied commander, james to read us, and cia analyst from congresswoman, elissa slotkin. later, my sunday exclusive with house speaker nancy pelosi. get her reflections on the one year anniversary of roe v. wade being overturned in the future of abortion rights in america. over just the last 48 hours, the yevgeny prigozhin a brutal shadow commander of mercenary forces staged a short-lived attempt to seize more power in russia. briefly taking control over rostov-on-don a key military logistics have on his way to march towards moscow. in the 11th hour, a shady and mysterious deal was struck by valery gerasimov valery gerasimov a leader of belarus that led putin in power, and to prigozhin packing his bags to move to believers. we know the story is unlikely to end there. back in 1991, another russian leader, gorbachev, also survived a coup. he only relinquish power for months later. even a short-lived attempt to take
situation for women. in addition to which, the only a handful have voted to enable women to travel to seek reproductive health care. so it s disrespect to women, it s a point of privacy, it s a precedent of the court, and what the court did, one year ago, this was something that reversed what s been happening in our country since the beginning. our founders founded us on freedom and democracy. our founding document, the declaration was very clear in that regard. but the constitution was not. in terms of equality and the rest. but in their wisdom, they made it amendable, starting with the bill of rights. one thing and another. roe v. wade, and then marriage equality, and then a reversal. our country has always been
with obamacare. it would be a disaster to try to ram through something without having it out in the open, without making it amendable, without any chance to talk it through. nobody is smart enough to fix 20% of the american economy, aug matter of life and death for every american, in secret.20 it will become public. what speaker paul ryan said it s absolutely true. tom price, the new secretary of health and human services, a medical doctor, spent years as a member of congress working on this variation. he was chairman of the budget committee. well, they have a guy in health and human services who understands how to work withwe house republicans. he is very acceptable to the senate republicans, they reta going to have to talk all the stuff through and they will be a lot of tension. i have no doubt there will be amendments operating and some of those amendments will pass but that is the legislative process.
republican leadership is going to do what nancy pelosi tried to do and harry reid tried to do with obamacare. it would be a disaster to try to ram through something without having it out in the open, without making it amendable, without any chance to talk it through. nobody is smart enough to fix 20% of the american economy, a matter of life and death for every american, in secret. it will become public. what speaker paul ryan said it s absolutely true. tom price, the new secretary of health and human services, a medical doctor, spent years as a member of congress working on this variation. on the budget committee. well, they have a guy in health and human services who understands how to work with house republicans. he is very acceptable to the senate republicans, they re going to have to talk all the stuff through and they will be a lot of tension. i have no doubt there will be a