Ahead of President Trump's Address to Congress, Leader Pelosi Highlights Failure of His First 40 Days in Office
In the interview, Leader Pelosi highlighted the unfulfilled promises of President Trump's first 40 days in office in advance of tonight's Address, including the President's unrealistic Defense Budget proposal, his Administration's ties to Russia and the need for an independent, outside commission and his discovery regarding the complexity of health care.
Below are the highlights.
On "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated":
"It reminded me of a Yogi Bera joke, where Yogi Bera brings home a report card, and his father has to sign it, and his father says, ‘Yogi, don't you know anything?' And he says, ‘No, I don't even suspect anything.' That reminds me of President Trump, and we've obviously gotten under his skin."
On Budget:
"‘Public sentiment is everything,' Abraham Lincoln. When the public sees what these choices are and how they actually diminish our strength as a nation. Do you think the President can sell increasing the military budget by ten percent so that I can take it out of your Social Security, your Medicare, your Medicaid? He really doesn't know how complicated it is."
On Russia:
"We keep asking him, are you doing the investigations? Are you following the path? The American people want the truth. What are the Republicans afraid of that they will not investigate? Why will they not investigate when they've been madly in love with investigating everything in the Obama administration?"
[Andrea Mitchell: Sean Spicer said yesterday this has all been investigated and is the investigation over? Is there nothing there?]
"It hasn't started. What we are calling for is an independent outside commission, take it away from Congress, take it away from politics, an independent outside commission to look into the political, personal and financial ties of the Trump Organization, him personally, his businesses, his campaign, to the Russians."
And Democratic Women Wearing White at Tonight's Address:
"It's not a protest. It's a statement of values. It associates ourselves with our suffragette mothers, the color of white, the color purple."