During CNN's #PelosiTownHall, Leader Pelosi Warns Trump: 'Loose Lips Can Sink Ships'
Memorable moments are below.
On Reports that President Trump Shared Intelligence with Russian Officials:
"We have an expression. There are signs up in the intelligence rooms up there. It says, ‘Loose lips can sink ships.' And it's really true. It's these, shall we say, accidental – I don't know what word to describe for the President and this messy approach to intelligence that is very endangering."
"Our intelligence people around the world are super-patriots. They work very hard to protect the American people. … And we have to have so much appreciation for what they do. And we cannot have the President of the United States being casually loose-lipped about confirming something, even if it's in the public domain, to an adversarial nation."
"I would hope that it would be a lesson to the President to have his daily intelligence briefings so he understands the connection from one report to the next about how thorough everyone else is on this, how important our liaison relationships are about information, intelligence we share with other countries, and that he has a higher respect for what the intelligence community does."
"When the President became President-elect, he was putting Putin on a pedestal and he was questioning whether we should even have sanctions against Russia for their aggression in Ukraine and Crimea, etcetera, and questioning – undermining the relationship we have with NATO, which is our transatlantic friendship for security. And it was like, why on Earth is he undermining our allies and praising Putin?"
"That endangers a couple things. It endangers the person or persons, the activity. It could undermine an operation that could be saving lives. And it undermines the trust that we would have with our allies, our liaison relationship, intelligence relationship that we have with other countries that they share carefully not expecting the President of the United States to share wittingly, that would be unfortunate or unwittingly that would also be unfortunate. Both cases [are] dangerous."
On President Trump Claiming Former FBI Director Comey Said That He is Not Under Investigation:
"I believe that the President putting that in a letter of dismissal but thanking him [by] saying 'I'm not [under investigation]' was weird. That was really weird. We're talking weird. Weird means, what? Highly unusual. Inappropriate. Why is he doing this?"
On Democrats' Willingness to Improve the Affordable Care Act:
"I know how we can improve the Affordable Care Act. The bill that the Republicans have put forth is not a bill in good faith. As I say, it's called by many a 'death panel' bill because it is there to eliminate that access to affordable care. If the President were to say to me, come in and see what we can do about this, we could get it done."
On the Dangerous and Immoral Trumpcare:
"The only way to fix the Affordable Care Act is to kill the Republican bill. Because they can't mate. There is no reconciliation between the two. Because one is for health care for all Americans, not just the privileged few. The other one is a tax break for the wealthiest people in our country."
"I think it's really important for you to know this. This bill – this death panel bill is a tax bill disguised as a health care bill. It moves $600 billion from working class families to the richest people in our country. It's a tax bill in disguise as a health care bill. It's very dangerous to people, children and other living people. It must be stopped."
"Again, you have to understand, there is no good faith in that bill. They don't want to expand Medicaid. Do you know how many people – one in eight people in our country are dependent on Medicaid. Seniors take advantage of it for long-term health care. People with disabilities, poor children. There are many of them, they are the least costly of the whole bill. Medicare, they want to – separate legislation – take away the guarantee of Medicare because they want it to, in their words, ‘wither on the vine.'"