NBC News was always there to support the Democratic Party. Thursday was no different. This is the On NBC Nightly News during an exclusive interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the topic of the anniversary of the January 6 Capitol Hill riots, Lester Holt gave her a fluffy softball interview.
Pelosi was the least friendly to the first question. He asked about President Biden’s speech in which he accused former President Trump of being divisive. Lester applauded Biden’s speech and asked why he didn’t give it earlier.
Today, President Biden visited the Capitol to deliver a scathing attack on his predecessor as well as a strong defense of democracy. Do you regret that the speech was not given sooner, considering the current environment where people are trying to undermine the investigation and reduce the scope of what occurred here?
Holt acted as a therapist rather than a journalist next and asked Pelosi for her January 6 experience and feelings. “I would like you to accompany me on that journey if you can. All of us remember being swiftly escorted from the podium. I’ve heard you talk about it before. It was not something you wanted to do.”Holt understood. Do you now think, knowing all you know? Or do you consider what might have happened if you had stayed put?
Holt allowed Pelosi to answer, and then Holt tried again at performing a live TV reenactment of a session in national therapy.
Your office was desecrated. You know that they were afraid for the lives of your employees. What if you could put it in perspective and reconcile the situation a year later.
Pelosi was questioned by NBC’s leftist anchor about whether America would ever again be the same following the January 6 riots. What have you lost and what are your fears about losing it?
Holt, perhaps feeling embarrassed at his poor performance as an interviewer so far, snapped from the Pelosi-induced trance to ask her the real question. “Why did she reject the GOP nominations for the January 6-committee?” Pelosi claimed that two of their nominees “were suspect in terms of their involvement in January 6th.” Holt did not respond to the claim.
Holt questions Pelosi, in what is probably the worst part of the interview about her statement about praying for your enemies. Pelosi responded:
Always do. Even this morning I have been praying for them. Republicans: Take back your party! You are not the Grand Old Party. You’re the Grand Old Party that’s done so much for America. Great leadership was shown for the country. This was a terrible thing for our country. Without him, the Republican Party could have become a cult.
It is ironic because of multiple reasons. Holt might try to present partial-birth abortion loving Pelosi, as if she were a Catholic devout. Pelosi pretends she has ever shown respect for the Republican Party and its history. Pelosi has been a divisive partisan Democrat since childhood. This act by Lester Holt is a sign of how committed he is to the liberal agenda.
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NBC NIGHTLY NIGHTLY NIGHTS
1/6/2022
7:06 PM
LESTER HOLT: I think no one was more aware of what the stakes were than Nancy Pelosi (House Speaker), whom I talked to today. Today, President Biden visited the Capitol to deliver a scathing attack on his predecessor as well as a strong defense of democracy. Do you regret that the speech was not given sooner, considering the current environment where people are trying to undermine the investigation and reduce the scope of what occurred here?
SPEAKER: NANCY PELOSI: The President’s speech came today. It is what our nation needs now. The President’s speech is a proud moment for me. This speech was powerful, honest and gave us a wakeup call about how near we were to disaster for democracy in the country that day.
HOLT: The way he went after Donald Trump, however, do you think that fuels a conversation among many Republicans that there’s something political about the observances? Today Mitch McConnell implied that this is being done for political gain.
PELOSI: He can say that. There was an assault against our democracy that was instigated and facilitated by the President — then the President of USA. Inciting an insurrection at the Capitol is something Mitch McConnell and anyone else can’t hide.
HOLT – I would like you to accompany me on that special day. All of us remember being swiftly escorted from the podium. I’ve heard you talk about it before. I was surprised that you didn’t want it.
PELOSI: No.
HOLT – Do you still think that, despite all the knowledge you have, you can think back to what could have been if you didn’t stay?
PELOSI : I think the security measures were very strong. They pulled me off the podium and I replied, Don’t be worried. I said no. You must get up. It is your responsibility to go. You don’t have any conversation. It is your duty to perform the job. They must do their jobs. It breaks your heart to see the scenes that took place outside of the Capitol. It is heartbreaking. It’s almost as if someone from the White House had dropped a bomb against the Congress of the United States.
HOLT. There was a Capitol crowd that day who considered you an enemy and wanted to humiliate, capture or arrest you. One of the men said, “She was expecting you to shoot in her frigging brain.”
PELOSI: Yeah.
HOLT – They destroyed your office. You know that they left your employees, fearing for the lives of their loved ones. What if you could put it in perspective and reconcile the situation a year later.
PELOSI (Spanish): I’ve been a target for them for some time and have security to defend me. My concern was for staff members as well as the other members. The Speaker’s office can be destroyed. This is wrong. However, it can be done. But the trauma that they foisted on the idealistic people who come to the Capitol to work, the institutional staffers have nothing to do with Democrats and Republicans, only the const–the Congress, those who had to clean up, clean up behind these people with their defecation of words and poo on the floor of the Capitol while they would be called names that are totally unacceptable.
HOLT – Speaker Pelosi shows me around the Capitol and where her staff is hiding.
PELOSI – The rioters smashed down one door. In the darkness, the staff were under the table. The staff couldn’t talk for three minutes — it was almost three hours.
HOLT: And they’re obviously hearing everything because it’s, it’s taking place right here.
PELOSI Pelosi: Where’s she? We’re coming to get her. That’s all. Maybe they believed I was. But I’m not sure.
HOLT: Next, we enter her office.
PELOSI: You saw them at the desk taking mail, and everything else. That’s right, you know that that was where the thug was seated.
HOLT: How did that image make you feel?
PELOSI: It was Donald Trump’s manifestation, total disrespect.
HOLT – I asked her about its lasting effects.
HOLT – What have you lost and what do you think can be gained?
PELOSI: Everything can be restored. America is optimistic. Even the ex-President of the United States can be overcome by the resilience of democracy.
HOLT: I also asked about January 6th’s House investigation committee. The majority of Democrats are represented in it. After Pelosi had rejected two of her selections for Republicans, Pelosi chose two Republicans to replace them. She also selected two Republicans who were fierce opponents of Trump.
HOLT – Many Republicans believe that the process was unfair and that potential Republicans were excluded from the committee.
PELOSI: No, no. They didn’t. They were not.
HOLT
PELOSI – We stated that the majority of them would be able to attend. Two of the two we couldn’t because they were suspected in connection with their involvement on January 6th. You can complain all you want but they refused to allow the full committee members.
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PELOSI: I now ask for silence from all the members.
[Cuts back]
HOLT – You are very vocal about prayer for your opponents in the past.
PELOSI: Yes, as I have done, as well as as just this morning. I also pray for their salvation. Republicans, I urge you to take back your party. You are not the Grand Old Party. You’re the Grand Old Party that’s done so much for America. Great leadership was shown for the country. This was a terrible thing for our country. Without him, the Republican Party could have become a cult.
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