WEBVTT 00:02.000 --> 00:04.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was one of several high-profile women to address 00:04.566 --> 00:09.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% the country last night at the Democratic National Convention, sharing her support for the Biden/Harris 00:10.200 --> 00:11.700 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% ticket. 00:11.700 --> 00:13.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And Speaker Pelosi joins us now from San Francisco. 00:13.633 --> 00:16.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Madam Speaker, thank you for being with us again. 00:16.966 --> 00:21.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% We heard you say last night you have seen - - and I'm quoting -- "firsthand President 00:23.866 --> 00:27.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Trump's disrespect for facts, for working families and for women in particular." 00:28.100 --> 00:30.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% What were you referring to? 00:30.166 --> 00:34.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): I was referring to his policies that we know are anti-women 00:35.433 --> 00:37.533 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and his conduct. 00:37.533 --> 00:42.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% But let's just talk about the policies, if we will. I went on to say that we know what 00:45.033 --> 00:48.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% he probably doesn't, is that, when women succeeds, America succeeds. And so we want to protect 00:50.033 --> 00:52.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% a woman's right to choose and preserve Roe v. Wade. 00:52.733 --> 00:57.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% We want to have a guarantee of affordable, quality child care, enable to unleash the 00:59.666 --> 01:03.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% full power of women. We want to also have strength in Social Security and equal pay 01:06.433 --> 01:08.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% for equal work. 01:08.033 --> 01:12.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% And who's standing in the way? Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. 01:12.333 --> 01:17.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% To name a few of our women-oriented priorities to unleash the power of women. 01:19.366 --> 01:22.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: You have been -- you're in San Francisco, but you have attended many 01:22.466 --> 01:24.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% conventions, as a lot of us have. 01:24.600 --> 01:29.000 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% This one is different, by necessity. But do you think that we're looking at the way conventions 01:30.166 --> 01:32.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% are going to be going forward? 01:32.300 --> 01:36.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% REP. NANCY PELOSI: This is my 15th convention, my first when I was 12 years old, going with 01:39.066 --> 01:42.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% my father, mayor of Baltimore, our whole family, telling Americans we take the whole family 01:42.000 --> 01:46.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% to the convention, wherever we go. And that was interesting. 01:46.900 --> 01:51.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% But it -- but I do think it was beautifully, magnificently handled. And I do -- as the 01:53.900 --> 01:57.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% chair of the convention in San Francisco in 1984, as chair of the host committee of the 01:57.233 --> 01:59.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% convention, I have played every role. 01:59.433 --> 02:02.766 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% I have been chair in one convention of the platform committee. I have been chair of the 02:02.766 --> 02:07.766 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% delegate selection committee. I have been chair of the convention, the whole convention. 02:09.800 --> 02:13.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And I can have an appreciation for what they did to pull this off. And it was magnificent. 02:14.666 --> 02:18.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I had the privilege of thanking the staff earlier today. 02:18.133 --> 02:23.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% I think our future is probably a hybrid, because this was great. It had an impact. It had succinctness. 02:25.566 --> 02:30.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% It had clarity. But it didn't have our collaboration of seeing each other, which I still think 02:32.000 --> 02:35.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% is something very important to the strength of the party. 02:35.500 --> 02:40.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% But if I had to choose one way, actual or virtual, I would choose virtual. But I think 02:42.466 --> 02:45.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% hybrid is the wave of the future, where we can have the benefit of both, the impact, 02:47.266 --> 02:48.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% as well as the collaboration. 02:48.500 --> 02:50.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: That's very interesting. 02:50.600 --> 02:54.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% You are convening the House of Representatives. You have got some travel ahead of you. That's 02:56.700 --> 03:00.433 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% this Saturday. And you're going to be trying to pass a bill that will forbid the Postal 03:00.433 --> 03:05.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Service from cutting back on services that would impede voting by mail. 03:05.200 --> 03:10.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% My question is, do you expect to get Republican support for this? And while you say Republicans 03:12.200 --> 03:14.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% are losing on this issue, and you say they are scared, how confident are you that, once 03:14.966 --> 03:18.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% this bill passes, the president is going to abide by it? 03:18.500 --> 03:22.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% REP. NANCY PELOSI: Well, all we can do is put it on his desk. 03:22.833 --> 03:27.733 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% I do think we will have some Republican support, from what they have been saying. We will see 03:27.733 --> 03:29.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% how they vote. 03:29.700 --> 03:34.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% But this is something that touches, hits home for America's families. The post office is 03:36.333 --> 03:40.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% - - the Postal Service has over 90 percent positive rating from the American people, 03:42.666 --> 03:47.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% higher than any agency of government. It is as American as our Constitution, that it's 03:49.500 --> 03:52.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% written in the Constitution that we will have a Postal Service and that Congress shall administer 03:54.333 --> 03:57.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% to establishing the roads, et cetera, the postal roads, et cetera. 03:57.400 --> 04:02.366 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And so it's as American as our Constitution, apple pie, motherhood, baseball, the Postal 04:02.900 --> 04:05.466 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Service. 04:05.466 --> 04:08.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% And right now, we have a situation where members across the country, Democrats and Republicans, 04:10.833 --> 04:14.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% are getting reports of delayed mail. That affects prescriptions that our veterans expect. 04:16.133 --> 04:21.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Nearly 100 percent of veteran -- VA prescriptions go through the mail. 04:23.033 --> 04:26.666 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% Last year, 1.2 billion prescriptions went through the mail. That was in 2019, well before 04:28.566 --> 04:30.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the coronavirus hit. 04:30.600 --> 04:35.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% So, in this time of a pandemic, compounded by the time of an election, where people want 04:37.233 --> 04:38.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to vote by mail... 04:38.233 --> 04:40.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Right. 04:40.266 --> 04:42.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% REP. NANCY PELOSI: ... so they don't have to risk their health in order to vote, for 04:42.300 --> 04:47.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% the post office to be pulling in post office box -- the boxes, and taking down the sorting 04:49.166 --> 04:53.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% machines, and not increasing the overtime hours and the rest, we will have a bill to 04:57.500 --> 04:59.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% correct all of that.. 04:59.600 --> 05:01.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: But at this -- and so how -- at this point, how confident are you that the 05:01.733 --> 05:05.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% American people are going to fully have the ability to vote and have their votes counted 05:05.233 --> 05:07.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% in November? 05:07.366 --> 05:10.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% REP. NANCY PELOSI: Well, let me just say, we would never count on the Republicans for 05:10.466 --> 05:14.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% that, because they, sadly, have put up obstacles to participation. 05:14.766 --> 05:19.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% But I know, as the former chair of the California Democratic Party, that Republicans very successfully 05:21.200 --> 05:25.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% vote by mail. They do. They have led the way on this. 05:25.900 --> 05:30.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And so, across the country, Democrats and Republicans are supporting our call for more 05:32.866 --> 05:37.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% funding for vote by mail, as well as more funding for those who don't want to vote by 05:39.533 --> 05:43.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% mail to be able to safely vote by having more places, more distancing, more hours, more 05:44.900 --> 05:48.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% days where people can go to the polls and vote. 05:48.566 --> 05:53.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Republicans are against that. But, again, we don't agonize; we organize. And we're going 05:55.566 --> 05:58.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% to make sure that everyone has a plan well in advance to vote, to vote early, to ensure 06:00.266 --> 06:02.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that their vote is counted as cast. 06:02.866 --> 06:07.866 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% The Postal Service wants to stand in the way of that. We will make sure that we can overcome 06:09.133 --> 06:11.100 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% it. 06:11.100 --> 06:13.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Let me ask you about COVID relief before the Congress. 06:13.133 --> 06:16.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% You have been struggling to strike a deal, as we know, with Republicans on this. But, 06:16.933 --> 06:21.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% this week, more than 100 Democrats in the House signed a letter urging you to pass a 06:23.133 --> 06:25.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% smaller relief bill than what you have out there. 06:25.666 --> 06:29.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% You were -- had agreed to go from $3 trillion down to $2 trillion. But they would -- they 06:29.800 --> 06:34.800 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% want to expand unemployment benefits. But, basically, they're saying, after the duration 06:36.833 --> 06:40.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% of this COVID emergency, that they would scale the support based on what the situation is 06:42.600 --> 06:44.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% in every state. 06:44.633 --> 06:47.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% But my question is, where do you stand on what they're asking you to do? 06:47.033 --> 06:52.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% REP. NANCY PELOSI: Well, they're asking us to do -- and I fully, from a policy standpoint, 06:53.166 --> 06:55.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% have always supported the stabilization. 06:55.966 --> 07:00.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% That means that, if you say, when unemployment reaches a certain point, that you would automatically 07:02.933 --> 07:07.866 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% have unemployment benefits. That's a very positive initiative. I have encouraged that. 07:08.733 --> 07:10.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I have welcomed that suggestion. 07:10.833 --> 07:15.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% I don't think, strategically, it's where we should go right now, because the Republicans 07:15.033 --> 07:19.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% would like to pass something like that and say, forget about it. Forget about state and 07:19.266 --> 07:24.266 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% local. Forget about our investments in stopping the virus. Forget about other initiatives, 07:26.166 --> 07:30.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% about feeding the food-insecure country in our country, vote-by-mail initiatives, and 07:31.333 --> 07:33.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% the rest. 07:33.433 --> 07:37.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% So, I -- again, I think that's something we should pass. I don't think the timing is for 07:39.266 --> 07:43.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% us to do it right now, because, imagine, the Republicans could take that into the Senate, 07:44.133 --> 07:45.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% put poison pills all over it. 07:45.766 --> 07:47.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Ah. 07:47.733 --> 07:50.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% REP. NANCY PELOSI: And it's hard to vote against extending unemployment benefits. 07:50.200 --> 07:55.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% And, again, I think, overwhelmingly, our members - - who would not want to extend unemployment 07:57.666 --> 08:02.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% benefits? As I say, it's something I fully support, and the stabilization, but not necessarily 08:03.666 --> 08:05.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% in the negotiation. 08:05.600 --> 08:08.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: But just to clarify, then, you don't really see an opening here to get 08:08.233 --> 08:10.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% this thing resolved in coming -- in the coming few days? 08:10.733 --> 08:11.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (CROSSTALK) 08:11.733 --> 08:12.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REP. NANCY PELOSI: No, I do. 08:12.966 --> 08:14.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I don't think it's done by giving them an out. 08:14.933 --> 08:17.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Ah. 08:17.466 --> 08:20.166 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% REP. NANCY PELOSI: I think it's done by making them come into the negotiation, because, really, 08:20.166 --> 08:25.166 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% the most central point of it all, where people's needs are met the most, is the issue of state 08:27.266 --> 08:29.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and local government. 08:29.300 --> 08:33.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And they have said, we don't think one state should pay for another state's concerns. Well, 08:36.033 --> 08:38.766 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% we in California have been paying for other people's concerns for a long time. So have 08:38.766 --> 08:42.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% people in New York and the rest. That's the American way. We do it with great pride, not 08:42.933 --> 08:44.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% with any resentment. 08:44.933 --> 08:48.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% But they have said, oh, it's a tax issue. Why should people in one state help other 08:48.233 --> 08:49.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% people in another state? 08:49.733 --> 08:51.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Welcome to the United States of America. 08:51.800 --> 08:53.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Two other... 08:53.833 --> 08:56.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% REP. NANCY PELOSI: But I do -- I appreciate what my members are doing. I support fully 08:56.900 --> 09:01.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% that. But I don't necessarily think the timing of it is right now. 09:01.466 --> 09:06.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% I think that's something that we do when we know we will get it signed without poison 09:06.933 --> 09:08.100 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% pills. 09:08.100 --> 09:10.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% JUDY WOODRUFF: Two other very quick things. 09:10.133 --> 09:14.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% The Russians being accused of interfering again in this year's presidential election. 09:16.066 --> 09:18.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% Senate Intelligence Committee report, you're very familiar with it. 09:18.133 --> 09:21.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% They say, among other things, the Russians are continuing to spread disinformation. Democrats 09:21.666 --> 09:26.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% are saying they're specifically planting disinformation with Republicans like Senator Ron Johnson. 09:28.533 --> 09:33.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Do Democrats have the information, the evidence to back that up? 09:34.700 --> 09:36.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% REP. NANCY PELOSI: Yes, we have been briefed. 09:36.800 --> 09:41.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% But not to go into confirming or denying anything, what we're saying is that the intelligence 09:41.266 --> 09:46.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% community should be putting forth what it can, without jeopardizing sources and methods, 09:47.533 --> 09:49.666 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% of course. 09:49.666 --> 09:53.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% But there is no question that the Republicans - - excuse me -- that the Russians are 24/7 09:55.133 --> 09:57.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% trying to undermine the integrity of our elections. 09:57.066 --> 10:01.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% The intelligence community knows. In fact, they have stated -- they have stated that. 10:01.866 --> 10:06.866 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% But we have further evidence that they could state more fully, so that, whether wittingly 10:09.333 --> 10:12.366 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% or unwittingly, those who might use that information have the fullest knowledge, and that the public 10:13.833 --> 10:17.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% knows what the Republican -- what the Russians are up to. 10:17.766 --> 10:22.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% This is -- this is about our -- I think the American people are clear. They would rather 10:22.700 --> 10:27.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% that they decide who the president of the United States is than Vladimir Putin, with 10:29.700 --> 10:33.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% his infiltration of our social media, with their supplying -- putting forth false information 10:37.133 --> 10:41.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and -- oh, I can't really go into so much of it. 10:41.600 --> 10:45.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% But it's very wrong. The administration knows it's wrong. And the president does anything 10:45.900 --> 10:50.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% but invite it. And then they try to make it - - what is problematic is, they try to make 10:50.700 --> 10:54.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% some equivalence: Well, this country is doing that, and this country is doing that. 10:54.166 --> 10:59.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% There is nothing like what the Russians are doing. We don't want anybody interfering in 11:01.166 --> 11:04.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% our elections, but just don't make it look like it's on par with other things. 11:06.266 --> 11:10.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% It is a major assault on our democracy. And it has a bigger agenda. It has the agenda 11:12.233 --> 11:15.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% of undermining democracies. And they have done it in our country, and they have done 11:15.666 --> 11:18.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% it in other countries throughout the world. 11:18.933 --> 11:23.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% We should not allow our country to be -- allow this to happen and be accomplices to their 11:25.000 --> 11:27.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% undermining of democracy. 11:27.100 --> 11:31.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: The speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, thank you very 11:31.133 --> 11:32.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% much for joining us. 11:32.366 --> 11:33.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% REP. NANCY PELOSI: My pleasure. Thank you.