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babylonsister

(171,057 posts)
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 10:23 AM Aug 2020

Nancy Pelosi owns Chris Wallace: 'Clearly you don't have an understanding of what is happening here'



Nancy Pelosi owns Chris Wallace: ‘Clearly you don’t have an understanding of what is happening here’
Published 25 mins ago
on August 9, 2020
By David Edwards


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) faced off against Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday over the failure to negotiate a COVID-19 financial relief bill.

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Wallace suggested that there is an upside to executive actions taken by President Donald Trump in lieu of a financial relief bill because some people will get protections from evictions “rather than getting nothing at all.”

For her part, Pelosi quoted a Republican senator who said that the president’s executive action is “constitutional slop.”

“While he says he’s going to have a moratorium on evictions, he’s going to ask the folks in charge to study if that’s feasible,” Pelosi explained before noting that the president’s payroll tax holiday serves to “undermine Social Security and Medicare.”

“These are illusions,” she said.


“But, Speaker,” Wallace pressed, “I understand the president’s executive action doesn’t do all the things you want. But having no bill at all, not coming to any agreement wasn’t going to provide any of the things that you want either.”

“You’re known as a master negotiator,” the Fox News host continued. “But didn’t you mess this one up? Because you talk about all the things that the president’s bill… cities and states won’t get any money, there’s no money for the Post Office, there’s no money for hospitals, there’s no money for states boards of elections. You knew that the president was threatening to take this executive action.”

“Should you have cut a deal?” Wallace wondered. “And are you ready to go back into talks to try to come up with a fuller package.”


“Clearly, you don’t have an understanding of what is happening here,” Pelosi shot back, “both in the weakness of the president’s executive orders, which don’t give the money — the enhanced benefits, but puts a complicated formula there which will take a while — if all — to accomplish, to put money in the pockets of the American people.”

Pelosi reiterated the need to support health care workers but Wallace interrupted.

“I allowed you to finish,” the Speaker said. “You allow me to finish.


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Nancy Pelosi owns Chris Wallace: 'Clearly you don't have an understanding of what is happening here' (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2020 OP
Fox news? luv2fly Aug 2020 #1
Nancy stands up to fox trolls. FarPoint Aug 2020 #2
She is light and he is dark. 50 Shades Of Blue Aug 2020 #3
Speaker Pelosi is really ratcheting it up bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #4
"Clearly, you don't have an understanding of what is happening here." jcgoldie Aug 2020 #5
Thanks for the heads up calguy Aug 2020 #6

luv2fly

(2,475 posts)
1. Fox news?
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 10:28 AM
Aug 2020

Not gonna watch it, can't stand any of them, especially after just eating breakfast as I want to keep it down. They are all fucking douchebags.

bucolic_frolic

(43,139 posts)
4. Speaker Pelosi is really ratcheting it up
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 10:38 AM
Aug 2020

That's what we need, strong reasoned comebacks, don't let them deter you, don't let them diminish your positions, don't let them have the final word. Don't let them get away with it!

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
5. "Clearly, you don't have an understanding of what is happening here."
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 10:43 AM
Aug 2020

Tried this line on my wife it didn't end well for me...

Go Nancy!

calguy

(5,306 posts)
6. Thanks for the heads up
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 11:02 AM
Aug 2020

I was considering using that line on my wife as well. Your experience helped me to see that this line can only be effective when women use it on men, not the other way around.
I hate to admit it, but the ladies seem to have certain advantages that we guys rarely see until it's too late.

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