Nancy Pelosi, her book & MaryLouise Kelly of NPR interview Tuesday 6 August 2024
Source-https://www.npr.org/2024/08/06/nx-s1-5064438/nancy-pelosi-art-of-power-biden-president-stepping-down-trump
Title if the book -The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
snip-"Kelly: Before we move on from talking power, and how to wield the power that you have, I do need to ask about recent events that are outside the scope of this book, including the moment last month when you went on MSNBC's Morning Joe and said this: “It's up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short.”
Nancy Pelosi, he had made that decision. He'd just come out and told us, “I'm in. I'm running. Case closed.” Your comments reopened the whole kettle of worms. Why did you do it?
snip-"Kelly: “What's-his-name” being Donald Trump. Let me ask this question in a slightly different way. You never called on Joe Biden to drop out, I know. I have talked to no one in this town, in Washington, who doesn't believe your fingerprints were on that decision and that you were the only one with the clout to pull it off. Are those people wrong?
Pelosi: It is wrong. I'll tell you what I did not do. I did not call one person. I read in the press that I was burning up the phone lines. I didn’t call one person, people called me. Some of them I received their calls. Some of them I didn't — didn’t even have time to. I never said put [Biden's longtime aide] Michael Donilon on the phone. Never."
Transcript there, the interview will be broadcast this afternoon.