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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190107:02:01:00

washington university in washington d.c. here now is joy reid. welcome to o'connor auditorium in trinity washington university for a very special hour. as you know there is a new congress in town. the 116th. and a new speaker. in her second term with the gavel. in the midst of yet another government shut out down. we've got a lot to get to. so let's jump right in and bring out a proud trinity washington tiger from the class of 1962. please welcome the newly reelected speaker of the house nancy pelosi. [cheers and applause]. madam speaker.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190107:02:02:00

that's quite a welcome. you're kind of a big deal. well congratulations. i first want to congratulate you. i watched your swearing in yesterday. quite a historic moment. and of course to sort of mark that momentum we've got a few people that you might know. some alum. some of your former classmates are here behind me. that have come here to celebrate you. friends and family and fellow students. i'm going to jump right in, because obviously the context of this conversation is that the government remains shut down. yesterday the house jumped right in working. and passed six bills to reopen the government. but tell us, give us the preview how this is going to end. because you have made it very clear the congress of the united states is not going appropriate money to build a wall. mexico, who donald trump, the president, has said would pay for the wall has made it clear they are not going pay for the wall. donald trump is still insisting on $5.5 billion.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190107:02:06:00

senate or unanimously in committee. we sent that exactly. and then for our separate bill on homeland security. we took their language exactly. the continual resolution would last until february 8th. take yes for an answer. don't say congress is irrelevant. that's what he's saying. >> i realize you have been back in the speakership for one day. all of one day. but have you spoken with senator mcconnell? because a lot of the public i think is frustrated by the fact that congress used to do a thing called "send a bill to the president to veto" if he so chooses. have you spoken to senator mcconnell about doing that? that he could do so if he wishes to do so. >> the congress of the united states says. if congress, if both houses pass a bill and send it to the president and the president doesn't want to sign it and it sit there is for 10 days not counting sunday it becomes the law. so the president doesn't even

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190107:02:05:00

he won't put them back on the floor unless the president approves of them. how do you get around this conundrum if the other half of the first branch of government will only act at the behest of the president? >> well i think that what mitch mcconnell is doing, and i say this as respectfully as possible, is saying we're not needed. congress might as well stay home. all we need is one person to show up. donald trump. and that's not what our founders had in mind. they talked about co-equal branchs of government. article 1. t legislative branch. the peoples branch of government. the president can sign or not but he should never say i'm not even going to put it on the president's desk. what he signed. we could have sent a bill of our own making. but we said we'll send exactly what the senate passed with over 90 votes on the floor of the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190107:02:29:00

making a decision. what's shocking is that the republicans and the congress of the united states will not hold him accountable for anything. >> we'll continue this conversation next. ersation next. great news, liberty mutual customizes- uh uh - i deliver the news around here. ♪ sources say liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. over to you, logo. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190107:02:23:00

approach to take and we shouldn't take it for anything other than the facts and the law. and we'll see what happens with the muller report. >> already even before it is completed the probe has resulted in charges against 33 people. guilty pleas by five people with direct ties to the president of the united states. >> seven. >> seven total. five directly tide to him. what would you need to is see in addition to that in order for you to feel that you have reached the threshold where it is time to begin impeachment hearings? >> let me just say first of all because you used the word oversight and investigations and they are not really interchangeable. congress has a constitutional responsibility to have oversight over the executive branch. we are the power of the purse. we appropriate the funds. and we have to have oversight as to whether they are being used effectively. so that is our responsibility.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190107:02:36:00

upper marlboro maryland. >> what kind of challenges do you face holding one of the highest elected positions as a woman? and how do you handle them? >> thank you for your question. >> feel free to include dealing with the man explaining and people interrupting you. i just interrupted you but men interrupting you when you are trying to do your job. >> let me just say this. you can't let that stand in your way. i just say to young women especially or women newly emerging into the public sector as i went from the kitchen to the congress from housewife to house speaker. whatever the path is. rather right out of college or whatever. know your power. just know your why. why are you interested in public service? or whatever it is, the academic world, military, corporate america whatever it is. know your why. know your subject. know why you are doing it. know what it is. know about it so that you can speak with authority on it. have a plan. be strategic.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190107:02:45:00

to approve the benefits of medicare. so we're saying to people understand what it is -- what it means to the individual. and that is a fair review that we should have. >> you will have hearings now on that. >> we'll have hearings on the subject. >> and again i have said before i even came to congress i was out there with signs that said single payor because that is the least costly administratively of all. singer payer is not exactly same as medicare for all. but what does it cost? 30 trillion dollars to do single player. how do you pay for that. okay? affordable care act has a way for people to participate as a mandate. no free riders. the medicare for all you have to review. what are the benefits? and people have to understand that. and if we expand the benefits how is that -- >> how do you pay for it. and one of the earlier steps off the take before you even add a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190107:02:48:00

most of the things in our agenda are about bipartisan issues. the president wants to lower th. so do we. and that is a first item on the agenda. the president hasn't said e wants to reduce the role of money in politics but that is what we want to do. >> let's talk about this congress that you have. a really diverse caucus. lot of agenda items they want to be done. how do you balance a caucus that's got all of these activist progressives it's got people elected in more red districts. they have all these various and disparate agendas. how do you not let ideological -- effect progress. >> we have shared values and all along people say you are a good unifier of our caucus.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190107:02:50:00

gun safety. there is bipartisan support in the congress and country for common sen common sense background checks for people who want to buy a gun. and second bipartisan support in the country to protect our dreamers. and third bipartisan support in the discrimination against lgbtq people in our community. so it's about sending discrimination. it's about respecting who we are as a people. it's about keeping people safe. there's bipartisanship in the congress in the country on those issues. >> sure. >> so we're not looking for a fight, we're looking for many, one, how do we unify? openness, bipartisanship, unity. >> another question from a student. shelly ward, a journalism student. >> congratulations on the election. >> do you support the black lives matter movement? >> well, i support the recognition that black lives matter, for sure.

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