‘You Held Out For Eight Months’: Lesley Stahl Calls Out Pelosi For COVID Relief Delay
Lesley Stahl: You yourself are not known as a person who compromises.
Nancy Pelosi: No, I am. I'll compromise. We wanna get the job done. I'm not-- I'm-- mischaracterized by the Republicans that way. But that's a tactic that they use. But we know we want results for the American people.
Lesley Stahl: What about the COVID relief package?
Nancy Pelosi: Yeah.
Lesley Stahl: That was held up for eight months.
Nancy Pelosi: Right. But that was their obs-- obstruction. Understand this.
Lesley Stahl: Well, wait. Y--
Nancy Pelosi: Was their obstruction.
Lesley Stahl: Yours too.
Nancy Pelosi: Their obstruction.
Lesley Stahl: No, yours too. Takes two to--
Nancy Pelosi: No, it wasn't obstruction.
Lesley Stahl: You held out for eight months.
Nancy Pelosi: No, no. We held it up because there was no-- no respect for our heroes, our-- our state and local health care workers, police and fire, our first responders, our sanitation, transportation, food workers, our teachers, our teachers, our teachers. They would not go down that path.
Lesley Stahl: There's a member of your caucus who said specifically that, "We look like obstructionists, and it was a mistake."
Nancy Pelosi: I don't remember anybody saying that. And—
Lesley Stahl: But--
Nancy Pelosi: --they may have. And they may have. But it isn't-- it wasn't a mistake.