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“Speaker is the proper way to address Nancy Pelosi”, CBS host Jane Pauley instructed viewers as she led into her gooey puff piece interview with the California Democrat featured on the network’s Sunday Morning. How gushy was the interview with the new Speaker? Well, it could be argued that the toughest question Pauley asked was about whether or not Pelosi could work with President Trump.
The video began with Pauley hyping how “Nancy Pelosi capped her comeback this past week surrounded by children”, (a.k.a political props). If that didn’t set the tone for what was to come, then the first soundbite of the interview did:
PAULEY: You've become the most powerful woman in American history.
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: That's funny, isn't it? Sadly, I was hoping that we would have an American woman president, just two years ago.
PAULEY: Well, that didn’t happen. But, Speaker Pelosi is the most powerful woman in American history, and the most powerful woman in American politics.
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