Nancy Pelosi’s most confrontational moments with reporters over years

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy PelosiThe California Democrat has spoken to reporters countless times over the years, but every now and then, she grows impatient or even hostile with them.

Pelosi had another viral interaction on Wednesday, this time with a reporter for a far-right media outlet, where she shouted at her to “shut up” when she was pressed about the matter. The new January 6 Committee And whether it should have done more to secure the building on the day of the 2021 Capitol riot.

“Shut up! I didn’t reject the National Guard! The president didn’t send it.” Pelosi said“, referring to the president Donald Trump.

“Why did you come here with Republican talking points as if you were a serious journalist?” She asked before walking away.

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Here are some other times Pelosi has lost her cool with various media outlets over the years.

“Do I speak English with you?”

On July 10, 2024, ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott caught up with Pelosi in the halls of Congress and asked her if she had spoken with then-President Joe Biden about her comments on MSNBC that day. He calls him To “decide” whether to stay in the race.

“I’m not having any discussions with you or anyone else about what I’m talking about with the president, with all due respect,” Pelosi told Scott. “I’m not going to make any comments today, in the hallway, about the fate of our nation, okay?”

As Scott repeatedly asked about Biden, Pelosi lost her nerve.

“Do I speak English to you? I’m not going to make any statements about any of that right now in the hallway,” she said.

Less than two weeks later, Biden dropped out of the race, and Pelosi was a key part of the successful lobbying campaign to make that happen.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

“Ridiculous”

Pelosi is known to have open disdain for the far-left “Squad” and its leader, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. On October 1, when a reporter suggested she was leading negotiations on a government shutdown, Pelosi became upset.

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“There was an idea among Republicans that the Australian Oil Company was leading this, and she said senators were invited to go directly to her office. Is she leading this?” The reporter asked Pelosi.

“Why would you say such a silly thing?” Pelosi responded.

This was followed by the reporter’s question Ocasio-CortezAppearing on MSNBC that week, she told Republicans: “My office is open, and you are free to come in and negotiate with me directly.”

Pelosi rejected the idea that Ocasio-Cortez is running the negotiations, asserting that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is leading Democrats in the talks.

“She’s great, she’s a real team player, and the rest of it,” she told the reporter. “I started by saying Republicans say she’s directing this. She’s not, as Hakeem Jeffries is, and that takes a lot of experience, a lot of unity from the caucus in terms of point of view, and that’s what it is.”

“Such a waste of my time.”

Nancy Pelosi during an interview on HBO’s Real Time. (Screenshot/HBO)

Shortly after Republicans regained the House majority in 2022, Pelosi was asked, to her dismay, whether she would commit to serving a full term in her district of San Francisco.

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“What is this? What is this? Don’t bother me with a question like that,” Pelosi said.

She continued, “Really, okay. I said what I was going to do. You know, these kinds of questions are a waste of my time.”

Pelosi, 85, has remained in her seat since then but resigned from her leadership position when the new House reconvenes in 2023. The new Democratic leader of the House is Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.

“You’re always a defender”

Pelosi clashed with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer repeatedly during an October 2020 interview about negotiations with Republicans over the COVID-19 stimulus package.

In a surprising exchange… Pelosi looked visibly frustrated With questions from the “Situation Room” presenter. The fireworks started when Blitzer asked Pelosi why she “doesn’t accept the president’s latest decisions [coronavirus] Stimulus offer.”

“I hope you will ask Republicans the same question about why they are not willing to meet the needs of the American people,” Pelosi said. “But let me say to these people, because all of my colleagues – we represent these people…and their needs are not addressed in the president’s proposal. So when you say to me: Why don’t you accept their needs?” Why don’t they accept us?”

Blitzer intervened, telling Pelosi that Americans “really need the money now,” and he quoted Representative Ro Khanna, a Democratic representative from California, as he touted the size of the stimulus compared to the relief bill that was passed during the Obama administration.

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“So what do you say to Ro Khanna?” Blitzer asked.

“What I’m telling you is that I don’t know why you’re always so defensive – and so many of your colleagues are [are] Pelosi responded, saying, “We stand by the Republican position, Ro Khanna, that’s nice, that’s not what we’re going to do, and no one waits until February.”

“But you know what? Honest to God!” Pelosi complained at another point, when Blitzer pointed out other Democratic critics for filibustering the bill.

Pelosi felt angry throughout the interview, and sarcastically thanked him for his “sensitivity to the needs of his constituents” at the end.

“I can see you tasting it.”

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Pelosi memorably criticized Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack in 2013 when he asked whether there was a “moral difference” between the actions of the disreputable abortion doctor. Kermit Gosnell — who was convicted of murder that year for killing babies after they were born alive — and legal late-term abortion.

Pelosi, a Catholic who has been criticized for her support of abortion rights, was unhappy with this question.

“You might enjoy that question a lot,” she said, while some of the other reporters in the room laughed in appreciation. “I can see you tasting it.”

Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up President Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address. (Getty)

“I want to tell you something,” she said. “As a mother of five, my oldest was six years old the day I brought my fifth child home from the hospital, and as a devout, respected Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this. I don’t think it should have anything to do with politics. That’s where you take it and I’m not going there.”

This exchange attracted widespread media attention at the time, but was repulsed by conservatives.

“This news was original, and completely unrelated to the topic at hand,” Andrew Ferguson of the Washington Free Beacon wrote in 2022. “It was little more than a jumble of words, amounting not to a moral issue but to a moral camouflage, an attempt to make a briefing room fuss and get the hell out of there as quickly and painlessly as possible.”

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Fox News Digital’s Mark Tamasco and Joseph A. Wolfson, and Christine Parks.