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CNN "The Lead with Jake Tapper" - Interview with Nancy Pelosi [16:32:35-16:35:01]

Interview

Date: April 15, 2020
Issues: Executive Branch Foreign Affairs Business, Consumers, and Employees

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Speaker Pelosi, thanks for bearing with us.

I know you're going to challenge President Trump and his desire to pause funding for the World Health Organization.

I have to say, I have followed your career enough to know that you're actually a pretty strong China hawk. You have been very critical of the Chinese government since I have been covering you now, for decades.

Do you not see the point that President Trump has to make, which is that the Chinese government was not transparent, covered up a lot of what was going on in Wuhan, and then the World Health Organization, at the very least, seemed to enable it?

REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): Well, first, let me thank you for the opportunity to talk about small business, because there's nothing more entrepreneurial, more optimistic that anyone can do than to start a small business, maybe except get married. But, anyway, you weigh the equities.

And so we want to support the small businesses, all of them, and support the PPP, and hope that we can work together to do that. Having said that, what the Republicans are proposing will not get unanimous consent in the House of Representatives.

In terms of the World Health Organization, the position that the president is taking, you asked, does it make sense? I say it's senseless. The World Organization -- Organization is there to fight disease, pandemics and all this throughout the world.

And for us, as the United States of America, to undermine that just doesn't make sense. And that's why you see even some -- I don't know if the Republicans

will speak out, but I know they have -- many of them have supported the World Health Organization in the past.

Whatever the situation is as far as China is concerned -- and that's a matter of science to tell us what the story is there. But the fact is that the scientists, the technology, the convergence of all of these resources in a global way, because this is a global pandemic, as you know, is something that to -- for us to say we're not a part of, again, is senseless.

TAPPER: All right, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, thank you so much.

Continue to stay healthy and safe. We agree -- we appreciate your time today.

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PELOSI: Same to you. Thank you.

Thank you, at this sad time. Thank you so much.


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