House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday rebuffed MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell’s attempts to get her to criticize President Trump or talk about impeachment during an interview at the Normandy American Cemetery.
Mitchell, who interviewed Pelosi at the cemetery just before the 75th anniversary ceremony began, noted the bipartisan delegation Pelosi took with her and connected it to the impeachment fight in the United States.
“We are so divided as a country right now; do you worry about the politics right now, impeachment and everything else, that is on the table and how that can further divide us?
But the congresswoman from California wasn’t biting.
“I’m not hear to talk about impeachment,” Pelosi, said, immediately pivoting to congressional efforts to help U.S. veterans. “I do say on the subject of our veterans we always strive to work in a bipartisan way.”
Mitchell kept pushing Pelosi to criticize Trump, posing a question about whether the U.S.-European alliance is under threat given Trump’s criticisms of NATO.
Mitchell also asked Pelosi, who praised President Ronald Reagan’s 40th anniversary speech at Normandy, where in the U.S. is “that kind of leadership” can be found today.
Pelosi made no mention of Trump, but she noted she worked with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to invite NATO’s secretary-general to address Congress earlier this year to “remove all doubt in anyone’s mind” that the United States supports “the transatlantic relationship and the importance of NATO and how it has kept the peace.”
After the interview concluded, Mitchell told viewers, “The speaker has her own golden rule when leading a bipartisan delegation: Never attack the president while overseas.”
