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Susan Page On Pelosi, Trump And The Washington Establishment

05.11.2021 - By NPRPlay

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has cast a long and influential shadow over Washington and Democratic politics for decades.

As the first female Speaker of the House, Pelosi initially took on the establishment; now she is the establishment. Until Donald Trump became president, she'd been privately planning her retirement.

USA Today's Susan Page joins us to talk about her new biography on Pelosi, chronicling the years before that prepared her for what would prove to be the political battle of her life.

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