Nancy Pelosi gave her last weekly briefing as Speaker of the House on Thursday during which she managed to brag about having “awesome power”.
Replying to a reporter who asked how she would handle transitioning from Speaker to the next role, pelosi said: “As speaker of the House, I have awesome power”, before adding: “Now transitioning to a different role, I expect to have strong influence, but not on my members. Just in terms of encouraging more women, for example, to run, to talk about civics…”