What Nancy Pelosi wants for America — and what she’s done to get it

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  This is in conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shemitah Basu.

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  Today, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on what Democrats need to do to win the White House.

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  On March 20th of 2010,

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  the Catholic priest Father Theodore Hesburgh got a phone call from a high ranking politician,

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  someone of deep faith herself.

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  I said, father,

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  I have to admit we're having some difficulty with some

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  of the bishops who refuse to accept the fact that we do not have funding for abortion in this bill.

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  It was then speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi whose voice you just heard.

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  She was trying to get the Affordable Care act passed through Congress

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  and she was having trouble convincing a few Democratic members to give it their vote.

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  Father Hesburgh was the president of the University of Notre Dame for 35 years,

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  a leader in the civil rights movement,

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  and someone who could have an influence on lawmakers who respected him

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  but had reservations about the aca.

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  So Pelosi said to him, I need.

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  Some help with Congressman Joe Donnelly.

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  Father Hesburgh replied, well, give me his numbers.

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  And he called him speaker, and I need you to vote for the Affordable Care Act.

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