Nancy Pelosi took an emotional pause before discussing the photo of drowned migrants


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has one priority right now: migrant children.
In a Thursday press conference, Pelosi addressed that day's Supreme Court ruling regarding gerrymandering and E. Jean Carroll's allegation of sexual assault against President Trump. But her most noteworthy answers came as she discussed recent heartbreaking stories surrounding migrants at the border, namely a stunning viral photo of a migrant father and daughter who died trying to cross the Rio Grande into the U.S.
When a reporter asked about the photo, Pelosi took a long pause, and, as The Wall Street Journal's Natalie Andrews tweeted, got "tears in her eyes." She stumbled through an explanation of how the father "couldn't save [his daughter] and he couldn't save himself," discussed how "the Rio Grande has a personality," and said that this should help politicians "understand the consequences of policy."
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Pelosi continued to bring up "the children, the children, the children" throughout the conference, particularly when discussing how the Senate passed a border spending bill that didn't mandate the same standards for housing detained migrant children as the House's version. Watch Pelosi explain why she becomes a "lioness" when "you get near those cubs" below. Kathryn Krawczyk
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