CBS’ “60 Minutes” tried to interview Nancy Pelosi for an upcoming piece on congressional leaders’ personal financial holdings and how legislation they’ve supported affects those holdings. She was apparently too busy for a sit down. So correspondent Steve Kroft went to one of her pressers last week and fired away from the first row. CBS San Francisco posts C-SPAN video of the exchange here, which, we must assume, will find its way into the Nov. 13 “60 Minutes” piece. Here’s Kroft’s lede question and her reply:
Q: Madam Leader, I wanted to ask you why you and your husband back in March of 2008 accepted and participated in a very large IPO deal from Visa at a time there was major legislation affecting the credit card companies making its way through the House. Did you consider that to be a conflict of interest?
Leader Pelosi: I don’t know what your point is of your question. Is there some point that you want to make with that?
