Nancy Pelosi: GOP’s ‘Let Him Die’ Moment Was ‘Heartbreaking’

Nancy Pelosi: GOP’s ‘Let Him Die’ Moment Was ‘Heartbreaking’

Nancy Pelosi: GOP’s ‘Let Him Die’ Moment Was ‘Heartbreaking’

Never did the former Speaker of the House believe that her Republican counterparts would sink so low.

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Representative and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined Nation Editor at Large Chris Hayes’s debut of his new political commentary show, Up with Chris Hayes on MSNBC this Saturday, September 17. During one part in last week’s GOP Tea Party debate, the crowd went wild when moderator Wolf Blitzer asked whether an uninsured man in dire need of medical care should be left to die. For Pelosi, "That demonstration was heart-breaking." 

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