Nancy Pelosi is loosening her grip on the Democrats in the House. She has no choice but to relinquish her position as Speaker of the House since Republicans have the majority now. So, she’ll be lurking from the sidelines, promising to remain active in using her influence for whatever her agenda is going forward. After twenty years, she will no longer be the Democrat leader when January 3, 2023 rolls around. I’d say we can all be grateful for that but the Democrat replacing her is worse.

“With great confidence in our caucus, I will not seek reelection to Democratic leadership in the next Congress,” Pelosi said between rounds of applause throughout the 14-minute speech.

“For me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic Congress that I so deeply respect,” Pelosi said. “And I am grateful that so many are ready and willing to shoulder this awesome responsibility.”

So, now we prepare for all the glowing tributes and the lionization of Speaker Pelosi. She made history as the first woman speaker and has served twice in that capacity. Her superpowers are raising money and counting votes. Yada, yada, yada. Her biggest fan, other than her husband, Paul, I assume, is her daughter, Alexandra. Alexandra Pelosi is a filmmaker who makes documentaries. She has allegedly been working on a documentary that tells the story of Nancy Pelosi’s life from her days growing up in a political family in Baltimore to her time in Congress. “Pelosi in the House” is out now on HBO. This is the second documentary released about Pelosi this year. Last spring, “Pelosi’s Power” was released, a documentary by PBS FRONTLINE.

There is one line from “Pelosi in the House” that is capturing headlines. At one point, Pelosi turns to her daughter, while she is filming a phone call with Mike Pence about the response to the coronavirus during the previous administration and asks, “Am I a bitch?” I know what my answer would be to such a question but her daughter was more diplomatic. Pelosi had been snarky in her response to Pence – shocker, I know – and apparently had a moment of self-awareness about her behavior. If you’re asking, Madame Speaker, you probably are.

The exchange took place during a 2020 congressional recess.

Pelosi was on a call with Pence about the Trump administration’s COVID-19 pandemic response when she turned and asked her documentary filmmaker daughter Alexandra: “Am I a b****?”

“What is the point of this call,” Alexandra asked Nancy with the video camera during the call, according to footage reviewed by Politico Playbook.

“They’re checking a box,” Nancy quipped. She was doing laundry and other chores while tending to the call with Pence. At one point, Nancy unmuted herself and chided, “This has been a useful exchange.” Later, she muted herself and asked Alexandra, “Am I a b****?”

I haven’t watched the documentary yet but the trailer shows some scenes that bring back memories. Remember when Michael Steele was the first black chairman of the RNC and Republicans made such a big deal about him? He did that “Fire Pelosi” bus tour in 2010 before the mid-term elections, complete with red hats that bore that slogan. Red caps were not original to Trump, neither was Make America Great Again (Reagan, 1980), but I digress. There is a quick clip of Steele and the bus in the Pelosi documentary. I remember the bus tour from my days as an activist in my city. Now Steele is a regular on MSNBC. My, my.

Yes, January 6 is included in the documentary. One review stated that January 6 coverage is about 30 minutes of the film that lasts 1 hour 49 minutes. Like I said, I haven’t watched it yet so I can’t confirm that.

NEW: The House Jan. 6 committee showed previously unseen footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the January 6 insurrection. https://t.co/bEIrkSBpUO pic.twitter.com/RbCNkmgzAo

— NPR (@NPR) October 13, 2022

No doubt Pelosi will be made out to be the hero of that day, though it was Mike Pence, not Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi failed to request adequate security by Capitol Police and other law enforcement. Threats made before the events of that day were well-known to those protecting Capitol Hill, we learned later. Pelosi was no hero.

Alexandra says she didn’t tell her mother about making the movie. Did she think her mother didn’t understand that her daughter, a documentarian, was filming her and it would likely end up as a movie? Geez. No one believes that.

Alexandra, a TV news producer turned documentarian, said that she never actually told her mother she was making a movie about her life as she captured the footage for the flick.

‘What’s she gonna do, sue her daughter? She’s not gonna sue me,’ Alexandra told Vanity Fair. ‘I hope. I hope.’

Pelosi, a California Democrat, was the first female speaker of the House. Her leadership over House Democrats spanned nearly two decades and other footage in the film shows her working the phones, tallying votes on key legislation and even frantically putting in phone calls to the National Guard and other law enforcement on January 6.

It will be interesting to see how that day plays out in her mother’s story.