Speaker Nancy Pelosi shushed exuberant Democrats on the House floor yesterday, but she couldn’t contain her own excitement with reporters today.

“It really is interesting to see the response that we are getting, bipartisan, across party lines,” Pelosi told journalists on Thursday.

“I, myself, want to say I have a spring in my step because of the moral courage of our caucus, to see them all— so many— 100 members go to the floor— that’s all we had time for, uh, to go to the floor and speak about our Constitution, about the facts of the case, so clearly, so patriotically, so prayerfully, so solemnly, but so definitely,” she said.

Pelosi announced the vote yesterday and as Democrats began to applaud, she shot a glare as if to tell them to stop:

WATCH → Dems expose their true colors.

Nancy Pelosi had to shut down Democrat applause when the first article of impeachment passed.

So much for Dems claiming impeachment is "solemn" for them.

What a ridiculous lie! pic.twitter.com/NJjzE8y3t7

— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) December 19, 2019