WATCH: Nancy Pelosi Panics, Snaps At Jake Tapper For Discussing Her Stock Trades

Former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blew a gasket on live TV after facing questions about allegations of insider stock trading and new legislation that would ban members of Congress from owning any equities at all.

Like a celebrity who only takes interviews if certain subjects are off-limits, Pelosi began to loudly complain about a bait-and-switch by CNN’s Jake Tapper when he turned the discussion toward U.S. Senator Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) new bill that would ban stock trading for lawmakers, presidents, and vice presidents.

“Nancy Pelosi became rich–” Tapper read from a quote by President Donald Trump before Pelosi interjected.

“Why do you have to talk about that?” she griped. “We’re here to talk about the 60th anniversary of Medicaid. That’s what I agreed to come and talk about, and what that means in the election.”

Undeterred, Tapper continued to hammer away at an accusation by Trump on Wednesday that Pelosi became rich as a result of insider trading. Pelosi, Tapper said, was simply being “given a chance” to respond on his show.

“That’s ridiculous. In fact, I very much support the stop the trading of members of Congress, not that I think anybody’s doing anything wrong if they are. They are prosecuted and they go to jail. But because of the confidence it instills in the American people, don’t worry about this,” Pelosi replied in a near-indecipherable word salad.

“I’m not into it. My husband is,” Pelosi continued about the “obvious” investments she acknowledged making over decades in office.

“But it isn’t anything to do with anything insider,” she said before turning it back on Trump. “The president always has his own exposure so he’s always projecting… and let’s not give him any more time on that, please.”

She concluded by accusing Trump of inspiring the deranged man who broke into her home last year and nearly killed her husband in a hammer-wielding attack.

“I’m very proud of my family, and while he might make fun of us while somebody inspired by him breaks into our home and hits my husband in a deadly fashion, hits my husband over the head and he thinks that’s a riot, I’d rather not go into some of my other complaints about him right now,” she said.

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Hawley’s bill, originally named the PELOSI Act, lost its controversial name and expanded provisions to include future presidents and vice presidents, both changes meant to garner bipartisan support.

“We have an opportunity here today to do something that the public has wanted us to do for decades, and that is to ban members of Congress from profiting on information that, frankly, only members of Congress have,” Hawley said on Wednesday.

A Senate committee voted 8-7 to advance the bill, with all Republicans objecting except Hawley, per Politico.