WASHINGTON – According to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, President Donald Trump is "scared" of the House's impeachment inquiry into Trump's alleged pressuring of the Ukranian government to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and is trying to divert the American public's attention.

Speaking in an excerpt of an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Pelosi said, "I think the president knows the argument that can be made against him, and he’s scared. And so he’s trying to divert attention from that to where it's standing in the way of legislation."

"Did you hear the fear in his voice when you spoke with him on the phone last week?" asked Stephanopoulos, referring to a Sept. 24 call between Pelosi and Trump, the day she announced the impeachment inquiry.

"I saw the surprise in his voice, that he didn't understand that I thought what he did was wrong, that he was undermining our national security, that he was undermining our Constitution by his actions and he was undermining the integrity of our elections. He just didn’t see it," Pelosi replied.

Trump has called the impeachment inquiry a "coup" against him and "witch hunt garbage."

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Pelosi had been initially asked about Trump's earlier tweets in which he had criticized Pelosi's remarks earlier Wednesday about wanting to work with Trump on prescription drug pricing and a new trade deal with Canada and slammed the "Do Nothing Democrats"

"Nancy Pelosi just said that she is interested in lowering prescription drug prices & working on the desperately needed USMCA," Trump had tweeted. "She is incapable of working on either. It is just camouflage for trying to win an election through impeachment."