Exclusive: Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence shared an emotional embrace at the Yale Leadership Institute

When Nancy Pelosi walked into the room, more than halfway through the event, a hush fell over the crowd and all turned to look. She worked her way through the front, shaking hands, sharing whispers and short side hugs with familiar faces; of which, it seemed, there were several in the crowd. But most surprising of all was when she finally found her seat—next to former Vice President Mike Pence. The two have sat side by side many times before, famously behind Trump during his 2020 State of the Union, when she ripped the President’s speech in half as Pence…