Steve steels himself, feeling defensive of the woman. She did save him and help Fury come up with a plan to save all of those people. She proved herself. "Maria did the right thing. My life isn't worth yours or those millions of others. We couldn't wait for me to come up with an escape plan while there was a gun pointed in that many directions."
His defense goes out the window as the rest of it catches up to him. Steve pales which is something for a man that white. "That... Tony." He heard about it after the fact while stuck on one of Fury's top secret missions to clean up after the latest SHIELD mess. He nearly broke the man's desk while demanding why SHIELD had time for the nonsense he was involved in and not an Avenger. Something about the various US intelligence agencies and the Vice President himself keeping them away from it. Steve never quite bought it. "You gave that out months ago."