Alexandra Pelosi reflects on her father's attack: 'At some point, you're just done' - CNN

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The convulsive onslaught connected Paul Pelosi drove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s determination to permission House Democratic leadership, with the household deciding portion successful an intensive attraction portion with him that they were “done,” their girl elaborate successful an in-depth interrogation with CNN connected Tuesday morning.

“You person to marque consciousness with this successful your mind. You person to marque consciousness with the information that there’s an 82-year-old antheral dormant successful his ain furniture and gets attacked successful his ain home. And I don’t attraction however you vote. I don’t attraction what your governmental affiliations are. That’s conscionable not close successful immoderate way,” Alexandra Pelosi told CNN’s Don Lemon successful an exclusive interrogation connected “CNN This Morning.”

“It’s just, astatine immoderate point, you’re conscionable done. After my begetter was attacked, that was it. We were sitting successful the ICU, and we were conscionable saying ‘We’re done,’” she added.

Alexandra Pelosi, a documentary filmmaker, spent years filming her parent down the scenes for “Pelosi successful the House,” her movie retired Tuesday connected HBO Max. Nancy Pelosi announced past month that she would measurement down from her enactment station aft starring House Democrats for 2 decades. The determination came conscionable weeks aft a antheral assailant attacked her hubby with a hammer astatine the couple’s San Francisco home.

The documentary details however Nancy Pelosi stayed connected connection arsenic person of the House Democratic caucus amid respective bills wherever she needed to whip votes, including passing the Affordable Care Act and securing her ain votes for talker – twice. It focuses successful portion connected the fearfulness behind-the-scenes arsenic Nancy Pelosi and her unit hid connected January 6, 2021, from the US Capitol rioters, galore of whom broke into the California Democrat’s bureau searching for her and trashed it.

Alexandra Pelosi said she believed the toxic rhetoric from the GOP contributed to what yet led to her father’s onslaught successful the aboriginal hours of October 28 and her mother’s determination to not prosecute a enactment station successful the adjacent Congress.

Responses from immoderate Republicans successful the aftermath of the attack, she said, were “unforgivable.”

“What I bash cognize is that however the Republicans responded to this onslaught was truthful unforgivable. The jokes. You saw the jokes. The politician of Virginia, the wannabe politician of Arizona, congressmen, were making jokes astir an 82-year-old antheral getting attacked successful his ain home. I don’t recognize however that’s forgivable,” she said, referencing remarks made by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Arizona gubernatorial campaigner Kari Lake.

“So, for me, the toxic media scenery is truthful hard to effort – I don’t know. I just, I don’t cognize however to speech astir this without going truthful dark.”

Youngkin yet sent a handwritten note apologizing to Nancy Pelosi for his remarks,

“If I watched Fox News, I would hatred Nancy Pelosi too, I get it,” Alexandra Pelosi said. “You don’t person to enactment her politics. You person to astatine slightest say, okay, she’s spent 35 years doing this. Her husband, it looks similar Frankenstein implicit here. She’s done. She’s done.”

Alexandra Pelosi said that 35 years ago, her parent asked her if she could tally for bureau and that she gave her blessing. After the onslaught connected her father, she looks backmost connected it differently.

“She says, ‘Mommy has a accidental to tally for Congress, but I won’t bash it unless I person your permission.’ And I said, ‘Mother get a life.’ All right? What teenage miss doesn’t privation their ma retired of the house? Go, right? So, determination we are connected the ICU and I accidental to her, ‘if I had known 35 years aboriginal wherever this was going to extremity up, I ne'er would person fixed you my blessing to tally successful the archetypal place.’”

She added: “Now my father, coming retired of each that he’s been through, says to me, ‘You can’t accidental that. You person to accidental if you came to maine contiguous successful this toxic societal media environment, you would not springiness your permission. But you can’t accidental the past 35 years of your life, I’m going to erase that due to the fact that of this 1 incident.’ So that’s what we’re wrestling with.”

“Was this each worthy it? For my family? What we went through? Was it worthy it?” she told Lemon. “Now, my parents would accidental yes, my father, aft each he’s been through, helium would accidental yes. And my mother, of course, she would say, ‘I’m arrogant of my wounds.’ Because she’s arrogant of the beingness that she’s lived. But for the family, the families are the ones that wage the highest terms for this benignant of life.”