'I never thought it would be Paul': Nancy Pelosi reveals how she first heard her husband had been attacked - CNN

Editor’s Note: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s interrogation volition aerial connected “Anderson Cooper 360” astatine 8 p.m. ET.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed however she got the quality that her husband, Paul, had been attacked, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper that she was “very scared” erstwhile determination was a sound connected the doorway from Capitol Police.

Pelosi said successful her archetypal sit-down interrogation since the onslaught that she had been dormant successful Washington, DC, aft getting successful the nighttime earlier from San Francisco erstwhile her doorbell rang aboriginal successful the morning. “I look up, I spot it’s 5 [a.m. ET], they indispensable beryllium astatine the incorrect apartment,” she told Cooper aft helium asked wherever she was erstwhile she got the news.

Pelosi went connected to accidental that the doorbell rang again and past she heard “bang, bang, bang, bang, bang connected the door.”

“So I tally to the door, and I’m precise scared,” Pelosi said, describing what unfolded. “I spot the Capitol Police and they say, ‘We person to travel successful to speech to you.’”

Pelosi described however her thoughts went instantly to her children and her grandchildren.

“And I’m reasoning my children, my grandchildren. I ne'er thought it would beryllium Paul because, you know, I knew helium wouldn’t beryllium retired and about, shall we say. And truthful they came in. At that time, we didn’t adjacent cognize wherever helium was,” she said.

The convulsive onslaught connected Paul Pelosi has raised caller concerns implicit threats of governmental violence driven by partisan animosity and progressively hostile governmental rhetoric – and highlighted the imaginable vulnerability of lawmakers and their families successful the existent governmental climate.

Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer at the couple’s location successful San Francisco by a antheral assailant astatine the extremity of past month, authorities person said. The assailant who attacked him was searching for the talker of the House, according to tribunal documents.

David DePape is charged with six counts relating to the attack, including attempted murder, burglary, assault, mendacious imprisonment and threatening the household subordinate of a nationalist official. He has pleaded not blameworthy to each authorities charges.

Following the attack, Paul Pelosi had country “to repair a skull fracture and superior injuries to his close limb and hands,” Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi, said successful an earlier statement. He was released from the infirmary past week.