What we know and still don't know about the attack on Paul Pelosi - CNN

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The antheral who is alleged to person attacked Paul Pelosi, the hubby of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, successful the couple’s San Francisco location connected Friday is expected to beryllium charged with aggregate felonies Monday, according San Francisco instrumentality enforcement officials. He is expected to beryllium arraigned connected Tuesday.

“We are coordinating intimately with national and section instrumentality enforcement partners connected this investigation. We volition bring guardant aggregate felony charges connected Monday and expect [suspect David DePape] to beryllium arraigned connected Tuesday. DePape volition beryllium held accountable for his heinous crimes,” San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins tweeted Friday evening.

Here’s a look astatine what we cognize – and inactive don’t cognize – astir the attack:

An intruder, identified by constabulary as David DePape, 42, confronted the 82-year-old Paul Pelosi with a hammer aboriginal Friday morning, shouting, “Where is Nancy? Where is Nancy?” according to a instrumentality enforcement source. The assailant attempted to necktie Pelosi up “until Nancy got home,” 2 sources acquainted with the concern told CNN.

Pelosi called 911 erstwhile helium encountered the threatening antheral and near the enactment unfastened truthful a dispatcher could perceive his speech with DePape, speaking surreptitiously but making it wide that helium needed help, according to a instrumentality enforcement source.

San Francisco constabulary entered the location astir 2:27 a.m. section clip Friday (5:27 a.m. ET) to find Pelosi struggling implicit a hammer with a man, who has since been identified arsenic DePape, according to the city’s constabulary chief. Officers saw DePape “violently assault” Pelosi with the hammer earlier they tackled him to the crushed and arrested him.

“It is truly acknowledgment to Mr. Pelosi having the quality to marque that call, and genuinely the attraction and the instincts of that dispatcher to recognize that thing was incorrect successful that concern and to marque the constabulary telephone a precedence truthful they got determination wrong 2 minutes to respond to this situation,” Jenkins told CNN’s Erin Burnett connected Friday.

Police said the DePape entered done a backmost doorway and it wasn’t wide if helium circumvented immoderate information measures.

Pelosi was taken to a infirmary aft the onslaught and underwent a “successful country to repair a skull fracture and superior injuries to his close limb and hands,” Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi, said successful a connection aboriginal Friday evening. He is expected to marque a afloat recovery.

Authorities said Friday that the fishy is successful the infirmary for insignificant injuries. DePape was not known to US Capitol Police and was not successful immoderate national databases tracking threats, according to 3 sources who were briefed connected the investigation. But helium had posted memes and conspiracy theories connected Facebook astir Covid-19 vaccines, the 2020 predetermination and the January 6 onslaught connected the US Capitol.

US Capitol Police said successful a connection Friday that it is assisting the FBI and the San Francisco Police “with a associated investigation” into the break-in.

Law enforcement officials person not provided a motive for the attack, but San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said successful a quality league Friday that the onslaught was “intentional” and “not a random act.”

“It’s wrong. Our elected officials are present to bash the concern of their cities, their counties, their states and this nation. Their families don’t motion up for this to beryllium harmed and it is wrong,” Scott said.

Nancy Pelosi was not location astatine the clip of the onslaught but traveled to California connected Friday to beryllium with her husband. The information item for lawmakers, including the speaker, does not support their spouses erstwhile the members of Congress are not with them. Pelosi was capable to talk to her hubby pursuing the onslaught and earlier helium was taken into surgery, according to a root acquainted with the matter.

The onslaught sent daze waves done Washington and sparked an outpouring of condolences and condemnation from legislature leaders connected some sides of the aisle. It has besides underscored fears of governmental unit directed toward lawmakers successful the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, arsenic good arsenic different high-profile convulsive incidents that person targeted lawmakers successful caller years.

President Joe Biden described the onslaught connected Paul Pelosi arsenic “despicable” and straight tied the battle to increasing strains of right-wing extremism.

“This is despicable. There’s nary spot successful America – there’s excessively overmuch violence, governmental violence. Too overmuch hatred. Too overmuch vitriol,” Biden told a fundraising meal Friday successful Philadelphia.

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell said successful a tweet Friday that helium was “horrified and disgusted” by the reports portion House GOP person Kevin McCarthy’s bureau said helium had reached retired to the speaker, a chap Californian.

Vice President Kamala Harris said the battle was much grounds of “scary stuff” happening successful authorities astir the country.

At a run rally Saturday successful Baltimore, Harris recalled a clip successful the US erstwhile it was “appreciated that it is the diverseness of opinions that volition pb america to progress, to astute decisions.”

But now, she said, definite “so-called leaders” were utilizing their positions to beforehand “preservation of their idiosyncratic power” and to disagreement the country. They are “using the bully pulpit successful a mode that is propagating hate,” the vice president said.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, speaking astatine the aforesaid rally, asked radical to commune for Paul Pelosi and bespeak connected what led to the brutal attack.

“I privation you to deliberation upon the situation that has been created successful America by immoderate who would bring america down, who would pit 1 different against 1 another, who would degrade our Constitution and our declaration and our proposition that ‘all men and women are created equal’” the Maryland Democrat said. “We say, ‘Those truths are self-evident,’ but they are not self-executing. It is up to america to marque definite that America survives the hatred and part that excessively galore purvey successful our country.”

Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who is acceptable to go House Oversight president if the GOP gains power of the House adjacent year, said some Republicans and Democrats request to code down the governmental rhetoric and admitted that helium excessively could enactment connected that.

“I condemn immoderate onslaught of governmental unit from anyone of either party. It’s wrong,” Comer told CNN’s Pamela Brown connected CNN Newsroom connected Saturday. “I’ve said for respective years present the rhetoric keeps getting worse and worse. It’s precise hard situation retired there. You person a batch of radical that get truthful fired up, due to the fact that of assorted governmental causes. It puts galore politicians successful a unsafe spot.”

Comer referred backmost to the 2017 shooting astatine a shot signifier successful which then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and respective others were shot.

“It’s a unspeakable environment, and I judge radical successful some parties are blameworthy of aggravated rhetoric that truly leads to – provender into these radical who are deranged, and make violence. It’s the aforesaid happening that happened with the shooter that changeable astatine Steve Scalise and respective different Republican colleagues. Violence is wrong, these radical request to beryllium enactment successful jailhouse for the remainder of their life, and we request to effort and bash amended successful some parties. Myself included,” Comer said.

Authorities successful San Francisco are appealing to the nationalist to supply tips regarding the attack.

“While an apprehension has been made, this remains an unfastened investigation,” the San Francisco Police Department said successful a statement.

Anyone with accusation is asked to telephone the SFPD Tip Line astatine 1-415-575-4444.