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

Editor’s Note: Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s interview will air on “Anderson Cooper 360” at 8 p.m. ET.

Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi exposed how she got the news that her hubby, Paul, had actually been assaulted, informing CNN’s Anderson Cooper that she was “extremely afraid” when there was a knock on the door from Capitol Cops.

Pelosi stated in her very first sit-down interview considering that the attack that she had actually been asleep in Washington, DC, after getting in the night prior to from San Francisco when her doorbell sounded early in the early morning. “I search for, I see it’s 5 [a.m. ET], they should be at the incorrect apartment or condo,” she informed Cooper after he asked where she was when she got the news.

Pelosi went on to state that the doorbell sounded once again and after that she heard “bang, bang, bang, bang, bang on the door.”.

” So I go to the door, and I’m extremely afraid,” Pelosi stated, explaining what unfolded. “I see the Capitol Cops and they state, ‘We need to can be found in to speak with you.'”.

Pelosi explained how her ideas went right away to her kids and her grandchildren.

” And I’m believing my kids, my grandchildren. I never ever believed it would be Paul since, you understand, I understood he would not be out and about, will we state. Therefore they can be found in. At that time, we didn’t even understand where he was,” she stated.

The violent attack on Paul Pelosi has actually raised fresh issues over dangers of political violence driven by partisan displeasure and significantly hostile political rhetoric– and highlighted the possible vulnerability of legislators and their households in the existing political environment.

Paul Pelosi was assaulted with a hammer at the couple’s house in San Francisco by a male foe at the end of last month, authorities have actually stated. The foe who assaulted him was looking for the speaker of your home, according to court files.

David DePape is charged with 6 counts associating with the attack, consisting of tried murder, robbery, attack, unlawful imprisonment and threatening the member of the family of a public authorities. He has actually pleaded innocent to all state charges.

Following the attack, Paul Pelosi had surgical treatment “to fix a skull fracture and severe injuries to his best arm and hands,” Drew Hammill, a representative for Nancy Pelosi, stated in an earlier declaration. He was launched from the medical facility recently.