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Emotional Nancy Pelosi details how she learned about husband’s attack: ‘I never thought it would be Paul'

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., detailed the moment she learned about the brutal attack on her husband, Paul Pelosi, explaining that police woke her in a frenzy with little information on his condition. 

"I was sleeping in Washington, D.C. I had just gotten in the night before, from San Francisco," Pelosi told CNN as she started to break down.

"I hear the doorbell ring at, I think, at five-something, I look up and see a five, it must be wrong apartment," Pelosi continued. "It rings again and then bang, bang, bang, bang, bang on the door. So I run to the door… I see this Capitol police and he said we have to come in to talk to you and I’m thinking my children, my grandchildren, I never thought it would be Paul because he wouldn’t be out and about."

The House Speaker then explained that when police officers told her what happened, the details were scarce. 

"At that time, we didn’t even know where he was or what his condition was. We just knew there was an assault on him in our home," Pelosi said. 

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