Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Thursday, May 18th. And this morning, I have a scoopy little nugget for you related to Senator Dianne Feinstein, or Dify, as she's known in the Senate. When Dify emerged from a silver car last week and finally returned to the Senate from a more than two-month medical hiatus,

she had an unusual person waiting for her right by the sidewalk.

Blending into the swarm of AIDS and reporters was actually the daughter of Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

Nancy Corrin Prouda, her name is, who escorted the California Democrat to the Senate floor and back to her office.

Few people noticed at the time, unlike Pelosi's other daughters, Alexandra Pelosi, who is a well-respected

documentarian, and Christine Pelosi, who's a political name in her own right, Prouda is kind of

unrecognizable to a lot of reporters in Congress, even reporters who have been here a long time.

Yet, there she was, even yesterday, at Dye Fy's side as she went to the Senate to vote.

This morning, I can report that Nancy Pelosi's family has actually taken on a quiet yet critical role in Dye Fy's orbit lately.

Specifically, Prouda has been taking care of the senator amid her health issues,

according to multiple people I spoke to in the past 48 hours. That includes not just helping her

recover from shingles when she was in San Francisco, but also helping her now in Washington,

where she has been shadowing her as she moves around the Senate. The Pelosi family's foray

into the Difi matter is going to raise eyebrows and cause a messy political entanglement. Pelosi,

you might know, is a longtime confidant of Representative Adam Schiff, whom she has endorsed to

replace Difi when she retires from the Senate in two years.

Here's the issue. The conventional wisdom in California is that Schiff really only stands a chance

of succeeding Difi if she stays in her seat and serves a full term. I was speaking to somebody

close to the Pelosi family yesterday who told me that they know that if DiFi resigns now, there's

going to be an enormous probability that Congresswoman Barbara Lee would actually get that job,

since Governor Gavin Newsom has said he will appoint a black woman to serve out DiFi's term.

The source added that the relationship between Pelosi, her daughter, and the senator is being

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