Paul Pelosi suspect charged with attempting to kidnap House speaker and attempted murder

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The man alleged to have attacked Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has been charged with a litany of crimes, including assault, attempted murder and attempted kidnapping, following last week’s break-in at the couple’s San Francisco home, the US attorney’s office and San Francisco district attorney announced on Monday. David DePape, 42, was charged with one count of “attempted kidnapping of a US official,” according to the US attorney’s office for the Northern District of California. That charge relates to Nancy Pelosi, who DePape told police he planned to “hold hostage,” according to an FBI affidavit also unsealed on Monday. CNN Senior Law Enforcement Analyst and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe gives his legal insight and Democrat Representative Jackie Speier who is a colleague and friend of Nancy Pelosi, gives her perspective. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The suspect said quote, he was going to hold Nancy hostage, unquote.
0:06.4	And if she did not tell him the truth as he saw it, he would break her kneecaps.
0:10.8	John Berman here in for Anderson, those words from a federal criminal complaint spell
0:15.0	on an attempt to take House Speaker Nancy Pelosi captive and interrogate her and beat her
0:20.0	savagely if the answers did not come out right, which the complaint says the suspect
0:24.7	won David a path considered a certainty.
0:27.6	Today we saw separate state charges as well, including attempted murder, more on that
0:31.7	shortly.
0:32.7	But just stop and think about what's already on the table.
0:35.1	According to federal authorities who have now charged him with assault on Paul Pelosi
0:38.6	and attempted kidnapping of Nancy Pelosi, this man says he wanted to break the kneecaps
0:43.6	of an 82 year old woman and do it to make a political point.
0:47.8	Quoting again from the filing, and the course of the interview to PAP articulated he viewed
0:51.7	Nancy as the leader of the pack of lies told by the Democratic Party.
0:56.5	The document goes on in graphic detail about what the suspect said he intended, but at
1:00.8	the bottom line is simple enough.
1:02.6	According to the suspect himself, this potentially deadly attack on Paul Pelosi was part of a politically
1:08.3	motivated attempt to kidnap and harm the Speaker of the House, the most powerful woman in American
1:14.0	politics, second in line to the presidency.
1:17.0	Yet as shocking as that is, it should not be surprising.
1:20.6	Not when you consider the way Pelosi has been openly demonized, often using violent imagery
1:25.7	to do it.
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