Nancy Pelosi describes moment police told her of husband’s attack

Nancy Pelosi described the moment in an interview with CNN. Photograph: Susan Montoya Bryan/AP

House speaker Nancy Pelosi has for the first time described the moment US Capitol police woke her in Washington DC to say her husband, Paul Pelosi, had been attacked in their home in San Francisco.

“So I run to the door and I’m very scared,” Pelosi told CNN, in an exclusive interview to be broadcast in full on Monday night. “I see the Capitol police and they say, ‘We have to come in to talk to you.’”