new delhi us house speaker nancy pelosi said on monday the recent attack on her husband by a hammerwielding intruder in their home was especially painful to her knowing she was the target and would factor into her decision about when to retire from congressappearing on cnn in her first televised interview since paul pelosi suffered skull fractures and other injuries in the october 28 assault the speaker said it stemmed from the same strain of misrepresentation that led a mob to storm the us capital on january 6 2021choking back tears nancy pelosi recounted the bewildering moment when she was awakened by us capitol police at her washington apartment on the morning her 82yearold husband was attacked to be informed of the violent breakin at their san francisco homefor me the really hard part was knowing that she was the intruders intended victim the speaker also 82 said in the interview because paul was not the target and he is the one who is paying the priceasked by cnn anchor anderson cooper whether she had made up her mind about whether to retire from congress and her post as speaker of the us house of representatives if the democrats lose their thin house majority in tuesdays midterm elections pelosi demurredhowever she told him i have to say my decision will be affected by what happened the last week or two pressed by cooper if she was referring to the attack on her husband the speaker replied yesand it will be impacted by but let me say this she added without finishing her thought and saying that she felt blessed by her 35 years of public service in the housecourt affidavits filed by prosecutors with charges against the suspect david wayne depape 42 say he told police after his arrest that he had planned to kidnap the speaker interrogate her and break her kneecaps if she lieddepape is accused of forcing his way into the couples home and creeping upstairs to a bedroom where he awakened paul pelosi from his sleep demanding to see the speaker who had flown back to washington the night beforepaul pelosi managed to place an emergency911 call and police arrived just in time to witness the intruder club the real estate and venture capitalist over the head with a hammer according to court documentsdepape has been charged in federal court with attempted kidnapping and assault in california state court he pleaded not guilty to separate charges of attempted murder assault with a deadly weapon burglary elder abuse false imprisonment and threatening a public official