Chilling 911 call audio from Paul Pelosi: “I have a problem”

Chilling audio of Paul Pelosi’s 911 call after an intruder broke into his home in October was released today, with the 82-year-old calmly telling the operator: “I have a problem.”

Pelosi can be heard carefully trying to explain the terrifying situation as the intruder, David DePape, warns her to hang up the phone.

When the dispatcher asks who the man is, DePape is heard saying, “I’m a friend.”

The businessman and husband of the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, made the desperate call to 911 moments before the police arrived at the house and violently attacked him with a hammer.

The nearly three-minute call went public Friday after a judge ordered it released, along with shocking police body camera footage from the moment Pelosi was attacked.

On the 911 call, Paul is heard talking calmly to the operator, identified as Heather Grimes, while trying to subtly warn her that she is in danger.

‘There is a gentleman here waiting for my wife to return,’ he said.

After indicating that his wife is former Congressional Leader Nancy Pelosi, Paul said: “She won’t be here for a day, so I guess we’ll just have to wait.”

Is the Capitol Police around here? They are usually here in the house protecting my wife.

The dispatcher then informs Pelosi that he is calling the San Francisco police, prompting him to ask DePape, ‘What do you think?’

After a brief muffled conversation, the intruder bluntly tells Pelosi, “I think we’re good.”

‘He thinks everything is fine, I have a problem, but he thinks everything is fine.’

As the operator tells Pelosi to call back if the situation changes, he quickly cuts her off, telling her chillingly, “No, this gentleman just walked into my house and wants to wait for my wife to come back.”

I don’t know who it is.

He’s telling me not to do anything.

He’s telling me to hang up the phone and do what he says.

In a bizarre exchange, DePape tells the 911 operator that he is “a friend” of Pelosi’s.

“He says he’s a friend, but I don’t know him,” Paul replies.

‘He’s telling me that I’m being too leader, so I have to stop talking to you, okay?’

She offers to stay on the line with the 82-year-old, but Pelosi quickly ends the conversation, appearing to tell the operator that DePape wants him to “get off the phone.”

Prosecutors allege that Paul was sleeping at his San Francisco home just before 2:00 a.m. on Oct. 28 when DePape, 42, broke in looking for his wife.

Shocking body cam footage released alongside the chilling 911 call revealed the moment DePape violently attacked Pelosi after police arrived at her home.

The video shows two police officers arriving at Pelosi’s house, knocking on the door, and waiting about 20 seconds before they answer.

Paul, wearing a pajama top and boxer shorts, answers the door as he and DePape vie for control of a hammer.

They each have one hand on the gun while Paul has a drink in his left hand.

An officer asks, ‘What’s going on man?’ DePape replies, “It’s all good.”

The officer says, ‘Drop the hammer.’ The suspect tells them: ‘Ummm… nope.’

Paul then tries to twist the hammer out of DePape’s hand, but the suspect regains control of the weapon and begins swinging multiple times.

The two cops run in and tackle DePape, yelling, ‘Give me your fucking hands.’

Eventually, they hold the attacker down as Paul Pelosi lies collapsed and face down on the ground.

The indictment in the case said the blood was “swelling” the victim’s head. Video shows liquid and ice on the ground around the two men.

After the attack, Paul Pelosi required surgery for a skull fracture in two places and was treated for serious injuries to his right arm and hand.

The release comes after Judge Stephen M. Murphy’s order on Wednesday ruled that there was no legal reason to keep the images private, against the wishes of prosecutors.

Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill earlier this week, Pelosi said it would be “very difficult” for her to see footage of the attack.

“I mean, it would be very difficult to see an assault on my husband’s life,” she said.

The six-page federal indictment in the assault described DePape and Paul Pelosi fighting over the hammer when police arrived.

The district attorney’s office had denied media requests for access to the material, adding to the myriad of conspiracy theories and false information spread about the attack in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections.

DePape is alleged to have targeted Nancy Pelosi, who was not home, in his attack.

Prosecutors say he planned to “interrogate” her and break her kneecaps if he felt he was being lied to.

Reporters were able to pick up copies of the video and audio from the Clerks in the Hall of Justice along with a criminal record request form and a $25 fee.

The video and audio released today have already been played in open court during a preliminary hearing against DePape in December.

At that hearing, prosecutors played parts of Paul Pelosi’s 911 call plus footage from Capitol Police surveillance cameras, body cameras from the two officers who came to the home, and video of DePape’s interview with police.

San Francisco attorney Thomas Burke disagreed with earlier decisions not to release the video and audio.

He told the Associated Press: “You don’t remove the right of public access just because of concerns about conspiracy theories.”

When asked about her husband’s prognosis on Thursday, Nancy Pelosi told reporters: “It’s one day at a time.” She’s made some progress, but I think it’ll be another three months before she’s back to normal.

Last week, the couple’s daughter, Alexandra, revealed in an interview that her mother performed exorcisms at the family home over Thanksgiving in the wake of the attack in an attempt to rid the house of evil spirits.

DePape pleaded not guilty last month to six charges, including attempted murder. Police have said DePape told them there was “evil in Washington” and that he wanted to harm Nancy Pelosi because she was in line with the presidency.

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