Body camera footage from Paul Pelosi attack released

Police body camera footage from last year’s vicious hammer attack on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband at their San Francisco home was made public Friday.

The video, first obtained by NBC News affiliate KNTV, shows police approaching Pelosi’s home and then the door being opened with Pelosi standing next to the suspect in the case, David DePape. Both men are holding onto a hammer.

Asked what’s going on, DePape says, “Everything’s good.”

“Drop the hammer,” one of the officers says. “Nope,” DePape replies, before quickly wresting it from Pelosi and attacking him with it. The officers immediately tackle DePape, and Pelosi is seen lying motionless on the ground. The time between the door being opened and the hammer attack is about 14 seconds.

Prosecutors also released Capitol Police security video of the exterior of the home. It shows DePape with several bags, including a large backpack, in a yard outside the Pelosi home. He appears to remove the hammer from the bag. The video then shows him using the hammer to break into the house, repeatedly swinging the tool in an effort to force his way in through a glass door on the back porch.

DePape told police “it was not easy” to break the door, and he was worried the Pelosis would hear the noise. He said he made his way to the couple’s bedroom to find only Paul Pelosi there, and sound asleep. “All that noise he did not hear,” DePape said, according to an excerpt of his police interview released Friday.

He said he woke Pelosi up and demanded to know where his wife was. “He’s like, ‘She’s not here,'” he recounted.

Pelosi eventually was able to get into the bathroom, where his phone was, and called 911, DePape said.  

Prosecutors released audio of the call Friday. Pelosi tries to sound matter of fact while subtly asking for help, and then sounding more panicked as the 911 operator doesn’t initially seem to understand that he was in peril.

“I guess I called by mistake,” he said at the beginning of the call. “There’s a gentleman here just waiting for my wife to come back, Nancy Pelosi. He’s just waiting for her to come back. But she’s not going to be here for days, so I guess I’ll have to wait,” he said.

It soon became clear that DePape was listening to Pelosi. Pelosi asks him, “What do you think?” DePape replies, “I think everything is good.”

Pelosi then says, “He thinks everything’s good. I’ve got a problem, but he thinks everything is good.”

“This gentleman just came into the house…