president obama brought the crowd to its feet tonight when he departed from the prepared text of his speech to reveal that congresswoman gabrielle giffords, shot through the head on saturday, opened her eyes today. house minority leader nancy pelosi was there in the hospital room when happened and joins us now by phone. congresswoman pelosi, what was that moment like? >> well, it was, as you can just imagine, a glorious moment of my colleagues, congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz and senator kristen gillibrand and i were invited by the family which we considered to be an honor being there with her parents and husband, mark kelly, it was a girl power moment because we were -- tried to -- amusing, reminding of things she was going to come back to when she came back to the congress, and then she opened her eyes and her husband -- she looked at her husband and responded to comments that he made.
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