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♪ hello. i'm victor blackwell, welcome to c"cnn newsroom." >> and i'm bianna golodryga. for the first time we're hearing from house speaker nancy pelosi. she sat down with our anderson cooper. >> pelosi returned to washington last night after being at her husband's bedside in california. she says that he has a long road to recovery ahead and recounted to anderson that the moment d.c. police broke the news to her, watch. >> i was sleeping in washington, d.c. i had just gotten in the night before from san francisco. and the -- i hear the doorbell ring and think, it's five-somethi...

Mother. she's second in line to the presidency. if her initial reaction was happened to my family, my children, my grandkids. the difference is, she is second in line to the presidency and this is unfolding when the speaker would normally be active in the final sprint of the midterms. >> no question about it. she was in washington at the time of the attack and she's been the central player in trying to keep control of the house. she's been barnstorming the country going to district to district raising a ton of money from democratic outside groups hoping to keep control of the house. obviously,...

Retirement because they are disgusted with their own president. >> how many retirements will we have over the break? >> ten. ahead of the curve historically. >> and getting this done is something that you can walk out on, right hey, i cut taxes look at that. right. >> how many republicans have been in safely drawn seats for years and now suddenly they have a democrat in their district raising $100,000 and $200,000 and they decide i might have race on my hands and this might be a logical time to hang it up. >> steve bannon is also looking at republicans saying we are trying to make it a challen...