House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she takes “responsibility for falling for a setup,” following an acknowledgment from her office that she had gotten her hair styled Monday inside a San Francisco hair salon, an apparent violation of the city’s Covid-19 safety regulations that enraged the salon’s owner.
Pelosi also said on Wednesday, “I just had my hair washed. I don’t wear a mask when I’m washing my hair. Do you wear a mask when you’re washing your hair? I always have a mask, for me, for the people I’m encountering, but for my family as well — but I don’t wear it when I’m getting my hair washed, and that picture was when I just came out of the bowl getting my hair washed.” Pelosi’s staff has insisted the speaker wore a mask while getting her hair done except for a brief period when she had her hair washed. The security footage shows Pelosi not wearing a mask as she walks briefly between two small rooms in the salon, her hair wet as if just washed. CNN has reached out to Kious with a request for comment but did not immediately hear back. Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, said in an earlier statement, “This business offered for the speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business,” and that “the speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by this establishment.
