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.
