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Sorry, CNN, but I’ve seen the photo of the glass on the outside patio.
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No one is going to argue that there is broken glass on the outside of the house on the patio area. The question is basically this...does the evidence of the smashed glass fit better with a scenario of someone smashing the glass from the outside or from the inside?

Here are some observations with this and everyone else can chime in on what they see that I’ve missed….

I don’t believe that any pictures have been available that shows what this looks like on the inside but at the 1 min. 25 sec mark at this video, it shows the outside relatively clearly. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-pelosi-nancy-husband-attack-not-a-random-act-details/ Here are a few points with this…
- There are three sets of double doors… the two doors on the left are both wide open for some reason while the other two sets of doors are closed.
- The broken glass comes from the door on the left side of the two center doors. Even though the broken glass is from one of the center sets of doors, these doors are closed in the video.
- The hole in the glass is centered at about the same height as the door handle. The remaining glass that is both above and below the hole appears to be in a shattered condition that almost seems like it is granular in nature. Consistent with this are the particles of grass on the brickwork directly below the hole…. There are no large broken pieces of glass, it almost all seems to be granular.
- There seems to be more particles of glass on the brickwork on the right side of the hole than on the left side i.e. just below the door handle.
- The size of the hole is too small for anyone of any reasonable size to climb in or out and certainly not ‘Dave’.
- Based on the video at the link, it does not appear possible to tell if the window in the door consists of a single, double (or even triple) layer of glass.
- The other doors appear to have a horizontal dividing piece that is just slightly above the door handle… this is one of three dividing pieces that essentially creates 4 equally sized sections of glass for each door. That horizontal piece is missing for the door with the broken glass and is not on the brick outside. It might have been removed or is the inside out of view.

The shattered granular nature of the glass almost makes it seem like it is a tempered glass that shatters on impact similar to the windshield of a car. If this is the case, one can see a scenario where a hit from the outside would break it but it might all still be in one piece (like a car windshield after a crash). Once struck a few more times, a hole would open. If there is glass on the ground under the scenario of the person doing the damage is on the outside, it’s possible that once a small hole has opened up, the claw part of a hammer could be used to pull the shattered glass toward the outside in an effort to make a hole large enough that a hand could reach inside to undo the door lock.

On the other hand, it’s possible that the window was just smashed out from the inside but then that begs the question of what was the scenario that made that a reason for someone to do that? If a person was on the inside, wouldn’t he just use the door lock?