department of justice rolls. and you know it better than anybody. they re the first ones breaking down the door, the first ones finding the information, and it s a big open question. people keep asking me over and over again, why are we seeking this now in november, december, of 2022, two years after this event. i don t envy merrick garland, someone i used to cover in federal court when he was a well respected, highy esteemed appellate judge and the chief of that bench for a period of time. i don t envy him his position. but as a reporter who covers this matter, i think he s in a terrible box, because he has to answer for what happened for the first year of 2021, and no matter what he does in terms of naming a special counsel now for january 6th or for biden and his documents, he is going to be pilloried by the right for, you know, damned if you do, damned
have made one. you have joe manchin, who is also leaving the door open to potentially leaving the democratic party he s up in 2024. he did make note that former president trump swept the state by 40 points when you look at ruben gallego, who wanted to run for senator sinema s seat, he was over capitol hill on the senate side, showing his face to leadership, to those who will be tasked with ushering along and supporting potentially a challenger to cinema now that she has left the democratic party he told me that is a decision he is preparing for he s building a team he s making all the right decisions and taking all the right steps. it s a big open question for these especially vulnerable democrats in the senate if they can hold on to it like they did this year. that will be senate magic in 24. much tougher landscape. barbara, i don t want to go
celebratioomn this year. mor and i think more andal more people, the more i talk around the office here, there sf there s been a lot thifice as y. that s good. fabulous. yeah, we have fauci sorry. jee i think it s fine with ito ahea within reason, wear masks ord. whatever . i said or whatever . so we had a christmas party here here and we had one for and one too. and it was, itfor was fabulousd i mean people especially likeia teams that have been working together a long time and then haligether a andd a pandemic ane split up. right.gh and they uset?d to be people tht they would hang out with all the time. it was just it was awesome.l butht i do think youe timeom cal i think you should be a little looser. you re like more fun than youury might be naturally, but not obviously too drunk. but i talk about politics all the time in office parties. hol oh, okay.id at so will , is anything offere an limits at holiday parties? yeah,yt i m sure there aret i cesome things. that was a big ope
coordinating with the fbi to investigate this invasion. the san francisco police department is going to hold a news conference at 12:30 eastern. we re going to be covering that for you now. i want to bring in ryan nobles who is standing by for us. we re getting more details on this by the minute here as we re learning what took place over the last couple of hours there in san francisco with regards to paul pelosi and his situation. what more do you know? reporter: well, yasmin, the big open question that still has not been confirmed by those that are investigating this particular situation and may not even be answered by them yet is the motivation for this attack. it was obviously a violent attack as you point out. now that we ve been able to confirm that the assailant used a hammer against the speaker of the house s husband. it was serious enough to send him to the hospital. he is expected to make a full recovery. now that the fbi is involved and that s an important part of this inv