i m laura coates, and this is cnn tonight. and, look we saw it on january 6th, when election lies exploded into violence at the united states capitol. well now, the latest outbreak of allegedly politically motivated violence is in new mexico. a republican who lost his race for the new mexico house who tweeted after his defeat that the election was rigged and he vowed to fight it until the day he dies. now, that person has been arrested on suspicion of orchestrating shootings at the homes of four democratic elected leaders. now, no one was hurt thankfully. but homes were damaged. shot came through my home, right where i had just hours before had been playing with my granddaughter. more on all of that in just a moment. and plus, we have sources telling cnn about a member of president biden s inner circle who has now been interviewed by federal investigators. we ll tell you who it is and what happened. as the biden ministration is now saying that tonight, it will continue to
and look, we saw it on january 6th, when election lies exploded into violence at the united states capitol. well, now, the latest outbreak of allegedly politically motivated violence is in new mexico. a republican who lost his race for the new mexico house who tweeted after his defeat that the election was rigged and he vowed to fight it until the day he dies. now, that person has been arrested on suspicion of orchestrating shootings at the homes of four democratic elected leaders. now, no one was hurt, thankfully. but homes were damaged. shots came through my home, right where i had just hours before had been playing with my granddaughter. more on all of that in just a moment. and plus, we have sources telling cnn about a member of president biden s inner circle who has now been interviewed by federal investigators. we ll tell you who it is and what happened. as the biden administration is now saying that tonight, it will continue to cooperate fully with the doj probe of
accomplices are four democratic officials. i want you to take a look at this list. these are four locations. you can see the dates of when these shootings happened. they re spread out over the month. according to law enforcement, this man, solomon peña, went and hired people, he sent them text messages, he went and essentially cased these victim s homes. and then he paid accomplices in order to target these people. and as you pointed out, laura, thankfully no one was hurt. but investigators say they believe this all again circles down to election denialism and this person who was on the ballot, laura. i mean, the trauma of what has happened. and you mentioned the idea of casing these houses. he actually went to some of these houses beforehand, right. he wasn t outside sort of in an innocuous way. he actually went and visited them. yeah, and i think that s really what s changed. if you talk to election officials nationwide, and i talked to a lot of them,
and the people he blamed, according to investigators, and who he targeted with accomplices are for democratic officials. i want you to take a look at this list. these are four locations. you can see the dates of when these shootings happened. they re spread out over the month. according to law enforcement, this man, solemn and pena, went and hired people, he sent them text messages, he went and essentially cased these victims homes. and then he paid accomplices in order to target these people. and as you pointed out, laura, thankfully no one was hurt. but investigators say they believe this all again circles down to election denialism and this person who was on the ballot, laura. i, mean the trauma of what has happened. and you mentioned the idea of casing these houses. he actually went to some of these houses beforehand, right. he wasn t outside, sort of in an innocuous way. he actually went and visited