capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, also with us, frank figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi. he is also an msnbc national security analyst. ryan, what do we know and not know about the attack at this hour? reporter: well, the biggest open question right now, jose, is motive. there doesn t appear to be a lot of clear answers right now as to why paul pelosi was targeted inside his san francisco home early this morning. we do know that the attack was violent, and it was enough for him to be rushed to the hospital. he is in the hospital now and the spokesperson for pelosi s office says that he is receiving excellent care and is expected to make a full recovery. the speaker herself, though, was not in san francisco at the time. and of course, jose, this comes against the backdrop of an increasing number of threats directed at members of congress and their families. capitol police put out a report over the summer that said there s bee
i m katie fang in for ari melber. we begin with a reminder of the violent threats facing our country s political leaders. paul pelosi, husband of house speaker nancy pelosi was violent aassaulted in his san francisco home with the assailant reportedly shouting, quote, where is nancy? mr. pelosi, aged 82, was home alone. police say the attacker struck him multiple times in the head with a hammer. he had a successful surgery for a skull fracture, according to the speaker s office. and doctors expect a full recovery. the united states capitol police say nancy pelosi was in d.c. at the time of the attack guarded by security, as she is at all times. a pelosi family member telling nbc news the suspect was trying to tie up paul, quote, until nancy got home. it was when the suspect wasn t looking that paul called 911. when the police came, the suspect said, quote, we are waiting for nancy. sources identified the suspect as a 42-year-old berkeley resident. there were posts where he po
got knocked down, but i got back up. by january, by january, i m going to be feeling even better. but he will still be a fraud. yes, in fact he did, he did get back up. john fetterman joins me tonight in his first television interview since the debate. his health will continue to improve, but can we say the same thing about herschel walker? two very different standards applied by the folks on the right. also, as lauren boebert dives deeper into christian nationalism, you ll meet the candidate who could make her tenure in congress a short one. and arizona is the petri dish for everything republican election deniers want to do across the country, and i will talk to the man who might be the last best hope for election integrity in that state. and we begin the reidout tonight with a tale of two parties with just 12 days until the midterm elections. on the one hand, president biden was in new york today giving his vision for the economy. 10 million jobs created since we to
john fetterman is holding a campaign event in perg. his first time on stage since last night s debate and he acknowledged the difficulties he had. we ll play what he said in a moment with just 13 days until the midterm elections. it is one of many developments that continue to shake up races in pivotal states. in pennsylvania, the debate certainly made a mark as fetterman admitted moments ago the aftereffects of his stroke made speaking difficult at times. my doctors, the real doctors that i believe, they all believe that i m ready to serve. i didn t hear you say you would release your full medical records. why not? you have 30 seconds. no. yeah, again, my doctor believes that i m fit to be serving and that s what i believe is where i m standing. republican mehmet oz making headlines as well with this on abortion. i want women, doctors, local political leaders leading the democracy that allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward for states decide
so maybe 14. anyway, all move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days, we ve got mayors and lot enforcement officials who are getting a new warning, sadly, about election intimidation. we have extremists who are looking to disrupt the midterms, at the local level, targeting voters, targeting candidates, targeting election workers, all according to axios. let s bring in our panel, we have cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller. new york democratic senator mondale jones, and political analyst ron brownstein. so this is so disturbing, guys, obviously when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th, the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally, there are all sorts of examples of people be unintimidated, and just awful things happening. here are a few examples, this comes from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties, election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment, and intimidation. in idaho, protesters and hung i