there are chilling new details about his alleged plan to take the house speaker nancy pelosi hostage and break her kneecaps. we re standing by for a live update from san francisco officials. also tonight, the final frantic eight days of campaigning before the crucial midterm elections. tensions ratcheted higher as federal officials now warn of a heightened threat to the election from violent extremists here in the united states. the homeland security secretary mayorkas joins me this hour. plus, growing misery in ukraine right now as russia steps up its attacks on vital infrastructure. much of the capital city is without water tonight and officials warn they re running out of equipment to repair the country s devastated power grid. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story tonight. the suspect in the paul pelosi attack now facing federal charges. prosecutors
reporter: according to the affidavit the suspect hit pelosi in the head hard enough to knock him out when police arrived after a small str struggle over the hammer ensued. this is intentional. it is not random. reporter: the fbi says depape wanted to wait in the house for pelosi for days. he was focused on pelosi as the, quote, leader of the pack of lies told by the democratic party. he told investigators he was going to hold nancy hostage and talk to her. if nancy were to tell depape the truth, he would ler go. if she lied, she was going to, quote, break her kneecaps. he went on to say that he was certain nancy would not have told the truth. at one point the suspect let paul pelosi into the bathroom, where he managed to call 911 and ran to open the front door once police arrived. police say pelosi grabbed depape s hammer right after opening the door. police told them to drop the hammer and that s when depape told the police pelosi s husband would be, quote, taking the punishment