dangerous rhetoric. we re talking, of course, about the elevation of some of the fringiest of the fringe members of the republican caucus, the seats on important congressional committees. when we say it is happening on today of all days, that s because today would have been the late congressman elijah cummings 72nd birthday. he passed away in 2019, the son of sharecroppers, he would go on to become a force of nature in congress, and ultimately the chairman of the powerful house oversight committee. when we re dancing with the angels, the question will be asked, in 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy in tact? did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? there are efforts to stop people from voting. that s not right! this is not russia! this is the united states of america! and i will fight until the death to make sure every citizen, whether they re green party, whether they re freedom party, whether they re democrat, whether they re republican, whoever
look that s not very b look i love miley. tim and i sitting right next to her. of course you were. and liam. liam, right? but just saying. look, maybe there s a reason there s a double standard but it s not right to ever call out your ex in a song. really? you can t sing about heartbreaks. it s fine but still, it s a double standard. ahead on cnn this morning cnn this morning continues right now. an attack on democracy. whoever that elected official is. democrat or republican. and we will hold people responsible for criminal conduct, and make sure we do justice. good morning, everyone. a really, really terrible story. so glad you could join us on this tuesday morning. about a failed republican candidate in new mexico arrested for allegedly hiring people to shoot at the homes of local democratic officials. we re going to speak to a commissioner targeted in moments. an early morning moosassacra mother and her infant. six killed in what may have been a d
and he has done it again. it took five tries. everyone has a bad day. cnn this morning starts right now. everyone has a bad day. we hope yours is going well so far. we re going to begin with solomon pena, he was angry he lost the election last fall and claimed that the vote was rigged. now he is in police custody in connection with orchestrating four shootings at homes of local democratic officials in new mexico. no one was injured in any of the shootings that happened in albuquerque. police say that pena was the mastermind and allegedly conspired and paid four others to carry out the attacks. the evidence that we have is not only firearm, but it is also from cell phones and electronic records, surveillance video, and multiple witnesses inside and outside of this conspiracy that have helped us weave together what occurred. on the last shooting, we now have evidence too that pena himself went on this shooting, and actually pulled the trigger on at least one of the fire
the national news. as luck would have it, we brought you the story for the first time a week ago at this time. it s a story out of new mexico. just tonight as we are getting on the air, there is a major development in that story tonight and it is a shocking one. i imagine given these new developments in the story, this will not be the only place you will be hearing about this over the next several days. all right, what we were able to tell you last week is news of a spate of recent shootings that had targeted the homes and offices of at least a half dozen elected officials in new mexico, all of them members of the democratic party. no one was injured in these shootings. these shootings hit buildings, not people. but they apparently had all been targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. so just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to some county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s
targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s newly elected democratic attorney general. then we learned that there is also been an additional shooting at the house of the incoming speaker of the new mexico state legislature. we have since learned some additional details about the shootings targeting individual democratic politicians. it is alarming, it is not an individual pot shot here in there. for example, on december 4th, it was a shots that were fired into a home of one democratic count county commissioner in new mexico. that was december 4th. then on december 11th, it was 12 bullets that were fired into the home of a county commissioner, again, this is all in new mexico, all democrats. december 4th at one politicians home, he s a county commissioner, a shots fired into his home. a week l