lofgren sent out a letter to the capitol police chief asking what security protocols are under way at the adopt for people in line for presidential succession, like nancy pelosi is, how to deal with those individual members and their homes. what we have learned the past week, was that for 10 whole minutes the u.s. capitol police was not monitoring a camera feed outside the home as the attack at the home was under way last week. and it was because they don t actively monitor those feeds when the person, the leadership member of leadership is not at that home. pelosi was in washington at the time, not san francisco, all leading to questions about what more resources are needed at this capitol hill time of escalating violence and threats against politicians and their families. manu raju on capitol hill this morning. thank you, appreciate that. reporter: thank you. also this morning japan said it strongly condemns north
noticeable difference in reaction from the top republicans in congress. the republican leader on the house side, kevin mccarthy, someone that could potentially become the house speaker next year, if the midterms go their way. he issued a statement through a spokesperson, he himself does not wait and come he said through a spokesperson, reached out to the speaker to check on paul. he is praying for full recovery and is thankful they caught the assailant. i reached out to the office to ask whether the republican leader himself would react to this, i have not heard back about this question. on the senate side, mitch mcconnell, republican leader had a much different reaction. he did tweet about this, he was , quote, horrified and disgusted about this. also wishing paul pelosi quick recovery. a little bit different reaction. overall, there is bipartisan concern and outrage about this horrific attack. there should be. manu raju on capitol hill, thank you very much.
court to take a look stand by, i m getting word we need to go to manu raju on capitol hill with some brand new reporting with top republicans now rejecting trump s declassification comments, manu? reporter: that s right. this is different than the past month in the aftermath of the search of mar-a-lago in which top republicans side stepped questions about it like mitch mcconnell declined to comment about what happened there or kevin mccarthy in the house who essentially defended donald trump and attacked the fbi. a difference here in some republican senators reacting to the aftermath of donald trump s comments last night in which he suggested there was no process for declassifying records. and that he could simply think about it even and declassify those records. when i put that question to the key republican senators, they push back. there s a process for declassifying documents. and i think it ought to be
mar-a-lago last month. manu raju on capitol hill for us. thank you for bringing us that reporting. i want to bring back elie honing now because there s the other bombshell the new york attorney general s lawsuit against trump, his family, business, set the scene on this one. the lawsuit is against donald trump and his family members and his businesses. i think we lost the wall but we can talk it out here. the suit is a civil suit, it s not a criminal lawsuit. so we re talking about money penalties and we are talking about other remedies that could take donald trump out of business. he has been sued along here we go with his family members and his businesses. the key allegation here is that donald trump and his businesses overinflated, vastly overinflated the value of certain properties, 200 plus examples given in the complaint, 40 wall street actually worth $200 million, trump and his people claimed more than double
trump suggested that it was antifa. kevin mccarthy pushed back on that. mccarthy said he did recall a conversation with trump white house aide dan scavino. when i asked, he said he was just trying to find the president. wolf. . manu raju on capitol hill, thanks for all of that. let s get analysis from whitney wild, as well as legal analyst elliot williams, and nia malika henderson. i know you have new exclusive reporting on when the homeland security department s inspector general first learned of these missing secret service text messages. what can you share with us? what we are learning is that this inspector general s office knew many months. so what we learned of the inspector general s office was aware in december 2021. now sources are telling cnn that the dhs oig s office knew about that as early as may of 2021. and later on, two months later