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good morning. im erica hill. we begin this hour with breaking news out of california. paul pelosi, the husband of speaker nancy pelosi, is hospitalized, we have learned, after he was attacked inside their san francisco home. cnns whitney wilde is joining us with some of the details. this is just unfolding as we are learning, some of the details, whitney, but so far what doe woo know and how is he doing? >> reporter: well, erica, it happened just two hours ago, 2:00 a.m., according to t...

We ramp up to the election? >> thanks for having me, erica. we have concerned about threats to election workers. we are concerned about what were seeing around calls for vigilance, watching drop boxes, watching the polls. y but i think vigilance is the key word, but you shouldnt feel paranoid. social media shows us the vitriol and at the same time it doesnt show the people turned off by it. it is important to try to remain vigilant but not let this have a suppression effect and not have people g...

Have people vote illegally. even though they were looking mostly in african-american areas n found little to nothing. a lot of it is around voter assistance. jeff sessions back in 1986, which derailed part of his -- his trying to become a federal judge, was that he had brought to court some folks who had helped with voter assistance which is legal. and they claim that that was some show of voter fraud which was not. and the court threw that out. >> to your point, i think i personally, if this is...