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pleading not guilty. were learning new details about a possible defense strategy. plus, the key to putins power and more russians are breaking with putin. im going to speak to a student who was trapped in the de deadly seoul disaster. her amazing story tonight. lets go "outfront." good evening. im erin burnett. in court t, the man accusedf attacking paul pelosi making an appearance in front of the charge. david depape pleading not guilty to a long list of charges. hes facing two ...

There was another person in the house. thats all false. so many conspiracy theories which you have to push back on. do you know what role conspiracies and disinformation played in aggravating depape and getting him to the point where he planned an attack? >> i cant say that specifically, but what i will say is we see just like on january 6th this inciteful com commentary that goes on, people encouraging violence, encouraging people to take these extreme viewpoints is laying a pathway to this con...

All state charges. >> well be doing a comprehensive investigation of what happened. were going to be looking into mr. depape, his mental state. >> reporter: depape waved his right to a hearing within ten days and is being held in san francisco county jail until his next court appearance november 4th. the judge signed a protection order for the pelosis. the charges against depape include attempted murder, false imp imprisonment, burglary. depapes attorney responding to questions tuesday about mot...

Misinformation and thats certainly something well look into. >> reporter: authorities are still rebutting conspiracy theories that paul pelosi and mr. depape knew each other. >> theres no evidence mr. pelosi knew this man. >> reporter: paul pelosi is still hospitalized after being struck on the head with a hammer sustaining a skull fracture. parallel investigation by the fbi and san francisco police are under way with new details emerging that depape brought two hammers, zip ties, rope and a rol...

Theres a filing by the associated press that said that depape was on a suicide mission and had plans to get to other california and federal politicians. can you tell me more about this and who was targeted? >> what i will say is that we tried to give the public as much information obviously as we can without compromising the investigation or the prosecution of this case. as you guys have become aware, there were other public officials that were apparently targets of his and obviously he showed u...

The last few days, this investigation is still very, very fresh. the fbi and sfpd are trying to comb through everything as fast as they can. we want to make sure theyre dotting their is and crossing their ts to ensure this prosecution is successful. >> im curious about whats on the body camera footage. can you see pelosi attacked? do you actually see the attack on it? >> yes. >> you do? you see him hit with the hammer? >> you see him get attacked on that footage. >> has to be incredibly disturbi...

Individual to depape. what can you tell us about this other individual? the use of the word lure stood out. >> so right now, like i said, we tried to reveal what we needed to in order to clear up a number of the distortions that have been made and of course to apprise the public of what happened here. as far as certain details, those are things that we are protecting so this investigation is able to be successfully completed. thats something im not able to comment on at this time. >> i appreciat...