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♪ hello. i'm victor blackwell, welcome to c"cnn newsroom." >> and i'm bianna golodryga. for the first time we're hearing from house speaker nancy pelosi. she sat down with our anderson cooper. >> pelosi returned to washington last night after being at her husband's bedside in california. she says that he has a long road to recovery ahead and recounted to anderson that the moment d.c. police broke the news to her, watch. >> i was sleeping in washington, d.c. i had just gotten in the night before from san francisco. and the -- i hear the doorbell ring and think, it's five-somethi...

request privacy at this time." >> my god. >> both prominent figures in the news. we do not know the motivation for this attack. we know nothing about the assailant just yet. this all just happened in the last few minutes. we're grateful that mr. pelosi seems, per the statement, like he's going to make a recovery. but certainly a terrible tragedy. we'll try to figure out more about the assailant and what caused this attack. >> mika, we don't have a motive. we'll be very cautious about that right now. but there is a suspect in custody so we'll learn that very quickly, it would seem, wh...

capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, also with us, frank figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi. he is also an msnbc national security analyst. ryan, what do we know and not know about the attack at this hour? >> reporter: well, the biggest open question right now, jose, is motive. there doesn't appear to be a lot of clear answers right now as to why paul pelosi was targeted inside his san francisco home early this morning. we do know that the attack was violent, and it was enough for him to be rushed to the hospital. he is in the hospital no...

vladimir putin showing an increasing reliance on drones that russia is said to be getting from iran. or clarissa ward the only reporter seeing what ukraine has shot out of the sky. plus, roe v economy? president biden's midterm pledge today, if democrats can keep control of congress. he will get an abortion rights law on the books. but the reality check on that may rely on what is on the minds of most voters. and hunting the injured. protesters shot and breaten in iran. fear of going to the hospital, where police could be waiting to capture them. the desperate mrlengths some demo...

voting? >> reporter: well, fred, president biden has tried to hammer away at his message that he believes republicans would pose a greater risk if they take vol of the house and senate. all of this coming as democrats' control could be in jeopardy over economic discontent among voters. the president was here in joliet, illinois campaigning alongside house democrat in a competitive district. and he really zeroed in on on plans to lower prescription drug costs and preserve social security and medicare, programs that the president has argued would be on the chopping block if republicans...