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the news comes after a string of attacks or threats of violence against lawmakers and federal workers. just yesterday a man waving a bat assaulted staffers at the office of democratic congressman gerry connolly. his father says the suspect s father says he was suffering from skins fren ya. in march, one of republican republican rand paul staffers was stabbed in washington. in february, democratic congresswoman angie craig was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building. and the most severe attack so far occurred in october, a man demanding to see then speaker of the house nancy pelosi broke into her home and attacked her husband with a hammer. joining me now, cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean along with l.a. times columnist l.z. granderson and former trump campaign adviser. thank you all for being here. jessica, i want to start with you. how did this happen? the secret service didn t notice this when it was going on? that s the big question, right ....
superstar allen iverson. and teenage kaepernick wanted corn rolls to match. he s getting what rolls, his mom asked? you look like a little thug. your mom said that to you. yeah. it s spaces where, how do i navigate the situation now? and it s why i have my hair long today. cnn attempted to reach out to his parents but not did not receive a response. he brings up a lot of issues here. l.z., what do you hear here? it s messy. he s right, you know. he is right. i just personally would not have chosen to say that about my parents, who saved my life and raised me. i m not saying his argument or perspective is wrong. i m in an interracial marriage. i have heard comments made that i had to check people who love me. he s right. that does exist. but i m not going to write a list about my relatives and put them on blast like that. although, i just did. but i didn t write a book. i m not going to profit from it. i think it s lazy. i think that if you look at what just ....
but he will have to appear in court will be fingerprinted and such and there are going to be pain there will be they will make painstakingly make sure that he is treated like any other type of defended. he will be photographed. he will be provided a room to talk to people in he will be brought before the judge will be read his charges. his lawyers will then be able to enter a plea for him, which by all indicate haitian, it appears he ll say he is not guilty and that he is going to fight these charges. and then of course, though, there is always the political side of this and the scene, it is manhattan and there s always a question of what donald trump and his supporters will be doing in there and to keep the focus on that proceeding in the courthouse, atlanta do we have reporting on what the mood is inside trump world? we do alison . i mean trump s team is scrambling day had been expecting potentially an indictment at some point, but i spoke with some of his advisers to ....
this weekend as the start of a week of protests and festivities, with the goal of being to stop the construction of this proposed $90 million, 85-acre police and fire training facility. it would be the largest of its kind in the country, if it ends up being built. and what according to police, they say happened, at least 35 people were taken into custody. they say several of those that were detained were from outside of the atlanta area. and this really has become a staging area for activists across the country to protest police and we have seen several acts of violence in recent months. listen to what police had to say at a press conference late last night. this is not appropriate. this is criminal activity. and the charges that will be brought forth will show that. when you throw commercial-grade fireworks, when you throw molotov cocktails, large rocks, a number of items at officers, your only intent is to harm. reporter: opponents of this fire and police training ....
welcome back to the cnn newsroom, i m jim acosta in washington on this busy saturday afternoon, and we begin this hour with unsettling new development in the skies over canada. norad says it is monitoring a high altitude airborne object and military aircraft are currently operating in the area from alaska and canada. this follows yesterday s shoot down of another high altitude object, 10 miles off the northeastern coast of alaska near the canadian border. natasha bertrand joins us now. what can you tell us about the latest object? we have to keep underlining and highlighting the point this is not what we were talking about yelled off the coast of alaska. this is a new object that we re talking about. this is a new object that norad has apparently detected over northern canada, and justin trudeau tweeted that he ordered the take down of that unidentified object that he says had sviolated canadian airspac it was a u.s. f-22 that successfully fired at this object. again, ....