welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper in washington. and tonight new horrific details are emerging about the attempted violent attack against house speaker nancy pelosi, the one that ended with the wounding and hospitalization of her husband, paul pelosi. the alleged violent intruder david depape is facing federal charges for breaking into the pelosi s home and beating paul pelosi with a hammer early friday morning. the suspect who trafficked online in far right conspiracy theories about covid and the 2020 election and holocaust denialism, quote, stated that he was going to hold nancy hostage and talk to her. if nancy were to tell depape the truth, he would let her go. and if she lied, he was going to break her kneecaps. depape also explained, she would then have to be wheeled into congress, which would show other members of congress there were consequences to actions, unquote. several prominent republicans have condemned the attack, including today donald trump. with p
Made substantial that we have one pointed peaks the american its on the ground in afghanistan over 1000. By the end of this year over 10000 and that is part of a trend that at the end of 2016 we will have our military personal act into the embassy. The kind of fulfillment to wind down in to wind down at a very responsible way. Last week the administration and you took about great pains to talk about executive actions. There has been a tremendous amounts of Fact Checking at the washington post. Understanding it is preference that george bush take action not nearly as statistically represented by this administration. Will you either retract that or stop using that in the future . I will not, major. The fact of the matter is the Bush Administration to take an executive action and did have an impact on 1. 5 Million People living in this country and that is about 40 of the population at the time. That has beening reported by the Associated Press, New York Times and the Congressional Researc
From nbc news, this is today. With lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside Sheinelle Jones and maria larosa in for dylan. Nice to see you. Good to see you. A pretty busy news morning with the Deadly School shooting happening in Washington State yesterday. And not the only shooting. Shots rang out in northern california, two sheriffs deputies were killed. Two more people were wounded in a series of shootings that went over several hours. Sheinelle will have more coming up in a few minutes. We begin this morning with that School Shooting outside seattle. Students and teachers ran out of the school to safety after a high schooler walked into a cafeteria and reportedly opened fire. One student was killed, as well as the gunman. This morning the entire community struggling with why a young man would open fire on his classmates. Joe fryer is in washington
Address at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Its also the heart of the u. N. Security Council Meeting president obama will personally chair this afternoon. On morning joe, his National Security adviser, susan rice, says today his outreach is the latest step in a long process. Weve been doing a lot of hard quiet diplomatic work that we didnt advertise publicly, and that culminated in this very important collection of countries coming together yesterday. The speech follows a tuesday meeting between president obama and arab leaders who took part in those strikes. Right now, we have a very severe and significant threat. What weve seen from the World Community is a recognition of that threat and we are very appreciative of our partnership with all the countries here. And this morning, more air strikes. The military tells nbc that at least five were launched. One in syria, four in iraq. American officials believe the initial wave of strikes was a success, although theyre still assessing the results. One
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Jeff hi, everyone, im jeff glor. And the first full day of searching is under way. Crews are looking for airasia flight 8501 which has now been missing for more than 24 hours. Teams from at least three Different Countries are involved. 162 people were on 8501 including 17 children. The search zone is in the java sea in between surabaya indonesia, where the plane took off and sing more singapore its intended destination. We have a series of reports. A terrible nine months facing malaysia we begin with Deborah Patta, deborah . Searchandrescue operations for the plane were called off as night fell in the Southeast Asian region. Those operations resumed again at dawn local time. Indonesia, singapore and malaysia are all involved in a massive searchandrescue operation for the missing plane. Rescuers spent hours flying over areas of the java sea but the dark and stormy indonesian waters have so far provided no clues.