assault on her husband that s been drawing constant media coverage. an assailant broke into the speaker s san francisco home shouting where is nancy and violently attacked 82-year-old paul pelosi, grabbing a hammer from his hand and sending him to a hock hospital where he successfully underwent surgery. david depape has been charged with attempted homicide and other crimes, but the focus on msnbc was blaming donald trump. there is a very specific form of murderous rage coming from congress trump s most violent and militant devotees directed at nancy pelosi. it s as if the attacker in san francisco was seeking to finish the job of those who attacked the cap capitol and who stormed those buildings, calling out her name. howard: join whering us to analyze the coverage, susan frea liasson. what do you make of donald
secret service when they have t make a secret decision whether or not to bring the present up to the us capitol, they did a threat assessment an realize that the likelihood and consequence was so great that violence would occur that they couldn t bring the president there. so in the first part they felt that they controlled the environment at the ellipse. info behind ballistic last, he was in an armored vehicle, they had magnetometers. they controlled that envir environment. what they didn t control was what was going on at the cap capitol, and we know that there is this violent crowd outside the perimeter that was going to shift out. don? ps i mean, in situ because usually the secret service, and i stay there paris concern is protecting the president. that that wasn t really against the president that day, it was against everybody else. my current one is against who they were looking. the chief until assessment and planning really go to the capitol police and dc metro,
president had gotten into the vehicle with bobby. he felt they were going up to the capitol, and when bobby had related to him where not, you don t have the access to do it, is not secure we are going back to the west wing, the president had very strong, very angry response to that. 20 described him as being a r rate. the president said something to the effect of, i m the effing president, take me up to the capitol now. to which bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the west wing tropical the president we step toward the front of the vehicle to grandma the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm and said no closer, you need to tak your hand off the steering wh wheel. we are going back to the west wing. we are not going to the cap capitol. it s a shocking story, and we ve now heard them at least the washington d.c. detective
the one thing that does jump out about the newt gingrich letter is kushner, the letter says, coordinate with kushner to put outpropaganda. jared kushner has kept himself distanced from this. this is the first indication i have seen that perhaps if the committee is correct that he was involved at least in the disinformation campaign that preceded the attack on the cap capitol. thank you on both those fronts. next, donlald trump s forme attorney michael cohen is here. does he think trump s lawyers could take the fall for classified documents that remained at mar-a-lago? live pictures out of philadelphia tonight where president biden is about to address the nation. his warning about the threat to american democracy. tonight, raising the issue, trump raising the issue of pardoning, full pardons for some of the january 6 rioters. listen. if i decide to run and if i
6th. it is a dramatic picture by picture of republican members of congress were pleading with trump to stop the attack and send rioters home. there are 150 texts that day and here are just a few. from duncan, potus potus needs stop this. from north carolina, please have potus call this off at the cap capitol, urge rioters to disp