to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us and imminent and an important deadlines for the justice department. it has until one p.m. one hour from now to respond to a late night filing an abortion court battle that could impact women coast to coast plus family ties and college controversy. the top democrat on the house says he hardly remembers his uncle s flagrant anti semitic remarks. but cnn s k file uncovers an opinion piece from a college age takeem jeffries defending his uncle and defending louis farrakhan from his in his words, quote. white media. and tim scott feels out of presidential run today. he s in iowa as he stands up and exploratory committee is opening message. heavy on biography heavy on faith, the biden agenda but makes no mention of the republican frontrunner donald trump. today our country is once again being tested once again, our divisions run deep and the threat to our future is real. joe biden and the radica
paul pelosi, the husband of house speaker nancy pelosi, brutalized in their home. the police say this attack happened overnight after the man broke in. the speaker was in washington. her 82-year-old husband is in the hospital, the speaker s office says to make a full recovery. a police briefing is scheduled for this hour. at this moment we re trying to fill in the big question, what was the motive? the male suspect is in custody. sources telling cnn the as assailant used a hammer to beat mr. pelosi. we re joined with important breaking news. what can you tell us? reporter: john, it appears we may actually have the motive or part of the motive. i was told by a source briefed on the attack that the assay lapt who talked paul pelosi was actu actually in search for speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. that before the assault occurred, in other words, before he attacked pelosi, the intruder confronted him saying, where is nancy, where is nancy? john, this is from a source who was
there is a lot of support for letting the legal uh the criminal justice system. play out. let the case play out, even not necessarily majority, but a sizable number of republicans might not necessarily agree that trump did anything critical, but say, let the case play out, so i don t know if it s going to play well, these this perception that republicans are trying to interfere with an ongoing investigation. and another thing brag. does shan in his filing is it s about jim jordan. it s about the judiciary committee. but he also cites essentially to say i m under constant political attack. he cites the truth social posts from donald trump, where he talks about death and destruction. if they charge me, essentially session that could be protested danger in the streets, and he also cites donald trump s posting on truth social re posting of somebody else. on truth social. there s a picture of donald trump with a baseball bat that was taken from his white house days, and the picture of prose
when you re done with that white house security detail and all that have a point for me as well promise. we ll have one for you for sure. john amen. my friend. let s move on now to an important new cnn k file investigation, the house democratic leader hakeem jeffries has maintained for a decade, but he doesn t remember much about his uncle, leonard jeffries, who had a history of inflammatory anti semitic remarks back in the 19 nineties . but r k file team unearthed and on an unreported essay that jeffrey s wrote during his college years defending his uncle and defending the nation of islam leader louis farrakhan . cnn s andrew kaczynski leads the k follow you. it and he joins us now. andrew hakeem jeffries uncle was well known, especially in new york for his controversial remarks. among the things leonard jeffrey said he claimed that rich jews financed the slave trade, he said the jewish hollywood executives quote, planned and plotted conspiracy to denigrate black americans in their fi
allies and brag sites that in the suit that right away as soon as they even before the indictment, house republicans were saying even the investigation of donald trump on these questions of hush money payments was out of bounds and elvin brexit. is look if you don t think jim jordan was out to get me listen. this sorrows back new d a left wing d a alvin bragg. he wasn t even going to take the case because there is no case. left wing district attorney is soros backed district attorney is going to go after the former president of the united states. this is about going up after anyone who opposes the left s agenda. so if this lawsuit which chance has has some standing as they go through the hearings, you know, does it how that s the argument jordan s going to make. he s being political and brian s going to make the argument? absolutely not. not only is he being political, he s trying to stop an investigation. right and i think again. some of this is how it plays out to the public. and eve