we re in midmay. bloomberg s emily wilkins, thank you for joining us on set. two female staff members for congressman connolly of virginia, the suspect walked into the office, asked for the congressman and then struck two of the workers with a metal bat, one of the victims an intern in her first day on the job. the suspect also shattered glass in the office and broke computers. city police arrived minutes later and detained the man. connolly was not there at the time of the attack. he did talk about it yesterday and called for security measures. we don t have the security we have up here at the capitol at the district level. many of our offices are in malls or, you know, office buildings, so you don t have any kind of
incidents in recent months. what do you think is fueling all of this, congressman? i honestly believe that donald trump made violence part of his schtick. at rallies, you may recall, he actually talked about protesters and saying, in my day, we d take them out and beat them up, enabling violence and almost sanctioning it. he walked around at one point with a baseball bat, not an image of peace and tranquility and conciliation. he, of course, incited the violence of january 6th, and some of his enablers here in congress have called those insurrectionists who perpetrated enormous violence on police forces and would ve done the same on members of congress, patriots or just, you know, overexcited tourists. when you say something like that, that s not true.
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three people are dead. what we have learned about the teenage suspect who police say was firing at random. let s begin with the breaking news after that shocking attack at a virginia congressman s office. this morning the man accused of assaulting two of congressman jerry connolly s staff members yesterday with a metal baseball bat is due in court. this as we have this new video that police believe shows the suspect chasing another woman nearby with a bat just minutes before the attack. joining us now is nbc news capitol hills correspondent ryan nobles and clint watts. ryan, let s start with what we know about the suspect and his upcoming court appearance. reporter: that s right, ana. the suspect is expected to appear in a district court in fairfax city here in the next couple of minutes. his arraignment scheduled for this morning. court, we re told, is delayed at the moment, but he s expected to be arraigned at some point today. he s facing a litany of charges
to negotiate with that really extreme group in the house is that they think they can get their way or they throw a tantrum, they shut the government down or they default. biden is trying to make a deal here. he can walk and chew gum. we have issues that global issues that the president of the united states needs to deal with. i think he should do this meeting, go on his trip and come back and he can stay in touch over the course of the next few days. nothing wrong with that. but that s typical kevin mccarthy, though, trying to do just a bush league comment to try to, like, take the high ground when the fact of the matter is he needs to sit down and get the deal done. before i let you go, we saw yesterday that senseless attack at congressman connolly s office. i want to get your reaction and your message in response to the growing violence and threats in this country. well, it is scary. and i shared the appropriations committee that funds the legislative branch members offices. we