up next. tonight on the reidout nancy, nancy! where are you, nancy? we re looking for you. nancy. oh, nancy. nancy. where are you, nancy? the chilling sounds of january 6th. where is nancy? happening again. not in the people s house this time. but in speaker pelosi s own house. her husband paul brutally beaten with a hammer by a maniac with a reported history of posting extreme right-wing memes and conspiracy theories on social media. meanwhile, elon musk is getting ready to reinject those dark online forces back into the veins of twitter, which he now completely controls. and we begin tonight with a shocking development in the political extremism that has loomed over the midterms. early this morning an assailabout attacked paul pelosi, the husband of nancy pelosi, at the couple s home in california. mr. pelosi who was home alone was hit in the head with a hammer multiple times. the assail want was reported to have shouted where is nancy, where is nancy, during the
up next. tonight on the reidout nancy, nancy! where are you, nancy? we re looking for you. nancy. oh, nancy. nancy. where are you, nancy? the chilling sounds of january 6th. where is nancy? happening again. not in the people s house this time. but in speaker pelosi s own house. her husband paul brutally beaten with a hammer by a maniac with a reported history of posting extreme right-wing memes and conspiracy theories on social media. meanwhile, elon musk is getting ready to reinject those dark online forces back into the veins of twitter, which he now completely controls. and we begin tonight with a shocking development in the political extremism that has
down, and he is such a sweet and kind man and so for this to happen to him, as inevitable as it was, it s still something we can never accept. but these threats are on the rise. and i have to tell you, we have to draw the straight line between what is happening on the ground as these threats become centralized decentralized from january 6th to spread out across the country, the straight line of marjorie taylor greene, lauren boebert, others in the maga republican party, who glorify violence and their leader, kevin mccarthy, who says nothing about it. and does nothing to stop it. if that s the environment he s going to create, it s a green light to every assailant out there to use violence rather than voting to carry out your political will. let me play, you mentioned the staff. this was an interview i did with speaker pelosi, that was the first time i met paul pelosi. a very nice man. this is back in january of 2021. i don t know if you have been able to see the video in which
liberalism is to essentially become a war lord, to arm youricism, to hurt someone. that has become a meme inside the republican party, and to the congressman s point, the leadership of that party has not tried to tamp this down. whatever statements they re trying to make today, they have encouraged it as a political strategy, and now election workers are at risk. they re having to get panic buttons just for election workers who get paid almost nothing to do election work. we re at a point now where our politics has become at least for republicans civil war. this is not sustainable. your thoughts. this is what happens, joy, when you demonize the other. when you take their humanity away, you make violence not only possible but likely. that s where we are. and the gop members who have come out today and offered support and good wishes for mr. pelosi can t do that kind of
high. in the first quarter of 2022 alone, capitol police opened more than 1800 cases. a tragic reminder that the insurrection didn t go away. it never ended. it s as if the attacker in san francisco was seeking to finish the job of those who attacked the capitol and who stormed those buildings, calling out her name, screaming obsceniies and making it abundantly clear besides the vice president, speaker pelosi was the other main target they had come to hunt. we re coming in if you don t bring her out. prosecutors say the most graphic statement uttered by any rioter that day was about speaker pelosi. the statement being, quote, we were looking for nancy to shoot her in the freaking brain. well, they didn t find her. instead, they ransacked her office. pelosi later detailed the trauma that her staff endured to 60