it was a blind side violent attack by a disturbed person. they had not spoken to each other in years, but i still think you can have i m certain that you can have a personal dispute without having spoken. it has to do with the maintenance of each other s property and the disagreement that two neighbrs, two adjoining neighbors have had over that. drew griffon reporting there. thank you so much. and thank you for being with us. i m gorge howell at the cnn center in atlanta. for ow vurers here in the united states, early start is up next. for my viewers around the world up next is max foster. thanks for watching cnn, t world s news leader.
and he was bare foot because he didn t take time to puts shoes on. that building will be demolished and turned into a memorial site to honor the victims and their families. bombshell development in a rand paul assault investigation. we learned the kentucky senator s neighbor renee boucher could face federal charges as prosecutors say the attack could have been politically motivated. boucher pleading not guilty in court and his lawyer claims the dispute was over landscaping. paul s senior advisor releasing this statement saying quote: this was not a fight a blind side violent attack by a disturbed person. criminal charges could bring up to 10 years in prison. just days after he avoided prison from a military judge former army sergeant bowe bergdahl could cash in a huge check from the pentagon. the army says he could get more than $300,000 in back pay for the five years he spent in captivity after deserting his post in afghanistan. bergdahl discharged and demoted. he could also owe the a
attack by a disturbed person. this attack comes four months after a craved liberal gunman in bernie sanders campaign volunteer shot up a republican baseball practice in d.c., we remember. senator rand paul was there. dodging bullets in that horrific event that nearly killed house majority whip steve scalise when he was shot. scalise did go on to recover slowly and recently returned to washington and to his job. so, which side is the truth is the big question. did a wealthy doctor attack a senator, his next door neighbor over yard clippings or did years of bottled up anger over politics explode while rand paul was mowing his lawn last friday night? that s what they got to get to. that s the difference between no time and potentially 10 years in prison. steve: no kidding. man, just targeted over politics and six broke broken ribs. rob: live together all this time not like his politics has changed. ainsley: so bizarre. he attacked him from behind.
it has no connection whatsoever. the boucher s facebook page suggest a political motive. one post reading, may robert mueller try trump s gonads. in an interview with fox news today, boucher s attorney said the assault stemmed from a long-standing dispute over property boundaries and paul s unkempt lawn. a statement from paul s office ridiculed and in notion of a property dispute. the first conversation with the attacker came after senator paul s ribs were broken. this was not a fight. it was a blind side, violent attack by a disturbed person. boucher s attorney disputes that. it has been reported that senator paul was blindsided. i think that is an unfair characterization of how this transpired. that s not how i would describe it. that s not how it s been described to me. a longtime resident here notes that the paul s are great neighbors, conscientious,
he s pushing back through his spokesman the idea that this has anything to do with a long-standing dispute between neighbors. in fact, his spokesperson put out this statement today, anderson. it says as to reports of a long-standing dispute with the attacker, the pawls have had no conversations with him in many years. the first conversation with the attacker came after senator paul s ribs were broken. that was not a fight. it was a blind side, violent attack by a disturbed person. these guys have lived next to each other for 17 years. they haven t, apparently, talked in a long time. many, many years. i read part of that statement to renee bu say s attorney, matt baker and this is what he had to say about what happened. this has absolutely nothing to do with any politics. they had not spoken to each other in years, but i still think that you can have a i m certain that you can have a personal dispute without having spoken. neither side is willing to