but the midterms looming, pundits think that there could be a red wave coming and it could be a big. so let s talk about that right away with our panelist the i got a question about what could possibly happen next. senator dueling panels are back. joining me now here, back with me, where mesh pend oreille, punaro, excuse me, ashley, alisyn. the clock will talk in a second. number one, real quick, do you think that the red wave is coming? like winter is coming the red wave is it coming? what do you think? yes, i do think there is. no. what do you? thank not a tsunami, but it s trending towards republicans. well we had yes, no, maybe so. listen, if it were to happen, if it does happen, or if it doesn t, or maybe so, what about the impact of twitter now? i mean it was such a big part in terms of the ability of the former president s speak. it is a lot back on the platform, what impact will it have? look i don t think gonna have any impact on this coming electio
what more do we know about the attack? reporter: we re still learning more about the stunning attack. she was not there at time but her husband, paul pelosi, who was 82 years old was at the time. and what wae re learning is an assail aent broke into the couple s home and attacked paul pelosi with a hammer. the speaker s office put out a statement of what they believe has happened. they said early this morning an assailant broke into the pelosi resident in san francisco and violently assaulted mr. pelosi. the assailant is in custody and the motivation is under investigation. mr. pelosi was taken to the hospital where he is receiving excellent medical care and the speaker was not in san francisco at the time. we have learned that the speaker was in d.c. at the time. she s been traveling across the country raising money, appearing in campaign stops as we head into the critical midterm elections. sometimes paul pelosi travels with her and oftentimes he does not. he has his own
elections, this just hours after the brutal attack on nancy pelosi s husband in their san francisco home. sources revealing the suspect was looking for the house speaker, shouting, where is nancy. and now we re learning that paul pelosi called 911 during the break-in and kept the line open. also tonight, big-named democrats are heading to the campaign trail right now. obama, biden, harris, stumping for candidates in critical races, as many democrats fear the momentum is with the republicans 11 days before election day. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news. federal officials are now warning of political violence coming hours after the very disturbing attack on the husband of house speaker nancy pelosi. he was hit with a hammer inside their san francisco home by an assailant who apparently was trying to track dow
that is an attempt to have a fix in. the pushes of the big lie reach full throttle. we are not gonna have 2000 situation in these boxes. tonight, marc elias on the multi-front fight against the anti-democratic threats across the country. then, how the georgia senate race got somehow crazier. i want the biggest night for the herschel walker campaign to be tonight. plus, did sarah palin just endorsed her opponent in alaska? maybe it is kind of that alaskan chick thing, you know. and david wallace dwells on the new climate reality coming into view. and why there may actually be a case for optimism. when all in starts right now. joining from new york, i m chris hayes. today, a january 6th insurrectionists, a violent one, was sentenced to the longest prison sentences yet for someone who did for his role in the violent attack on the capitol. his name is albuquerque head, he is a tennessee resident. and he was sentence seven and a half years in prison after
faced before in this country. it is the most important election of our lives because the losers of this election might not just be candidates. we might actually lose democracy and this election. and then maybe you will be relieved of ever hearing again that this was the most important election of your life because the election will not matter in the future because america lost democracy in 2022. in the 2020 election, we did not know before we voted that democracy itself was at stake. there was some rumblings about republicans in some states thinking about how to deliver their electoral votes to donald trump even if he came in second in that state. but there were no legal mechanisms for them to do that. those scenarios were always legally impossible in 2020. but the republicans running for office now want to create legal processes for stealing elections. let me say that again. because that sentence has never been an element of american politics before in our history. republica