quote, it s not my quote just to be very clear. elon musk sending a message moments after taking over twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. happy friday. happy friday to you as well. john berman is off this friday. and the tesla and spacex billionaire, elon musk completing his $44 billion acquisition last night, once in charge musk was quick to show the door to top twitter executives. he fired the company s ceo, the chief financial officer, the chief legal counsel. he first agreed to buy the company all the way back in april and then he spent months trying to get out of the deal. in an effort to reassure advertisers, elon musk posted an open letter explaining why he bought twitter saying, quote, there s currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right and left wing echo chambers that generate hate and divide our society. what happens when one of the world s richest men controls the most influential media platform, joining us
beaten. we don t know how he got in or whether he was let in or if he knew paul pelosi, or a complete stranger. but the write-up is that quote the motivation is still under investigation. want to be a little careful on this story. we don t know yet or how he will pull out of it, leo. first of all, i hope he has a full recovery. that s the first thing i want to say. secondly, i believe there is also a suspect in custody. but the bigger problem, bill, is simply this. crime does not discriminate. rich or poor, black or white, city, suburbs, every where. it is every where. the number one issue in this country. and i think what democrats need to do. this is a wake-up call. you are talking about san francisco. bill, california, san francisco, l.a. is the heart and soul of crime. crime is permitted in this state and in a lot of blue cities. i think at this particular time a couple of weeks before mid-terms it is a number one issue in california and throughout the country. people w
control of the senate. i m harris falker and you are in the faulkner focus. this had to make it worse. now 11 days out and that brutally awful debate from fetterman this week. now the big guns are headed to the keystone state. his performance there was so challenging for him that those poll numbers we ll see in days to come and watching to see how much it made a difference. i can tell you this, a lot of people have already early voted in that state. president biden, vice president harris are traveling there today. somewhat of a rescue mission. former president barack obama will be there next week. fetterman s campaign needs all the help it can get. senate majority leader chuck schumer caught on a hot mic yesterday sharing his thoughts with the president. harris: i ve been around for such a long time i don t believe that man didn t know he was picked up by the cameras and microphones. wouldn t that be a way to shake up your base and a planned moment? can t prove it. just 3
we ll get you an update on his condition shortly. we know the suspect has been booked on numerous charges, including attempted homicide as we heard from the san francisco police a short time ago. the suspect is 42-year-old david depape who police say attacked paul pelosi with a hammer and it happened after 2:00 a.m. that s when they got the call or the notification that they should head over there. we have fox team coverage ahead and also squeak we planned earlier. now there s a lot to talk to him about. lee zeldin, who is the candidate for governor in new york. crime is very central to this race in new york against the governor who took over when governor cuomo stepped down, kathy hochul. this race is getting very tight. a couple of one attempt on lee zeldin during the course of his running for governor and a very scary incident that happened with a gun and people hiding in his front lawn during the course of the campaign as well. ppening everywhere. first to jonathan hu
shotting where is nancy when the speaker entered the house. she was not there. new video shows a smashed glass door. police responded to a wellness check. we re not sure if that is a home alarm or a call from paul pelosi. it happened around 2:30 a.m. when they encountered this. our officers observed mr. pelosi and the suspect both holding the hammer. the suspect pulled the hammer away from mr. pelosi and violently assaulted him with it. our officers tackled the suspect and disarmed him and took him in to custody and requested emergency backup and rendered medical aid. martha: so it s not clear from the chief s comments who was holding the hammer or whether the suspect brought it with him and used it to enter the home or whether mr. pelosi grabbed it after he heard somebody breaking in to his home. the a 82-year-old remains hospitalized. doctors are treating him and told he will make a full recovery. we don t have any updates. we know speaker pelosi is on her way to with