capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, also with us, frank figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi. he is also an msnbc national security analyst. ryan, what do we know and not know about the attack at this hour? reporter: well, the biggest open question right now, jose, is motive. there doesn t appear to be a lot of clear answers right now as to why paul pelosi was targeted inside his san francisco home early this morning. we do know that the attack was violent, and it was enough for him to be rushed to the hospital. he is in the hospital now and the spokesperson for pelosi s office says that he is receiving excellent care and is expected to make a full recovery. the speaker herself, though, was not in san francisco at the time. and of course, jose, this comes against the backdrop of an increasing number of threats directed at members of congress and their families. capitol police put out a report over the summer that said there s bee
culture war context that played very well to the latino electorates down here, not just cuban americans. it s venezuelan americans, it s nicaraguaen americans, across the board, colombian americans. and the fruition of that is kind of being harvested or the fruits of that are being harvested by desantis. remember, donald trump went from losing miami dade county, the biggest county, most populous county in the state of florida, by 29 percentage points in 2016 to losing it by only 7. and so, if desantis wins this, you know, as i said, it s if desantis does win miami dade, would that be the first time i m thinking of the jeb situation, but as far as democrats strength in miami dade, it s a different time. i mean, you know, when jeb won, it was a far different time. it was a different time. in the obama years, his political operation had seen miami dade as a place for the ascendant electorate. and he won.