espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. no one has been charged with a crime that we know of as of now. this just in, the democratic chairs of the intelligence committee and the oversight committee and the house have written a letter to the director of national intelligence saying they want a damage assessment, and briefing regarding these documents recovered from mar-a-lago, and of course trump and his allies are of course spending and peddling wild conspiracy theories about the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the theories range from ridiculous and laughable to down right dangerous. cnn s daniel dale joins me now to talk about this. trump is saying all the fbi and the department of justice has to do is ask for these documents back, and there would have been no problem at all. all they had to do was ask, and that post on his truth site. does that align with what we know? it does not at all align with what we know, jim. we know there was
o connor says that the quencing of the president s results have returned and it is most likely that he has the ba.5 variant, that is the variant that a large portion of the country is currently experiencing when they contract covid. so for the time being, the white house says that the president s symptoms continue to improve. of course, the last time we saw president biden was yesterday, when he appeared virtually at that meeting with his economic advisers. he was supposed to be spending the week at his home in wilmington, delaware, but instead is here at the white house and the message from the white house continues to be that the president continues to carry out his work, as he is now in his second full day of isolation due to this covid-19 diagnosis. dr. kevin o connor says he will continue to isolate according to cdc guidelines. and again, while the president remains in isolation there at the white house, it is still the case that dr. jill biden is in delaware, and they
assault charges, video of the incident there. the 43-year-old man is charged congress with a dangerous weapon. cnn s evan perez is following this and other developments for us. evan, what do you know about the suspect? reporter: jim, we know he was facing, first, a state charge. he was released almost immediately after he was charged with a second-degree assault at the state level and now federal prosecutors have decided to charge him on a federal charge. that charge is for assaulting a member of congress. of course he is running for governor in the state of new york. obviously the justice department looks at this in a different lens. they view this as part of, frankly, a lot of these types of incidents around the country attacking not only trying to threaten members of congress, members of the supreme court, other public officials. there is serious focus on this at the justice department. he is 43 years old. on top of the state charge for which he was immediately released
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you can see in this video right here, held out a key chain with two sharp point ts on it. cnn s evan perez is following all of this for us. he s here with me now. evan, what more are we learning about this man? that video, again, we ve shown it a number of times. very alarming. it s a very disturbing thing to happen, obviously. li lee zeldin, a congressman was on stage when this attack happened. the suspect s name is david j jakabonis. he s charged with assaulting a member of congress with a deadly weapon. you can see that he s carrying this object, he has this object in his hand as he approaches the congressman. now, according to the federal criminal complaint, these are federal charges that he is now facing. he told the fbi that he had consumed whiskey on the day of this attack and that he, quote, must have checked out as he walked on stage and asked if zeldin was disrespecting veterans. we should note that according to the army, jakabonis had served in the army. he s a v