attacked him with a hammer, inside their san francisco home. when officers arrived early friday morning, police say the intruder told them he was quote, waiting for nancy. the law enforcement is working to piece together a motive for this attack. also, in early stages of investigating whether certain online accounts followed the suspect. nbc news reports the suspect quote, appeared to operate a website in which he repeated a wide variety of posts, and almost all manner of modern conspiracist thinking. aliens, two people, communist, voter fraud, many other topics. so here we are once again, processing another act of political violence in this country. we still do not know an exact motive, we do know the power of lies and how they spread among political discourse. no further than the january 6th attack, to the u.s. capitol. that threat to our democracy remains clear and present. joining me now from san francisco for the latest on that attack, nbc news scott claude. scott, where
processing another act of political violence in this country. and we still do not know an exact motive. we do not know the power of lies and how they spread in our political discourse. no further than the general sixth attack at the u.s. capitol, that threat to our democracy remains clear and present. joining me now from san francisco for the latest on that attack, nbc news scott cohn. scott, where is the investigation at this hour? and what are you learning about the attacker? reporter: yeah, alicia, this is a widespread investigation. it includes, of course, the san francisco police department and the district attorney. also, the capitol police and the fbi. and a lot of it really focusing on the alleged attacker, david depape, 42 years old, who we know has led an unusual life for certain. and it s culminated in recent months, apparently, with a lot of blog posts and social media posts that are really kind of going through a potpourri of hate, and conspiracy theories and t
midterms. exactly one month away. early voting under way with issues like abortion and inflation driing people to the polls. many say democracy itself is on the ballot. we have special stuff planned. want to get right to it with michael steele. you know the music, sir. en why the beat. i know it well. when you hear that early voting is under way and look at what s going on out here, i m coming right to you, regular beat viewers know we have a set up. coming right to you. what do you see right now in this homestretch? what i see right now are voter deciding to hunker down around a vote. the early voting, as you noted, has started. there s some anticipation and trepidation. the anticipation is voters are going to take seriously not just their concerns about the economy that s being stressed by some, but also the democracy. that it will matter the kind of men and women they select, choose to be an extension of them to be the best representative for them in the statehouse
detained in a kremlin crackdown on these antiwar protests. there are also reports of some demonstrators rounded up and immediately drafted into the rush sharon armed forces. it s setting off a flood of flights out of russia. nick peyton walsh is with us. it s called a partial mobilization of citizens. how is that playing out? reporter: it seemed pretty clear and forgive the siren noise around here. so much of ukraine constantly under threat, attack. it seems to be playing out initially pretty badly for the kremlin. the first issue they have to overcome is what to do with these thousands of potential recruits they re going to send to the front line that might already be being sent to the front line. they lack equipment to supply the regular army. this was a gamble and it s not going the way he hoped. the flights some of them full. military age males trying to get out of the country. they don t believe this mobilization is necessarily partial. the restrictions this will just
in georgia tuesday. more new fallout from biden s reference to arm a guide when he addressed the risk attached to the threat of nuclear escalation in ukraine. here s the view from both sides of the political aisle. those comments were reckless and i think that, even more importantly, they demonstrate the greatest foreign policy failures of passing case which was the failure to deter putin in this way that trump did for four years. what the president is reflecting is that stakes are high right now given what s going on in the battlefield in ukraine and irresponsible and reckless comments made by putin in the past few days. we begin our dramatic new developments in ukraine. that is where literally citizen people dead. retaliation for that explosion which has impacted russia supply lines. joining now from moscow, kyra welcome, what can you tell us about the latest attack? well, alex, just days after president biden gave that warning about escalation over ukraine, thi