in the head with the bat, the intern hit b as well, although each of them was hospitalized after the attack tonight, today they ve both been released from the hospital. north of them has injuries believed to be life threatening. thank god. police have the alleged assailant in custody. he s a 49-year-old man reportedly from the congressman s district in northern virginia. police say he s being charged with felony aggravated malicious wounding but not saying anything about his potential motives at this time or anything about even the a extent to which he d had them. the man is i should tell you on record as having last year filed a lawsuit against the cia alleging the cia was somehow torturing him from the fourth dimension. the new york times reports there was a hand written lawsuit and the man was representing himself as his own lawyer in this case, so read into that what you will. there s that. republican house speaker kevin mccarthy said he reached out to congressman conol
i everyone, thank you for tuning in to this hour we bring you tomorrow s news tonight. we have our great lineup of reporters to share their scoops. we have melanie zanona, danny freeman, diane gallagher, and omar hernandez. great to have all of you back here tonight. tonight, new information about the chokehold incident in new york city subway that killed a 30 year old man. graphic video shows the 24-year-old suspect with his arm wrapped around jordan a least neck after one witness said that he had been, quote, acting erratically and ranting about being fed up and hungry. he was taken after this to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. omar has been covering the story all day. so omar, where do things stand? there are new charges right for the suspect. so what is going to happen? now people are calling for charges, that is why we have seen some protests, that video has obviously circulated pretty widely and i think people see that chokehold happening for an extend
last hour as we got positive news about the two congressional staffers who were attacked in virginia today. members of congress of course have their main offices in the capitol in washington, d.c., but of course they also have offices in their districts back home. this attack today happened at the district office for democratic congressman from virginia gerry connolly who you see here. this is his district office in fairfax, virginia, northern virginia just outside d.c. the congressman, himself, was not in the office. he was out apparently at a ribbon cutting for a local food bank. a man showed up at the office wielding a metal bat. he asked to see the congressman who wasn t there. then he reportedly just started swinging. congressman connolly s chief of staff tells nbc news tonight that the man smashed computers in the office and smashed glass with the bat. he then attacked two staffers. one senior staffer to the congressman, the man reportedly hit in the head with this meta
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let s get started! the final countdown of the election day in three of the most recent presidents are all held it out on the campaign trail. in the sand by state digging into key races just days ago. we ll go one-on-one with congresswoman debbie dingell but americans worry about political violence. plus! how are the latest lose about donald trump s potential 2024 run affect the midterms? well this country compared to election deniers on i ll pose that question to my panel of political experts. and later, elon musk lays off thousands of twitter employees. including the ones fighting disinformation. with election day just 72 hours away, is a social media company where detail without truth from lies? the all that and more coming right up! all right, good morning to you. i am sam stein. i m in for katie fang. thanks for starting your saturday with us. with more than 37 million votes already cast. candidates are getting ready for a big campaign events on this final weekend. be