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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