former january 6th committee member adam kinzinger here to wee in. a flight attendant attacked by an unruly passenger. federal investigators say this man tried to open the emergency exit door during a flight from los angeles to boston and then tried to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken metal spoon. other passengers tackled him to the ground and he was zip-tied until the plane landed. cnn s pete muntean with more on this. good morning to you. he told investigators he wanted to jump out of the plane? reporter: yeah, good morning, don. this is the second high-profile incident of an unruly passenger we have seen in as many weeks. department of justice now looking into this. you know, it s really interesting here is that the number of unruly passengers went down by half over last year, but this has to be one of the most dramatic we have seen recently. the flight crew became alerted to this when this passenger tried to open the emergency exit door and they got a
republican congressman member of the january 6th committee adam kinzinger. good morning. i was watching your face when he said that they actually revered the capitol and you had a visceral, physical reaction. what were you thinking? it s disgusting. look, you know, the sad thing is you have people that have only gotten their news on fox news that are never going to have the opportunity to hear the truth. because what tucker carlson he employed at his entire time he has been a grifter tv show host because he knows better than this, by the way, he takes he takes a cut scene and creates a straw man. first off, on the opening there where he says, look, there is only like a handful of people here. i know one of those rooms particularly satch statuary hall was filled with people. there are pictures of that. leading up to or after it s filmed there are moments there are only a few people in there. secondarily, you look at like, okay, one of the things he said,