this happened and the families have still, still not gotting a full briefing from officials on everything that happened here. guys, every time we dig in we find more and more and more. there are so many layers of this, that we re now looking at moments of the breach and what happened, but there is still so much more information that needs to be learned, and that needs to come out. simone prokupecz in san antonio for us. great reporting. thank you. in a new book out today michelle obama, former first lady talks about a lot. talks about marriage, running for president her husband that is and former president donald trump. host of npr, sitting down with the former first lady. a fascinating interview, and it s ahead. (vo) verizon small business days are back. and there s never r been a bettr time to switch.
the author is on a ventilator with damage to his liver and arm and will likely lose an eye. cnn s simone prokupecz has more. reporter: he was speaking at an institution when witnesses say a man jumped onto the stage just as the event was getting under way and began punching and stabbing rusdhie. one witness tells cnn she counted roughly seven to ten stabbing motions before fleeing for her own safety. rusdhie suffered stab wounds to his neck and an i do men according to the state police and was airlifted to an area hospital. it was a state police officer who stood up and saved his life, protected him, as well as the moderator who was attacked as well. reporter: the suspect was quickly taken into custody. new york state police identified
time. the best way what i can do to fight this is to show the bully on the playground, i ain t scared of you, and the best thing i can do is go on to be the best writer i can be and to lead as open a professional and personal life i can, and it s just a way of saying there may be this danger and it s a terrible thing and an ugly thing and we need to fight it and defeat it, but we don t have to hide under the bed. reporter: the fbi s now part of this investigation, helping authorities learn more about the suspect t motivation, and whether or not this was part of some bigger plot to kill salman rushdie. of course, the investigators are still trying to go through a lot of information that they re gathering including a backpack. they were waiting for a search warrant to go through that. also a phone. we have a lot to learn. simone, prokupecz, cnn, new
republicans looking to win 2022 say it is politically a bad move to keep focusing on this audit. anderson? we ll see what happens. kyung lah, appreciate it. quickly, some breaking news now in the investigation of sexual harassment allegations against new york s governor, andrew cuomo. simone prokupecz joins us now. what have you learned? we re told the governor is going to sit down for questioning. he s going to be interviewed by the two lawyers running the investigation for the new york state attorney general. that interview, the questioning is supposed to take place on saturday in albany. we don t know the apartments of the interview or if there are limitations, but what the attorney general s office is looking into the sexual harassment claims made by women against the governor. certainly a significant development in this investigation that now the governor, the new york state governor is going to sit with investigators and answer questions, anderson. so is he under oath?
mueller investigation and obviously an investigation that was going on by members of congress who were trying to figure out exactly the contact that the campaign had with russians, with wikileaks and what they knew and how they used this information, the wikileaks information, to their advantage, anderson. shimon prokupecz, we ll continue to check in with you for the other counts as the information is coming out of the courtroom. if only we had some former assistant u.s. attorneys here. oh, we do, from the southern district, helen l or attorney e. it means he knew about wikileaks. and we re seeing the same thing in the impeachment inquiry,