you can see in this video right here, held out a key chain with two sharp point ts on it. cnn s evan perez is following all of this for us. he s here with me now. evan, what more are we learning about this man? that video, again, we ve shown it a number of times. very alarming. it s a very disturbing thing to happen, obviously. li lee zeldin, a congressman was on stage when this attack happened. the suspect s name is david j jakabonis. he s charged with assaulting a member of congress with a deadly weapon. you can see that he s carrying this object, he has this object in his hand as he approaches the congressman. now, according to the federal criminal complaint, these are federal charges that he is now facing. he told the fbi that he had consumed whiskey on the day of this attack and that he, quote, must have checked out as he walked on stage and asked if zeldin was disrespecting veterans. we should note that according to the army, jakabonis had served in the army. he s a v
zeldin was disrespecting veterans. we should note that according to the army, jakabonis had served in the army. he s a veteran serving in iraq in 2008, 2009. so there appears to be that part of the story that the fbi was told when they went to arrest him. again, he was appearing. he had his first appearance before a federal judge today in the western district of new york where he s facing these charges. jim, he was first arrested on thursday by the state authorities. he was charged with some state charges, a second degree charge there in the state of new york, but he was quickly released, which of course caused a lot of controversy given the fact of the nature of this attack, which you can see, you know, again, this is a sharp object, key chain, some kind of defensive weapon is what the fbi calls it. yeah, that raises a lot of questions why you would release somebody that quickly after basically an assault on a member