about the paul pelosi attack, raising serious questions about the security for u.s. lawmakers. moments from now, i ll get reaction from the san francisco district attorney trying the case against the suspect. plus, joe biden preparing for a major speech on threats to american democracy. this as an exclusive new cnn poll shows voters are overwhelmingly focused in on the u.s. economy. is the president in touch with their concerns? and new u.s. intelligence leads to very disturbing discussions inside the russian military about scenarios for using nuclear weapons in ukraine. a key white house national security official, john kirby, joins me live this hour. we ll discuss. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to our top story. new fallout from the paul pelosi attack. u.s. capitol police now facing intense scrutiny from a top u.s. house committee chairwoman. cnn law enforcemen
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major city chiefs, you remember him, women, when he was the chief of fairfax police department during the washington sniper case and the daily calming presence there. he s been basically doing triage since january 6th, which are what are the things that have to be done right now, and what is the strategic plan for the toucher, and how are we going to present that. if you just broke it down to, i m going to give every member of congress a security detail, by my math, that would be about 3600 additional people added to a police department of 2,000. so this is something where they really have to take a measured approach. they certainly do. whitney, more broadly, what sort of message will this prosecution send based on everything you re hearing? at least the hope is this sends a very strong message. when you look at the charges and maximum sentences, he could face up to life in prison. what sources have indicated to me is that more broadly, the srt of the run of the mill threat
the district attorney. i think their case is large i built by the defendant s actions. the fact that it s well recorded on video, the fact that in that journal, there s a list of other names and political statements. the forensic examination of the laptop is still in progress. so we don t know what all came out of that. but when you look at the detention memo that came out yesterday, aside from giving that play by play of what happened in the house, you know, it has other elements, including his statements to police that he wanted to hold nancy pelosi and use her to lure other officials to the house. we re talking about local and state officials. so you can imagine, does that mean governor newsom from california, the mayor of san francisco? he had grandiose plans in his head for something that was far beyond what it appeared at first. john, as you also heard,
far as you know, district attorney, has the pelosi family already heard the 911 audio and seen the video from the body camera footage? so that meeting was scheduled for this afternoon. i ve not received an update on wlrn whether or not that meeting has been completed. thank you. do the suspect s laptop and journal hoe the case that this was a politically motivated attack? so right now, as most people know, that investigation is still ongoing and still quite fresh. so they re doing everything that they need to, to flesh out every angle and every opportunity to find evidence for this prosecution. so we don t have any additional details to offer there just yet. but what we know based on mr. depape s statements, not only to mr. pelosi in the home at the time of the incident, but also a of the incident to the police, is that this was politically motivated, that he was seeking out the speaker, that he planned