attacked him with a hammer, inside their san francisco home. when officers arrived early friday morning, police say the intruder told them he was quote, waiting for nancy. the law enforcement is working to piece together a motive for this attack. also, in early stages of investigating whether certain online accounts followed the suspect. nbc news reports the suspect quote, appeared to operate a website in which he repeated a wide variety of posts, and almost all manner of modern conspiracist thinking. aliens, two people, communist, voter fraud, many other topics. so here we are once again, processing another act of political violence in this country. we still do not know an exact motive, we do know the power of lies and how they spread among political discourse. no further than the january 6th attack, to the u.s. capitol. that threat to our democracy remains clear and present. joining me now from san francisco for the latest on that attack, nbc news scott claude. scott, where
governor, josh shapiro joins us this sunday, just days before the most consequential midterm election in years, the vicious attack on a pelosi s husband are raising fears of political violence. in her first statement since her husband was attacked in their home a hammer, attempted to tie him up. and said that they would wait until, quote, nancy got home. to be clear they hope it s a final winning message for democrats. joining me now, in an exclusive interview, white house press secretary something that all of us need to say. it should be done in one voice. sadly, it has become political. we need to end this. this is about the president has said multiple times. he has talked about it in his speeches and other remarks. the thing that is probably most haunting about when we hear of the reports of this assailant, this attacker, that you were speaking of. he was yelling out the things we heard during january six. which is, where is nancy? again, we need to end this type
I am wondering, though, frank what would an unequivocal statement from republican leadership have on tamping down the high temperature that is out there in the american populist right now? where threats of violence are or outright violence is something that everyone is not worried about? the? there are two ways to look at this. i look at this through counter radicalization challenge. there is a population of our population has been radicalized and the radicalize or s -in-chief are those who could have an impact if they d were to, truly, as the reverend suggests, come out. particularly former president, and say that violence is not the answer. i dance what you are doing as not part of the democratic process. don t hold your breath on that. i also want to add there that
Country. they are using the bully pulpit in a way that is propagating hate. you and i talk a lot about messengers, about messages. what do you want to see from republican leaders in this moment, when you see the threat of violence on the rise? we need more than platitudes. look, i see this through a national security lens. that means i see it as a counter radicalization challenge. so we need the most senior levels of leadership, in particular, those who are most responsible for it radicalization, the former president and platforms like fox news, to come out and condemn violence of all kinds. alicia, you know that is not happening. quite the opposite is happening on some of these most far right news and social media platforms. so now we are in a place where there is no incentive to do this other than being arrested once the violence has happened. we need to figure out the solution, along with social