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quote, it s not my quote just to be very clear. elon musk sending a message moments after taking over twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. happy friday. happy friday to you as well. john berman is off this friday. and the tesla and spacex billionaire, elon musk completing his $44 billion acquisition last night, once in charge musk was quick to show the door to top twitter executives. he fired the company s ceo, the chief financial officer, the chief legal counsel. he first agreed to buy the company all the way back in april and then he spent months trying to get out of the deal. in an effort to reassure advertisers, elon musk posted an open letter explaining why he bought twitter saying, quote, there s currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right and left wing echo chambers that generate hate and divide our society. what happens when one of the world s richest men controls the most influential media platform, joini ....
what more do we know about the attack? reporter: we re still learning more about the stunning attack. she was not there at time but her husband, paul pelosi, who was 82 years old was at the time. and what wae re learning is an assail aent broke into the couple s home and attacked paul pelosi with a hammer. the speaker s office put out a statement of what they believe has happened. they said early this morning an assailant broke into the pelosi resident in san francisco and violently assaulted mr. pelosi. the assailant is in custody and the motivation is under investigation. mr. pelosi was taken to the hospital where he is receiving excellent medical care and the speaker was not in san francisco at the time. we have learned that the speaker was in d.c. at the time. she s been traveling across the country raising money, appearing in campaign stops as we head into the critical midterm elections. sometimes paul pelosi travels with her and oftentimes he does not. he has hi ....
her pay and saying it s not a salary increase. in the midst of crime rising to alarming rates. none of our political figures deserve raises. rachel campos-duffy down in del rio, texas. rachel: joe biden says our border is secure. raise your hand if you say our border is secure. all right. there s your answer on that. ainsley: capitol hill is going to continue to stay cloudy there today. 60 degrees is your high. so take a sweater. ainsley: i m going to washington after the show. we are celebrating mary s birthday. ainsley: we are so glad you were born ms. mary. happy birthday. steve: what would be interesting though because peter will be there, too. i wonder at what point peter will start to pick up the bill. he is a grown up and has a job. ainsley: never, not when your dad is there. steve: you are probably right. somebody who knows about parenting is rachel campos-duffy. she is live in del rio, texas. and today, because so many people are worried ....
this is america s newsroom. terrible situation there. she was not in san francisco at the time so she got a call and it happened sometime in the middle of the night. we ll get more details, we believe, this morning and we ll bring them to you. bill: if i m correct, their home is in pacific heights in san francisco. high living as you know and a home in napa valley. this happened in san francisco according to the reporting. you think about crime and how we ve been talking about it for two years. lee zeldin is the republican candidate in new york. a month ago he had a random shooting in his front yard where his two daughters were home. point being depending the circumstances of this story, crime hits everybody. dana: there was also the home intrusion and robbery of the democratic candidate in los angeles running for mayor, her name is escaping me at the moment but she also remember had the gun stolen from her home. still don t have information about how that happene ....
details from our west coast newsroom tonight. good evening, jonathan. good evening, bret. speaker pelosi s office just released that statement confirming what they called the successful surgery on 82-year-old paul pelosi and saying his doctors at san francisco general hospital expect a full recovery following the violent attack. it was 2:27 this morning when police were alerted to an incident at the pelosi home in san francisco officers apparently arriving so quickly that the assault on mr. pelosi was happening as they got if there. our officers observed ms. pelosi and the suspect both holding a hammer. the suspect pulled the hammer away from ms. pelosi and violently assaulted him with it. our officers immediately tackled the suspect, disharmd him. took him into custody. it s not clear from the police chief s comments who was initially holding the hammer. whether the suspect brought it into the house or whether mr. pelosi had, perhaps, grabbed it for self-defense. ....