a very warm welcome to our viewer ins the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead on cnn news room. when you are 80, that s what happens. you are just not as sharp as you used to be. my mind is stronger now than it was 25 year ago, is that possible? attacks and low blows. republican candidates make their pitches as the finish line nears in new hampshire. we are on the campaign trail. plus fears of a widening escalation in the middle east. iran is promising to punish israel for a deadly missile strike in syria. and later a big winter freeze is gripping much of north america with icy temperatures impacting millions. we are monitoring conditions ahead. and we do begin here in the united states where the new hampshire primary is just two days away. the three major republican candidates are making their final push to republican voters as the presidential race becomes increasingly bitter. on saturday, florida governor ron desantis abruptly canceled
after the house speaker s husband was violently assaulted during a home invasion, we re told. what we know about his condition and the man maybe behind that assault. welcome, even, i m neil cavuto and yet another busy weekend as we get closer to the midterms. but growing questions as to how the speaker of the house s husband could get so brutal brutally attacked in his own home. she was, of course, in washington. she s with him now in san francisco. mark meredith has more. reporter: investigators have yet to say what they believe motivated the attack, but police believe the break hip and the assault inside the speaker s california home was intentional. police say it was around 2:30 friday morning when 42-year-old david depape allegedly broke into the speaker s san francisco home through a back door. he was reportedly shouting where s nancy, but the speaker, as you said, was not there. she was in d.c. it was her husband that was in the house. investors believe 82-year-old pa
What do you think of that? he was not a arrested on trying to potentially harm or even murder a u.s. congressman, but he is going to be released from kansasty into a treatment custody into a treatment program and, i assume, free after that. what do you think? and i hope that he gets help. he s a veteran, he has mental health issues. i was told that he had alcoholism issues, and i hope that he gets the help. what happened neil: but you don t see there is a bit of a double standard there, right? i mean, a threat is a threat. yeah, no, and it s a really interesting case because the only reason why he was even detained this entire time was because i m a member of congress. so on july 21st he gets detained. within hours he was released because of new york s cashless bail law. the defense then had to get involved in the feds had to get involved and charge him because i m a member of congress. but if i wasn t, he would have