jobs in and live in day in and day out. paul pelosi, he is the husband of speaker pelosi, was violently assaulted during an early morning break-in by an assailant who was reportedly searching for nancy pelosi. a source telling nbc news that mr. pelosi was home alone when the attacker broke in. the attacker was armed with a hammer. paul pelosi reportedly suffered multiple blows to the head and is currently in surgery. the speaker was in washington, d.c. at the time of the attack. as for the assailant, he is in the custody of the san francisco police department. officials say he will face a number of charges including attempted homicide. the motivation for the attack is still under investigation at this hour, but a look at his digital footprint reveals he posted a whole host of conspiracy theories including anti-establishment ideas as well as anti-semitism and vaccine conspiracies. this attack is raising questions about the security of our lawmakers and their families in this i
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc in new york city. another new first for this country. the first trial of a sitting president s son getting under way in delaware just days after the end of donald trump s historic trial. what will the impact be both personally for the president and politically for his re-election. we ll go live to the courthouse where jury selection has been going on since 8:30. plus, the man who became the face of the covid response, dr. anthony fauci coming face-to-face with his congressional critics for the first time since leaving his post. the demand by one democrat for an apology, and what provoked an emotional response. the latest drama from capitol hill coming up. potentially devastating news for the families of israeli hostages. prime minister netanyahu saying today that president biden got it wrong on the details of a potential peace deal. and in his words, the claim that israel has agreed to a cease-fire without its conditions bein
i m not sure. i don t think we know the answer. i think republicans think there is. i think republicans think that, you know, the democrats overreached on some of the covid lockdown stuff. they can use that to their advantage. we ve seen that fly back in republicans face a lot of times, some of the conspiracies about the vaccine. this is another example of this republican congress, chris, have an opportunity to do oversight on serious things and instead devolving into this partisan bickering and nonsense. can i go beyond that for a second? one of the things fauci got emotional about is he talked about threats against his family, the arrests of two individuals, credible threats he said, that someone was clearly on the way to try to kill him. he has to have protective services. there is this kind of real world impact of words. words matter, and they clearly
The day. suddenly it s like okay, we re going to go back to school. even though the teachers, a lot of them, are not happy about it. you know, and, brian, you kind of touched on this a moment ago. there are so many you mentioned that lori lightfoot, starting now, during the first week in january, sounded like le let s keep the schools open not what she was saying a month ago. julie pace from the a.p. says you can notice a shift. and we were talking about this before christmas on how democrats, you know, they are looking at the polling. they realize that all the lockdown stuff not popular with people and so they are trying to expand now and keep the schools open, which who knew, that is apparently what parents want. watch. we are seeing this really remarkable shift. you know, early in the pandemic you could basically draw a straight line between your partisan affiliation and where you fell on covid restrictions.
In school board meetings. so that is the context and that we learn almost a billion purchases are in this database that is searchable and usable by the government that over the last two years and you were the first to say this i remember in april 2020 you said when they started this lockdown stuff with covid, where is this going to go? look what has happened in the last two years. that is the context we have to view all this, and that s what scares us so much and what we wrote the letter and we are going to continue to scream and shout about what is going on. laura: that means you are concerned about perhaps in the future cross-referencing this 1 billion purchase, and these are lawful purchases, with potential or suspected domestic terrorist which could include grandma in solitary confinement i guess today and anyone else that they think might be a problem at a rally even if they didn t necessarily intense bad things were commit a crime. you hate to even say that or think tha