the campaign trial. in south korea, police are taking the blame for that deadly halloween crowd stampede that killed more than 150 people. mostly young adults including two americans. and the conservative supreme court majority takes up affirmative action today in college admissions. singling a possible reversal on another issue that had been law. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington on halloween. the attack on paul pelosi spurring a flood of conspiracy theories and disinformation including from twitter s new owner, elon musk, who tweeted an opinion, an opinion article from a low credibility source to his 100 million followers about the attack. and although many republicans have condemned the violent attack on the speaker s husband, republican governor glenn youngkin made light of the assault just hours after it happened. speaker pelosi s husband had a break-in last night and he was assaulted. there s no room for violence, but we re going to send her back to ca
Clear to me the question you answer is the important one and there are both legal solutions and political ones. prosecutions are great, but they only happen after someone s been threatened or god forbid harmed and that s what we ll see in this case with speaker pelosi s husband. the real question is how do our institutions respond. at least in my lifetime, in american politics when there s been a tragedy like this, this is the attempted assassination of the speaker of the house s husband. people from all sides of the political spectrum have pulled together to condemn the activity and that helps to tamp down on the violence. when these people on the fringes begin to act is when they believe they re heroes. when they believe there s some legitimacy to the violence. so the absence of condemnation from the former president, from party leadership itself, creates a vacuum where these people are