good day. i m chris jansing live in beautiful cleveland, ohio. this state home to one of the most critical and close races in the country. you can t go anywhere without finding someone with a strong political opinion. that doesn t mean their minds are made up. how many of you have decided on every single person you re going to vote for? no. i talked to a panel of cleveland area voters. all of them still waiting to cast their ballots about why they are still on the fence and whether the brutal attack might play a role in pushing them off. as we speak, the candidates are in five senate races separated by three points or less, including tim ryan and j.d. vance. but are voters happy with the choices that are out there? we ll talk about that and why millions of voters are identifying as independents and living their tickets potentially, a phenomenon not just in ohio but critical races around the country that could make a difference. finally, the message voters want to send to ca
very good to be with all of you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. charges against paul pelosi s attacker could be in any minute as the speaker s husband recovers from surgery in the icu. a source says paul pelosi is awake and has cognitive function and remembers everything. david depape faces a string of charges including attempted murder and a parallel investigation into the friday assault. there is a lot we still don t know, though, but law enforcement officials have confirmed the suspect was looking for nancy pelosi, zip ties were discovered at the scene, blog posts are being investigated in connection with the situation, and a range of contradictly political views including liberal anti-establishment and more recently far right extremism. it raises questions about the most powerful women in politics and one of the most threatened members of congress in the country according to a report today in the new york times, not to mention what happened on january 6th and these scen
developments in the attack on paul pelosi, the husband of the speaker of the house, as we re coming on the air. pros cures just finaling two federal charges against filing two federal charges against the suspect, including attempted kidnapping. we have new details about what the suspect planned to do if he had found speaker pelosi inside the lome. we ve got those disturbing new details coming in. also, this hour, new strategies and new names heading into the campaign trail, a big name democrat, now adding arizona to the calendar for a last-minute rally to push candidates across the finish line. we re live with that, as republicans plan to kick off a rally any minute. in georgia, new rallies, on the powerhouse race, one not so close and another couldn t be any closer. our team covering all of this, standing by. plus, former president trump is asking the supreme court, what he is asking the supreme court to do today and the new reporting coming from the white house team o
the state of our politics at this moment. even though some republican leaders have condemned the attack, news has been flooded with a what about and conspiracy theories and disinformation from a whole host of right-winged media figures. all of this happening while he s still in intensive care. and while an active investigation is underway, a little more than an hour ago, federal prosecutors filed two charges, attempting to challenge a federal official. federal officials allege the attacker broke into the home intending to kidnap and hurt speaker pelosi and he came armed with a hammer and brought a rope, white tape, and zip ties. he told paul pelosi, he wanted to speaker to, quote, tell the truth. political reports that the attacker had, quote, inhabited a vifd and resentment-fueled world of conspiracy while living a fringed existence, even by the standards of the san francisco bay area, that he appears to embrace falsehoods about the without outcome of the 2020 election. the
will receive would be 30 days in jail, at the very least. it could go up much higher than that. the justice department would like it to be quite harsh, a six-month sentence in jail. they also want bannon to be fined the maximum amount, 200,000, because wherever the court was doing their proceedings to try to figure out how much he could pay financially, he said, charge me the most. i was convicted, charge me the most. i m not giving you my private, financial information. that s what the justice department wants. they also want punishment for bannon s bayer. the trial was very simple. it was about, did he show up or did he not, wherever he was subpoenaed. today is about how he has acted throughout this process of the congressional proceedings, of the court proceedings, and the justice department writes throughout the case, the defendant has exploited his notoriety to display to the public the source of his bathe refusal to comply with the committee s subpoena. a total disregar