the news comes after a string of attacks or threats of violence against lawmakers and federal workers. just yesterday a man waving a bat assaulted staffers at the office of democratic congressman gerry connolly. his father says the suspect s father says he was suffering from skins fren ya. in march, one of republican republican rand paul staffers was stabbed in washington. in february, democratic congresswoman angie craig was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building. and the most severe attack so far occurred in october, a man demanding to see then speaker of the house nancy pelosi broke into her home and attacked her husband with a hammer. joining me now, cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean along with l.a. times columnist l.z. granderson and former trump campaign adviser. thank you all for being here. jessica, i want to start with you. how did this happen? the secret service didn t notice this when it was going on? that s the big question, right? he g
So what were the facts that would support his fear? this officer was the aggressor. he s the one that attacked banco. he s one beaten up, slugged him, tried to choke him, tossed around all over the place, and when banko trial even was going, it was backing out, and his arm was raised, and then he was backing up, and he was shot. he was not the aggressor. and so that is why it s troubling to me to have this view that the officer claims that he was the one that was in fear when he was the one with the gun, he was the one that was a assault of of banko. so it s hard for me to understand how subjective intent can be acknowledged and accepted. you need objective facts to support. if you can have an honest but unreasonable belief. here there was no evidence to support that he was about to be attacked. and there is no knife. so we don t know if this was true. no one else heard. this let me ask you this, mr. burris. when you consider this, there s