what we know about this attack so far. nbc has learned that the man who broke into the home of speaker nancy pelosi and paul pelosi attacked paul with a hammer and was looking for the speaker, confronting him by shouting where s nancy? paul pelosi had to be hospitalized after the attack, but he s expected to make a full recovery. ben rhodes served as deputy national security adviser under president obama and is an nbc political contributor. harry lipman is a former deputy assistant attorney general. frank was former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi and an msnbc national security analyst. and basel joins us. frank, i wonder what you re looking for out of this press conference. yeah. we re going to want to see confirmation that as nbc news that reported that the assailant was seeking nancy pelosi. why is that significant? it s significant with regard to who will lead the investigation and prosecute it. at the point that law enforcement understands that
minute. plus, migrants being used by republican governors to send a message to democrats and the president. but what about the men, women, and children caught in the middle? we ll talk about their plight coming up. in ukraine, president zelenskyy said his soldiers are poised to recapture more grouped in the south and east. but he also told reuters he doesn t see the war ending any time soon. former ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor, will join us. and take a look out of puerto rico s southern coast. hurricane fiona pounded the island, leaving 1 million people without power. the governor says there is damage that is, quote, catastrophic. and we begin with hurricane fiona s impact. the category 1 storm is currently passing over the then can republic after ripping through puerto rico on saturday. today most of the 1.4 million residents remain without power. luma energy has so far restored power to 100,000 customers. officials say it could be days before power is fully re
there s too much political violence. there s too much intimidation. there are more than 300 election deniers on the republican tickets this year for state, federal, and local government. [ boos ] this is really serious stuff. if a republican nominee for governor in the state of wisconsin wins, here s what he said. he said, if i win, my party will never lose another election in wisconsin. he s either a prophet or he plans on doing something about election law. that s president joe biden in california last night. his latest stop in a jam-packed campaign schedule before the final days of the campaign. willie, you ve got these republican candidates that believe in american democracy only if they win. yeah. we ve played the laundry list of them. senator ron johnson was on yesterday talking to our own shaquille brewster inside the state of wisconsin. shaquille asked him simply if you lose will you honor the results? we ll have to see what happens. his words, i don t know what t
we ll see how they react and see how that plays out. mehdi, great show, enjoy the rest of your evening. coming up on ayman, republican lawsuits designed to make it harder for you to vote. we ll discuss the anti-democratic actions with wisconsin attorney general josh kaul, new details on paul pelosi. reporting that zip ties were found at the scene. and the gop threat that media isn t covering, republicans are recruiting a new generation of young, far-right activists. how democrats need to fight back. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. all, right tonight, as of tonight, 22 million ballots have been cast across the country. early voting is now in full swing, so too are the legal challenges according to nbc news, more than 100 lawsuits have been filed this year, largely by republicans, targeting rules over mail-in voting, early voting, voter access, voting machines, voting registration, the counting of miss mark absentee ballots, access for partisan poll watchers. all
they both have a breaking news story to deal with, which you just delivered. everything i know about it is when i just heard you say about it on tv. just give us the short recap of it again, the donald trump apparently reached out to a support staff are at the white house. we don t know the norm of they sport they ve been described is a support staff. or it appears that it is not something that he would ve had a normal relationship with. this person did happen to be in touch with the january 6th committee separately, and so that feels to some people, and again we ll have that conversation later, it feels to some people like potential witness tampering it is been handed over to the justice department to handle it. we will get professional reaction to it in this hour. thank you very much. i did something today that i did not want to do. i knew i had to do it. i watched all of the video released yesterday showing with the police were doing in the hallway of robb elementa