maricopa county, arizona all right, good morning, welcome to the cross connection, i am tiffany cross. as you heard right now, house speaker nancy pelosi s husband was attacked yesterday. a 42-year-old man broke into those tight offices go home, hit paul pelosi in the head with the hammer multiple times, that s according to law enforcement, and the man says he is going to tie him up and quote, until nancy got home. that poured is quoted to a pelosi family member. thankfully she said paul pelosi is expected to make a full recovery, this is after he has to undergo surgery to repair is gold fracture. we don t know the precise motive at the law enforcement, they say he is still investigating, with officials saying that the suspects social media posts shows a quote, mixed ideology of both anti establishment, and more recently, far-right extremist ideas. the attacker does come amid but capital police say the huge spike in threats against members of congress. this is where we are.
You to listen to the republican governor glenn youngkin of virginia and what he had to say, not long after, just hours after nancy pelosi has been was attacked and hit in the head by a hammer, this was his remark, take a listen. speaker pelosi has been had a break-in last night in their house, he was assaulted, there is no room for violence anywhere, we will send her back to be with him in california. it s just not an appropriate remark to make, it s almost, you know, comes really close to there are good people on both sides. when you have elected officials were not as appalled as the rest of us who have some sort of humanity the house speaker, what does that say about where we are in our politics when someone like that, a governor of a state is, you know, being tongue-in-cheek about this vicious attack? well, you are absolutely correct, we normalize the