Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melber. It is Halloween. We have a live edition of the program

and boy is there a ton of news. If you've been watching, I was in for Nicole last hour,

but this is a new hour as we are awaiting what I mentioned, which will be an announcement

as expected of state charges against this unexpected attacker of Speaker Pelosi San Francisco

home. So we're going to bring you that live when we get it. We think it'll be at some

point later this hour. The charges are hitting after a separate action from the Justice

Department, which has already charged David Dupap with assault and attempted kidnapping,

the charging documents reveal new information that does touch on what may be the politics

of all this. And I say maybe because we have to follow the evidence and what the authorities

say, and much of this information is only slowly coming into view. But the suspect did

say that the goal was to quote hold Nancy hostage viewing her as the leader of the pack of

lies told by the Democratic Party and said that if Nancy were to tell the truth, he'd

let her go, but if she lied, he was going to break her kneecaps. Furthermore, the individuals

said they would show other members of Congress. There are consequences to actions. The suspect

did not ever get close to reaching Nancy Pelosi. She was not at home. He found her husband,

Paul Pelosi. And allegedly one point struck him and beat him with a hammer tonight. Mr.

Pelosi remains in the ICU following surgery for a fractured skull. And what are described

as serious injuries to his hands and parts of his arms. As you can hear, even from those

spare details, this was a very serious attack. It must be taken seriously. Now, the authorities

have not given a lot of further identification about what is the formal motive or linkages

to other people. And there are always cases where you have people who repeat something

they heard out in the ether, but are not necessarily as organized as say the very clearly political

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