Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Garrett Haake. There are eight days left until Election Day.

President Biden is about to speak about inflation and energy prices, and candidates and the biggest names in

American politics are blitzing the campaign trail. We start this show today with breaking

news on the rise of political violence in America. We just got new details about the attack on

Speaker Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi. Federal prosecutors this afternoon charged the assailant

who broke into the Pelosi

residence with attempted kidnapping and assault. The Justice Department says that law enforcement

found a role of tape, rope, and zip ties at the crime scene along with a hammer. And officials

have concluded that the intruder was planning to kidnap and to injure the Speaker of the House.

Additionally, we learned from court documents that the assailant told police that his goal

in breaking into the Pelosi residence was to question Speaker Pelosi, saying that if she

lied to him, he would break her kneecaps. The intruder told police that breaking Pelosi's kneecaps

would send a message to other members of Congress that their actions

had consequences. A source tells NBC News that Paul Pelosi is still in the ICU, and we've also

heard from a source that he was able to give his version of events to investigators yesterday.

These new and disturbing developments come as NBC News has further learned that on the same day Pelosi was attacked,

federal domestic security agencies issued a bulletin warning of an elevated threat of violence

directed at election workers and politicians as the midterms approach.

That bulletin says that the threat is being driven by divisive topics linked to the election

and to the

perception of fraud in the 2020 elections. In other words, it's our nasty, toxic, vitriolic political

landscape. President Biden addressed the current threat environment when he spoke at a Democratic

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