From New York Times, I'm Michael Babbaro.

This is The Daily.

Today, what we're learning about the man who violently attacked the husband of House

Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the growing number of threats against members of Congress

and about the woeful lack of security around those lawmakers.

I spoke with my colleague, Katie Edminson, about what she's found.

This is Wednesday, November 2nd.

Katie over the past 24 hours or so, we have learned a lot of new information about this

attack that occurred at the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and about the attacker himself.

So based on all that information, what is the story that's emerging?

Well, let's start with the attack itself.

What happened last Thursday night was initially fairly murky, but federal investigators have

since released a detailed criminal complaint that paints a frightening story really of exactly

what happened.

Here's what we know.

Shortly after two in the morning, a 42-year-old man named David DePap shows up at the townhouse

of Nancy and Paul Pelosi and San Francisco.

He breaks the glass of the back door and lets himself in.

And he's carrying with him a book bag with a number of items, a rope, zip ties, and as

we will find out later, at least one hammer.

So once inside, he makes his way to the bedroom of Nancy Pelosi's 82-year-old husband, Paul,

who is asleep in bed.

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