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>>> TONIGHT, THE
SUSPECT CHARGED IN THE
BRUTAL ATTACK ON HOUSE
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI'S
HUSBAND MAKING HIS
FIRST APPEARANCE IN
COURT.
THE MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY
BROKE INTO THE
PELOSIS' HOME AND
ASSAULTED PAUL PELOSI
WITH A HAMMER FACING A
JUDGE.
THE D.A. SAYING HE WAS
LOOKING TO HARM
SPEAKER PELOSI,
CALLING THE ATTACK
POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.
AND NOW FORMER
PRESIDENT TRUMP
WEIGHING IN, ADDING
WHAT INVESTIGATORS ARE
SAYING.
>>> TWO POLICE
OFFICERS SHOT BY A
SUSPECT WITH A LONG
GUN, POSSIBLY FROM A
ROOFTOP IN NEW JERSEY.
THE URGENT MANHUNT
TONIGHT.
>>> THE MIDTERM
ELECTIONS JUST ONE
WEEK AWAY.
PRESIDENT BIDEN
CAMPAIGNING IN
FLORIDA, WHERE
DEMOCRATS ARE IN AN
UPHILL BATTLE.
>>> NEW HOPE OF
PREVENTING RSV, THE
VIRUS OVERWHELMING
CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS
AS PFIZER ANNOUNCES
THE RESULTS OF ITS
VACCINE TRIALS.
>>> AFTER HER
DISQUALIFICATION
SPARKED OUTRAGE, THE
YOUNG ATHLETE
INSPIRING AMERICA, BY
TAKING ON HER BIGGEST
RACE YET.
>> Announcer: THIS IS
"NBC NIGHTLY NEWS"
WITH LESTER HOLT.
>> GOOD EVENING.
NOT GUILTY WAS THE
PLEA LATE TODAY FROM
THE BAY AREA MAN
ACCUSED OF BEATING
PAUL PELOSI WITH A
HAMMER INSIDE HIS SAN
FRANCISCO HOME LAST
WEEK.
DAVID DePAPE MAKING
HIS FIRST COURT
APPEARANCE ON STATE
CHARGES TODAY AFTER
HIS OWN WORDS OFFERED
INSIGHT INTO HIS
POSSIBLE STATE OF MIND
AND ALLEGED
INTENTIONS, THAT
AUTHORITIES SAY WERE
AIMED AT HOUSE SPEAKER
NANCY PELOSI.
TONIGHT AN ONLINE
TRAIL SUGGESTING
DePAPE WAS DRAWN TO
CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
THE STATE CHARGES,
WHICH INCLUDE
ATTEMPTED MURDER, ARE
SEPARATE FROM THE
SERIOUS FEDERAL
CHARGES ALSO ANNOUNCED
YESTERDAY.
IN A NEW STATEMENT,
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI
THIS EVENING
REFERENCING
WHAT SHE CALLED HER
HUSBAND'S LONG
RECOVERY PROCESS AS HE
REMAINS IN A SAN
FRANCISCO HOSPITAL.
OUR MIGUEL ALMAGUER
WAS IN THE COURTROOM
TODAY AND HAS THIS
REPORT.
>> Reporter: WEARING A
JAILHOUSE JUMPSUIT AND
HIS ARM IN A SLING,
DAVID DePAPE ENTERED A
NOT GUILTY PLEA TODAY.
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
SUCCESSFULLY ARGUING
FOR NO BAIL, WITH THE
42-YEAR-OLD FACING A
LITANY OF FEDERAL AND
STATE CHARGES,
INCLUDING ATTEMPTED
MURDER, ASSAULT WITH A
DEADLY WEAPON, AND
FALSE IMPRISONMENT.
>> WE CERTAINLY VIEW
HIM AS A PUBLIC SAFETY
RISK TO THE CITY OF
SAN FRANCISCO.
CERTAINLY TO THE
SPEAKER AS TIME GOES
FORWARD.
>> Reporter: VISITING
HER HUSBAND TODAY,
NANCY PELOSI SAYS PAUL
IS MAKING STEADY
PROGRESS.
INVESTIGATORS SAY THE
82-YEAR-OLD WAS STRUCK
IN THE HEAD WITH A
HAMMER AFTER DePAPE
BROKE INTO THE
COUPLE'S HOME AND TOLD
THEM HE DID NOT PLAN
TO SURRENDER, AND THAT
HE WOULD GO THROUGH
PELOSI.
IN THE CRIMINAL
COMPLAINT, DePAPE
COMPARED HIMSELF TO
THE FOUNDING FATHERS,
TELLING AUTHORITIES HE
WAS FIGHTING AGAINST
TYRANNY WITHOUT THE
OPTION OF SURRENDER.
>> WE'RE GOING TO BE
LOOKING INTO MR.
DePAPE, HIS MENTAL
STATE.
>> Reporter: INSIDE
THIS GARAGE, WHERE THE
SUSPECT LIVED, 16
MILES AWAY FROM THE
PELOSI HOME,
INVESTIGATORS
RECOVERED PAPERWORK,
RUBBER GLOVES,
HAMMERS, AND A SWORD.
FROM YOUR TIME WITH
HIM, DID YOU GET THE
SENSE THAT HE MAY DO
SOMETHING WRONG?
>> TO BE HONEST, I
KIND OF HAD THE
SUSPICION SOMETHING
STRANGE MIGHT HAPPEN.
>> Reporter: BLOGS
WRITTEN UNDER DePAPE'S
NAME SHARED MIXED
IDEOLOGY AND MORE
RECENTLY FAR RIGHT
CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
THE ATTACK ITSELF
FUELED BY
MISINFORMATION.
THE FORMER PRESIDENT
ON A PODCAST SHARING
DEBUNKED THEORIES THAT
POLICE SAY NEVER
HAPPENED.
>> THE GLASS IT SEEMS
WAS BROKEN FROM THE
INSIDE TO THE OUT.
AND, YOU KNOW, SO IT
WASN'T A BREAK-IN, IT
WAS BREAK-OUT.
>> Reporter: AFTER
RECOVERING A JOURNAL