>>> 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