[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy] judy: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. political violence, a man targeting house speaker nancy pelosi attacks her husband in their home. the latest example of rising threats against lawmakers. and then a new boss, elon musk takes over twitter and fires the top executives promising to overhaul the social media platform. turning out the vote, republican and democratic make last pitches to the latino communities to get an edge. >> there is an opportunity for both parties to growhe

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>> the foundation fostering engaged communities. >> and friends of the nows hour. "newshour". this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: nancy pelosi's husband, paul, was severely beat hen with a hammer when an attacker broke

into their home. the speaker was not there. authorities say the suspect 42-year-old david depape specifically targeted the residence and shouted where is nancy. san francisco police chief said officers checking on the home witnessed the attack. >> our officers both holding a hammer. the suspect pulled the hammer and violently him assaulted him and our officers disarmed him and took him into custody and requested emergency backup and rendered medal -- medical aid. judy: the attack comes as threats to american lawmakers are at an all-time high two years after the attack on the capitol.

lisa, what more do we know? reporter: we got a statement and said paul pelosi did make it through surgery and a skull fracture and damage to to his right arm and hand. he was successfully out of surgery. that is good news. we know he was assaulted with a hammer and don't know if there were other hammers involved. the suspect is a 42-year-old. someone believed who lived in berkley california and we asked mary mccord and expert on these things about some things she has been hearing and researchers about online presence with someone. >> it is not confirmed it is the same person but person with the

same name is connected to a couple of different online atthat is espousing free speec and decrying censorship by the government and the other is a web site that engages in anti-semitism and anti-lgbtq, qurch anone and hate speech targeting women. >> i was told by a source he asked where is nancy. he went there looking for the speaker. he has been charged with multiple crimes including amendmented murder and assault with a deadly weapon. f.b.i. and capitol police. judy: a lot of questions of how he managed to get in and where was the security at her home.

what is known about threats against lawmakers and being protected? >> we are going to be talking about this but here's what i know. there was no police force there securing the residence, there is not security when she is not there. and remember, many of our viewers know, she is in second in line to president of the united states and no security at that residence other than private security or private securities. this summer, house of representatives did give a lot $10,000 for every member to spend on personal securi and encouraging like cameras and still members are working on that. threats are rising still in both parties. here we are coming after two years on january 6 and threats. i spoke to members of congress

and staffers who say, it is not subsiding and officers getting threats. however, lopsided more democrats getting threats. and january 6 committee, they have a detail with them and women of color in particular getting these threats and unfortunately as more nand and need for security there are 10% fewer capitol police officers than before january 6. judy: the protection level has gone down. >> correct or the number of officers has gone down. judy: so much here to unpack and you will be reporting on this. thanks, lisa.

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defeats. in a meeting today, president putin spoke with his defense minister and said mistakes were made. >> i want to thank everyone hole took part and there were problems and difficulties at the first stage. they have not been held in our country. judy: ukraine has shut down 300 drones. and part of a campaign to target infrastructure. police shut and killed two protestors in the southeastern city. they called for death of the supreme leader. more than 270 people have been killed since protests against iran's morality police began in september.

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>> this is the pbs "newshour" from wtae studios from the walter kon cite at the arizona state university. judy: musk owns twitter after a takeover. within hours, he fired several top executives and took the company private at $54.20 a share. the future of the company -- reporter: he has promised to roll back policies and restore some suspended users including formerresident trump horp praised the takeover and to prioritize and this could be overrun with hate speech and

bots. and musk tweeted saying the reason i acquired twitter because it is important to have a common digal town square. twitter. senator cotton: be a free-for-all where anything can be said. elizabeth is author of the new letter this week. welcome to the "newshour." let's start with what we know. elon musk has been in charge and made big changes and why on earth he walks into the twitter headquarters -- >> i think elon musk is one of the better known twitter users on the platform, and there is a meme of letting that sink in and

so there you are. as for his changees, if you are familiar with the court case, you know we got a bunch of his text messages when he was trying to get out of this deal and he was going to join the board rather than take over the company but after the c.e.o. asked him to refrain from making fun of twitter on twitter, musk, two minutes later in the text log is like actually, i don't think i need to be on the board. and after that, he launched his takeover bid. he is not are fond of anybody who reported to him after there was a mass firing. >> i want to ask you about what this means for the company. $44 billion is what he paid and

64 .20 a share. is this actually good? >> it is good for twitter shareholders. and musk priced in the premium before the markets declined. if you are a twitter shareholder, this is great. maybe if you are working, it is less great. he is talking about cutting costs. there was a reporting this week that 75% of employees could be expected to be fired and twitter was facing layoffs before the musk bid, so i think there are a lot of people who are worried about their jobs. separately, he has talked a little bit about wanting to get rid of spasm bots and promote freely speech. they are contact moderation issues and if you get rid of those people, there are going to

be more spam bots. >> you see one in five u.s. adults are on twitter. of those, 1-5 said they faced harassment and that is before the takeover and i take you over to the tt overnight from were racial slurs being tweeted across the platform and alone controls twitter, unlesh the racial slurs against black people and jewish people. is this what the future of twitter holds? >> it is hard to tell. a platform that is full of raishal slurs and twitter gets 89% from advertisers. we saw that statement on

thursday. but the other thing i will say before the show, some of the car companies that advertise on twitter, gm is the one i'm thinking of has started cancelling their advertising. so, i think if we do find more racial slurs and more harassment, that is not an environment advertisers want to be in and will have a hard time to meet the numbers to pay off the debt that he chose to buy this company. other thing we are keeping in mind, he says he will do a lot of things and maybe do half of them. so, you know, it's still pretty hard to tell what is going to happen over the next weeks to months even. >> on that point, do you see him allowing president trump back on the platform? he said he was open to that?

>> i imagine that's what his oversight board is. elon musk's reputation is on the line. if he is personally and the consequences is not great. the oversight board is to shield him from that blowback. >> and former president trump was banned because leaders after january 6 that the tweets could foment more violence on the ground. thank you so much. judy: latino voters have

propelled and made democratic incumbents. and we are back now and recently traveled to las vegas to talk to latino voters that may determine the balance of power in congress. >> in this room, a resolve to steer the political winds of nevada and of the country. [indiscernible] >> if she loses, we lose. >> 60,000 members. these are the people that keep las vegas cleaning and cooking. in their time off, they organized into a turnout machine for democrats with an ambitious goal to knock on one million

doors. they see this as worker-to-worker conversations that is mostly latino that is majority minority that is asian. >> this is a friendly reminder. >> latinos nearly a third of the state. democrats have dominated but that is now in question. this is a 19-year-old peruvian american, and president of the community college and he is voting for cortez masto. and she has invested in the latino community. but as for other latinos -- >> latino community -- i feel

like they aren't always democrat but trying to find a person. >> not locked into voting democratic. >> no. people who are democrats in the latino community. >> even with that, latinos are looking -- >> yeah. >> this is the economy, tourism has been back but nevada is the state's longest and hardest hit by the pandemic. lower-waged workers face a rent crisis and inflation is the highest in the nation with gas prices a daily reminder this in a vast state with high stake races from governor down. it is a nail biter. and it could swing either way. >> i'm excited to be with you.

correspondent e masto, a must won. shfirst won in 2016 thanks largely to latinos and campaigning with her mexican- american voters. >> i take on big oil because they are squeezing my family. i see it. but my opponent is not. he actually makes money from a d.c. law firm. he opposes prescription drug negotiations. laxalt is riding a trump wave. >> we have one shot. >> he charges that democrats are the ones out of touch. >> people are as upset what has

happened in america and they have done this much damage to our great country and our great state in two shortears. >> to win he and republicans have launched. this is a grass-roots effort from the coalition director. today they found this conservative who received education and the economy as key. >> gas prices and groceries, so -- >> what's that like for you? >> compared to a couple of years ago, it's bad. >> they will get to 145,000 doors republicans estimate, a far cry for the one million plus for those in the left.

>> florida is more diverse and more asian and latin-american. >> republicans are never going to win the vote. >> at the university of nevada, las vegas, the state is a mix, city scapes and desert. but there is an independent streak. >> there is a really low participation state so there is an opportunity for both parties to grow the electorate here. >> seizing it with both feet is another sues yes lee. she is getting creative with a dance lesson campaign event. her closing message is personal and tangible that she pushed for the funds to keep afloat and

focused on health care. >> very clear distinction, not just for latinos but for the entire community and what republicans have done, which is nothing. >> we have got some of the highest gas costs. >> april is the republican challenger, a high-energy attorney who knows this district here at this event she believes hispanics have core conservative values. >> hopefully we won't let them down. >> both parties are fiercely fighting for this group, how many hispanics vote here could set the course for the house, senate and for the country. >> come out and make the connection for latinos. >> if latins inoos don't show

up -- >> back at college, he isn't sure who will win this year but he has a sense. >> it is a hard time. progress. it's our time. for the pbs "newshour".

we have gotten to a point in our political discourse that things like this are bound to happen. and it is imperative upon our elected first, elected leaders, political leaders, to tamp down the rhetoric, to call it out and to say i don't know how to say it, but stop it. you know, i think folks need to look at, what would have happened if sperp pelosi had actually been home. it is bad enough that mr. pelosi was attacked, he is 82 years old. but if we don't get to the

situation where republican leaders step forward and say to the country that the conspiracy theories and the violent rhetoric is not appropriate, it's un-american and dangerous, then we are going to see more of these attacks, i think. i don't know what you think, david, but we are in a very scary moment in this country, something like this can happen. >> politicians have said their death threats have gone up. i have a friend in san diego who is the face of the county in covid, his home was fire-bombed and he wakes up and his kid is screaming and i had lunch with him. and he has security detail and that's just the way.

guy who wanted tore kill justice kavanaugh. and are we going to see much more widespread intimidation and violence in the streets. i hope we are not at the spot that we are entering into an era of violence and something bad is going to happen and something bad has just happened. judy: hard to comprehend but it seems to be the thing we are eing more of now. and it's in this atmosphere that we are a couple of days from the mid-term elections. temperatures are running high. what are you seeing? you talk to a lot of people. >> the number one thing is that nobody knows what is going to happen. you can look at the polls and folks are looking at polls but in the end, we aren't going to

know what is happening in the country, how the country really feels until folks go to vote and votes are counted. in some parts of the country it could be the economy, in other parts, threats to freedom, abortion rights could be part of the conversation. i was in pittsburgh yesterday interviewing the current josh shapiro and his message is threats to democracy interwould he haven into the freedom message and h.r. doug mass try ando who was here on january 6 and dabbler in conspiracy theories. does the threat to democracy work in other parts of the country? we will find out. judy: you talk to a lot of people, too.

>> i know what is going to happen. [laughter] >> it's my job. all we can do is look at the polls over the last month and swing for the republican party and how the polls have done this week, shifts in the generic ballot and shifts in places like georgia and herschel walker. and if this trend is real, you could expect it to shift. there was an additional swing against the president's party. once these things roll, they tend to continue. 538, the polling organization says it is down to a 20% chance and the odds are hurling against the democrats. and you could say with with we have sunk back to normal. the president's approval is in

the 40's. and that is somewhat true. i do think a few weaknesses in the democratic approach has been revealed. and biden had the economic packages but they have not said back democratic approach, we want that. voters favor republicans. crime, they missed that. the gallup poll said crime is increasing in their neighborhood and increasing since 1972 and hispanics, trump did much better with hispanics the second time and democrats, the gain that they saw in 2020, that is about where it is right now. judy: do you see it is moving in the republican direction and for the reasons that david laid out?

>> i will take issue with. looking at the polls, it is looking like the momentum is shifting or shifting back to the republicans. this news cycle, 11 days is a very long time. each day is an he ternt. we will see swings back and forth over time. there are two variables that make me hedge in terms of my false confidences. the surge in the early voting that we have seen in places where there is early voting. democrats say those are our voters, but we don't know that for sure. and i'm wondering, abortion, the dobbs' decision, when it hit, that was an earthquake and has subsided but will we see it show up? sure, right now, david, there is

a shift, but whether it is inex or rabl? [laughter] judy: we know the polls have not always been accurate in the past. we are looking at trends and you are looking at trends, do we need to be humble at this point? [laughter] >> and could be wrong and people said w were a bit wrong about 2016. but there have been so many. there are hundreds of polls, but race after race after race, hard to see a place where polls are trending including like the governorship in new york state where republicans are picking up steam. and districts that should be safe for them. and the interesting thing on the abortion issue which is a real issue but over the last couple

of weeks if you asked people what you care about, dobbs is a huge issue, and less educated folks, economy is a greater issue. and democrats -- one of the things they said, here's what you should car about, democracy and dobbs. and majority people said we care about crime, inflation and homelessness. democrats said no. if you are going to run a campaign, don't tell people what to focus on-t. judy: do you want to respond? >> i think democrats are running, national democrats will say run on this, run on that. and this is what your message should be but in individual races, but there are democrats saying don't tell me what to do. i'm listening to my constituents and they care about the economy

and gas and care about jobs and they are running in that way. and also to the point that big story has been made how much president biden has been out on the campaign trail and nobody wants to campaign with him. but the president is comfortable enough in his own skin that his message is do what you need to do. do what you need to do to win. judy: you are talking about it in your interview with him last week. we have a glimpse of what is going on in thinking between the president and chuck schumer. we are not going to play sound but essentially they said the debate in pennsylvania wasn't hurting as much as might have been anticipated. schumer said things might be looking better but we got a little bit of glimpse.

in pennsylvania, fetter man, against oz. a lot of comments that the stroke that fetterman had in may had lingering effects. >> i read the articles that said he was struggling and i was unprepared how much he was struggling and i found it sad. and so the question is, should it be a liveolitical issue. if i was a democrat, i would vote for fetterman. if you are a democrat who is in control of the senate. i do think that communicating is part of the job being senator. and maybe it will be fine. but i do think if you can't communicate as well, then you are going to be less effective at the job. and there was a guy in illinois

who had a stroke and he tried to run for re-election and it was an issue because people thought he might not be able to carry it. >> i think that watching john fetterman was halting. we are used to seeing politicians on the debate stage, polished or not polished but watching him was a halting experience. but for a lot of voters, it is legitimate to have questions about whether the person can do the job. we had senator kirk and having a stroke does not prevent you from swrg the competency to do the job. and i think if anything, in an odd way, human eyesed him because he is not the only

person who has had a stroke or covered from a stroke and made him more relatable and his big calling card in his campaign. yeah, i think as halting as it was, i don't think it is disqualifying. judy: we'll s how voters react. david and jonathan, thank you. judy: the russian government began accusing ukraine of preparing to use a dirty bomb, a device that would spew radioactive material and russia threatened to shootdown satellites. we have a unique perspective on russia's latest move.

>> we have interviewed ukranian and foreign officials about the wa in ukraine and there are inner workings. tonight an assessment within the ministry of foreign affairs. first in asian then in disarmament and he called the invasion of ukraine calling an unspeakable of cruelty. and a diplomat defects from the kremlin. welcome to the "newshour." you had a 20 year career and write about the concerns about russian foreign policy and actions within the ministry for many years. so why did you decide to resign after this further invasion of

ukraine? >> since my country invaded, i didn't want to be associated with the russian government or the russian policies. the views that this war is the gravest crime perpetrated by president putin against russian people and prospects and my country and in the future. >> you say a few dozen diplomats have left the foreign ministry but you are the only one to publicly break from moscow. why are you the only one? >> not a surprise for me to be the only one for now. and unfortunately, many russian diplomats are blindly believing in anything president putin and high officials. >> let's talk about that blind

faith in leadership. the they discouraged authority and how decisions made in echo chambers can backfire, what do you mean? >> the informati is a report to them and disinformation is quite different from what is going on in reality because nobody wants to displease them. everybody wants to say something pleasant, something nice. if it doesn't correspond, and make themselves more secure and nobody now dares to say that the leadership is wrong about anything. >> over the last week, we heard from putin and senior officials suggesting that ukraine was planning to attack its own territory with a dirty bomb to

spread radiation. some u.s. officials believe this is a cover story for russia to attack ukraine with a dirty bomb. why have they brought up that? >> attempting to derail between ukraine and the western partners. and also, we cannot exclude this is to justify the use of nuclear weapons. but i would like that we are not there yet. i believe if there is an understanding that any possible use of nuclear weapons would have devastating retaliation and will think twice if we continue to say that we don't want to provoke mr. putin from using nuclear weapons or want to

display or follow him. we are risking to encourage putin into these blackmail which may lead us to the point where people will have to use these nuclear weapons. >> jake sullivan said this, there will be catastrophic consequences for russia if the crime lynn did use a nuclear weapon. do you think that message has been heard? >> this message has been heard because for now we don't see any signs of russia preparing any nuclear strikes but i would like to add that this understanding should also be shared and afffirmed from other countries not only the united states but with china, india and other

important regional and global players. >> ukraine said it doesn't want to negotiate with putin and you agree. you said russia would use any stopping of the war to rearm and you said putin must experience a comprehensive route in ukraine, why? >> as long as he is still winning the war and present that he is winning the war, he will use this course of war. it's not about putin himself but changing the course of aggression or changing the course. which would lead to change. and that means that the entire political regime by mr. putin must go. and finally, the major military

defeat may make people realize that enough is enough. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. judy: major league baseball world series gets underway tonight in houston. we have what is known as a fall classic. >> the team that dominated the standings, the astros, against a team that barely made the playoffs, the phillies. while super bowl is the biggest event, a new history of the world series calls it the grandest stage. "the new yorktimes" national baseball writer joins us from houston. tyler, thanks for joining us. this year was the first year of

a new playoff format. more teams making it and additional series and you got sort of a team that barely made the plaffs and wouldn't have made the playoffs last season, the phillies heading into the world series, a team that won more games than any other teams in the national or american league, the l.a. dodgers didn't make it to the championship series. what's your take on this new format? >> has displaced both sides. one team that dominated the american league all year and the other one the number six seed, final seed. and that's what can happen. the way baseball is set up, no salary cap and teams have built it up, yankees and dodgers are gog to get. this is a check on their supremacy and gives six teams

per league a chance to do this and go to the world series. >> the first chapter in your book talk about playing in the post-season. we saw harper hit a two-run homer, the number six seed into the world series, but you go back and look at another phillies' marquis hitter, schmidt, another post-season, 1983, where you didn't do very well and told you, there was sort of the -- he talked about that, the fear of failure. >> yeah, that's a very real thing and great to be able to talk to mike schmidt because he was the most valuable player of their championship in 1980 but in 1983, he was 1-23 and first game i went to in the world series and he talked about in 1980 he was so locked in and

confident and take the ball the opposite way and wait for his pitch and in 1983, he was jumpy and hitting growbles and wasn't the best version. everybody strives to be. and derek jeter. he was a great player and performed to his career norms during the post-season and guys want to do it and be the best version of themselves and eliminate any pressing. it's pretty natural for some people. >> the flip side of that are sort of the unlikely heroes, you define them of the players hog make a seismicmpact while barely. do you have a favorite example of that? >> the first series that i watched as a fafn was 1982, cardinals and brewers and

milwaukee comes back to st. louis needing one win to win its first championship and don sutton and pitching against a rookie and john had a very short career but in that elimination game, he pitched a complete game and pitched through 2 1/2 hours of rain delays and most famous of being the coach at yale for 30 years and he said his players were looking him up on youtube. he could always say he was a champion that came through for his team. >> another fun-for-me chapter and the big world series and carlton fisk or kurt gibson's home run in 1988, but there were

also sort of smaller moments that either set those big moments up or had as an important role in the world series' victory. what are some of your favorite examples of those. >> dan larsen in 1956. four perfect games and one of them was in the world series. didn't win the title for the yankees. the very next day in brooklyn, the dodgers are putting a relief pitcher and clem throws a 10-inning one hit shutout and ends on jackie robinson's final hit in his career. it was an amazing career and will be overshadowed but robinson's final hit and 10-inning game. those are things that blow your

mind and happened after the perfect game. >> the book is "grandest stage." thanks very much. judy: before we go, join yamiche and her panel on the latest from the campaign trail. and tomorrow on israel-lebanon maritime deal. and that's the "newshour" tonight. i'm judy woodruff. thank you. please stay safe and well see you soon. >> major funding has been provided by --

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