forceful warning about what lies ahead. does that explain it? i have to say, senator coons is a friend, as you just stated. and really respect him. i want to just say this. the president has laid out this is not time the first time he s giving a soul of the nation speech. he wrote about it back in august of 2017, where we are as a country that. especially after what we saw on charlottesville. the two of us have talked about that. he s talked about january six and what he saw that day, what we ve all saw that day. this insurrection, this mob came to attack our democracy. and our law enforcement officers. and he called that out than. we have seen legislation, extreme legislation, pro maga republicans. as he said he used those words on the senate s to cut and to put on the chopping block medicare and social security. he has called them out. he has talked about it as well. when we saw the dobbs decision from the supreme court, to take away rights from women.
streets of our state capitals or the u.s. capitol or school board meetings and so on. because people understand the way donald trump used these domestic violent extremist groups. but they ve used him as well. they have grown in power. these are groups that could only gather 500 at their unite the right rally in charlottesville in august of 2017. now they were the vanguard stormtroopers of a rally of a march of tens of thousands of people that turned into a mob insurrection that nearly toppled the government of the united states and overthrew an election. that s a pretty heavy experience for these people. but we ve got to make sure that the end of it. and that we are not going to dissolve into violent clans all over america. that can t be the future of the greatest multiracial, multi ethnic, multi religious constitutional democracy that ever existed. we ve got to keep growing as a
these are groups that could only gather 500 at their unite the right rally in charlottesville in august of 2017. now they were the vanguard stormtroopers of a rally of a march of tens of thousands of people that turned into a mob insurrection that nearly toppled the government of the united states and overthrew an election. that s a pretty heavy experience for these people. but we ve got to make sure that is the end of it. and that we are not going to dissolve into violent clans all over america. that can t be the future of the greatest multiracial, multi ethnic, multi religious constitutional democracy that ever existed. we ve got to keep growing as a democracy. so, we ve got to fortify our institutions. but sir, this isn t a trial. what can you do? what everyone saw tonight is as awful as you could possibly imagine. what can the committee recommend, because that s what
we have to tell the story of the role that social media played and the attempt of whistle-blowers there to stop the involvement or the facilitation of facebook and twitter in helping the extreme right organize these events. we ve got to tell this story of domestic violent extremism and how it was coordinated with the inside political coup going all the way to the top levels of the white house. so that involves the oath keepers and the three percenters and the proud boys and the militia men and the first amendment praetorian and all of these groups. how are they mobilized into a mass violent street movement, coordinated with people at the very pinnacle of power in the united states? so, that s an important part of the story, because everybody understands that donald trump used these violent elements, but they used him too. when they gathered back at the unite the right rally in august of 2017 in charlottesville, they were just 500 people.
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