no beverly hills. it is traditionally rich, liberal, and anti-gun. the spike in crime is a lot of people running scarce and different from prominent actors to real estate moguls are coming to you for help. tell us about that. good morning and thank you for having me. i want to start by saying it is not just the rich. we have a renting population here which is not just in the rich category. everyone is flocking to have a more safe environment. that environment has included buying firearms. spew and you once compared i read a couple of interviews you ve done. you once compared everly elsa mayberry. a rich mayberry, at that. now it has become a target. a security expert who worked under the clinton administration saying that beverly hills is a target. don t quote flashy jewelry.
in prison. he intends to fight the charges. reporter: rhodes, a yale law school graduate and arm vent was taken and custody, accuse of seditious conspiracy, of a premeditated plot of use of force to block joe biden s election as president. accord to the fbi, rhodes allegedly planning to disrupt the transfer of power soon after the november 2020 election. this is what he said just days after the election. because we have men already stationed outside d.c. as a nuclear option in case they attempt to remove the president illegally. we ll step in and stop it. reporter: that planning allegedly included reconnaissance of the nation s capital, buying firearms, ammunition, gun scopes and other tactical gear. he allegedly bought ten of thousands of dollars of weapons in the days before january 6th, and plans were allegedly made for teams of heavily armed quick
unfolds? it has to get done, craig, because we can t continue to live in an america in fear of all the public places we re supposed to be safe. this week the house judiciary committee, we had a hearing on an assault weapons ban. we ve already passed in the house, as you mentioned, background checks, and on the judiciary committee, red flag laws and a disarm hate act that would prohibit persons with hate crime convictions from buying firearms. the president should also be able to compartmentalize what s going on with the impeachment investigation. if he cares about anyone besides himself, he would recognize that there s overwhelming support in america to sign into law a background checks bill. congressman eric swalwell, thank you, enjoy your weekend. in just a few minutes, andrea mitchell will be talking the administration s handling of this high profile whistle-blower complaint. this high profile whistle-blower complaint. hurt? just sensitivity. i should see my dentist.
coming sooner rather than later when this legislation is going to happen. the house judiciary committee, the democrats are going to come back and consider a few different ideas. banning high capacity magazines, topping high risk individuals from buying guns, stopping those convicted of hate crimes from buying firearms. in your view can any of that pass the senate? is any of that ever going to become law? look, i d be lying if i said i believe mitch mcconnell right now as things stand to going to pass this legislation. we can always push. i should they should push, they are going to push perhaps on something like universal background checks. the problem is that you have a president now after parkland and after el paso and dayton that has said he s for universal background checks and then he talks to the nra that basically have him in their pocket and he changes his mind. and i don t think that mitch muc
april, just seven months ago. he was somewhat irate, acting a little irrationally. felt he might be suffering from ptsd, basing that on the fact that he was a veteran. reporter: they say mental health specialists cleared him after the incident. and because he was not involuntarily committed, he was not prohibited from buying firearms. authorities today saying he legally purchased that glock .45-caliber pistol allegedly used in the attack. and pierre thomas with us live tonight, as well. and as you reported there, pierre, the gun was purchased i legally, but authorities say he allegedly used an extended magazine, which is illegal here in california? reporter: that s right, david. long did allegedly use an extended magazine in his gun, illegal in california, allowing him to fire more than ten bullets at a time. and we re now learning that gun was purchased in 2016. david? pierre thomas tonight. pierre, thank you. there is another emergency here in california. we are seeing sm