guard to come in and rescue them and their staff. now they find themselves left aside again, no longer uninformed about the risk they are facing, now they are informed that lawmakers just want to put this behind us and go on without getting to the real cause. i think that that s going to be going on for some time, unfortunately. well, carol, if i could just the tragedy is not the politics of it. the politics are just sort of like political russian roulette. thigh they re almost guarantees it will happen again. what they re doing is making it far more likely this happens again and that more events that incite this violence they re as
contributor. carol linnik. you ve been covering this. it feels like there s still some revelations here. what stands out to you? i absolutely agree there are some chilling revelations here. you know, i was lucky enough to get the first account of the police chief, and even some of this would be news to him. first of all, the intelligence collected by the capitol police and also by the fbi, but by the capitol police two weeks ahead of time at the time, maybe a couple days after the attack, we reported there was a small intelligence paragraph in a long report that warned that the capitol was the target itself. what is new here is the language, the visceral violence of the language. the fact that people were being
she needs to, giving that the commission hasn t come through yet in the senate, but i also think that chuck schumer is right. he has to put this back on them and this report tells us all the reasons why that needs to happen. there are still so many unanswered questions. we don t have the ability we now have several reports, each of them some of them slightly conflicting, each of them revealing different things, but we don t have anything that takes the 30,000-foot-level look at everything that happened leading up to that day and the days after. if we don t, i m telling you, this will happen again. carol, let me be the least diplomatic of the four of us today. we know exactly what happened before the attack. so do the law enforcement
and look at it, and secondly whether the underlying conditions that are lead across the country, not just from one state. so what is the phenomenon that we re looking at right now, and how will we address it forthrightly and and you know, donna, i never put a question about the democrats in a frame of, you know this is not their fault, but there is only one party that is interested in governing, only one party that is interested in investigating and getting to the bottom of what happened that day. so i guess, to you, i ask what advice you would give as they move forward with the republican party. i heard the same things, carol s reporting is better than mine, the democrats are on their own in terms of protecting the democracy and protecting from a future insurrection. what should they do next? well, i think that, you know,
the washington post is reporting that members of congress are raising the alarm about threats to the security back in their home districts. quote as house members head out of washington anger at each other is turning into fear of what could await them back home. several democrats said they re concerned that the toxic political culture on capitol hill could greet them back home as the communities open up, with the pandemic waning and vaccination rates rising there s pressure for in-person events. joining our conversation is frank fig luizzi and also joining us is carol linnik. reporter and author of zero fail. plus claire mccaskill is still with us. all three msnbc contributor. frank, i want to start with you and this the washington post reporting about the threat possibly following lawmakers