This is two hours and ten minutes. Thank you for coming. My name is seth jones, the harold brown chair and director of trance National Threats project for the center of international studies. We have a fantastic two sets of panels on what is an important subject and i think increasingly important subject and part of the motivation i think from Suzanne Spaulding and i in looking at this and i have to give you u credit, suzanne, for being the brain child behind this, was to look at some of the recent attacks including el paso and the synagogue attacks and note that there has been a dialogue debate within the u. S. About how to respond to it. The degree of threat and how serious it is then how to respond to it. So what we like to do is move in the following sense. Were going to begin with a discussion about the evolution of the threat. And how domestic terrorism, i know some of the terminology for these groups is the racially motivated violent groups. I cannot promise the panelists are go
Prince, the Vice President will also be abroad and the special counsel could wrap up all next week. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday, february 22nd. Along with joe, willie and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, politics editor for the daily beast sam stein, legendary ad man, donny deutsch. Oh, no. Thats right. Political analyst susan del percio, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and msnbc political analyst Eugene Robinson and msnbc legal analyst Danny Cevallos back with us this morning. Good to have you here this morning. A judge yesterday ordered that 49yearold Christopher Paul hassan be held without bail for at least two more weeks to allow prosecutors to build their case against him. Hassan was arrested last week on drug and gun charges. On tuesday prosecutors filed papers alleging he had been gathering a stockpile of weapons and ammo with plans to launch a widespread attack on prominent democratic lawmakers and several highprofile journalists. Prosecut
To carry out a mass killing spree. In a detention memo filed this week, prosecutors say he had been cultivating a stockpile of weapons and ammo since 2017 with plans to launch a widespread attack on prominent democratic lawmakers and several highprofile journalists. The search of his silver spring, maryland home found 15 guns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition according to court documents. Prosecutors say he embraced extremist views for year and, again, following the manifesto of a white norwegian terrorist to shot and killed 11 people, the same day that he made a list of people to target, he compiled lists of best place in washington to see people and civil war in trump impeached. Those searches on his work computer threw up a red flag for the coast guard. This comes just four months after the arrest of a florida man charged with sending more than a dozen pipe bomb packages to prominent critics of donald trump. The next day a man opened fire at a synagogue killing 11. President trump has
It was the Early Morning hours of january 29th. Smollett had just gotten back to chicago, posting on instagram that he had just spent seven hours on a plane for a flight that was supposed to take only two hours. He told the police that as he was walking back from a sandwich shop, the Subway Sandwich shop, that two men attacked him, putting a rope around his neck and, quote, yelling out racial and homophobic slurs and pouring an unknown chemical substance on him. This was all in the streeterville neighborhood where he had been staying. I know that neighborhood very well. I worked there for three years at the nbc tower in streeterville. So i know it very, very, very well. In a supplemental interview with authorities, smollett confirmed what had already been reported in the media, claiming that one of the attackers also shouted this is maga country. In those Early Morning hours of the 29th, smollett took himself to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a friend. And as you may know, jussie
Places, people could argue. Now there has to be an adjustment. The Obama Administration cut funding to look at these white extremists also. Thats about whats perceived as a threat. Its time to adjust. This president complicates that because he has cottoned to it. He has given comfort to these people. But when you say the Obama Administration, yes, maybe factually. But that was because of political pressure from the right. That wasnt because democrats were telling him to cut funding for that. It was because conservatives were upset, and he got conservatives were upset, but democrats also were on, you know, pun intended, they were on their own jihad against muslim extremism, right . And then you had that weird moment where they didnt want to say islamic extremism anymore, you know. So there was a swing towards being reasonable about it, but that swing never led us back to focusing on the main problem at home. We never got that far. Mmhmm. Weve still put so much resources into dealing wit