that capitol police officers are feeling as they protect congressional leadership, their families. but they also feel this pressure to protect so many other lawmakers receiving threats, especially as they begin to travel even more. crisscrossing the country campaigning across the midterms, yasmin. aly rafael for us, ali, thank, you we appreciate. want to bring in a row that democrats and senator sheldon whitehouse. senator, thank you for joining us on this. we appreciate it. good to be with you. let s talk first about this attack on speaker pelosi s husband, paul pelosi in the early hours yesterday morning. we know that he is going to have, now, doctors say he s gonna have a full recovery. but nonetheless, incredibly troubling at it to all talk place. you see those numbers, the threats that lawmakers are receiving now, almost tripling in the last four years or so. what do you make of it in the rising violence and rhetoric that we are seeing? we ll just start with what a
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you re looking beyond 2022, donald trump, in the middle of, i mean, frankly legal chaos here, layers of investigations, ultimately the voters, they are still siding with the candidates who he is going around the country campaigning for. this is the republican party that folks like liz cheney, while they may be talking about their own 2024 run or even asa hushpson and larry hogan, another wing of the republican party, but right now the republican voters are selecting the trump-backed candidates over them. before i let you go a really quick volume fun. i ve seep some voters talk about liz cheney as though they already know the outcome of this election but they are looking for her to do more potentially in 2024. have you heard anything like that on ground there? yes. allies that i ve talked to she s looking to ultimately whether she s in office or not, mount an effort and, quote, do whatever it takes to keep donald trump from getting back not white house. that could include, i m told,
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