innovating things like the city of kansas city is doing, sowing among gun manufacturers here. and in cincinnati, we re working with atf, department of justice, to use data back science, in order to take implicit bias out of it, and put more violent criminals behind bars. we re also sending mental health professionals to nonviolent 9-1-1 calls. but we can t do this alone. we need state action. we need federal action. because this is a federal problem. you know, all the rhetoric, all the blaming, that s for d.c.. mayors have to drive results in our cities, and republican and democratic mayors are saying, we need help from the federal government and from our capitals, to take guns off the street, not put more guns on the street. since therei mayor, aftab pureval, thank you very much for your time tonight, sir. thank you. that does it for all in on this monday night. rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, chris, thank you my friend. much appr
city for the u.s. embassy, but ambassador bridget brink is going to be joining us for an exclusive interview from kyiv. in just a few minutes. i hope you will be there for that. back in 2010, the u.s. justice department arrested and indicted nine people in michigan and ohio, and indiana. nine people who are all members of a group that called itself a militia. the indictment, back in 2010 charged that these nine people intended to murder a member of law enforcement, possibly the family of a law enforcement officer as well. and then, when lots of other law enforcement officers would come from all around the country to be there for the big public funeral that would result, this militia decided that they would mount a big attack on the funeral, to kill as many law enforcement officers from all across the country as possible, and then that larger attack they planned on the funeral, they planned not to just use guns, but ieds. this was 2010, there already had been years of extensiv
enhanced i.e.d. against u.s. troops, again to absolutely devastating effect, enhanced i.e.d. with a shaped projectile that used these improvised bombs to penetrate armor. they were called an explosively formed projectile, it was a sort of super i.e.d., and in 2010, these militia guys in michigan and ohio and indiana, according to prosecutors, prosecutors said in their indictment in 2010 that these militia guys exchanged information about not just i.e.d.s, but how to build those kind of i.e.d.s specifically, the kinds of explosively formed projectiles that would be used against u.s. troops by iranian backed militias in the iraq war. they exchanged information about how to build those kinds of i.e.d.s, they amassed the materials they would need to build those kind of i.e.d.s and mount what they hoped would be a catastrophic large scale attack on law enforcement at a high profile public law enforcement funeral of a law enforcement member they intended to kill. and they hoped the
kind of long deep history we can look to, to at least make sure we understand how what we are covering now compared to similar events in our country s past. for this, though, for the january 6th investigation, i have to admit, i m not a bit of a lost. when the assault on the u.s. capitol, the underlying plot to stop president biden from taking office, to stop the peaceful transfer of power. this is something where does feel like history is giving us some fresh material. and now we ve got the congressional investigation about to show us their work, in terms of what they have discovered. and, at the same time, we ve got the justice department in public facing actions, like new indictments, and in subpoenas that have been described to us by the recipients. we have all sorts of new information about how the justice department itself appears to be growing at multiple fronts at this topic, multiple different elements of those alleged crimes. including, now, two different big indictments for
this is something where does feel like history is giving us some fresh material. and now we ve got the congressional investigation about to show us their work, in terms of what they have discovered. and, at the same time, we ve got the justice department in public facing actions, like new indictments, and in subpoenas that have been described to us by the recipients. we have all sorts of new information about how the justice department itself appears to be growing at multiple fronts at this topic, multiple different elements of those alleged crimes. including, now, two different big indictments for seditious conspiracy, which is something that is almost never happened in u.s. history. it feels like freshman tyrrell from history, given that, how do we prep? how do we make sure that we ve got our heads on straight, in terms of what this investigation means for our country. how it measures of against the challenges we face before. i don t know. i m calling in a pinch hitter right now, to