morgan i want answers in this case, this individual was denied bond in december. another judge released him two weeks later. this other judge reportedly was an appointed judge by president joe biden. well i m so glad we are talking about this today, as you just said, harris, we have to shine a light on this so people don t normalize this behavior in charge cities. what is worrying about being in our nation s capital, the rand paul staffer getting randomly stabbed, members of congress don t have security, right? we saw the attacks that happened at the republican baseball game. and so the speaker of the house, he will have security, mitch mcconnell has security. but you have senators and members of congress that go around washington d.c., unless there is a death threat for that particular day. they have a staff, they may be by themselves. we shouldn t have people fearful of their own
intense there she chose a different location. senator blackburn and senator haggerty introduced legislation to give grants up to $900 million to schools across the country public and private to have armed police and veterans protect the schools. would you be on board with something like that. that sounds like we would be militarizing our entire society. i don t think that s viable. katie: what is your solution for schools who don t have security when bad people show up to do harm. you talked about the good guys with the begun that showed up and our police force handled that beautifully. the good gays with the guns they come to the legislature over and over again to protect them with
that because security was so intense there she chose a different location. senator blackburn and senator haggerty introduced legislation to give grants up to $900 million to schools across the country public and private to have armed police and veterans protect the schools. would you be on board with something like that. that sounds like we would be militarizing our entire society. i don t think that s viable. katie: what is your solution for schools who don t have security when bad people show up to do harm. you talked about the good guys with the begun that showed up and our police force handled that beautifully. the good gays with the guns they come to the legislature over and over again to protect them with
intense there she chose a different location. senator blackburn and senator haggerty introduced legislation to give grants up to $900 million to schools across the country public and private to have armed police and veterans protect the schools. would you be on board with something like that. that sounds like we would be militarizing our entire society. i don t think that s viable. katie: what is your solution for schools who don t have security when bad people show up to do harm. you talked about the good guys with the begun that showed up and our police force handled that beautifully. the good gays with the guns they come to the legislature over and over again to protect them with
2017. in 2021 when the january 6th riot took place, threat cases were 9,625. so even with this dip to 7,500 threats against members of congress, that s still twice what the numbers were in 2017. it is unprecedented threat landscape. and luke has reported on the fact that they don t have security. their offices and their own staffs and interns are the ones that aren opt the front lines when people call and make death threats. it s their justice that determines whether one of those gets kicked to law enforcement and investigated and need protective measures put this place. we saw on january 6th that capitol police are woefully understaffed. nothing has been done about it. in fact, they made it worse by taking out the mags. . they need to have more staff investigating these threats. there s some real threats there.