planting pipe bombs who is out there. that s absolutely right. you do your preparations for the crowd that you anticipate, but the wild card or the lone actors, the so-called lone wolves. so we have our attempted capitol hill bomber who placed two incendiary devices in front of the rnc and the dnc on january 6. that person has not been apprehended yet. in the last few weeks we had an individual who tried to crash his vehicle through the gates and ended up killing a capitol police officer. we had an individual who droefr drove up and threatened to blow up a bomb in his vehicle. it looked like he didn t have one, but nonetheless. so this message about rallying for the people who stormed the capitol on january 6 is resonating with that extremist community, and it only takes one person to bring an explosive device or weapons or that sort of thing to a crowd to really turn it into a very violent incident. so we re not out of the woods.
of the rnc and the dnc on january 6th. that person has not been apprehended, yet. we had in just the last few weeks, we had an individual who tried to crash his vehicle through the gates and ended up killing a capitol police officer. we had an individual who drove up and threatened to blow up a bomb in his vehicle. looks like he didn t actually have one but nevertheless. so, this message about rallying for the, you know, people who stormed the capitol on january 6th is resonating with that extremist community. and it only takes one person to bring an explosive device or weapons or that sort of thing to a crowd. to really turn it into a very violent incident. so we are not out of the woods. does it i mean, given your history in law enforcement does it surprise you that this that the alleged pipe bomber has not been apprehended? i mean, it s it s just on paper, without looking at any of the details, to think that somebody in this day and age could plant devices in
this isn t something that s passing, that peaked on january 6th and people are now moving forward. this sense of grievance, this sense that their participation in the political process was undermined and stolen from them is actually expanding across that section of folks that was represented in the poll. i take that as a very disturbing indicator for how that is impacting the extremist community. we know that extremists are motivated by this sense of grievance, this sense that they feel like they been painted into a corner and have to lash out violently to protect whatever it is they believe in. that feeling is not going away. and it s not going away partially because you have notable republicans first and foremost the former president and others on the hill who are fueling these lies, fueling this disinformation and really stoking the flames of what ultimately can lead to violence.
the age of terror and trump. police chief in d.c. as well as in philadelphia. andrew, this man was arrested with a bayonette, a machete, a swastika, other white supremacist similar bombs near the headquarters of the democratic national committee. how disturbing are these details? wolf, they re very disturbing. i think on an age level, what this incident shows to us and confirms for us is that political locations and political individuals continue to be very important symbolic targets for this white supremacist racially motivated domestic violence extremist community. so if anybody thinks that the targeting of potentially congressional members and politically associated locations by the democratic national committee is over and ended on january 6th, that is wrong. this line, this threat stream as we say in the industry, goes on. and i think every time we have
there is no question, wolf, this is a significant national security threat. we know this not just by what we have all seen in television and the coverage, but we know this because the director of the fbi has come out and confirmed that domestic violent extremists, right wing extremists are the most significant terrorist threat the country faces right now. the attorney general made similar remarks last week that the secretary of homeland security said the same thing. anti-semitism and racism have always been the hallmarks of the u.s. domestic violence extremist community. but what we re seeing now is a combination of that ideology with this very strong anti-government, anti-politician sentiment, which is really united a lot of groups across what used to be a fractured kind of spectrum. they re all now together kind of combining in force and showing up at things like january 6th and very possibly september 18th. so it is serious. chief ramsey, there were a lot of questions after the