on capitol hill today having to do with investigating january 6th. here s what else we re learning this hour. donald trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, is reversing the call he made last week to cooperate with the 1/6 select committee, to which the panel responded just over an hour ago, saying, if meadows does not appear at his scheduled deposition, they will be left no choice but to advance contempt proceedings and recommend that the body in which he once served refer him for criminal prosecution. that comes as marc short, the former chief of staff to mike pence, is cooperating with the committee. short could be a very crucial witness as he was with the vice president on the day of the insurrection. him and folks like john eastman were hounding mike pence to get him to overturn the will of the american voters. today also marks the select committee s deadline for document production from those extremist organizations, the proud boys and the oath keepers, as well as their lead
demonstrates proud boys members were involved in the attack. he wasn t even there. he wasn t supposed to be there. he is being examined and subpoenaed solely for his role prior to january 6, organizing, planning and inciting. explain how much of that was going on. so, after the election, i was doing things that some other veterans were doing and joining these extremist organizations. now i was joining them because i wanted to know what they were planning. and i joined the three percenters and during the screening, using basically my real profile as an iraq veteran as background, they re asking me questions about my weapon system, my secondary meaning my handgun, how i was prepared too to use it, what i would do in
we are so concerned that as time goes on, as this pandemic goes on, that these threats, intimidation, harassment, and really are advancing in some cases and becoming more dangerous. this has been an ongoing problem throughout the pandemic, but there is concern about threats becoming more dangerous as well. and the southern poverty law center, which tracks hate groups, political violence, and extremist organizations, the center says that it has noticed threats against public health officials might be coming from individuals tied to extremist groups. our research indicated that some of the threats have come from individuals with known affiliation with far-right advocati participating in en violence. this is something the center is
a bunch of republicans came in and acted like clowns. i was personally offended by the fact that a bunch of republicans came in like madison and wanted to set up this perfect instagram background before he felt like addressing veterans. you know, these people don t, don t take this issue seriously. of veterans being recruited by extremist organizations. it s not that they re just like going outside of a post or going into a dfw or legion and they re like grabbing people, signing them up. it s not how it happens. they radicalize them. what s different about 20th century extremists and today is today s are studying all of the fascist movements, the propaganda movements of the 20th century. they re reading the same books that i am. and they re taking the lessons from them and applying it to the 21st century. they re using memes, knew mettic
yo, sarge, mind grabbing the end of the flat screen. we excuse the criminals who are the real threats, the national school board who represents 90,000 school officials begged joe biden on wednesday upset over upover mask mandates forced upon their kids saying parents should be treated like domestic terrorisms by extremist organizations. yeah, the mom looking out for her kids is the same as a one-eyed monster with a hook for the hand some they implored joe biden to deploy the fbi. they ll probably listen. the teacher s union realizing the worst thing about covid is parents realizing how bad the unions are. and now that parents are taking a more active role from these idiot, they re considered a threat. anyone who disagrees with these