but from a homeland security and intelligence standpoint, the radical violent right is not nearly as dangerous or well equipped to attack the homeland as is the left. we ve been ignoring the violent right for decades. go back to timothy mcvay and eric rudolph. so this problem has been brewing for a while. i will tell you as someone who studies this, that the disproportionate amount of our homeland security intelligence and domestic terrorism efforts, going back to the civil rights era have been really targeted towards black and brown individual, which buttresses what we saw on january 6th. the taped recordings, the transcripts, rather, from the d.c. national guard general that s now the house sergeant at arms, general walker former general walker. said it clearly had those been
election, and yet they feel the need to do that for the safety of the process and the people involved. with that very serious context i want to bring in max boot from the council on foreign relations, washington post columnist, who s previously worked for republican officials. and donnell harvin, the former chief of homeland security intelligence for washington, d.c. welcome to you both. donnell, i mentioned that there s a great deal of review and care that goes into any such bulletin. with that in mind, what do you interpret as the significance and the reason that dhs thought we would all be better off having this information going into next week? well, that really is a call to the state and locals to secure their election process. i was on your show this time last year, ari, if you ll recall, and we were talking about looking backwards at january 6th but being aware of the threat that s in front of us. and the threat that s in front of us is the folks that encouraged and spread t
it really does. and the fbi and homeland security intelligence shows threats pointing to specific official targets with types of weapons to be used mentioned in this chatter. so part of the guideline, i m told, to law enforcement is about signs for suspect behavior that should put law enforcement on alert hallie kelly o donnell, live for us at the white house. thank you. with officials on high alert, a scary scene playing out overnight near the capitol. a man crashing his car into a barricade and then opening fire. reporter: tonight, d.c. law enforcement on high alert. capitol police say 29-year-old delaware resident richard york killed himself after plowing his car into a capitol barricade early sunday morning a powerful explosion heard at 318 east capitol street northeast. reporter: the chilling aftermath revealed after sunrise. you can still see the scorch marks where
fbi director christopher wray, appointed by president trump, warned against these threat oz on wednesday. listen. any threats made against law enforcement including the men and women of the fbi as with any law enforcement agency are deplorable and dangerous. let me bring in brian murphy, the former acting undersecretary for the homeland security intelligence office under trump administration. and i should remind people, brian, that at the time you found the whistle-blower complaint in 2020 accusing trump appointees of pressuring career officials to downplay the threat posed by white supremacists. that s the background, that s where you rang the alarm bells and now you work for a company that combines ai and experts to as you call it tackle myths and disinformation, putting them together to try to stop this growing threat. you ve seen a growing threat, as i understand it, since monday, since this search on monday.