new topic. a disturbing one. before january 6th, you personally repeatedly tried to warn federal and local agencies that extremist groups could be planning something. what is your take now that you have seen the senate committees report? it s a breath of fresh air compared to what we saw with the house select committee. it took the house select committee over 800 pages to really get to recommendations for the intelligence community. this is clear and succinct it. gives concrete recommendations about what the agency should be doing to go forward. but it also, if you take a step back, gives a lot of technical, it s not technical terms, a lot of technical information about what happened, where it happened, and who was wrong. so i think this is exactly what many of us in the security, homeland security space was looking for that we didn t get in january when the select committee came out with the report. but in retrospect, is it fair to call them the stakes? or could have been bad mo
that s what the first amendment allows for i think in a homeland security space, we widen the aprp scene it s the person at home that s plotting it s not the large crowd like we saw on january 6 it s the lone actor we are looking out for. we see signs of these individuals coalescing online on social media talking about the next civil war there are new york city police, largest force and best intelligence force you have the secret service. you have capitol police because you have marjorie taylor greene there. how challenging is it for the secret service to get donald trump in and out of this venue safely given the crowds around
safe parameters are being set. i think to me, what s concerning here is that now we re definitely seeing a trend. as someone who s working the homeland security space, that s what i would be concerned about is what does this mean consider hit back-to-back incidents and in the national security which i m sure that s what they re doing right now. what does this mean? we re clearly being tested here. are we we gotta make sure there were not also getting distracted by these one-off that are happening and really looking at the overall strategic picture of what this could potentially mean. this goes back to what you are just reporting before we got to monica, nancy. the fact that they re able, you are seeing the video d, the pentagon s able to pick up more of these things. that s what your new reporting a suggesting. how and why? again because they re able to see more things on those radars than they were before. i think the challenge becomes while they re seeing more things and shoo
and threats on saturday in advance of the election. we have seen plenty of data from rand, from carnegie, other think tanks that it s coming from the right by a big margin. disproportionally from right wing conspiracy groups and extremist groups. yet this kind of thing just keeps spreading and does not get knocked down. part of the problem, andrea, is that the country hasn t had any truth and reconciliation from the 2020 election. in fact, we have had the complete opposite. we have had political figures, and as you mentioned individuals on the right, that have continuously spread this lies about the 2020 election in an environment where conspiracy theo theorists, qanon and unstable individuals thrive and look for stories like ben talked about. there s no it s no secret to many of us in the homeland
here. this shooter was 14 when parkland happened, 8 years old when sandy hook happened. it is quite possible that he s participated in active shooter drills in schools. we ve had this conversation for a long time in the homeland security space. are we training the next active shooter in the tactics? the other thing is the access to lethal weapons. you had on the previous segment. when i was a law enforcement officer, most law enforcement officers are not issued tactical vests with trama plates. and so we re out gunned at the start. we understand that and you go in, you sacrifice your life even if you distract the shooter for a few seconds, help people get out, make them think about something else other than killing innocence and so there is a whole lot of questions that need to be answered. we re getting a lot of that now. every press conference we see, it creates more questions than