boxes. the new york times reports this, quote, during president trump s years in the white house his aides began to refer to the boxes full of papers and odds and ends he carted around with him almost everywhere as the beautiful mind material. it was a reference to the title of a book and movie depicting the life of john f nash jr., the mathematician with schizophrenia played in the film by russell crow. one trump official who spoke anonplacely to describe the situation said while the materials were disorganized trump would notice if someone rifled through them or they were not arranged in a particular way. it was the person said, quote, how his mind works but the times describes trump s organized chaos was nothing new. here s a look at his office at trump tower back in 2015 from an interview with wall street germ. this office is all you, and it s a little bit junky. yeah. you know what? this i just got a few weeks ago. this is from the marine corp. that s the chair f
page, you can see that they re still looking for the pipe bomber that set pipe bombs outside the dnc and rnc on january 6th. this is an active, unfolding investigation, and it s an imminent, active, and rising national security threat. that s why i ve called it the american ingency. it includes members of congress, it includes the former president, it includes the former national security adviser in general flynn. it goes all the way down to the oath keepers, stewart rhodes, and people who could be convinced by their latest press conference. it s much bigger than a political story. it s a national security threat, and it has to be treated as such. what do you think creates not just the permission structure for something like this to happen, that as frank feglizi says a sham, but there was enough incentive, enough of a payout for them politically and perhaps operationally, which is even more ominous. where does that come from, and how do you combat that? it comes from the core of
this movement. if i were going to create an american insurgency, i d want to infiltrate places of power. i d want to infiltrate the media, congress, the military. and that s what we ve seen is this movement. and that s really what it is, this movement has extended to every organization, every power structure within our society. and that s why it s so difficult to combat, that s why the pentagon continues to call domestic extreism our number one national security. so the regulation has to come from them. congress has got to do something about matt gaets and marjorie taylor greene. the media has to responsibly deal with coverage. voters have to vote them out. the pentagon has to stay vigilant, because every time they issue a call, there s a radical watching, people who are becoming radicalized, and their movement continues to grow. it s not just how many voters that these people can get, it s about how many violent people with guns they can motivate to do things. and that s why the threa
yeah, i mean, the simple version of your question is, can we protect us from ourselves? that s the threat right now. the threat and risk picture is higher than it s been in many, many, many years. and the toolkit, as you say, is lacking. and you know, if i had to pick a general category of questions that i get the most when i m out and about or public speaking or on social media, it s this, it s this kind of question. who s going to do something about this? why can t we do something about this? can t this person be arrested? and i have to go through the whole lecture, unfortunately, on free speech, freedom of assembly, constitutional rights, what s a crime, what s not a crime. and the reality is that federal law enforcement, local, county, state law enforcement, can t be everywhere all at once. they can t be all over social media. we don t want that. but yet, like you said, when we re telling the average citizen, please notify law
the pit of my stomach wondering what else was taken that i don t have back, that i need to worry about. it s a question and a threat that hasn t stopped. and again, looking at this i see it as a counter intelligence nightmare. mike, you ve done extensive reporting on the counter intelligence questions that were asked about donald trump at the beginning of his presidency. in some ways i look at it, but it s sort of i m not sure if it s a next chapter or a book end, but, look, in may of 217, you know, andy mccabe and struck open up this investigation into whether donald trump is a national security threat and obstructing justice. and while the issues in the indictment are different than the issues that they were looking at at the time,