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for acts of potential violence by extremists, and then you have to secret service, and they play an interesting role. usually, the secret service is a coordinating entity to come up with the plans for the rallies and speeches and any political events involving a former or sitting president. but in this case, that renot. they are in a protective mode, and viewing it as an administrative movement to protect donald trump from point a to point b and let him do his business before the court, and leave. they are not the active role that we see them in, and not providing the mag netometers tht we typically see. will they be working with the local law enforcement, yes, but they are not the controlling entity, and that is not something that we normally see the secret service engaged with. how much, if at all, have we
the willingness to incite his supporters to violence so what do you think the preparations for a week like next week would look like? i mean, i was talking to my father earlier today who said what do you think about, you know, this potential violence? and i said, well, i ve never lived in a country where the former president has been indicted on criminal charges, still has a significant following of tens of millions of people, a following that has shown a willingness to use violence at the same time that that individual in trump is seeking office again and the experts, the in violence and democratic, you know, turmoil inside democracy say groups react when they see a leader arrested. and so i don t know. and i don t think anybody knows. and it s just yet another thing that the country is going to
investigation in very short order one way or the other. jackie, let me sort of put into the record a possible counterpoint to this fear people have of potential violence and some of the trepidation caused by the things that the trump campaign itself is putting out that we captured in some of the times reporting. congress in a bipartisan manner had as many viewers cumulatively as a super bowl and public hearings featuring lifelong republicans and more recently die hard trumpers saying he incited an insurrection, he wanted an insurrection, he loved the insurrection, he thought mike pence should be hung. he railed against it he raged against it. now he s under criminal investigation. we make him out as the threat to the public he s somewhat impoimpotent we should just keep sort of the reality check that there were
our thanks. your rewards. the january 6th committee s final report is nearly 900 pages long! but despit warnings that they could becom violent, we saw that the intelligence committee escaped major criticism for missin foreseeable capitol violence instead the committee and th report focused largely o trump s role, which wa inciting the rioters to figh like hell, concluding that the best defense against tha danger will not come from la enforcement but from a informed and active citizenry. let s discuss, for more i want to bring in associated press reporter, eric tucker, who covers the fbi and the department of justice, and dr. harvard, former chief of homeland security an intelligence who himself warne of potential violence ahead of january 6th. this has been a extraordinary frustrating,