qanon-elected congressmen. what would the questions even be? there were a couple of times i worked in government and at fbi headquarters, we had off-the-wall question. what if every question is off the wall and doesn t adhere to any form of reality? these also these qanon adherents, if they believe these conspiracies they oftentimes have no concept of civics or how the government works. it breaks down the government, not even because they re trying to. they literally do not understand how government works. some of the questions that you hear even today in hearings do not comport to any reality of how any of these agencies operate in a day-to-day basis. and it is just important to button this up with this. i mean there s now an intersection between the disgraced ex-president and this conspiracy movement, qanon. kevin mccarthy had a chance to say, no, not in my republican caucus, not in my republican
about the conspiracy theory that trump will be reinstate in the august. the theory is being peddled widely by trump world, people like mike flynn, qanon adherents. how concerned are they about this threat? i don t think they believe that large masses of people believe this is going to happen. a statistically significant percentage of republicans believe he s somehow going to come back sometime in the near future. the my pillow guy says it s going to be this summer or maybe there after, and trump wants to keep this lie alive. he needs this to happen. but security professionals can t ignore this because it only takes a handful of people bent on violence, trying to make their outcome happen to really do damage. sadly, security professionals throughout the country are likely to get alerts from dhs, fbi, warning them there may be movement, and they ve got to
is something we would certainly monitor and track as well. joining me now, mike rothchild. he s the author of the storm is upon us. i have more questions than i have time for, so let s start with the newest piece of this, which is this newest persistent rumor about trump s reinstatement, no base nice fact, and yet this is the reason we re talking about it you have officials within the department of the homeland security who are saying that they re concerned. your sense of how widespread this theory is among qanon adherents and others. first of all, thank you for having me. and this rumor that trump is going to be magically restored to office through some sort of power that nobody quite understands, sit extremely prevalent among qanon rank and file followers. this is a rumor that s failed and burned. they re not saying x is going
the fbi show warning to lawmakers that adherence of the qanon conspiracy theory may soon get more serious about trying to physically harm democrats and others who they see as their enemies. we assess that some violent extremist adherence of qanon likely will begin to believe they have an obligation to change from serving as digital soldiers towards engaging and real world violence, including harmony perceived members of the couple such as democrats another political opposition. a set of continually awaiting kids and we both act earth so simultaneously now we re getting that warning from the fbi and we ve got a local press in arizona, the arizona republican warning that qanon adherents in arizona and around the country have a new focus. have a new obsession which is the so-called audit in arizona
dhs secretary mayorkas noted in an interview with nbc news earlier. watch. we are very respectful of the constitutional principle, the first amendment right of free speech. we are not targeting speech. we are not attacking speech. what we are focused on is violence. the incitement of violence, the drive to violence, the commission of violent acts. the announcement of a national plan coming as the fbi has just released its own report warning of more potential violence from followers of qanon. from their report, quote, the participation of some domestic violent extremists who are also self-identified qanon adherents in the violent siege of the u.s. capitol on january 6th underscores how the current environment likely will continue to act as a catalyst for some to begin accepting the legitimacy of violent action. qanon refers to a complex and