thing that is memory holed, in the early hours of january six who tried to, with actual bombs, blow up the dnc and the rnc the night before january 6th. of course there was january six itself, when trump supporters stormed the capitol and attempted to over turn the government. some insurrectionist constructed a gallows, chanting they wanted to hang mike pence. apparently top trump thought that would not be such a bad idea. this is who donald trump has always been. his personal cowardice aside. a guy who thinks political violence is acceptable, unacceptable means to an end. a desirable one in some cases. don t forget, he spent his first presidential campaign encouraging attendees to assault protesters. i ve got a notice in case you see. we have wonderful security guys who said mr. trump, there maybe somebody with tomatoes in the
assault protesters. i ve got a notice in case you see. we have wonderful security guys who said mr. trump, there maybe somebody with tomatoes in the audience. [laughter] so if you see somebody get ready to throw a tomato, not the crap out of, them when you? seriously. [applause] i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees, i promise. so when trump posts to social media the picture of judge chutkan, let s call it what it is. he is obviously fomenting violence against judges and prosecutors. if something terrible happens, what are we going to conclude? every warning sign is blinking bright red. and of course, yes, most trump supporters, the vast majority are not violent. they will do something violent. even among those making threats, this shry woman, for example,
the security guys are at risk. he s got to do something. whether putin does whether it s a stalin-like purge of everybody or something more modulated, we ll just have to see. it is fascinating how history sometimes seems to repeat itself. steve hall, great to have you here. i expect we ll be talking soon about some of this. i bet so. now to two story of rebellion inside russia. the short-lived insurrection we were discussing and a voice of protest, whose story we brought you earlier this year. the reporting tonight from cnn s melissa bell. reporter: two russians in exile. one, a student with a rebellious tattoo. the other, an insurrectionist war lord. only one of them is on the run on terrorism charges. meet 20-year-old olessia. her alleged crime? an antiwar social media post last year that led to a conviction and her escape to
was going on. it s still very, very hard to know what s going on inside the kremlin. but obviously the people who have the most power and are closest to putin are ironically not only the ones who would be called upon to take care of problems, but also the ones who pose the greatest danger, the head of the fsb, the head of the other securities services, even the security guys are at risk. he s got to do something. whether putin does whether it s a stalin-like purge of everybody or something more modulated, we ll just have to see. it is fascinating how history sometimes seems to repeat itself. steve hall, great to have you here. i suspect as soon as we ll be talking soon about some of this. i bet so. now to two story of rebellion inside russia. the short-lived insurrection we were discussing and a voice of protest, whose story we brought you earlier this year. the reporting tonight from cnn s melissa bell.
was damaged when this flood happened in this room where these servers are stored that kept the surveillance footage. but they view it as suspicious, and they ve been asking witnesses about it and raising questions about it. and of course they re investigating whether or not there was any obstruction in their investigation. so, i think it s just an odd instance that raises a lot of questions. yeah. certainly. has all the video been handed over that was on the servers? do we know? we know a lot of it has been given over. but they have been raising questions, what we re told. we learned so much of what investigators are asking people. they ve interviewed everyone, i m told. they were asked about gaps in surveillance footage. we know they ve had questions for the security guys who were running and in charge of the security footage. there have been questions among that nature of what exactly was turned over. trump attorneys have said that everything has been turned over. this was techni