intimidate investigators and doj prosecutors across the country who are engaged in a very active investigation of what happened january 6th and, of course, the select committee. it s a public attempt to shape the argument. famously billy martin, the infamous former manager of the new york yankees was asked one time, why are you ranting and raving and yelling at the umpire? he s never going to change his call. billy martin said, i m not arguing that call. i m arguing for the next call. it s an attempt to intimidate, to bully, that s what s going on right now, so people think that if there s a legitimate theory here that the january 6th committee is out to get people, not out for justice, that any prosecution that comes down the pike is somehow going to be politicalized, that s what is going on here and at its worst through my security lens, it is going to give license to people to act out violently. you have president trump, was it
directed a memorandum of understanding to the senate and the governor general. bauder said in a video posted to social media in january that he hoped the m.o.u. would provide a referendum to trigger an election which is not within the agency s constitutional powers. in the same video, bauder said the hope for election would be legitimate because canada does not use the dominion voting machines at the center of rigged election conspiracy theories about the 2020 u.s. presidential election. frank, what i m hearing here is members of this canadian protest parroting right-wing talking points from the united states. many of these people are also connected to anti-islam, anti-immigration, anti-black organizations. are we seeing a convergence here of sort of white nationalism across the border, under the guise of another vaccine protest? so, as i look at what s happening in canada, through a security lens, a domestic threat and risk lens, i see what is a
professionals: lawmakers have already offered rittenhouse internships, and he has been framed by some as a hero. americans saw what they wanted to see, what did the domestic violence extremists wrong them see in for that, frank figliuzzi joins us. the rev is still here. frank, i wanted to know what sorts of worries folks in law enforcement would have about the messages, as maya, and the rev have been talking about, that might be received based on rittenhouse s acquittal? i had a column for msnbc daily come out earlier this week. said this. i am not as focused on the verdict as our response to it and the repercussions of it. that was monday when we had no idea what the outcome would be. from my security lens, what i
trying to do foreign policy work, as far as where we are in a realistic way and how we re looked at by the rest of the world. and that does concern me. and frank, on the counterextremism front, i mean, these events seem to sort of birth a million new avenues for the disinformation to fuel the conspiracy, to say, oh, yeah, we re right, we got it, we won, we got rid of hobbs. how does news like this land inside that sort of alternate reality of the conspiracy theorists and those on the side of continuing the big lie? well, you ve read my mind. if you didn t raise this question, i was going to do it because through the security lens, what this does is it continues to feed and almost mentor and facilitate the radical extremists who are tied to the big lie and the longer this is allowed to go on, whether it s arizona, which, by the way, is not really a one-off. you re going to see this action against katie hobbs here. you re going to see things like