have been committed by right-wing extremists. 75% by right-wing extremists. donald trump who is going to run for president has to change his strategy about the way he is approving in absentia in effect quietly approving all of this violence. julia, i don t see that happening. from a security standpoint, i was just talking to brad raffensperger and he said here in georgia, they re going to have an app for election workers. so they could hop on an app if they re feeling threatened. what does that say about where we are as a country. but how do election officials address this? so, yes, i agree with david. we re in a very bad place. people ask what trump s greatest policy success was and i think it was by creating acceptance
attack, telling his followers that a stench surrounded main stream reporting. we ll dig into the federal complaint with nbc s tom winter in just a moment. but joining us now, msnbc contributors, jc wall, michael steel joins us, a former chairman, now msnbc political analyst. thank you all for joining me today. i m going to start with you, tracey. just from a security standpoint, how often does the speaker or high-ranking public officials, the speaker, the president, the vice-president, the leader of the senate, how often do their families get threadened by people? how often are the families at risk? so that s an excellent
we ve gotten a very bad report about the condition of the house floor. there is deprecation and all that kind of thing, as well. i don t think that s that hard to clean up, but i do think is more from a security standpoint and making sure that everybody is out of the building and how long will that take? i just got off with the vice president. and i got off with the vice president elect. okay, but what we left the conversation with, because he said he had the impression from mitch that they want everybody back to do it there. i set we are getting a counter point that it could take time to clean up the pooh-pooh that they re making all over the, literally and figuratively, in the capital and that it may take days to get back. and so i m at the capitol building. i m literally standing with the chief of police of the u.s.
[inaudible] that s hard to clean up, but i do think it was more from a security standpoint, making sure that everybody will be good. hello, is this the president? i. we are okay, but i m with mr. schumer, mr. mcconnell, leadership in the senate, how are you? oh my goodness, where are you? god bless you. are you in a safe place? we re still not safe. everything outside is back. we ve been told it could take days to clear the capital, and that we should get everyone here to get the job done. we are at which has facilities for the house and the senate to meet. we d rather go to the capitol, but it doesn t seem to be safe. we ve gotten a very bad report about the condition of the house floor, with a
with defecation and all that kind of thing as well. i don t think that s hard to cleanup, but i do think it was more from a security standpoint of making sure that everybody is out of the building and how long did that take. and we were disappointed the fact it took so long to approve the national guard, but i m glad to see that s at least moving on. we ve got to make plans and we said, no, why don t you just put people in a vehicle logistically to get there? there is leadership of the national guard at the capitol with the capitol police leadership, but they have not been given authority to be activated. so, in other words, that leadership can be taking place simultaneously to people coming.