lawmakers on both parties are experiencing growing threats of violence and intimidation. condemn what produces the violence. why political disinformation and perceptions of election fraud may be fuelling this latest spike in threats. plus, the closing arguments. if we get people out to vote, we win. with nine days until election day, republicans are hoping the battle for congress hangs on trying to make voters reject the party in power. we re not going to just see a red wave. we re going to see a red tsunami. ot who is going to fight to actually make our democracy work for you? my guest this morning, democratic senator amy klobuchar of minnesota. and youth turn-out. democrats are worried that voters under 30 are not motivated and won t turn out in big numbers. joining me is garrett haake, marianne that sotomayor and kimberly atkins stohr, senior opinion writer of the boston globe. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. the longest running show in televisi
allow members to get protection. maybe it is local police. maybe it is more funding for the marshals, so that s part of it. something to watch for immediately when we get back. i have a motion to take their private information off of the internet. there is a similar provision iv that has been put forth for judges. this is part of the national defense reauthorization act. i m hopeful that finally i will be able to get the support to get this done. again, it is bipartisan. that s something to watch for. local officials, local elected officials we should pass the bill that makes intimidation a crime, a federal crime and we should extend it to counting the ballots and certifying the election. we have a hearing of a local philadelphia commissioner who talked about how when he was certifying the results in philadelphia that joe biden had won, he had threats against his three kids. said if you don t say what we pd want, we re going to go and we re going to shoot those three kids, put their ad
that it s being stolen, that all the malarky that s being put out there undermined democracy. the talk has to stop. that s the problem. politics where some in office or who aspire to office work to stir up the vision, to make slks as angry and as afraid of one another for their own advantage.r and all of this has been amped up, hyped up 24/7 on social media. tdi on platforms that oftentimes find controversy and conflict more profitable than telling the truth.ut donald trump has yet to make any statements about the attack. the house republican leader kevin mccarthy did denounce the violence. targeted violence is not new in american politics. our country has a long history of it. 11 u.s. presidents have been direct targets of assassins. both almost died.es but since former trump s election in 2016, the number of recorded threats against members of congress has increased by 967%. that is not a typo, folks. to more than 9,600 last year. a month ago republican senator susan collins tol
won t take down threats to clarence thomas life right now. the internet is causing a lot of people to make connections they might not always make. in the end, we have a mental health crisis. we have to talk about that. it is not just the internet. one of the clearest examples is when donald trump finally, finally told the people at the capitol to stand down and they did immediately. these are people reacting to messages they are getting, that they have been getting consistently. if you look at the political messaging that s coming out, you don t see democrats threatening violence or holding guns. get in their face. if they are in a restaurant, get in their face. tell them you are not welcome here. you are seeing plenty of this motivation on both sides. hanging pots and pans in a neighborhood or telling someone they re not welcome in a restaurant is not the same as going into their house and hitting them with a hammer. no one is condoning what happened to paul pelosi. kevin mcc
i hear you. but it is you can t look at the entrance of donald trump in our political system and the increase and sit here and say there is not a connection. well, first of all, you can look at things like alexander pelosi applauded the attack on rand paul. we all condemned the attack on alexander pelosi. i do think that those and i heard it from the senator. there is this fear of calling the truth the truth, which is donald trump is who is the ring leader in all this. i worked on capitol hill in the 90s. i had friends when russell westin broke into the capitol. there are people who have serious mental breaks and they are motivated by a lot of things. sometimes it is who they see on the internet. shot steve scalise blocks from where i live. he was a bernie sanders supporter as you pointed out earlier in the show. you are seeing people who are really mentally disturbed motivated by things they see on the internet. some of it is because twitter