violence. let s go straight to more, tracking so much of what has done said on line. death threats have been out there, some general like social media posts urging people to kill all feds. but there have also been very specific threats, in particular aimed at the attorney general, merrick garland, and the florida judge who signed and then unsealed that search warrant. how concerned are federal officials about about this going from online threats to actual violence? reporter: yeah. well, sources told our colleague josh campbell that the fbi s investigating an unprecedented number of threats against its personnel including some of its agents. and you can really see that playing out on line since right after the news of that search of mar-a-lago broke on monday. i want to show you some of the kind of messages that have been posted. you mentioned there s one called kill awed feds, another lock and load, another person writes, i m going to say it, garland needs to be assassina
The past 24 hours or so as people calling for the docksing of those individuals, post something of their details on line, as well, alex. and lots of horrific anti-semitic attacks directed to the judge in florida, as well. then there was a signed letter from trump s legal team to the justice department that insisted that there was no more classified information that was left at mar-a-lago. now we re told that was wrong, that investigators left that search with 11 sets of classified documents, some of them at some of the highest levels of classification. no one has been charged so far. allies of the former president are still really clinging to some of those allegations of entrapment and that, you know, false evidence was planted there. yeah. and look, that is spreading like wildfire. we re seeing some republican members of congress calling to for the fbi to be defunded. and then, of course, you know, a couple years ago the major
Load, another person writes, i m going to say it, garland needs to be assassinated, simple as that. we re seeing that rhetoric play out across the week. we saw the judge that people believed was involved in signing the warrant. we saw the court website in florida had to remove details about that judge because people were calling for him to be for his personal information to be posted on line, the website took down information about his staff, removed it from the site because, of course, undoubtedly those people were probably also getting harassed. and then yesterday when that when the search warrant was eventually published and media were reporting on it, there was an un-redacted version that appeared on some right-wing websites. and in that un-redacted version is the name of two specific fbi agents. what we ve been seeing on line
Violence. let s go straight to more, tracking so much of what has done said on line. death threats have been out there, some general like social media posts urging people to kill all feds. but there have also been very specific threats, in particular aimed at the attorney general, merrick garland, and the florida judge who signed and then unsealed that search warrant. how concerned are federal officials about about this going from online threats to actual violence? reporter: yeah. well, sources told our colleague josh campbell that the fbi s investigating an unprecedented number of threats against its personnel including some of its agents. and you can really see that playing out on line since right after the news of that search of mar-a-lago broke on monday. i want to show you some of the kind of messages that have been posted. you mentioned there s one called kill awed feds, another lock and
And unprecedented amount of violent rhetoric. all right. we know that you will continue to track all of this. from las vegas, thank you so much. joining us national security analyst kerry cordero. when you see the activitiry old on line, the major question is at what point does that move from the online world into the real world, and we ve already seen an attack against the fbi field office in cincinnati. how concerned are you? well, i m very concerned with the general environment of political violence, and this most recent event is just another trigger that seems to be inspired more individuals. what we have in this country is we have an increase in domestic violent extremism, individuals who frankly he have been radicalized according to a domestic idealogy, and we have a political environment that in some circles is encouraging violence or at least giving it