The same mindset, and it s highly disturbing you still have people in america who want to take on democracy and destroy it. And this afternoon capitol police arrested a man for a weapons violation saying that he brought a long knife to the rally. Let s go to nbc s elson barber joining us from there. I know the crowds are much smaller, but for the most part with they remained peaceful? yeah, i mean by and large they have. As you mentioned there was that one individual who according to capitol police was arrested. He is facing a weapons charge. They say he had a knife. We saw just a little while ago someone appear to be detained or at least surrounded and then escorted out of the area by capitol police in full riot gear. They sort of circled around this individual and backed out with them taking it behind the police barricade line. That was one of a couple of incidents we saw today. Apart from that, though, thick things really did seem by and large peaceful. This was not a huge ewhen you
Capitol hill. And by that i m referring to the socalled justice for j6 rally where hundreds of protesters advocated without irony that the thugs who desecrated our national state house in the world s view should not face their deserved prosecution for attacking police officers or destroying the definition of public property. Because they were victims then and now, political prisoners. As always, we have a lot of news to cover tonight, but i need you to know why today s rally disgusted me to no end. In the last decades where we ve marched and protested, just take the last few years when we protested, whether it was around george floyd s murder last year in minneapolis or michael brown s killing by a policeman in ferguson, missouri, and some were out looting and destroying protocol. We denounced it. We never protested that they were prosecuted for looting or destroying property or somehow political prisoners. We said that is not what we re about. If we had imagine if national action netw
Who on january 6th tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power. This is where we are tonight. Newly installed fencing around the capitol, just like after january 6th. Fencing expected to go up outside the supreme court as well. Online chatter threatening violence. Homeland security says social media users have discussed storming the capitol tomorrow, the night before the rally, and one commented on kidnapping a member of congress. It s not just the capitol. There has been online chatter about using the rally to target local jewish institutions. And socalled liberal churches. With very real threats to the capitol eight months after one of the darkest days in american history, the former president is weighing in exactly the way that you would expect him to do it, right, with a disgraceful statement saying, hearts and minds are with the rioters. That s not a dog whistle, that is a full bullhorn. Sympathetic with them? we all saw what happened at the capitol on january 6th. We all saw tho
Would be devastating. I m not going to get into more details. Grand jury has indicted a lawyer whose firm represented hillary clinton s campaign. Sussmann lied to the fbi. Alleging possible ties between the trump camp and russia. Good snap, good hold, kick is good. Washington wins it. Still believe in the good old fashioned way steve: the good old american way. That is justin moore. He is our featured performer today. It s still summer so today, friday in the summer our allamerican concert series brought to us by our friends at best western hotels and resorts. He will be with us in a couple of hours as we look at the dome down in d. C. Ainsley: technically summer until the 21st. Seasons always change over on the 21st. Pete: not labor day. Ainsley: right. Plus it s warm outside. Steve: it s still summer. This would be one of those fridays when it would be great to just sleep in if you could, pete. You know? pete: i wish. Ainsley: oh, guys, so, yeah. My alarm i didn t have my phone on th
Defendants recently said this. Now if the president said, if, you know, well soon to be president mr. Trump said hey go to the capitol again you know there might be a large rally. You think he s coming back? absolutely. People from all sides recognize that man s ability to negotiate. How is that possibly going to happen? well, if he was able to speak on public platform again then it would absolutely happen. I don t know if they believe in trump or the great pumpkin. That rioter seems to believe trump is coming back to power and going to appear magically hours after the rally. Trump is asking the georgia secretary of state to decertify the 2020 election, the same big lied that fueled the january 6th riot and capitol police speaking today about their preparations for what could happen this weekend. There have been some threats of violence associated with the events for tomorrow. And we have a strong plan in place to ensure that it remains peaceful and that if violence does occur, that we