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police are prepared for the worst. fencing has been reinstalled and officers are on high alert. but this is not another insurrection. let s be clear. it is not even really a protest. it is just a sad political temper tantrum by folks who don t understand how democracy works. listen, i don t want to downplay the potential threat here because right wing extremists that are drown to these causes can certainly be violence as we saw in january. but what is happening today doesn t have the same threat level as what happened on january 6. one, congress is not in session. two, a presidential election isn t be certified. and this time law enforcement certainly does appear to be prepared. what i want to do throughout our show is make a bigger point about extremism. and that as dangerous as folks in the streets can be, it is the ones in the halls of power that you have to watch out for. let me tell you who the extremists that caused the most damage and lasting danger, and that is ....
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 so-called 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 6t ....
news continues. let s turn things over to don and don lemon tonight. good evening, everyone. this is don lemon tonight. and the news from capitol hill is ominous. an urgent, new warning from homeland security about the increasing possibility of violence at the so-called justice for 6th rally. which let s remember, is in defense of the blood-thirsty insurrectionists 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. and it s not just the capitol. there has been online chatter about using the rally to target local jewish institutions. elected officials and so-called liberal churches. and ....
those charged criminally with storming the capitol on january 6. attacking police officers as well. now, the department of homeland security brief warns that people involved in the rally and those opposed to it could pose a threat tomorrow. and now adding fuel to the fire, perhaps not surprisingly, former president trump who is expressing support for the insurrectionists echoing organizers saying the hundreds arrested in connection with the riot are being persecuted unfairly. this comes, too, as a house republican who voted to impeach the president, former president, over his role in the attack on the capitol says he s done with politics. ohio representative anthony gonzalez revealing he will not run for reelection, largely due to the toxic state of the gop. cnn s whitney wild is just outside the capitol fence perimeter this morning. so, whitney, law enforcement, as we know, saying they re prepared for whatever today or tomorrow brings. what is the anticipation of wha ....
encouraging it and the stunning silence of the republican leaders as this is all happening, treating it as if it is a walk in the park. it is very painful to see. not just silence but outright defense and dismissal of the threat. whitney wild is outside of the fencing, surrounding it. law enforcement making sure it is more prepared this time around. so what steps are they taking and what are they expecting? reporter: well what they re expecting is potentially hundreds of beam to descend into washington as the event organizer for the nonviolent people who are charged in the january 6 insurrection. it is a little bit noisy out here because they re doing last-minute tweaking that surrounds the u.s. capitol grounds, somewhat of a familiar site here in washington following this january 6 insurrection. they are prepared for potential violence today as well as tomorrow and the concern, jim, is that people might be potentially promoting violence in furtherance of this stole ....