be returning to robb elementary. the incident commander did not have radio commune kangs and i don t know as to why. it s hard to believe with his own people on the ground right there, he couldn t get a more accurate account of what happened. those rain fall totals have been staggering. miami dade fire rescue used a lie rescue vehicle to help people stuck that their homes and cars. everybody is here to celebrate the queen. it s a party in london. it s going to be something people talk about for years to come. i m pamela brown in washington. you re in the cnn newsroom. a former wisconsin judge is dead in what is being called a targeted attack against government officials. a tactical team found him fatally shot friday in his home and the suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. michigan governor s office confirmed she was on the suspect s hit list and sources say the wisconsin governor and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell were on that list. cnn whitney
that he was working with the fbi as an informant for months before january 6 is pretty expl explosive. this mirrors the gretchen whitmire fed napping hoax where the top fbi informant paid roughly $60,000 for his work also was the number 2, the commanding officer of an alleged malitia group involved in that case. he used his position to lure people in to this entrapment scheme. so once again, we have a comparison between the whitmire fed napping hoax, which involved dozens of fbi supervising agents and undercover agents. another comparison between that and the events of january 6. laura: julie, we ll continue to follow this. i know there s a pretrial detention finally lifted for 20 months when a form marine was in pretrial detention after january
thread to the democratic party. thank you. there s evidence that the fbi tonight knew about january 6 months before it happened and did nothing. while everyone was focused on the mid-terms tuesday. the new york times conveniently dropped this piece saying an informant likely to testify as defense witness in oath keeper s sadition trial. joining me now, julie kelly, senior writer for american greatness and author of january 6, how democrats use the capitol protest to launch a war of terror against the political right. this is a stunning detail lending credence to a lot of the work in your book. it certainly is quite a bomb shell. the idea that the number 2 who they called the vice president of the oath keepers, this alle alleged malitia group, the idea
basically something that is performative. that s what a lot of these are. this is what i write about in there s no lone wolves. these killings are performative whether it s in social media with the malitia group and something like this is very similar or consistent with that notion that mere shootings, which i hate to put it that way but there s something playing out of something. we have seen this in other cases as well as the radicalism is focused on political figures and they are playing it out. we have been warning about this. it s been part of the environment for while.
to the tax on voting rights and access to the polls, which show us this is an incomplete project. but the real contest is about the speed of whether we can outpace the expansion of those promises, whether those promises can outpace the work to undermine our democratic process. we re talking about a society now where 28 elected officials have ties or affiliations with the oath keepers, which is a private army, a private malitia group. we re talking about eight people being elected from the january 6th crowd into republican office. we re talking about a lot of terrifying numbers in relation to how many people say that they would support the use of force to return trump to the white house. this is no longer a fringe position and we don t have to look only at what someone is saying on fox news to know that. this is all through our measures, this is all through our politics. and the question is really about, can democracy handle this