the state of our politics at this moment. even though some republican leaders have condemned the attack, news has been flooded with a what about and conspiracy theories and disinformation from a whole host of right-winged media figures. all of this happening while he s still in intensive care. and while an active investigation is underway, a little more than an hour ago, federal prosecutors filed two charges, attempting to challenge a federal official. federal officials allege the attacker broke into the home intending to kidnap and hurt speaker pelosi and he came armed with a hammer and brought a rope, white tape, and zip ties. he told paul pelosi, he wanted to speaker to, quote, tell the truth. political reports that the attacker had, quote, inhabited a vifd and resentment-fueled world of conspiracy while living a fringed existence, even by the standards of the san francisco bay area, that he appears to embrace falsehoods about the without outcome of the 2020 election. the
Attack, telling his followers that a stench surrounded main stream reporting. we ll dig into the federal complaint with nbc s tom winter in just a moment. but joining us now, msnbc contributors, jc wall, michael steel joins us, a former chairman, now msnbc political analyst. thank you all for joining me today. i m going to start with you, tracey. just from a security standpoint, how often does the speaker or high-ranking public officials, the speaker, the president, the vice-president, the leader of the senate, how often do their families get threadened by people? how often are the families at risk? so that s an excellent
With all the good years ahead, look for the experience and commitment to go the distance with you. call now to request your free decision guide. . happening now in a courthouse in jacksonville, florida, a third day of jury deliberations in the loud music murder trial. michael dunn could face in prison. he opened fire on an suv full of teens and three of the bullets struck and killed jordan davis. dunn said he fired in self defense and he said davis and three friends were armed and threadened him.
neil: what would you need? new people. you need to incentivize people to come on board and pay them a bonus for successful cases and people with fire in their belly. you can t have an arm of sheep. you need an army of lions. neil: what about policing pay on wall street? we think maybe if they don t take outside chances, whether they re bernie madoff or not, it would prevent chicanery in the future. you can t prevent chicanery. you need foxes chasing foxes and incentivize the foxes. they re taking a bureaucratic approach and we know it doesn t work. neil: for you personally i didn t realize until reading the book, harry. i might have been out to lunch following this with your career. you were threatened or felt threatened. i felt very threatened. in 2002 is when i felt threadened. two years in the case i saw the offshore dirty money nature of the madoff feeder funds in europe. nothing good comes from offshore. you re one step removed from organized crime. if madoff is vict