tv CNN Special Report CNN January 16, 2021 7:00pm-8:00pm PST
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♪ ♪ >> taking our freedoms, locking us down, and turn thing country into a blasted socialist republic. and that is not right! that's what i'm doing here. >> you'll never take back our country with weakness. >> that's what we're doing, fighting back. >> you have to show strength and be strong. >> they are the faces of insurrection. >> i think we should have gone
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on in and yanked our senators out by the hair of the head and drug them out and said no more. >> extremists. conspiracy theorists. >> freedom! >> and lawmakers. >> we're in, we're in. >> many are now wanted by the fbi. >> i know that everyone here will soon be marched over to the capitol building. >> as american patriots, we have to do what we can to take back this country. >> we're going to walk down, and i'll be there with you. what is are you going to do? >> whatever we have to do. what do you think 1776 was? >> on january 6th, thousands of trump supporters came to washington, d.c. from all over the country, believing the president's claims about election fraud. but some in this crowd would soon become a mob, launching an attack on the u.s. capitol.
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>> they're absolutely domestic terrorists. it is very clear that these are groups that engage in violent, criminal acts for a political purpose. it's that combination of violent crime and political ideology or social ideology or racial ideology. >> who planned the assault and how were they able to incite hundreds of people to willfully break the law? no one leader has so far emerged. but fringe groups were clearly front and center during the attack. >> i'm here to stop the steal. >> q stands for qanon, a right wing conspiracy whose followers believe that politicians and celebrities work with governments around the group to engage in child sex abuse and
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worship satan. >> the thing that's really alarming about qanon is the speed which the radicalization seems to happen and the number of people being brought into this. >> freedom! >> this qanon supporter, with the horns and painted face, was filmed and photographed all over the capitol grounds and made no attempt to ground into the crowd. he's known as the qanon shamen. he's been seen at other trump rallies in the past. he's been charged with knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds. he told the fbi he was in washington as part of a group effort with other "patriots from arizona" at the request of president trump, who called on patriots to go to washington, d.c. on january 6th. his attorney said the president should pardon him and said he did not break into the capitol,
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because the doors were held for him by capitol police. chancely is a veteran, he served in the navy from 2005 to 2007. now he's in a detention center. >> i think there's no question that the qanon adherence will be looked upon by the fbi and law enforcement as a potential threat unto themselves. i think they have proven that, not just the crazy thing thas say on the internet, but in a way that add heer-- whether tha driving from north carolina with your ar-15 and shooting up a pizza restaurant or going to the capitol, this is a serious threat and extremist idealology that we have to keep an eye on. >> he's not the only one arrested and charged. watch as this police officer
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faces a mob headed towards the senate chamber. the officer runs up to the second floor. the man in front follows him and lured away from an entrance to the senate chamber. this man is wearing a qanon t-shirt. he's tweeted about qanon and retweeted other supporters. he was arrested back in des moines, iowa, charges he now faces violent entry, and blocking law enforcement during the riot. both doug jenson and jacob chancely traveled to d.c. from out of state. whether they came intending to break into the capitol is still unknown. >> every time we talk about the attack on the capitol of january 6, 2021, we need to keep in mind what their purpose was. and their purpose was to delay or prevent the certification of
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the vote in the presidential election of 2020. this was not random acts of violence. this was not a crowd that just happened to get out of control. this was a planned event. >> you really don't end up with a crowd of that size, of that direction, of that cohesiveness, without a significant degree of preplanning and premeditation. that takes all sorts of forms. but primarily, it's communication. communication to like-minded individuals to recruit people, to travel in many cases very long distances, to draw people to spend their own money and time, to travel here to the capitol to engage in that activity. so that doesn't happen spontaneously. i think we know for many people who have been arrested, many folks live far away from the d.c. area. so there's clearly a high degree of planning and premeditation to pull together a crowd like that
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here. >> capitol hill police officers were vastly outnumbered by the crowd that day. officer michael fenome was in this group of police at one of the entrances. the attacker there is eventually pulled him outside, where he said he was tasered several times. >> i remember guys were tripping me of my gear, three rioters pulling my badge off my chest, they ripped my radio off my vest and started pulling like ammunition magazines from their holder. and then some guy started getting ahold of my gun and they were screaming out, kill him with his own gun. at that point, you know, it was just like self-preservation. you know, how i survived this situation. and i though aught using deadly force, i thought about shooting people. and then i just came to the conclusion that if i was to do that, i might get a few, but i'm not going to take everybody, and they'll probably take my gun
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away from me and that would give them the justification they were looking for to kill me, if they hadn't made that up in their minds. the other option was to try to appeal to somebody's humanity, and i just remember yelling out that i have kids, and it seemed to work. >> this video shows the mob storming into a tunnel of the capitol building, where they were crushing d.c. officer daniel hodges at the door. >> there was a guy that ripped my mask off and took my baton and beat me with it. he was practically foaming at the mouth. these people were true believers in the worst way. [ screaming ] >> thing i was -- i was calling out. an officer brought me to the rear, so i was able to extricate myself. >> officer fanone said there
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were some in the mob that tried to help them, but he says they should have never been there in the first place. >> i think the conclusion i come to is like, thank you. but [ bleep ] you for being there. >> there were warning signs online from extremists. this talks about operation occupy the capitol and called on others to attack the buildings on january 6. it reads, we will storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill federal employ es and agents and demand a recount. one read, trump or war, today, that simple. and some of the attackers on january 6 did seem to want war. this is eric from tennessee. he was photographed with zip ties, plastic restraints and law enforcement says he had an item in a holster on his right hip and wearing paramilitary gear.
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he's been charged with entering restricted grounds without authority and one count of disorderly conduct on capitol grounds. this is larry brock from texas, a retired air force reserve officer and seen holding a white flex cuff, used by law enforcement to detain suspects, according to a court document supporting his arrest. the fbi found brock after a woman who said she was his ex-wife recognized his photo. prosecutors say he may have intended to restrain lawmakers evacuated from the senate floor before he and other rioters broke in. he told "the new yorker" magazine he picked them up from the ground, and he was opposed to vandalizing the capitol. he's been charged with one count of knowing entering restriked grounds without authority and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds. >> you continue bring click armor and a kevlar helmet to a conversation, or even a protest. you bring that sort of gear with
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you, you bring handcuffs with you because you expect to have to take people into custody. you bring the kevlar suit and armor because you're worried about getting shot. i think it's a great indicator of what these folks expected to encounter during the riot. >> not every rioter in the capitol belongs to a fringe movement. and not everyone came ready for war. >> the doors to the capitol are open. >> i think what we saw at the capitol was really the coming together of several different strands of political affinity. one is sort of the dyed in the wool trump protestors. another is the radicalized qanon conspiracy believers. finally, we have a third group, which is the subject of my research, which is the more radicalized, longer term activists in the white power
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movement. and that movement, you know, since the late 1970s and early '80s has attempted to overthrow the government through violent means, has brought together extremists from neonazi clans and militia groups and helped to create this sort of cell driven, leaderless activism on the militant right. >> it's really kind of a fascinating aspect to think of president trump's appeal to such a broad cross section of extremists. so in these crowds, and in that crowd on january 6th, you have white supremists, you have the proud boys, you have anti-government groups, just right leaning political groups, you have the conspiracy theory folks from qanon and other groups. on the domestic terrorism side, we are much more used to seeing divisions between those niche groups. it seems they have all now been united behind a common cause.
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and that common cause is president trump and holding him up as their leader. not just politically, but spiritually and emotionally. it's a really fascinating, and i think dangerous combination of different groups. >> a dangerous combination of different groups and individuals that led to death that day in the capitol. authorities have arrested more than 40 people on federal charges in connection with the riots. they're asking for more help from the public. tips, videos, photos, thig that can help them build their case against those charged and those they're searching for. there are hundreds still on the loose, and a manhunt on the way for some who may have been planning violence in the near future. >> we cannot do our job without the help of the american people. if you have information, contact 1-800-call-fbi or submit photos and videos to fbi.gon/uscapitol.
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we are protesting for our freedom right now. that's the difference. >> for three hours on the afternoon of january 6, attackers who broke into the capitol roamed freely throughout the building. most were able to leave just as freely. to go back to wherever they came from. and the fbi is now searching for a number of them, asking the public for help or anyone they know that participated in the break-in. it shouldn't be too hard to identify them. many of the attackers made no attempt to hide their identities, even though they were caught on video breaking into offices. this video from cbs' "60 minutes "shows what it was like inside a room in nancy pelosi's office. it was captured on a recording by one of her staffers.
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her staff hid inside that room for more than two hours. rioters made it into the speaker's private office, where they damaged property and stole items. this man, richard barnett of arkansas, was photographed with his foot up on a staffer's desk and later filmed outside with some of nancy pelosi's stationery. >> i'm in her office. i had my foot on her desk. >> he told a local new station, he had a right to be in the speaker's office. >> i was sitting at my desk. that ain't her desk. i threw my feet up on the desk. >> he's been arrested and
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charged with entering restricted grounds without lawful entry, and theft of public money, property, or records. this man posted a selfie, smoking a cigarette with the caption, hello from the capitol, lol. he also spoke to the media, claiming he was there as a journalist. his name is nick oaks, the founder of the hawaii chapter of the so-called proud boys. proud boys is a extremist group. some members espouse white supremacy ideology. >> we have pictures of them flashing hand signs. so we can think of that group as sort of an armed white power group that has become a de facto security force for various trump rallies and on the ground force of violence and other places.
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>> the so-called proud boys say they reject racism. other groups at the capitol that day were clearly affiliated with the white supremacy movement. experts say signs of white power activism were all over the capitol during the riot. >> what we have to remember is that white power is designed not as a rigid system of groups that are distinct from one another, but as a social landscape that people regularly move through. those kinds of connections and that circulation of activists is part of the reason that is critical, not to look at any one of these events as isolated but to think about the movement as something much bigger and much more interconnected. so the action at the capitol, which included a variety of these activists, probably also included some people who wouldn't affiliate with any group but do contribute to them. and probably also included some people that don't make their enemies known.
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>> this rioter was clear about his affinity, and his display of the confederate flag. >> although there are clear traces of extremism on what we saw january 6, it went far beyond anything we have experienced here. i'm not sure that the confederate battle flag has ever been displayed in the united states capitol. and so it was a tragic moment to see those photographs from that individual walk through the rotunda bearing the confederate battle flag. >> his name, according to authorities is kevin sigfreud from delaware. he's been charged with disorderly conduct and degradation of government property. he was arrested with his son, hunter, who faces the same charges for his role.
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this is derek evans, a lawmaker from west virginia, who broke the law instead of upholding it. according to authorities, he participated in the break-in at the capitol. a supporter of president trump and was with some of the rioters when they breached the capitol. >> our house, move, move! we're in! we're in! let's go! >> he was arrested and charged with one count of knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority and one count of disorderly conduct on capitol grounds. he claimed he was filming the break-in as a member of the media, and his lawyer said he was forced into the building due to the crowd size. he was released after a court hearing and soon after that, he resigned from office. evans was a politician who was safe from the rioters. but it would have likely been much different if the rioters
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found the lawmakers in the capitol. >> i can't emphasize how serious what transpired on january 6th is. from my perspective, it is fortunate for the country that this was not a mass casualty event. judging from the fact that there has now emerged to be individuals who were -- was to engage in violence. >> i think we're incredibly lucky that they didn't get their hands on any of the political
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figures of significance, particularly figures like speaker pelosi and others who have drawn their attention. i can't say whether any specific individuals the that group, you know, had the specific intent to go find and seek out individual members. but that is something that is definitely part of the ongoing fbi investigation. and as they get more people in custody and more people begin talking about what they were thinking, how they planned and executed the attack, those are the kind of facts that the fbi would be looking for. >> the fbi and federal prosecutors are looking not only into who participated in the attack on january 6th, but also who helped plan it. the investigation could include some elected officials. >> we're looking at significant felony cases tied to sedition and conspiracy. our office organized a strike force of very senior national security prosecutors and public
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socialists rip the heart out of our country. we are not going to let them continue to corrupt our elections! and steal from us our god-given right to control our nation's destiny. today is the day american patriots start taking down names and kicking ass! >> this is a bunch of really -- >> let's have trial by combat. >> he just said trial by combat. i'm ready! >> the mob that attacked the capitol in washington, d.c. on january 6th may have been fueled by words like these from supporters of the president, encouraged and spread his claims of voter fraud. but did some lawmakers go even further? at least one right wing activist named alie alexander took part in organizing the rally that led to the riots. and he claims he had help.
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>> i'm the guy that came up with the idea of january 6th when i was talking with three congressmen, and it was to build momentum and pressure and then on the day change hearts and minds of congresspeople, who weren't yet decided. >> these three congressmen are all supporters of the president and have boosted his efforts to protest the election results. congressman gosar has not commented on the claims. congressman bigs denied ever meeting alexander. congressman brooks denied responsibility for the riot. they're not the only lawmakers making claims about election fraud. >> we have seen in the last two
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months unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, and that's produced a deep, deep distrust of our democratic process across the country. i think we in congress have an obligation to do something about that. >> senator ted cruz from texas has been outspoken to challenge the election results. wholly was seen raising his fists on january 6th before the attack began. they both condemned the attacks, but some have called on them to resign. one senator said a week before hawley's plan to challenge the election bordered on sedition or treason. the u.s. attorney in washington, d.c. says he gave his prosecutors marching orders to pursue sedition or conspiracy cases related to the most heinous acts in the capitol. authorities are still trying to figure out how much of this attack was coordinated among
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insurrectionists. >> seditious conspiracy involves, and i'm paraphrasing, but it involves the use of force to prevent the execution of a law. because the purpose of the violent breach on the capitol, the attack on the capitol was conducted with the purpose of preventing the certification of the election, which is a constitutional process, any individual, member of congress or not, can potentially be investigated and charged as a part of that conspiracy. >> experts say white supremists and other extremist groups welcome any opportunity or skous to cause mayhem and chaos. >> this movement is interested in finding windows for action. so anyone who is prepared to open that window should expect violence to follow.
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>> today is the day american patriots start taking down names and kicking ass! >> i think you can make a really strong case for incitement, particularly for someone like congressman brooks who stood up at the rally and made those comments about taking names and kicking ass. those words are designed to and it's foreseeable they would provoke that imminent violent reaction. that's in fact what happened. we have to remember that members of congress routinely receive briefings from law enforcement and intelligence officials about things just like this. about the seriousness and the concern we have about domestic terrorism issues and threats to the capitol, threats to other government individuals. so the idea that people who are on the receives end of that intelligence and protection are actually undermining the work of our law enforcement intelligence folks. it's really, really concerning.
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>> and then there's the president himself, who told rallygoers that day to march to the capitol and remained silent as the rioters forced their way into the building. his own vice president, who he criticized the day of the attack, was inside when rioters broke in. >> we want pence! we want pence! >> he has a pattern of incitement. but i do think that the events of january 6th were the most clear example in terms of the timing between when he spoke his words of encouragement and incitement that directly led to individuals marching from one end of washington towards the capitol and launching a violent intrusion into the capitol where they were seeking out lawmakers. whether or not it is the president or individuals around him who were associated with
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him, the second wave of the investigation is going to have to be looking at who was involved in this seditious conspiracy to prevent the certification of the election. >> legal and law enforcement experts say charges of sedition and conspiracy are secondary now to the challenges fbi has in hunting down the people there that day. among those they're searching for is a tas they've seen. >> what are you going to do? >> whatever we have to do. >> the fbi has a long memory and a broad reach. agents from all local field offices will be knocking on your door if we find out you were part of the criminal activity at the capitol. revitalift triple power with pro-retinol plus hyaluronic acid and vitamin c. it visibly reduces wrinkles. firms. and brightens. now that's triple power. revitalift triple power moisturizer from l'oreal.
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what are you going to do when you're getting maced? you're going to fight back, right? that's what we're doing, fighting back. >> what's the point? >> what's the point? we're losing our freedom. >> describe that to me. >> i'm going to describe that. >> you not even knowing -- >> describe it to me. what is are we supposed to do? okay? the supreme court is not helping us. no one is helping us. only us can help us. only we can do it! >> what are you going to do? >> whatever we have to do. what do you think 1776 was? >> this man, who spoke to cnn the day of the attack, is now wanted by the fbi. they're seeking the public's assistance in identifying individuals who made unlawful entry into the u.s. capitol
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building and assaulted law enforcement personnel on january 6th. he's just one that can be charged in the coming months. >> individuals who participated in the breach of the capitol are subject to a range of local and federal charges with respect to destruction of federal property, trespassing on federal property. some of them were armed, which is in violation of law. and so given the large amount of video and photographic evidence, in addition to travel records that law enforcement authorities will be able to reveal, individuals who are reporting, who see photos, friends and associates who see photoing of these individuals and are going to report them to law enforcement, depending on the range of violations of local and federal law, individuals will be facing a wide range of criminal penalties. some could be on the shorter end, some could be many, many years in prison. >> the cops are getting sprayed.
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there's a [ bleep ] fight right here. >> while some are charged with unlawful entry, others could face much more serious charges. like this alabama man named lonny kaufman. he marked a pickup truck packed with multiple guns, and ammunition and molotov cocktails two blocks from the capitol. during a court hearing, his lawyer said he was invent of the charges and questioned the strength of the case against him. he also noted kaufman was an army veteran who fought in vietnam. john sullivan from utah says he was a left wing activist and back documenting events, but prosecutors say he was part of the mob that broke into the capitol and dressed if a ballistic vest and gas mask on the day of the riot and pushed past police on the inside.
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he was also heard saying, we're about to burn this [ bleep ] down and we accomplished this [ bleep ] together. [ bleep ] yeah, we're all part of this history. he was charged with entering the grounds without lawful authority, and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds and interfering with law enforcement. authorities also say they're looking for rioters who engaged in open handed combat with police officers. they continue to seek information on pipe bombs found outside the republican and democratic headquarters in d.c. the pipe bombs had timers. why they didn't go off is still unknown. one police officer died from injuries sustained this the attack. he was the youngest of three sons who always wanted to be a police officer. his brother calls him a hero. other officers attacked that day said they feared for their lives. >> the cognitive disnance and
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the zealotry of these people was unbelievable. >> it may take months, but prosecutors say they'll find and charge those accountable. no one involved, they say, should rest easy. >> they should be on notice that whatever degree of activity they engaged in, in that capitol, we are going to try to hold them responsible. i have no doubt that the fbi will not rest until they have identified as located every single person they can. yeah, they should be losing sleep. >> the more challenging part, and the part i'm less confident about is whether or not those who conspired to make this event happen, including political actors, including potentially members of congress, including
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the president himself and his close advisers and possibly his family members or other advisers. the political accountability for those individuals i think is appearing to be the harder part for the country to get through. >> attack on the capitol may be over, but the threat of violence remaining. even after president trump leaves office. >> one important piece of information about the white power component that we saw last week is that they're not necessarily interested in political change or even in supporting a political coup or a long-term support of president trump as an end game. instead, they're better understood as an opportunistic ground swell of people who will exploit a given political context to do what they want to do, which is awaken other white people to their cause, to rally people into groups and action and to radicalize people towards
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violence. that is to say that even though president trump is right now the figurehead of this action, and even though it is right now focused on the stop the steal action, that doesn't mean that is the endgame. >> there is still one major national event looming before the official end of the trump administration, some online forums are calling this round two. >> just a few hundred feet from here in two weeks joe biden will be inaugurated president. >> no, he won't. i'm sorry, but he won't. ask anybody here. >> what are you going to think when he's inaugurated? >> we'll see if two weeks' time. >> right.
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among the insurrectionists who stormed the capitol on january 6th was this man, robert keith packer. he's wearing a sweatshirt that reads camp auschwitz. the bottom of his shirt reads work brings freedom. he's been arrested and charged with entering the capitol without permission and violent entry and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds. as authorities continued to round up these rioters from january 6th, they're also dealing with a new threat of violence in the days to come.
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>> i believe that that mob is just a very sample, a very small microcosm of an expansive threat that literally stretches from one corner of this country to the next. we know that militia groups have multiplied over the last four or five, ten years. we know that the popularity of these conspiracy theories like qanon theories have just completely taken off on social media. this is not a small thing. it's not contained to the group of 5,000 or 10,000 people that stormed the capitol. i think this mindset, this kind of warped acceptance of con sp conspiracy instead of reality has fuelled a drift toward right wing extremism that we are going to have to be dealing with for years and years after president trump is no longer in the white house. >> an fbi bulletin warns of armed protests planned for all
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50 state capitols in the days leading up to the inauguration of joe biden on january 20th. the attack on the capitol on january 6th may have been just the beginning. >> i've never seen an fbi threat bulletin that broad in scope. to say that they believe there could be violent protests in all state houses in all 50 states is an extraordinary thing. and let's think about it. they don't have to successfully attack all 50 state houses. if they do stage an attack in two places, in three locations, that's going to look like an outstanding success to that extremist community. >> this is already a stunning win for white power activists. i think it will be celebrated in acceleration as to white circles online. i think that people will see this as a wake up call to others that can be persuaded. and already we see that in the doubling down support for the insurrection in certain conservative circles. >> each one of these events has
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the effect of inspiring and bringing others to the cause, giving them ideas about how to act in their own towns, in their own states. this is very similar to what we saw with the islamic state. as they established the caliphate in syria, the messaging to foreign recruits turned. originally it was come fight with us in syria, and then the message became, don't come to syria, stay with you are and engage in jihad in your own towns, in your own cities, in your own states. that is the same sort of development we see here. extremists who are watching the events on january 6th could be motivated and inspired to take similar action in their own home states. that's just a diverse and expensive threat that's going to be hard to stay in front of. >> this forum has police calling for round two. police take urgent action to save our country, reads one
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entry. it's our last chance. another user posted this. i don't even care about keeping trump in power. i care about war. experts who study extremism say what happened at the capitol could have been a show of force and a precursor to more attacks. it could be far deadlier. >> as somebody who worked on al quaeda related terrorism throughout the 2000s at the justice department and worked extensively on counterterrorism investigations and cases, there were several times where we were anticipating a follow-on attack to a world event. i have that same feeling now. this period between january 6th and the inauguration feels very tense to me. it feels like there is a substantial threat that exists. >> historically, mass casualty
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targets might be oriented toward the federal government, as the oklahoma city bombing was. there's good reason to see from fbi intel that they're also targeting state houses. but then there's also a question about other kinds of infrastructure attacks. so the hoover dam has been a target of the movement recently. other kinds of gas lines, synagogues, various kinds of other oppositional spaces like ethnic studies classrooms have been targets in the past. and so have things like public water supply. so, i think it's very difficult to know kind of where they'll strike next. but i do think that there is a -- i mean, it's hard to argue that there is a enormous surge of momentum right now that people should take very, very seriously. >> i think all americans should keep their eyes and ears open and watch, you know, be aware of their surroundings, be aware of things that are developing around them. >> this is why law enforcement says it's essential to find the
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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening everyone. welcome to our viewers in united states and around the world. with our special live coverage ahead of the inauguration of president-elect biden this week, normally this would be a time the nation comes together and looked forward. instead tonight the u.s. capitol is a fortress with barbed wire fences and thousands of law enforcement officers surrounding it. the pentagon says up to 25,000 national guard troops have been authorized to secure the area around the capitol, of course to prevent another breach. all across the country, authorities are on high aler
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