good evening, and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, barbarians at the gate. i'm supposed to call it the week like no other, but then i can't, if i'm being honest. yes, i'm still in shock about the institutional failures of

security, protocol, and of standards that we saw happen on wednesday when hundreds of reuters enthralled to president trump violated our u.s. capitol, did it in a way that no one in more than two centuries ever has, because in their collective minds, they alone had a right to. and that would be because the president verbally deputized them. then he went home. and because of republicans in congress held them up as persecuted patriots, that is, of course, until they were the ones cowering in fear of the mob. but for black americans, that mob has ruled far longer than this nation has ever cared to admit, often with the tacit, if not explicit cooperation of our law enforcement and our lawmakers.

so of course one day after the efforts of thousands of black and brown organizers and voters sent a son of a jewish immigrant and a black minister to the new senate from the old south, four years of incitement ended exactly as so many people of color, myself included, said it would, in violence. and only after that violence did something unprecedented happened. last night twitter announcing that the president was permanently banned from the platform, citing, quote, risk of further incitement of violence and denying this president the air he breathes at the very last minute. but it should go without saying that throughout tonight's show, my biggest symbolic target will be the double standard of justice that we saw this week in washington. maga reuters among them

terrorists bombers and members of a violent mob treated with kid gloves and photo ops by law enforcement. but throughout 2020, anti-racism protes protesters like thousands i have assembled over the summer were met with military force. as we saw on video, directions to the pavement or to the police wagon, and i want begin tonight by pointing out that combatting police bias is not a call to shoot the maga reuterioters, bu call not to shoot at black lives matter or civil rights protesters. as republican lawmakers now know what it is to be outnumbered, to have the pitchforks pointed in their direction, i take only this shot, which is that tonight some of them now know what it is to be a minority.

and so we start tonight with the new incoming chair of homeland security committee, sarah gary pete -- senator gary peters. let me ask you this. the president's acting attorney general said this week that those rioters would, quote, face the full consequences of their actions under the law. now, under the executive order the president passed last summer, ironically enough to protect confederate monuments in part, the maximum consequences would be up to ten years in prison for violating federal property. as the incoming head of the senate homeland security committee, what are you calling for as far as punishment? how should these rioters be handled by the criminal justice system? >> well, there's no question, reverend sharpton, that they need to be charged and convicted, and the full weight of the law needs to be put

against them. this is simply unacceptable what we saw. it's unconscionable that we have this violent attack on the very citadel of our democracy and i think i speak for most americans that were glued to the television set to see what was happening and all of the people who i've talked to since then have told me they saw an attack on america itself with this action. this was not just an attack on the men and women who work in the capitol, but folks across the country felt it was a personal attack on them, individuals that engaged in this violence need to be charged. they need to be convicted. they need to be sentenced. one thing as i launch an investigation, we're going to do a comprehensive investigation through the homeland security department to find out how this security breach occurred, what do we need to do to make sure it never happens again and must never happen again. but one thing that i think is particularly striking is the low number of arrests. here you have videos of folks engaged in criminal behavior,

and the number of arrests is very small. that's unacceptable. you need to let folks know if they engage in this type of behavior, they will be caught and charged, and they will pay a price. >> now, in your capacity as incoming chair of homeland security committee, will you also find out what the homeland security department did leading up to this? because later in the show i'm going to go into the extensive things we have to do having nonviolent marches in washington, including last year, that we had to go through with homeland security before we could even get a permit. was there the same kind of real stringent analysis, layouts, and premarch, prerally, pre-gathering that this group had to go through because there are also reports that an arm of the republican attorney general's association sent out

robocalls encouraging people to march on the u.s. capitol the day before the riot. how stunning is that? and should these people also be looked into and properly disbarred? >> well, i think we have to do a comprehensive investigation. you mentioned about the permits. that has to be part of it. the capitol police and their activities will be looked at. and i think it safe to say there was a massive failure on the part of the leadership of the capitol police. the men and women who were out there trying to defend folks in the capitol, the rank and file, certainly were working hard, did their job. unfortunately one of them died as a result of that and certainly our prayers and thoughts go to that family. but leadership failed miserably. why were they not prepared? the lack of intelligence to understand what is happening here, when the internet traffic was so clear that there was going to be a large number of folks, a mob gathering at the capitol, and the types of

discussions that were occurring online were that there was going to be violence. the capitol police should've been prepared and they should've worked more closely with the department of homeland security to make sure you had surge forces, the federal protective service, the secret service, cvp officers. >> they were on the internet saying bring your guns, bring weapons, on the internet. you don't need a n undercover operation here. they said it on the internet. did you know it was going to be a mob? the president announced he was going. the president announced the rally. this was no surprise gathering. >> no, absolutely. that's what makes it even more outrageous is that you didn't have to have any sophisticated intelligence. it was so widely out there. as you mentioned, we had the president of the united states himself tweeting saying come to the capitol. it's going to be wild. it was clear that something big was going to happen. and the fact you didn't have

enough man power for the capitol police, you showed an image earlier of folks who were in riot gear. we didn't see folks in riot gear. they weren't even quipped to push back against this kind of insurgence against the capitol. there are lots of questions. we are going to demand answers because, again, this is simply unacceptable in this country. this must never happen again. and we have to send a strong signal to those folks who were engaged in this action, that they will be sought out, they will be punished, and anyone else who tries to do this in the future is going to certainly face a very different result than what we saw this last week. >> now, looking forward, nbc is reporting a right-wing extremists are vowing to return to washington for joe biden's inauguration. one of their leaders say, quote, we will come in numbers that no standing army or police agency can match. your reaction to that? >> well, my reaction is we have to take that very seriously. we cannot make any mistakes

coming up for this inauguration. we have to have the peaceful, smooth transition of power, which is a cornerstone of our democracy and it needs to go forward safely. and we need to make sure we have adequate preparations. i can tell you we're going to be asking an awful lot of questions from the security folks prior to that election demanding an answer. my entire caucus, the democratic caucus is fully engaged in this to make sure that we get those answers because we need to make sure that everyone is protected and that this fundamental aspect of our country where we pass power peacefully to the incoming president, incoming president biden and vice president kamala harris, this should be a celebration of this democracy and we've got to make sure it goes forward smoothly and we are prepared for whatever may come at us. >> all right. thank you, senator gary peters. joining me now is congressman hank johnson, democrat of georgia and member of the house

judiciary committee. congressman, before i go to the judiciary committee and the president's incitement of a riot on wednesday, it overshadowed the incredible wins in your home state of georgia on tuesday. what does it say about georgia, that it will send its first black senator and first jewish senator to washington? when i think in the south blacks and jews marched together and died together for the right to vote, it comes to mind the martyrs, and now we see a black and a jew going to washington from georgia. what does it says about your home state? >> yeah. it says that the nation has made a lot of progress. it shows that georgia and the south have made progress. but the announced victories coming on wednesday, the 6th,

the same day we had an attempted coup in this country shows us just how far we have to go in this country to achieve the kind of values and vision that the framers of the constitution envisioned for the country. we can't forget that this country was born in racism. racism is in the soil of this country, and what sprouted out on wednesday on one hand you have the results of the tuesday election where we've got two new united states senators who have enabled democrats to control the senate so that we can start enacting some of the agenda of the biden-harris administration. and that's going to great for the nation. but ominously there still in the

soil of this country is racism. the policing that need on in the capitol. i have no problem with the rank and file police officers who were undermanned. they didn't have the proper equipment. somebody had put them in an untenable situation so they reacted in the only way that they could. but they were met by an overwhelming mob that was sent there. and they were set up the same way that we in congress were set up. we didn't know until the last minute that we were in danger. >> wow. >> it was too late for us to take any action to protect ourselves, and for a while we were at the mercy of this mob that came with zip ties and hangman's nooses and had set up

gallows on the capitol grounds, reverend al. >> let me push you on that. they set up gallows on the capitol ground, had nooses, had confederate flags in the capitol building. >> this is nothing but a race war that was about to be unleashed. had it not been for the gunshot of the one shot fired by that plain clothes officer in the speaker's lobby right behind the house gallery, right there, if those people had been able to get through, they would have had us who were in the gallery up on the third floor trapped. >> wow. >> we would not have been able to get out. reverend al, when they finally got us out of there, we walked past spread eagled rioters on the floor at gunpoint by the

capitol hill police officers as we went down the steps. they had us surrounded on the third floor. if that police officer had not fired and stopped the onslaught on the speakers -- in the speakers' lobby, they would have cut off our escape route. they would have had us upstairs and i have no doubt some of us who look like me would have been hanging from the railings of the third floor onto the house floor swinging like fruit. strange fruit. we would have been swinging from those railings. >> how many members of congress -- how many members of congress were there in the third floor that only that gunshot by the plain clothesman stopped that mob from coming through that door and getting to you? how many members of congress were with you? >> i would say somewhere between 30 and 40.

they could have had their pick of who they wanted to make an example of. and they came to the capitol to do business. and the business that they were about was to lynch some people. they talk about mike pence, they talk about nancy pelosi, but you and i know, reverend al, that one of us would have been hanging with them. >> well, clearly you don't bring a noose and weapons if you didn't mean business. do you think those gop members who supported the rioters should be expelled from congress? >> i do, reverend al. representative brooks from alabama, the old south, old alabama, george wallace alabama, was up there at the white house on january 6th edging and egging these demonstrators towards the

capitol hill that he does his work in. and he was there when they got there. and there's no telling, reverend al, what kind of collusion and communication were going on between the leadership of the mob, the trump administration, and the defense apparatus that they control, and the intelligence apparatus that they control. and the capitol hill police department at the highest levels, the sergeant at arms at the highest level, they saw all of these people advancing to the capitol. they saw them crash through the barriers, the perimeter. they let them get to the capitol grounds, the marble of the capitol. they got them -- they saw them walk up the stairs. they allowed them to come inside the door, and nobody warned us within the house chamber doing the business of congress like sitting ducks.

it reminds me of that situation in alabama that john lewis used to talk about where one night after the naacp and the others had been meeting, meeting the plan something. it was nighttime. and the police cut the lights off and let the vigilantes come in and they themselves took part in it as well. and as a result, that young man, i think his name was jimmy lee jackson. >> jimmy lee jackson, that's what led to the selma march, that's right. >> he was killed trying to defend his mother and father. and so that's the situation that occurred on wednesday, january 6th, in the congress of the united states of america. it was born of racism. that whole donald trump make america great again, that's racism. make america -- put america back

to where it used to be and put these people in their place and maintain our lawful place and rightful place. >> we'll have to leave it there. >> that's what it was all about. >> but you certainly enlightened our viewers. you were at the mercy of a mob had there not been one shot fired, it might have ended up more tragic, and five people did lose their lives. georgia congressman johnson, thank you for being here. coming up, trump's final failure. his supporters got caught up in mob mentality. and now the president's crimes are starting to catch up with him. but first, my colleague, richard lui, with today's top news stories. >> good day to you. some of the stories we're watching this hour, thursday, the united states recorded its deadliest single day of the pandemic. over 4,000 people died from

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for my penultimate memo to trump, i'd like to offer my congratulations to the president because you, mr. president, have become the first commander in chief in nearly a century to lose your party -- the house, the senate, and the presidency -- in just four years. let's start off here in georgia where your substantiate whining and baseless accusations of election fraud suppressed republican turnout and motivated

georgia democrats enough to send their first black senator and first jewish senator to washington. and even to the extent that republican incumbents, they were flawed candidates, they indeed flawed in your image, mr. president, like insider trading and their racist photoshopped campaign ads. they really took your embrace of lawlessness and white supremacy to heart. but i don't want to give you too much credit, mr. president. you are less of a cause of american white supremacy and more of a symptom of it, because your conduct has given the seedy racist underbelly of this country permission to slither out of the rock it's been hiding under. >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're not sending you. >> but you also had people that were very fine people -- on both

sides. >> by the way it's a disease, without question. has more names than any disease in history. i can name kung flu. i can name 19 different versions. >> proud boys, stand back and stand by. >> in the final year of your term, you retweeted a video of one of your supporters shouting "white power," and defended the alleged kenosha, wisconsin, shooter, who is accused of killing two peaceful racial justice protesters in cold blood. and this week you directed your followers to the united states capitol. >> we're going to walk down to the capitol. [ cheers ] and we're going to cheer on our

brave senators and congressman and women. we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness. >> you spread your lies about the election you lost, commanded your mob to the capitol and admonished them against weakness. but what would you, donald j. trump, know about strength? you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth and have spent every day of your pathetic life whining that it wasn't gold. your task sense of entitlement allowed you to fail upwards for decades. and the deep rot of white supremacy still festering in the roots of this country, ensuring that millions of americans would cast their ballots for your brand of racist grievance. but you lost. you lost a coalition led by millions of people of color,

showed at you door on election day, and your base just couldn't handle that. so a couple thousand of them took you at your word. they took their tantrum to the capitol, destroying federal public property, threatening government officials, and tearing at the very fabric of american democracy, leading to the deaths of five people that we know of, all while i sat safely in the people's house watching your mercenaries on television and telling them how, quote, very special they were, and that you loved them. and you know what, mr. president? i believe you do, because those rioters were reflecting your own poisonous narcissism right back at you. of course you loved it. the destruction and lawlessness at the capitol represent the very essence of your failed leadership, and it is you who must be held accountable. we'll be right back.

while many americans were understandably focused on the astonishing events in washington this week, there were some key developments in several cases of alleged police misconduct that have driven calls for reform and racial justice since the summer, starting in louisville, kentucky, where two officers in the late night raid that resulted in breonna taylor's shooting death were fired from the city's police force after nearly a year of constant community protests. in kenosha, wisconsin, protesters were back in the street after no charges were filed against the officer who shot jacob blake in the back seven times, paralyzing him for life. and in columbus, ohio, i joined the family of andre hill earlier this week as they laid him to rest, awaiting the

investigations promised by the city's police chief into why officers at the scene of hill's death turned off their body cameras as hill's body lay in a cold garage. joining me now is civil rights attorney, i call him the attorney general of black america, benjamin crump. mr. crump, you were involved in all three of these cases, all three occurring this week, the firing of the police officers in louisville, no charges in the case in kenosha, wisconsin, of jacob blake, and the case involving andre hill where did the eulogy at his funeral this weekend. you spoke. give us quickly the status as the attorney for all three families of these cases this week. >> thank you, reverend al, for having me, and also for continuing to bring attention to

these tragedies in each of these cases black men and women were shot by the police. in breonna taylor's case, we are somewhat gratified that the officers would be fired, the one who lied on the probable cause affidavit, to get the judge to sign the no-knock warrant was terminated. the tragedy is still no one to this day has been charged for killing breonna taylor, not one of those police officers. and then equally tragic, right before the announcement -- right before what happened in washington, d.c., the nation's capitol, jacob blake jr., who was shot in kenosha, wisconsin, seven times in the back, the district attorney said that the police officer was justified, reverend al, because of

self-defense. and it's just shocking that a black man running away from the police, you find a threat to say you can shoot him, but white people running towards the police threatening them with violence, like we saw in washington, d.c., storming the capitol building, you don't see that as a threat. and then andre hill holding a cell phone, reverend al, as you preached his eulogy so masterfully to give that family not only peace, but a cause to action for us, where you said no more excuses. why is it there's often excuses when police try to justify unjustifiable actions that kill us? they have these imaginary fears when black people have cell phones, but you have real threats like we saw in washington, d.c., like we saw in kenosha with kyle rittenhouse, and you don't shoot them, you

de-escalate. so no more can they ever say they don't know how to de-escalate, reverend al. no more, because we have a a prima facie. >> now, we saw now that joe biden and kamala harris, president-elect and vice-president-elect respectively, won the election. now the senate is -- now democrats have control of the senate with a tie vote by vice president-elect kamala harris when she takes office. and we saw this week that president-elect biden nominated judge garland to be the attorney general and also three senior justice department officials, two of whom we know well.

do you feel that the federal government will step in more and the justice department reinvigorate the civil rights division to deal with some of these cases that local prosecutors like the one in kenosha seem not to really put the kind of effort that we need? you and i both have said we preferred a black attorney general. we didn't get that, but he has a good staff, and i'm sure we're going to be holding judge carlin accountable and in dialogue. but do you think under this new administration that people voted for in such overwhelming numbers, that they will deal with the george floyd policing and justice act, and they will deal with policing as was on the course in the obama administration? >> reverend al, it is my belief -- you and i had a chance to talk with the vice

president-elect to deal with these issues. i pray that judge garland will be steadfast in championing civil rights after four years of an assault on it. we can't have somebody practicing on the job. we cannot have someone who's timid because our children are dying. our people are being killed unnecessarily. and we have to hope that the department of justice will give justice to an innocent black woman in breonna taylor, will give justice for this unjustifiable shooting of jacob blake jr. that we all saw with our eyes. you talked to his father and mother, reverend al. you know these people are good people. and all we want for our children is what any of our white brothers and sisters want for their children, and that is for

them to have life and liberty and a chance at the american dream. so we now have to turn to the department of justice and joe biden, we gave you the house of representatives with georgia and stacey abrams, black people gave you the senate, and we have delivered a white house to you. now we ask that you deliver to us and america that we can say our children have an equal opportunity at justice and the dream that everybody holds at the beacon of hope. >> benjamin crump, thank you for joining us. thank you for being with us again tonight. there were many troubling things about the shocking events that unfolded in our nation's capitol on wednesday. but one that continues to stand out to me has to do with the tepid response of security forces to the invasion.

looting and ransacking of a building considered to be the heart of our democracy. it's impossible not to see the contrast between the treatment of that angry mob and the response to peaceful protesters, like the ones in this video of black lives matter demonstrations in june. just one of the many that swept the country this summer. back in august, i and martin luther king iii led the national action network's commitment march, get your knee off our necks. and the police presence at an approved public event with a crowd of unarmed people was way more rigorous and felt way more intense. so what gives? joining me now is democratic strategist and former chair of the maryland democratic party, maya rockeymoore cummings and national action network d.c. bureau chief ebony riley. ebony, you were the point person

that organized the march with me and martin back in august. now, remind me, because i don't think people understand just how tricky it was to organize a peaceful public rally with police cooperation and why lack of action on law enforcement's part on wednesday is so shocking when you go through all of the procedures you had to go through to get permits for over 200,000 peaceful people to march and not one incident happened, not one arrest. but the hurdles you had to jump, give our viewers a sense of why i'm saying that there had to be somebody that dropped the ball or some kind of cooperation between some segments of law enforcement and government officials that had this happen. >> thank you, reverend sharpton, for having me. when you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

how in the epicenter of freedom in the citadel of democracy can domestic terrorist gal haven't around the u.s. capitol complex unchecked and undeterred? how are we seeing a confederate flag being penetrated through the rotunda in 2021? there are several steps i took to make sure our permit application was sound and how we did meetings with the national park service for national action network to have approval from local and federal agencies. we worked with on the commitment march on washington. we held over a dozen meetings with 26 different agency representatives. >> let me stop you there. you had to meet with 26 federal agencies over a dozen marches just to get the permit for the march? >> yes, that's correct, sir. >> go ahead. >> that's right. i created a 14-page site plan with aerial maps, stage, and tech maps and social distancing maps for every portion of the mall we would use. we needed a site mitigation plan for strict covid-19 protocols

that we put in place. we even set up covid testing tents at entry points. we had an emergency plan, and someone had to serve as the main point of contact during the march that communicated with all federal agencies in the area, required by permit. why wasn't that mandated last week when covid numbers are at an all-time high? >> when you hear this, all of these processes and procedures we had to go through, covid protocol, board had to buy masks, take temperatures, had to get all of this just to get a permit, had to have people at a point of contact for federal agencies throughout the march, had to give a route march that had to be approved by them to march as they had a marsh, we had a march. why wasn't this required by those that did this on wednesday? and if it was required, who did

they give the permit to? the other thing that ebony will tell you is we had to post an insurance bond worth millions of dollars. well, who insured this disaster on wednesday, maya? >> you know, that's a good question, reverend. you know, what we saw on wednesday was a lynch mob. they went into that capitol and they were intent on capturing and they were intent on violence. and what we know is that the members of congress are not safe. i have been all over that u.s. capitol complex and i've seen the police officers, the capitol police in action before. and they were absolutely not prepared for the riot mob that came on wednesday. and these people -- and many of them apparently are members of police segments and the military. and so what we're having here is a situation that is triple

national security threat. it seems our u.s. police departments and certainly also our u.s. military segments may actually be infiltrated by these people. >> right. >> who hold these anti-american values, anti-constitution values. and whatever happened to blue lives matter? because they were intent on also attacking those police officers as well. and so, you know, we need to get to the bottom of it, whether there was coordination. certainly we know that these people were dangerous, and we knew it before they arrived. >> when they announced it. they announced it. >> they announced it. >> let me ask you this, ebony. the fact that you had to go through all these hurdles, your staff had to be on call, the fact that we had to post all this insurance, is there any possible way, as you being a point person and you also had staff in 2013 when they did the 50th anniversary and we had to

go through same procedure. that was under the obama administration. this is procedures. is there any way they could have done this march and done this rally with the president of the united states there without all of this having been required or at least waived by somebody in authority in these federal agencies? >> no, sir. there is no way this could have happened without prior knowledge. more importantly, as they stormed into the capitol, we saw video of officers letting them go in. who gave them the order to let them go in? when you go to the capitol, you see officers on foot, vehicles, and on the roads. more telling in all of this is how easily the groups were able to go to the floors and speaker's office and other offices. you have to have a map or instructions on where to go to get there so quickly. definitely someone knew.

there was no way this could have happened without some prior knowledge. and who gave them the order to let them in? what we saw was planned from beginning to end. we even at the commitment march in august had to clean up the sites afterwards. and now we see pictures of black and brown capitol hill workers cleaning up their mess. so this is a very, very troubling thing. >> mrs. cummings, should there be an investigation of also the federal agencies and those that should've been supervising, that should've been given the requirements to see, as you alluded to, who dropped the ball here at several levels? you said three, to give a national security risk? >> absolutely. the department of homeland security, where were they? the fbi, what are they doing? the department of justice, apparently there are questions about whether they were actually following through. and certainly the u.s. capitol police and the national guard. i mean, everybody's talking about the delayed deployment of

the national guard. and so we knew that these people were going to be violent. we knew that the president was promising a wild time in washington. and so what we saw was worse than wild. it was violent, it was insurrectionists, it was treasonous and i hope there's accountability up and down and across the board. >> well, i will say that national action network and national urban league has appealed to the congressional black caucus to have public hearings with subpoenas of many of these agencies. i'm certain that the information you gave tonight, ebony riley and maya rockeymoore cummings, will help drive that request. thank you for being with us. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. in only 8 weeks with mavyret... ...i was cured. i faced reminders of my hep c every day. i worried about my hep c. but in only 8 weeks with mavyret... ...i was cured. mavyret is the only 8-week cure for all types of hep c.

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hurdles you had to jump through to have gatherings in washington, because i've been at the forefront of many, what bothers me, as five people have died, government property have been destroyed, and america looks unstable to the world, a world where other governments felt they could trade with us because of the stability of america. looking at the nation's capitol ransack, i have to say this could not happen unless there was some infiltration or some kind of cooperation with those that should have secured the grounds that were announced, where people were told on social media bring weapon, and where the president of the united states spoke at the original location and directed them on the march. it could not happen other weiss. . now i know they'll come back and

attack and distort and go back 50 years and redo things that never happened. but deal with the facts that right there on wednesday we saw people go to the capitol of this country and violate property, cause death, and did it after being sent to march by the president of the united states. you can't get around that with any distortion you want. what bothered me most is i didn't see any apprehension or fear in their faces. it was almost like they knew they could do it. like they were entitled to do it. some of them acted like it was fun. it reminded me of reading in history how they would lynch my people down at the middle square downtown after church on sunday. it was like an outing. and that's what's frightening. now don't get me wrong. i don't want them treated like they treat black lives matter

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that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern for another live show of "politicsnation."

my colleague alicia menendez picks up our news coverage now. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. i'm alicia menendez. tonight we have new details about the siege on capitol hill and what the president was doing as the violence raged. and twitter has blocked the president. will congress ban him next? the prospect of a second impeachment real and gaining steam. also tonight, as the world watched scenes unfolding at the epicenter of our democracy, handing a gift to our foes and creating concerns among our allies. and tonight, the rising threat among growing radicalization of americans. bad actors using the facade of patriotism to birth domestic terrorists. this is "american voices." we begin tonight with one of the most consequential and fast-moving stories of our