just like timothy mcveigh. timothy mcveigh got his first bomb training in michigan. timothy mcveigh killed more people with a bomb than anyone else in american history. and ron johnson could take one look at timothy mcveigh and know that he would never do anything to break the law. today in michigan, attorney general dana nessel announced charges against 21-year-old joshua doctor nor making death threats against president biden, speaker pelosi and michigan's governor whitmer. he is charged with one count of threat of terrorism and one count of using a computer to commit a crime, both are 20-year felonies. the fbi opened the investigation when they received tips about threatening posts that joshua doctor made on social media, michigan state police took up that investigation, a state released by the attorney general's office today says doctor posted multiple threatening comments on the social media platform in january 2021. in those posts, doctor stated he would used a gun to shoot and kill the elected officials and would be the catalyst for a new american revolution.

previously the most violent attack was committed by timothy mcveigh. in oklahoma city. the bombing that murdered hundreds of people. this was in the 1990's. flash forward to today. what these individuals tried to do was literally disrupt the very nature of our democracy. we are tracking these people. we are listening to what they are saying. we should take them seriously. they want to kidnap and kill elected members of congress. they wanted to try to seize the vice president of the united states. there is nothing political about this purpose. we need to move past president trump, whose pension for these people is inexplicable. they're opposed to democracy itself. they are a threat to everyone, regardless of how you vote. host: california's next, this is sharon. caller: good morning, i would like to say first off that i kind of want to clarify what the qanon movement is, at least from my perspective. i think the way it is being represented is not correct. it is really more about the -- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for i

i mean, timothy mcveigh, you know, in the-- in the mid '90s, exemplified what a military veteran couldwith-- with tremendous-- you know, tremendous lethality. so, i think, as we look ahead to today, yeah, the alarm bells should be ringing right now. but i think you've heard this. i think defense secretary austin has publicly committed to tackle this issue. >> reporter: while austin has indeed called attention to the issue of extremists in the ranks, the military has yet to signal if it plans to change its vetting procedures for recruits and the federal contractors it increasingly relies on. >> sreenivasan: finally tonight, one more reminder that daylight saving time begins again for most of the country at 2:00 a.m. many of your devices will automatically spring forward one hour, but don't forget those clocks and appliances that need a manual reset. that's all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. for the latest news updates, visit www.pbs.org/newshour. i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. stay healthy and have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media acce

garland comes with as a young prosecutor at doj when he went and -- to oklahoma city and prosecuted timothy mcveigh and went on to prosecute the bomber for the atlanta olympics in '96 as he takes on his biggest challenge, this new case. >> no, absolutely. and, look, i think for the first time since that era, the justice department is confronting this evil of domestic violent extremism and the fact that it is metastasized, it has grown so much in the last few years. and i think that is going to be job one for merrick garland, the emphasis that the department is going to be facing, be trying to emphasize that idea that we have to combat that while also preserving civil liberties which is a tough thing to do. and then secondly, you also heard him talk about tackling the issue of civil rights, which is forefront on the minds of democrats and republicans. i think a lot of republicans that voted against him were concerned about what will happen under the justice department with regard to policing and voting rights. again that is a big, big thing seeing what republican legislatures are doing around the co

murrow building by timothy mcveigh back in the 1990s, and there's a straight line from that violence up until what we're seeing today. and one wonders how long we'll continue to see these quote/unquote one-off attempts to assassinate the governor of michigan or to attack and disrupt congress while they're counting votes or to hang the vice president of the united states. on and on and on. we've got 35,000 members of the fbi. they've got a $9 plus billion budget. i would like to hear a lot more about how they intend to step up their surveillance, disrupt some of these networks, pay a visit to some of the ring leaders and let them know they're being watched and this so-called chatter is going to be taken very seriously. i feel like we've been behind on this for an entire generation and we're starting to see some of the effects of that. >> elizabeth, that moment that john just played, the kpcommandg general of the national guard, doesn't that answer the question we've all been wondering since january 6th. what happened? why did this take so long? why was it three-plus hours before the n

the 1990's when it was discovered that the michigan militia had ties to oklahoma city bombers timothy mcveigh and terry nichols. more than 25 years since the oklahoma city bombing, acts of demerit -- acts of domestic terrorism still tear through the fabric of this country. my government has been targeting wolverine watchmen for supporting a terrorist plot to kidnapping and kill the governor and planning to harm law enforcement officers who protect and serve our state residents. in addition, michigan has recently seen a group of threats to legislators and other government officials on both sides of the political aisle. in just the past six months, we have issued charges against individuals in five separate cases for threatening public officials, and that is honestly just the tip of the iceberg. we have been asked to review so many cases that might department had to add additional resources to handle complaint review. though the nature of the claims may be different, my experience done -- in michigan has demonstrated that acts of political terrorism are not focused on one political party or eve

previously the most violent attack was committed by timothy mcveigh. the bombing that murdered hundreds of people. this was in the 1990's. it was to disrupt the very nature of our democracy. we are tracking these people. we are listening to what they are saying. we should take them seriously. they want to kidnap and kill elected members of congress. they want to see the vice president of the united states. there is nothing political about this purpose. we need to move past president trump, whose pension for these people is inexplicable. they are a threat to everyone, regardless of how you vote. host: california's next, this is sharon. caller: good morning, i would like to say first off that i kind of want to clarify what the qanon movement is, at least from my perspective. i think the way it is being represented is not correct. it is really more about the journalist movement, the truth movement. i do talk to a lot of different people. i don't think q has posted anything in quite a while. the group is to try and solve problems with information rather th

and of course, we had the timothy mcveigh attack in 1996.rse in recent history when donald trump became elected president of the united states. it was donald trump that you look at charlottesville, it was donald trump who was seen as giving a pass to white supremacists. of course, you'll still have right-wing trumpists on the air, saying, that's a lie. what people say about charlottesville is a lie, and yet you had david duke the next day, saying, this is the reason we voted for and supported donald trump. white supremacists love donald trump, for a reason. you can look at his last debate when he told the proud boys to stand by. you can look at what happened on january the 6th and hear from one trump terrorist after another trump terrorist when they go before the court. what do they? we were follow the order, we were following the instructions of donald trump. we were just doing what donald trump inspired us to do, what donald trump told us to do. and this, well, this is the collateral damage of trumpism and it continues. >> there's no doubt