let's move to michigan and talk to carol thompson, the state watchdog reporter for the lansing state journal. good morning. guest: good morning, jesse. thanks for having me. host: so, how concerned are state leaders in michigan about the potential for political unrest at the state capitol this weekend? guest: they are taking these warnings from the fbi and others in very seriously. i haven't heard anything specific about credible threats here, but there is plenty of activity in michigan. we are no stranger to a big the most rations, and sometimes pretty chaotic ones. if you are to to her downtown lansing right now you would see boarded-up windows. you walk into a business or a church, you would find that people are on edge, anticipating what the next few days are going to look like. host: your paper is talking about the -- going up around the capitol. tell us about the fence? guest: it was put up yesterday, a six foot tall chain-link fence but with essentially block people from getting into the building. there is already construction and basically two-and-a-half sides of it and there

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let's move to michigan and talk to carol thompson, the state watchdog reporter for the lansing staternal. good morning. guest: good morning, jesse. thanks for having me. host: so, how concerned are state leaders in michigan about the potential for political unrest at the state capitol this weekend? guest: they are taking these warnings from the fbi and others in very seriously. i haven't heard anything specific about credible threats here, but there is plenty of activity in michigan. we are no stranger to a big the most rations, and sometimes pretty chaotic ones. if you are to to her downtown lansing right now you would see boarded-up windows. you walk into a business or a church, you would find that people are on edge, anticipating what the next few days are going to look like. host: your paper is talking about the -- going up around the capitol. tell us about the fence? guest: it was put up yesterday, a six foot tall chain-link fence but with essentially block people from getting into the building. there is already construction and basically two-and-a-half sides of it and there has

let's move to michigan and talk to carol thompson, the state watchdog reporter for the lansing staternal. good morning. guest: good morning, jesse. thanks for having me. host: so, how concerned are state leaders in michigan about the potential for political unrest at the state capitol this weekend? guest: they are taking these warnings from the fbi and others in very seriously. i haven't heard anything specific about credible threats here, but there is plenty of activity in michigan. we are no stranger to a big the most rations, and sometimes pretty chaotic ones. if you are to to her downtown lansing right now you would see boarded-up windows. you walk into a business or a church, you would find that people are on edge, anticipating what the next few days are going to look like. host: your paper is talking about the -- going up around the capitol. tell us about the fence? guest: it was put up yesterday, a six foot tall chain-link fence but with essentially block people from getting into the building. there is already construction and basically two-and-a-half sides of it and there has

carol, jeff, kimberly, i want to get your final thoughts as we wrap up my hour. but let's go to georgia, because i want to see how this is reverberating there. priscilla thompson is there. has anybody talked about hearing this tape yet? >> reporter: i've spent the past few hours here talking to democrats. largely, people hadn't yet heard about this. some folks have gotten the alerts on their phone. but the sense we're getting is that this is not impacting how georgians are thinking about the raise tuesday. this is expected from the president, this is not a surprise. sort of rolling their eyes, and focusing on the senate seats that are far more crucial. from republicans, we're hearing much of the same that i've heard from them as i've been out speaking to republicans at polling sites. yes, they believe there is fraud. they are concerned about that. but guess what, they're still going to the polls as well to vote in the senate races, as a just in case. they want to make sure they're doing their part to save these senate seats. is it having an impact? that will be seen possibly on election day. for now, it seems like the president is continuing to talk about this

let's move to michigan and talk to carol thompson, the state watchdog reporter for the lansing state journal. good morning. guest: good morning, jesse. thanks for h