him on the phone once or twice before they, uh, before they came and wrapped me up. >> thompson: mike dunn the boogaloo leader i'd seen at the rally in richmond. dunn is just 20 years old. he'd joined the marines out of high school but says he was medically discharged with a heart condition. and he leads one of the most visible boogaloo chapters in the country. dunn lives in rural virginia. >> we definitely are the modern militia. we're the ones crazy enough to actually do something. i think that a lot of people, especially on the right, republicans, realized that it was no longer a america of liberty. i think a lot of people woke up to that in these past four years. >> thompson: so the trump presidency is eroding people's faith in the government further. >> i wouldn't say that he's necessarily helped erode it further, i think he's just helped spotlight it further. i believe a lot of people were already skeptical, and then i think there are some that saw the president of the united states being skeptical and said, "maybe we should too." >> thompson: is this a movement that's hierarchical?

dunn on. people like harry, mike fanone, 140 law enforcement officers who fought at the tunnel, we came close and we need to recognize how important it is that the system depends upon individuals and that we make sure that it never happens again. >> your co-chair has said we came close to the end of democracy as we know it. the president expected to address the nation and portray our democracy at a fragile moment right now, not a year ago, right now. do you agree? >> i do. the threat continues. former president trump continues to make the same claims that he knows caused violence on january 6th and it's very important, if you look at what's happening today in my party, in the republican party, rather reject what happened on the 6th, reject the lies about the election and make clear that a president who engaged in those activities can never be president again, unfortunately, too many in my own party are embracing that former president, are looking the other way, are minimizing the danger. that's how democracies die and we simply cannot let that happen. >> the committee that is investigating th