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Media platforms. my concerns are increasing and obviously, dhs and fbi agree that it is time for local law enforcement to step up and to be part of the team that prevents this instead of cleaning up the wreckage after violence happens. >> frank, thank you for staying with me, holding the line on the democratic process. all 50 secretaries of states whose job is overseeing elections, out of the 27 contest this november, look at that. nearly half of them have an election denier on the ballot. and t...

Nbc has not obtained the bulletin joining me now my list her former chief of staff on homeland security and mary mccord. acting attorney general for -- executive director of constitutional advocacy and protection at georgetown university law center. miles, mary, thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. miles, that bulletin issued by homeland security. how should we read that warning with the midterms just around the corner? >> jonathan, we should read the warning extremely seriously. t...

Time. at the same time you dont want to scare people so much that you scare the motive voting. >> to be clear, the united states capitol police says it is working to stop thousands of potential threats. how do you think that theyre monitoring those threats and how do they stop them? >> so, its a monumental challenge, especially for a grossly understaffed, grossly underfunded police department. we have learned a lot of things about the capitol police department in the aftermath of january 6th. on...

Like emergency funding for contractors, retired secret service agents, to retire diplomatic agents. they already train, they can start traveling quickly with lawmakers and we also need funding to go to local police departments. it could be grant money from the doj, saying look at the residences of certain high-profile lawmakers, you will get overtime pay, extra duty pay to have a marked present at those residents. lastly, we have to improve the partnership between social media platforms that are...

Knowledge in the violent attack on speaker pelosis husband paul, noting that it is, quote, working around the clock to stop thousands of potential factions in their tracks. we dont know the motive the attack, but police are investigating. the attack on mr. pelosi comes as early voting is underway and the department of homeland security is warning of heightened threats this election cycle. fueled by violent domestic extremism. we have seen intimidation efforts in arizona, where watchers dressed i...

>> tucker: the biden administration released the latest numbers on border crossings, illegal border crossings late friday night. theyre hoping no one would notice but our bill melugin did notices. >> reporter: dhs released highly-anticipated border numbers on friday night. theyre historic. there were more than 227,000 migrant encounters in september, highest september in dhs histsry and the equivalent of two full-capacity university of michigan football stadiums. fiscal year 2022 ended with near...

Disaster? >> yeah, we had a judge ruling today, that here in arizona, that its okay for the so-called observers to do what they are doing. and in spite of the fact that the maricopa county sheriff here in the phoenix era area was saying, i am stepping up monitoring these drop sites -- this is our future. and they want us talking about this, stephanie. they want to instill fear. they want to think voters -- thats exactly what they want to happen. and thats exactly why we have got to resist that a...

And stephanie, if you look at this individual social media, you find literally every conspiracy theory that is out there and then some. i cant find a conspiracy theory that is not included in what he is embracing or pushing. so, he becomes exhibit a in what happens in an environment where we are in these echo chambers, we are accepting what is being spoon fed into our brains by only one or two sources of news. and lets be blunt about it, its by a former president of the united states. and when p...

Of it. you are constantly being reinforced that this is the news. and some sick, twisted way, they think they are doing something good. they must act. it happened at the capital and it happened here. >> are police ready for the midterms? >> certainly in new york, they are. talked about the planning yesterday with over 1000 election sites. but, there are places i do not have this kind of resources. you know, that is going to be a challenge but i think the intel is out there. i think the nypd mess...

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