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Believe it over the institutions of government and the institutions of education -- media being an institution. so, this distrust in how all the rioters felt, it goes further -- >> and deeper -- >> and deeper. we talked to a lot of the defendants. they would have similar talk tracks about, well, you know, i was not that political. but the government really was not there for me. it was for other people. and those are what i note as -- >> the breakdown in terms of the government being responsive t...

Amount of resources we, had the limited amount of time we had, thinking even in terms of what the american public is willing to listen to and understand, it would be very hard to tell a 50-year story about how the rioters identities were challenged, how this fell out of favor, and how they learned to distrust the federal government. >> yeah. >> but what we have really needed to do is focus on the immediate threat that president trump really brought to light and what he did by inciting the riot. ...

Challenged, how this fell out of favor, and how they learned to distrust the federal government. >> yeah. >> but what we have really needed to do is focus on the immediate threat that president trump really brought to light and what he did by inciting the riot. and so i think it was right to focus on him and it was a story that was very powerful for the american public. it is not that we ignored all these other topics in any sense of the word. in our investigation, we asked witnesses. we would a...

That and all the horrible rhetoric. and why are people getting onboard with that? what about their identity? what about their political views leads them to be susceptible to qanon? so that is the 50 years i was talking about. but, yes, like as an immediate problem now that we have people who are willing to listen to that information and believe that over, you know, the institutions of government and institutions of education, media being an institution, so the distrust in how all the rioters fel...

Into all this? >> thats the worst part. we would hear about blm almost equated to terrorist organization that wanted to burn down cities, and its not at the same time a lot of the defendants were talking about how they wanted government to work for everybody, and it was impossible for them to understand that the black lives matter movement had those same ideals behind it. and, you know, thats a lot of the racial animus that exists, and that also is tied into the distrust of the federal governmen...

Research when i was writing my dissertation. you can only think of -- people being susceptible to these kinds of thoughts to qanon -- i mean, we have to wonder, why so many people were willing to listen to president trumps big lie in 2020. >> yeah. >> but also tell all the lies he was telling before that, and all of the horrible rhetoric -- you have to think, why are people getting on board with that? what about their identity? what about their political views leads them to be susceptible to qan...

Lives matter movement had those same ideals behind it. and that is a lot of the racial animus that exist and thats also tied into the distrust of the federal government that i mentioned. there is a lot of what we call in political science layered reasoning here. so, you can think of people seeing the federal government work for rich people rather than the ordinary americans. that is one level that does. it for small businesses, it could be the corporations getting big tax cuts. for a lot of whit...

Because you were involved in the drafting of this, you mentioned this in your op-ed, do you think the focus of the report and jeperally speaking with the committees work was too much on the actions of the former president and not enough about the systemic problems that have taken root in american society? >> so i think we were very successful in how we framed the report to focus on the former president. when you think about just the amount of resources we had, the limited amount of time we had, ...

Defendants. they would have similar talk tracks about, well, you know, i was not that political. but the government really was not there for me. it was for other people. and those are what i note as -- >> the breakdown in terms of the government being responsive to peoples needs. where did racial animus fit into all this? >> thats the nice part. we would hear about blm as almost equated to a terrorist organization, that wanted to burn down cities. and it is not. and at the same time, a lot of th...

All they can do. unfortunately, this particular unit did not have enough oversight. some of the officers were involved in this particular unit shouldnt have been involved in it. but i wont say that the community doesnt want plea to help continue attacking violent crime. but we want to do is put the right people in place, to make sure that we can use initiatives and programs that are going to keep people safe. and its not going to allow police officers to take the law into their own hands. rules ...