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Over again, in the public sphere, and you alluded to it as a legitimate political stance to take, and then, somebody in the extremist forums, theyre not just saying, its a legitimate stance to take, but we have to take action on it. eventually, you expect that someones going to do it. thats what happened in 2018, and 2019 when this was so prominent in the spaces. there was this string of terror attacks, one before the midterms in pittsburgh, at a synagogue. but then, you know, a several. 2019 co...

As we speak right now, heres the extremist forums, the chat right now is yes, the shooter is a hero, but you know what the debate? and probably should havent antarctica elted a supermarket. maybe blacks werent the way to go. he should have targeted pro-choice protests. why? because theyve linked this to white replacement theory. they say we need more white babies. were not getting enough. and therefore people who are pro-choice are actually part of the white replacement theory. this is the lunac...

You have the vice president as we mentioned, the president speaking one hour from now. then at noon, there will be a moment of silence on the house floor. at 2:30, lawmakers will share their reflections of the day. that will be presided over by congressman jason crow. and at 5:30, there will be a prayer vigil on the capitol steps. all the while a federal law enforcement official telling cnn there has been a recent uptick in violent rhetoric on extremist forums. cnns whitney wild joins us now. pe...

Facebook. these were large scale groups that were able to organize these protests and part of the january 6th rally on facebook. thats what you want from places like facebook. all the worst communities from reddit poured over in the last 6 to 12 months before the election. those communities stole reddits code, which is open source, created their own extremist forums. most went over to the great awakening, those places were really the breeding ground for people posting pictures in the days before...

Big, rich nations. thank you so much for your time. were going to answer questions you may have as kids are now back in the classroom. submit your questions with #msnbc answers or email talk at msnbc.com. well have experts answer as many questions as they can live, tomorrow, 11:00 a.m. eastern on msnbc. up next, new growing paranoia on extremist forums surrounding saturdays justice for january 6th pro-insurrectionist rally. we have those details next. youre watching "meet the press daily." nex...

Plans. brandy, your reporting and mine suggests crowd size saturday may not be what was previously advertised. what changed? >> well, i dont think much changed actually. we always knew it was going to be a small sort of protest. i think whats very different is how law enforcement is responding to this rally as opposed to how it responded january 6th. every extremist post i have seen watching the last couple weeks say stay far away. proud boys told people dont come, qanon, all the extremist forum...

Following? >> yeah, look. there are two lines of thought on the extremist internet about january 6th. one is it wasnt that big of a deal, these people are being politically persecuted. this is a line thats been touted, by the way, by governments as well. thats what you hear on rt or other russian propaganda outlets. but that doesnt mean it started with them. it started here, on our own extremist forums. thats the wide-scale thing you hear mostly, is this wasnt that big of a deal. why are these p...

Nothing imminent they know about, anderson. >> nothing current, thats good. dhs and the intelligence chief, john cohen, he had his own set of warnings. >> yeah, he is saying that the chatter they are seeing in these extremist forums, the -- the rhetoric that they are hearing is similar, if not strikingly similar, to what they heard in the lead-up to the january-6th insurrection. he spoke, exclusively, to our colleague geneva sans and he said they are seeing things online like take action into yo...

Concerned about that. obviously the safety and security of the u.s. capitol, the congress, those are top priorities and im absolutely concerned about all of those things. >> we know that there has been chatter on these extremist forums. looking to august, some of these extremists thinking thats the month that the former president is going to be reinstated. have you seen any intelligence in the run-up to august or what is possibly planned during august that concerns you? >> certainly. we are abso...

Social media presence for any information that might attract the attention of violent extremists." >> pamela brown joins us now from washington. pamela, whats behind the fbi issuing this warning? there are some specifics in it as well talking about social media. >> thats right, john and michae michaela. the latest bulletin is based on new information suggesting isis is renewing calls for attacks, particularly against u.s. military members in the homeland this morning sunday night by dhs and the ...