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Welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. im kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." trump supporters rallied outside the u.s. capitol in washington saturday, in what police called a mostly peaceful event. the protest was organized by matt brainerd, a former trump campaign staffer in his organization. demonstrators saturday say those arrested after the january 6th attack on the capitol, which left five people dead, are political prisoners. cnn...

Congressman adam kinzinger talked about security preparations around the capitol. >> everybody will be more ready for them. >> im pretty confidentwe wont see a repeat of violence. i am confident law enforcement is more prepared, but i think its ironic that the rallying cries for justice for january 6, i think the justice for january 6 would have been the impeachment and removal of donald trump. i think its time we stopped accepting these ideas of basically a militia that wants to take over the g...

Kind of standoff that puts these demonstrators away from the building that these officers are sworn to protect. >> i mean, jessica, the idea that people who attacked the cap to are being now portrayed by this group and others as, you know, political prisoners. or, you know, victims in some way is insane. >> well, i actually talked with the organizer of this rally, matt brainerd, today. we had probably a 15-minute discussion, and he insists that these are, in fact, political prisoners. despite th...

The capitol, september 18th. the intelligence report references amped up online chatter after the officer who fatally shot rioter ashli babbitt on january 6th went public. defending his actions after the justice department and the capitol police cleared him of any wrongdoing. >> i know that day, i saved countless lives. i did my job. and there was eminent threats and danger to the members of congress. >> reporter: the capitol police memo notes a recent uptick in violent rhetoric and heated discu...

It was after he made the video. you know, they were trying to distance themselves. there were an awful lot of republicans, initially, trying to distance themselves from the attackers. saying, look, im not even sure -- those were probably antifa people in costumes. im not even sure they were really trump people. i have heard from a lot of trump supporters, you know, it was a false-flag operation. i guess, they have abandoned that line of argument. and now, theyre fully embracing them as trump sup...

Matt brainerd. he said these are in fact political prisoners despite the fact most people being held in the jails are accused of violent offenses. a lot of the people have taken plea deals who were nonviolent, just charged with trespassing. the premise a little bit of this rally is off base. they are taking a lot of their talking points and parenting what donald trump has said and is saying. >> its interesting because when the former president finally did make a video, there was -- or it was act...

And danger to the members of congress. >> reporter: the capitol police memo notes a recent uptick centered on babbitts shooting and the document warns many might view september 18th as a justice for ashley babbitt rally. the former trump campaign staffer matt brainerd acknowledges this will address babbitts death. it addresses the hundreds involved who are now facing federal charges. >> were calling for charges to be dropped against all non-violent offenders who in many cases were walking throug...

An nbc poll said that they believe that january 6th is being exaggerated to discredit trump and his allies. maybe its not showing on fox but yet people who still believe the big lie, as did the people who attacked our capitol, still pose a national security threat as we know weve heard from the fbi. npr has reported the metro police department is going to have an increased presence around d.c. because on september 18th the people who support the former president are going to hold something calle...