violence. let s go straight to more, tracking so much of what has done said on line. death threats have been out there, some general like social media posts urging people to kill all feds. but there have also been very specific threats, in particular aimed at the attorney general, merrick garland, and the florida judge who signed and then unsealed that search warrant. how concerned are federal officials about about this going from online threats to actual violence? reporter: yeah. well, sources told our colleague josh campbell that the fbi s investigating an unprecedented number of threats against its personnel including some of its agents. and you can really see that playing out on line since right after the news of that search of mar-a-lago broke on monday. i want to show you some of the kind of messages that have been posted. you mentioned there s one called kill awed feds, another lock and load, another person writes, i m going to say it, garland needs to be assassina
the desantis dogma as he misquotes a bible gets underway on this monday night. good evening i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we have breaking news tonight the may offer new clues as to why the justice department moved so swiftly with a search and seizure that turned up 11 sets of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the new york times reports the government has managed to retrieve hundreds of classified documents from the former president since he left office almost exactly 19 months ago. the times writes quote, the initial batch of documents which eve by the national archives from former president donald trump in january included more than 150 marked as classified. multiple people briefed on the matter said. in total, the government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from mr. trump since he left office, the people said, a first batch of documents returned in january, another set provided by mr. trump s aides to the justice department in
richard haass. and nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. also with us, the founder of the conservative website, charlie. liz cheney, one of two republicans serving on the committee, went on fox news yesterday to defend the committee s work. here s how she responded to a question about why capitol police weren t better prepared for the attack. it s an entire focus of the investigation. you will see in our report. you ll likely see in upcoming hearings, so it is certainly something we re going to be focused on. but what we aren t going to do, brett, is blame the capitol police, blame those in law enforcement for donald trump s armed mob that he sent to the capitol. kevin mccarthy decided not to participate in the committee, that, somehow, the house of representatives cannot investigate the single worst attack on the capitol since the war in 1812. cheney discussed the committee s interest in interviewing ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas.
the january 6th hearing is appealing to both. it s pushing people to feel u.s. democracy is under assault. many insiders, political pros, people who populate your tv screen all day had a gnawing feeling the presentation on thursday would not sway public opinion. the fact pattern should convince steptics to care more about the attack on the capitol and all of trump world s dishonorable conduct in the winter of 2020. but this is where the facts come into conflict with feelings. i m with jim sciutto on this one. the cnn anchor was sick of all the chatter whether any minds will be changed on thursday night. that s not our job, he wrote. our job is to report and disseminate the facts, and that s what we do. it s also a fact the american media has been so split apart, and that split affects every story we cover. it s like the weather. it has to be factored into everything all the time. fox news put the facts refusing to air thursday evening instead showing video while tucker carlso
states capitol. that means pretty much every cable news channel and three major broadcast networks will be providing wall-to-wall coverage, everyone except fox news which will stick with its regularly scheduled programming of tucker carlson, sean hannity and laura ingraham rick they are demoting their coverage to the much watched business channel. the primetime hosts will cover the events as news warrants. the network s decision might help avoid some awkwardness more thanity an ingraham who were actively communicating with mark meadow, trump s chief of staff on that slept day. in the 17 months since the insurrection, fox news, particularly the knocks in primetime, has spent hours undermining the severity of the attack on the capitol and more hours painting the investigation of it as a partisan witch hunt against the former president despite there being two republicans on the committee including vice chair liz cheney. according to philip bump of the washington post the reap