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Current state of our politics, many of the toxic dynamics inside of our own party is a significant factor in my decision. and look, hes not the only republican who is faced heat from the former president. liz cheney from the state of wyoming, she was booted from her role as a republican leader after her vote to impeach the former president. you also have republicans who are now facing primary challengers back home in the state of washington, and michigan, who trump is now backing their primary c...

Clashes between officers. we know that officers were injured. there were deaths afterwards as well so, again, very serious charges. you see some of these protest organizers saying, that well, these are political prisoners. they are persecuted. the video tells a different story. you see the violence and finally its important to note and we cant say this enough, you know, that this idea that this is a political persecution. you have to go back to the facts. this criminal investigation into the ins...

Law enforcement officials are bracing for possible clashes based on a noticeable uptick in violent rhetoric online. lets bring in cnn security correspondent josh campbell along with phil mudd who worked in intelligence for the fbi and cia. lets start with this rise in violent rhetoric around the rally. what are lawmakers officials hearing? >> this is coming from that memo reviewed by our colleague from the capitol police, and what they are looking at is a lot of online chatter by some of these e...

Schumer as well as two top republicans, mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy, to her office for a security briefing. that will happen weve learned on monday. and at that meeting the capitol police chief will detail all the security preps currently in place for that rally happening next saturday, september 18th. >> sounds like theyre taking it seriously. >> yeah, tare. >> lets get more on all this with phil mudd and cnn law enforcement analyst charles ramsy. phil, what does it tell you the fbi rele...

Surprised if there are. so others need to be aware and alert about september 18th as well. but tom is a veteran police chief, been with the capitol police more than 20 some odd years. youve got more than just the metropolitan police, capitol and others. theyre going to have a lot of people on hand. >> all right, phil mudd, chief ramsey, thanks so much for the insight. coming up a new flash flood watch for parts of the northeast still trying to recover from the rem n remnants of hurricane ida. ...

The state department should have been doing. and in many cases, logistically, they have been ahead of the u.s. government in terms of how to get them out. and their concern is they hear -- lisas point -- they say, no, no, no, of course, you got to figure it out. this is all ad hoc. we dont have the time. and the idea, phil, of hey, be patient, be patient. there are people who are gonna be getting chased by barbarians with machetes is their concern. >> yeah. but i -- i guess, i have a slightly di...

>> that doesnt work for me. look. isis-k would not be the thing id be worried about, chris. we left a couple of days ago, a lot of afghans left, including people who were in places like the airport, air traffic control. flights arent going in there. the afghan airlines are not flying. the -- i think the most likely scenario are gunnery airways. they already have moved in to try to open the airport. so i dont necessarily see this just as a security issue. isis-k is not what i am thinking about. i...

And these are people who have -- a lot of them have burned their documents. they dont -- they dont want any evidence that they had worked with the afghan military. so, they -- they are very special case. but others, you know, women activists, human rights leaders, prominent journalists. these people, also, are in a certain amount of danger. but, you know, i think phil was right that theyve got to get the airport up and running again. the qataris, the turks. but also, people are going out of the ...

Realist. i dont -- i dont see any other option. if you go into the airport and you need security, you dont want marines doing it. the taliban. if you got to get americans to the airport. how else are they going to get there besides the taliban? chris, im not an ideologue, i am a realist. i dont know how to do it without working through them. i dont trust them but no other option. >> phil mudd, lisa curtis. thank you, both, appreciate you. all right. lets turn to the real-time situation in kabu...

Lets bring in the better minds who know the region and the challenges. lisa curtis and phil mudd. lisa, let me start with you. thank you both, by the way. these reports that i am hearing from the ngo digital dunkirk veteran types that the state department is thwarting their efforts. does that make sense to you? >> well, i -- i doubt theyre thwarting the efforts. but they probably could be doing more to facilitate these private organizations. the burden is really on the private organizations to g...