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Live there unbearable, and sort of holding the government hostage, its a tactic that we havent seen before. its been really effective and so its going to be replicated. >> jennifer, why do you see as the connection between the radicalization that led to what we saw on january six, and these protests that we are watching unfold? >> i think it is the same populist anti-science, anti authority movement. where i find so im using is the republican party of the united states used to be the party of la...

Have, you, know isolated people in oriented people in a way that makes them targets or radicalization. what you see here is far-right groups being able to pray on some of these pairing groups, and thats a really disturbing combination. >> to that point, michelle, what are the things that we heard from our colleague, ben collins, they are now saying these groups, if you dont have a truck, dont worry, just bring your mom down. jennifer and michelles, thank you so much. former congressman david jol...

Theyre not necessarily a fi fill -- affiliated with a large group. they get their feelings out there and they get affirmed and we see people act out. we clearly dont know whats happening in monsey and well f. >> speaking of radicalization, thats something when you talk about terrorism and lone actors, thats something we talk about. you heard governor cuomo vowing to pass a law that would make new york the first to treat these kinds of incidents as domestic terrorism. lets listen to what he said....

I think there was good intention at the start for some of the erld early days of the oath keepers but, again, this is a story of radicalization. its a story of starting in one place, as rhodes wife said and moving rather rapidly, by the way, to a place of almost cult-like allegiance to one person. so that storey is the story of so many people who may not have acted out violently and planned an insurrection but many people, our neighbors, co-workers who actually started out saying i want a change...

In a generation. so i think its not surprising that with domestic american right-wing that is increasingly inspired by authoritarians abroad would be really excited about this new tactic. you know, weve seen truck convoys before, weve seen convoys, republican, trump convoys tearing through major cities. i one point trying to run a biden bus off the road. but this new tactic for occupying a downtown and making the lives of the people who live there unbearable, and sort of holding the government h...

Of upset when generations of kids were not learning anything. >> you know, i think one of the most fascinating things ive spoken about with my own friends privately is the fact is we saw this radicalization happening on a federal level, watching what happened during the trump administration and culminating on january 6th. then the whole idea of radicalization of parents that are board members of new york -- of, you know, their education programs at their schools, its happening on a local level a...

Look at the totality, hate sort of has a seat at the table right now. always has in america, but it has sort of the head table seat right now in terms of animating a lot of the violence that were seeing at communities of worship and specifically at synagogues or against orthodox jews who are not at synagogues, being attacked on streets, markets and elsewhere. >> you note the statistics here not just in new york state but elsewhere incidents of hate crimes domestically. based on your experience w...

What has happened since then, unfortunately, is this partisan divide in, as you say, trying to rewrite this history, so i think what we saw with the statement from the rnc was, you know, a kind of more mainstream adoption of the position of kind of whitewashing january 6th. so, then the hard thing for us in the press to figure out whether, you know, we need to also -- figure out how exactly we make sure were doing our job to help protect the democracy. >> we talk a lot about the radicalization o...

>> i think its really showing the radicalization of the base of the republican party, of my party, when so many of them, an overwhelming majority of them, use this issue of whether 2020 election was stolen or not as a determination of whether theyre going to support a candidate or not. all these candidates are clearly responding to their electorate in their primary and you see it not just in texas, but youre seeing it across the country. >> and across the country, in your state as well, i mean s...

Party. its a big concern. people like liz cheney give me some hope theres an opportunity to again win some of those people back, but a lot of those folks are no longer reachable. they are quite literally radicalized and it looks like what you saw with the radicalization of isis. they follow the same path of leaders who prey on grievances, who propagate conspiracy theories and convince the appearance that the only way to get what they want is violence. thats what were seeing in our own country. o...