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She died in the capitol wednesday, would you be willing to hear her story? it stopped me first in my tracks. my friend used the word radicalized. i wasnt expecting someone to use it in the context of america. >> how we deal with radicalized people. >> exactly. for him to use that word to describe what was happening on january the 6th was for me eye opening. immediately i said, yes, i spoke to him and saw him after 20 years, met the family. they gave us incredible act says. we spoke to our (, our...

Behavior was unexcusable. thompsons understanding of the event was impacted because hes been diagnosed with autism disorder. an argument that the judge rejected. what led people to attack the capitol is the focus of the hit podcast, american radical. we have been featuring it on the show over the past few weeks. it examines the radicalization about once a political woman named roseanne boylen who died during the january 6th riot. here is a clip from the latest episode entitled "monsters and mart...

Border patrol agents say a 21-year-old, you are looking at him from saudi arabia was captured illegally crossing into arizona last week. he was linked to several yemeni subjects of interest air quotes. agents say he was wearing a jacket with an american flag patch on it that says central oneida county volunteer thats in albany new york area. nobody has any idea how he got it here to react dea special agent. whats your assessment of this? is this a rarity do you think? >> brian, first of all, yem...

The reality is right now you have this phenomenal thats playing out with the far-right. members of congress, marjorie taylor greene and others who were exploiting roseannes death. people trying to portray her as a martyr and when they do theyre trying to rewrite the narrative. they were attacked by the police and acting in as self-defense. you can recruit a whole group of people to go out to defend democracy as what you saw it. thats why the family wanted us to tell the story. they knew what was...

Committees work is in the nations interest after having blocked the initially proposed bipartisan committee himself? >> i have no idea how to make heads or tails of what mitch mcconnell is doing at any particular moment but the reason this is so important is we have an opportunity right now to understand what happened january 6th. as the op-ed by the three generals shows us as weve seen over and over again this is a movement of people that is main streaming, that is getting into our elected offi...

It has very human consequences that are both humanitarian in terms of the loss of life, but also strategic to the united states over the course of the time in which weve been using this kind of air power, youve seen an increase in the total number of people who are taking up arms on behalf of some jihadist cause. the question is are we creating more people through radicalization as were taking up the battle field. in terms of fixes, you need accountability at the pentagon. i think owe need stric...

I -- i cant hold it together when i think about the fact that america got its first woman president in that context. >> ayman? >> i dont know where to begin but i was going to say for me, i am thinking back to january 6th. that has to be the narrative that has come out of there and the way it has been perpetuated, i have been investigating it and i am telling you that lie is parade spreading more and more and the threat it is posing to our democracy, with people believing absolutely insane consp...

Right-wing groups in Germany are actively exploiting protests against pandemic restrictions to push their own agenda. DW met a woman who has been fighting right-wing extremism for decades and now worries about growing radicalization.

Sorry, our kids would not be back in school and no one wants that. so we have to figure out a way to interpret this intelligence better. >> this is a new threat environment, right? once again social media has a big role in all of this. how do you feel about how tiktok has responded? >> i thought theyve been good, theyve been pushing back on the response saying were a social media platform, we cater to teenagers for the most part or young people for most part and so were trying to figure out what...

Secretary at of department of homeland security. and you came to mind because you have a lot of experience when it comes to online activity and just obviously national security. by all indications there is no credible threat here ard a cording to officials but how could they be so sure. >> they cant be. im not going to blame any school district for closing but we have to begin to get smarter of what were interpreting from so social media. there is no act to do something violence that is a throw ...