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At home, we brought it to capitol police, and they said, look, youre among a group of people that get a lot of threats. -- capitol police doesnt have the people to put a detail an every member of congress. this is another stark reminder of how serious the security situation is and how difficult it is for law enforcement to get in front of. >> 435 members of the house, 100 members of the senate. how does the capitol police -- had to officials make decisions about where to allocate protection? >> ...

Swalwell. whitney wild has been looking into this security situation and joins us now. republican senator susan collins said she wouldnt be surprised if a senator or house member were killed, end quote. so whats the level of concern tonight among lawmakers not just for themselves but also their families? >> theres particularly heightened concern. what law enforcement sources have told us over the last two years these threats to lawmakers also include threats to their family. we know some members...

Nairobi, Kenya - The African Union on Sunday said it was worried about the deteriorating security situation in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic

Nancy pelosi is not an insignificant figure in us politics, she is third in line to the presidency and one would have assumed there would be some kind of panic button, potentially some kind of constant security presence at her house. generally, lawmakers and particularly lawmakers who are as high—profile as speaker pelosi, they do not like to discuss the details of their security. however it seems that what happened here was that the speaker was not at home at the time of the attack. she was h...

ABUJA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday allayed the fears of citizens and warned against unnecessary panic over the current sec

Here in washington and dc and thus pirsig purity details with her in dc and not at her home in san francisco. so i am sure there will be more questions asked about what exactly was the security situation at the speakers home in san francisco and i think many members right now, many lawmakers are probably trying to figure out what adjustments or improvements they need to make at their homes in order to make sure that they feel safe being there with their family. events like this and _ there with ...

Power. these drones are slow. theyre basically rockets with a bad engine on the back of them. what weve been seeing on the ground is people firing their weapons at them in the air which has raised the danger here in the city. the city has put out an alert asking people to not try to shoot down the drones. you have a situation where the security situation has deteriorated a great deal and people are fearing future strikes. general, lets pick off where cal left off, we could see more civilians l...

>> i appreciate that. i appreciate that. it seems like the overriding w wish is to do at the capitol. what we are told directly is its going to take days for the capitol to be okay again. >> so obviously we know now that it didnt take days for the capitol to be okay again. and lawmakers returned that night and did vote to certify the election. but a few things jump out about that video. one is the level of genuine concern about the security situation at the capitol during that time. but another ...

Know, then just move forward the rest of the state. >> while that was happening at the same time vice president pence was holed up at an underground loading dock on the capitol campus. pence and pelosi, the first and second in line for the presidency, discussed their personal safety with pelosi pleading with pence to keep his location secret. cnns zachary cohen is covering these developments for us. zachary, what else is in the video? >> good morning. so this exclusive video takes us inside ft. ...

New video from the day of the capitol rriot? >> this is the first exclusive look inside what was happening at fort mcnair on january 6th after members of congress were evacuated from the u.s. capitol, and it includes a moment where nancy pelosi and former vice president mike pence are so concerned about the security situation at the capitol that theyre drawing up contingency plans to certify the 2020 election. take a look at this. >> facilities for house and the senate to meet as a backup plan. ...