Sequestering Weapons News Today

>> listen, first things first f you cant come to the nations capitol, and address your government, then we cease to live in a democracy, and so our job, me and my teams job, first and foremost is to protect everybody that comes to washington, d.c. to make sure they are able to participate in peaceful first amendment protected activities and to protect the city from anybody who may have some nefarious thoughts. the dividing line as you mentioned is when individuals start sharing what we call ttps...

We saw our militia who dont generally come to d.c. because they dont like to leave home without their arms, and we saw a lot of threat information suggesting that people would be sequestering weapons, and looking for ways to enter the capitol. >> one of the interesting aspects of this that comes through in this reporting is the hard and difficult fine line between what you just referred to, first amendment protected activity and threat, we want a free society where people can say, i can put up a...

Columbia. so, we have responsibilities to share that information with all of our federal and local state partners. and what were you seeing that was still alarming? >> we had seen a lot of activity in october and november with a lot of the first member -- what we saw, leading up to january six was something that we have never seen before. my staff were alarmed. particularly, actors, threat actors that were coming into d.c., that we have never had encountered before. they were coming from all ove...