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senate confirmed directors, and those directors all have a few things in common. they are all white men. they all favor a clean cut look, and each and every one of them, every senate confirmed director since the dawn of the fbi has been a republican. that includes current fbi director christopher wray, who was appointed by donald trump. but you would not get that impression, given the way director wrays fellow republicans attacked him in his agency during a hearing today on capitol hil...

The court as one of the conditions of his release, that those witnesses names could be protected and not be distributed publicly. you can only take so many precautions. there is risk inherent in this, and we maybe mentioned when ive been on with you before, tim and i were both prosecutors for years and sometimes we would have threats against us. but prosecutors are fungible. if you get rid of one of us, there is another going to take our place. and many people who are accused of crimes understa...

Tim said where if there are specific threats, targeted threats towards particular prosecutors, fbi agents, witnesses, that might require some sort of special security precautions. including assigning escorts, potentially even to peoples homes, and potentially even installing security systems if they dont have those things. the government, if we expect the government employees, prosecutors, to do jobs that put them in risk, the government has a responsibility to try to mitigate that risk. for wit...

Online threat just a bunch of bravado and bra she oh, and looking tough, lets say these really mean things about this woman, and when is it somebody whos actually going to get in their car and going to track you down and try to actually harm you? it is just like the issue with lone wolf terrorists, theyre usually not part of a big group activity. they oftentimes act on their own. but they act on their own very much inspired by and incited by disinformation, and what now is so popular, which is v...

Hasnt been an outpouring. there hasnt been another january 6th style and direction against the courthouse, for example. really, that line in the washington post reporting, the nature of the threat is now different, that it is a smaller subset of individuals drilling down in a particular intense way to find individual people, to take their anger out on. that really stood out to me and mary, given your national security background, if you could explain that a little bit. >> thats exactly right. th...

Media frenzy and a huge police presence. joining us now, tim haffee, former lead investigator for the houses january 6th investigation and mary mccord, former acting assistant attorney for national security at the justice department, and of course, co-host to the msnbc podcast, prosecute donald trump. tim, i would love to know from a personal perspective, given your involvement in interviewing witnesses for the january 6th investigation, how safe, how vulnerable did you feel in the course of tho...