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the fbi has had only eight senate confirmed directors. 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. and you would not get that impression, given the way the director wrays fellow republicans attacked him and his agency during a...

Being neutralized, there 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, where it is a smaller subset of individuals drilling down in a particular intense way to find individual people, and take their anger out on them. that really stood, out to me and mary, given your national security background, if you could explain that a littl...

Trump supporters or post in the names of the prosecutors and government workers online. my question to you would be, how much can we even expect the government to keep people safe in this current landscape? >> these are situations like 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 a signing escorts, potentially even to peoples homes and potentially even ...

Is ludicrous. it prevents real discussion about important issues. >> not only is it missing the, point it might even be more malignant than that, which is that the former people who but -- that is liberal democrat plans. they are there as actors working in support of trump and his ends. i think jerry wise, for moore fbi supervisor charged in january 6th. mark abraham, and out of -- the agent at the time of his arrest. thomas caldwell, who claims hes a former section chief for the fbi. these peop...

On the condition ordered by the court is one of the conditions of his release where 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 may be mentioned when ive been on with you before, tim and i both prosecutors for years and sometimes we would have threats against us. they are fungible, in another place, and -- extremists its a completely different ball game. they dont seem to care about that, ...

Its too risky for them to go into the streets right now, every time they do, even a little bit, theres a huge media frenzy, and a huge police presence. joining us now, tim half, former lead investigator for the house is january 6th investigation. and mary mccord, former acting assistant attorney for national security at the justice department. and of course, co-host to the end msnbc podcast, prosecute donald trump. tim, i would love to know from a personal perspective, given your involvement in ...