what your job was to be doing in the run up to january 6th that led you to be looking at this activity, and getting nervous about it? >> well, thank you, chris. me and my team are responsible for collecting, disseminating and analyzing threat information that could impact the operations or harm anybody that comes into the district of columbia. so we have responsibilities to share that information with all of our federal, local, and state partners. >> and what were you seeing that was so alarming to you? >> we had seen a lot of activity in october and november with a lot of the first amendment protected activities that were going on around election. what we saw leading up to january 6th was something that we had never seen before, and my staff were alarmed. particularly actors, threat actors that were coming into d.c. that we had never encountered before. they were coming from all over the country.