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and republicans, in elected office, should call this out. this is not proper behavior. >> and one of the rally speakers was somebody named cynthia hughes. she runs a group that raises money for january 6 defendants. our marshall cohen points out last night she told a story to get sympathy for her nephew who is a convicted capitol insurrectionist and this is her nephew here posing as adolf hitler. his former colleagues testified he said, quote, hitler should have finished the job. he was convicted on all five charges he faced. do you think this belongs at any kind of a political rally, this kind of speaker given this sort of platform? >> when president biden warned there are some elements in this extreme group that are semifascist, maybe he didn't need to use semi.
gingrich's involvement at all in the lead up to january 6th but the committee wants to bring him in and hopes he'll do so voluntarily. another person they want to talk to absolutely is former vice president mike pence and we've heard members sort of allude to his willingness or lack thereof to come in and talk to the panel. you know, congressman raskin today even mentioned he expects mike pence to come in. now it remains to be seen if that happens but the committee is still pushing ahead and expects to put out that report and hold more hearings. >> many january 6th defendants are still awaiting trial on charges stemming from the insurrection. cynthia hughes who runs a support group for january 6th defendants was an opening speaker last night at trump's rally in pennsylvania. this actually happened. she spoke about her nephew a convicted capitol insurrectionist who has been in jail since his arrest well over a year ago. let's listen. >> he went to the nation's capitol to hear his president speak. he dressed in a suit and tie and
cut his kid's heads off. >> we've seen paul gosar, a member of congress, suggest we need to, quote, destroy the fbi. >> reporter: the extremist online postings after the mar-a-lago raid were found by cnn correspondent donie o'sullivan, who tracks extremism online. he said this about that online forum supporting trump, where some of those threats popped up. >> that website is one of the very same websites where many of the people were talking about plans for january 6th in advance of the attack on the capitol, people discussing how to attack police officers. >> reporter: in fact, one reply to the lock and load threat came from an account run by capitol insurrectionist tyler schleicher, according to the group advanced democracy. the reply said, quote, are we not in a cold civil war at this point? tyler schleicher's lawyer did not respond to cnn's request for comment. the antidefamation league worries about what comes next. >> it would be the lone wolf who
by capitol insurrectionist tyler slaker according to the group advance democracy. the reply said, "are we not in a cold civil war at this point?" his lawyer did not respond to the request for comment. the anti-defamation league worries about what comes next. >> it could be the lone wolf who now feels compelled to commit an act of violence against the law enforcement official or against some other person. it could be an organized group. >> reporter: a congressional security official told cnn shortly after the news of the mar-a-lago raid broke, the u.s. capitol police began discussions about monitoring and planning for possible violent rhetoric. that official saying they have particular concern about violence being directed against members of congress and federal law enforcement. the capitol police would not comment on security plans. brian todd, cnn, washington. coming up i'll speak with the director of the center for the study of hate and extremism on how the mar-a-lago search could fuel violence. that's ahead in the next hour of cnn newsroom. u.s. house has given
>> that website is one of the very same websites where many people were talking about plans for january 6 in advance of the attack on the capitol. people discussing how to attack police officers. >> reporter: in fact one reply to the lock and load threat came from an account run by capitol insurrectionist tyler schlaker. the replay saidy said are we no told civil war? he did not respond to requests for comments. anti-defamation league worries about what comes next. >> it docould be the lone wolf feels compelled to commit violence against a law enforcement official or depagai some other person. it could be an organized group. >> reporter: a congressional security official told cnn that shortly after the news of the mar-a-lago raid broke, u.s. capitol police began discussions about monitoring and planning for potential violent rhetoric, that official saying that they
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biden can't solve. he can't throw his hands up and say, okay, well, this isn't the top issue, i won't deal with it, it could become the top issue again because of how potentially threatening it is. as you said, we simply don't know that yet. >> david chalian, thank you for being with us. >> sure. so capitol insurrectionist who played judas in jesus christ superstar invoking divine authority in front of the judge. you can guess how well that went. across the country, backers of the big lie lining up for elected office. plus, a pyramid scheme of abuse. that is what prosecutors say ghislaine maxwell created alongside convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein. will maxwell take the stand? the ergo smart base from tempur-pedic responds to snoring- automatically. so no hiding under your pillow, or opting for the couch. your best sleep. all night. every night. save up to $500 on select adjustable mattress sets during the black friday event. this is your home.
something and have behavior, that is appalling, you can't say, cancel culture, they're coming to cancel me. no. it is consequences. so, look, i understand that, you know, it is easy to co-opt the right wing messaging, they're very good at messaging. i don't -- i resent the term cancel culture. i'm sorry, as a minority, a gay man, i resent that term cancel culture, i resent wokism. there are so people so woke that they need a nap. they're so far to the left. that's not where people are. and that's usually activists. i think, yes, we need to let activists be activists. the problem is when it becomes a problem for politics when it starts to -- when people can't get what they want done because people are defining them with those terms. >> much of this is totally disconnected from this discussion. i want to talk about jenna ryan, convicted capitol insurrectionist, who back in
will come down in short order fooli foll following this rally. back to you. >> they are not criticizing the event, hoping to avoid being associated with the rally supporting the capitol insurrectionist. >> melanie zanona joining us with more on that. and the question is, is this working? >> reporter: well that is to be determined. there are no republican members who are scheduled to speak at the event. they haven't been promoting the event and on the some on the far right have warned it is a false flag operation designed to trap them. there is a lot of concern in the gop about the potential political fallout. they don't want to have this weaponized against them by democrating but the republicans are not con temming the rally ort causes. there have been multiple that expressed support and sympathy for the jails insurrectionist and there are two candidates who are speaking at the rally on saturday and a number of local
yet another alleged capitol insurrectionist has been caught, all because he couldn't help but brag about it to his bumble match. he was charged this week with assaulting officers on january 6th. he even sent selfies to his match that showed him at the capitol during the insurrection. cnn's marshall cohen is following the details for us. this is not the first time, marshall, that authorities can thank a dating app for tracking down these alleged rioters. >> reporter: believe it, not, this is the second time this exact scenario happened. the details are even scarier than the first example. this guy, andrew tach from texas, he runs a power washing company. authorities say he came to the capitol armed with pepper spray and a metal whip. the justice department says he