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Tonight. Theres a big lineup of news tonight with smart voices on a scary assassination threat. More indictments coming. A republican Loyalty Pledge. An alleged racist slur in that brawl, you know the one im talking about. Also a Serial Killer suspects dna. And the fires burning maui. First, everyone, the threat of Political Violence against Public Officials taking now a very deadly turn. A accused of threatening to assassinate the president of the United States and other lawmakers walled by fbi agents attempting to arrest m. More on that in just a moment. Were learning the man also threatened...

Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Howard fineman, an nbc news analyst who spent his tuesday in judge ellis courtroom marveling at Paul Manaforts wardrobe. Anyway, mimi, let me start with you. Define Obstruction Of Justice and is it something that has to be done in secret for it to be a crime . Sure, chuck. I want to answer the second part first. It does not have to be done in secret. The definition of Obstruction Of Justice, there are different prongs of it, depending on whether youre trying to interfere with witnesses or tamper with evidence. Its basicall...

You have read the tea leaves more than once. what does it say that this just happened in utah? >> well, we don't have all the facts, as you mentioned. but quite frankly, i think that -- it pains me to say this -- maga is becoming a rest stop on the long, dark road to extremism. everything you saw the former president do in the previous clips is very systematic. what you need to do in order to mobilize to violence is you need to "otherize" people, dehumanize them. all these words they're using really lowers the threshold of the barriers to commit interpersonal violence. >> you mean "otherize," ...

Border protection officials be punished for doing their job? >> donna: first of all of my federal employee i respect the work that all of our personnel are doing. this is not an easy job to protect the border and it's not an easy job to make sure that our airports are safe. so i don't support that argument at all. and anyone who makes an argument, i can tell you is not one that will get support from me. but i do believe that as it americans, i want to make sure. i know many of these individuals have crossed the border illegally. i want to make sure we treat them in a humane way. i'm not out th...

>> dehumanize them. >> dehumanize them, it's a generic wash, it applies to everyone who has journalist as part of their background or media. but let's be clear here. all of this craziness stops if one man says stop. so we sit here and we want to parse it and try to intellectualize it and understand it and psychoanalyze this, this is trump's creation. and whatever comes of it rests on his head. no one else's. you can't blame the people in that audience. you can point fingers at them and say you shouldn't have done that, you shouldn't have gone after that reporter. but this rests on the man who ...