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Plans. brandy, your reporting and mine suggests crowd size saturday may not be what was previously advertised. what changed? >> well, i don't think much changed actually. we always knew it was going to be a small sort of protest. i think what's very different is how law enforcement is responding to this rally as opposed to how it responded january 6th. every extremist post i have seen watching the last couple weeks say stay far away. proud boys told people don't come, qanon, all the extremist forums that cheered on the january 6th attacks seem to believe this is like a false flag or honey pot,...

Following? >> yeah, look. there are two lines of thought on the extremist internet about january 6th. one is it wasn't that big of a deal, these people are being politically persecuted. this is a line that's been touted, by the way, by governments as well. that's what you hear on rt or other russian propaganda outlets. but that doesn't mean it started with them. it started here, on our own extremist forums. that's the wide-scale thing you hear mostly, is this wasn't that big of a deal. why are these people being taken in? then there are people who still deny this happened or deny that once peo...

Nothing imminent they know about, anderson. >> nothing current, that's good. dhs and the intelligence chief, john cohen, he had his own set of warnings. >> yeah, he is saying that the chatter they are seeing in these extremist forums, the -- the rhetoric that they are hearing is similar, if not strikingly similar, to what they heard in the lead-up to the january-6th insurrection. he spoke, exclusively, to our colleague geneva sans and he said they are seeing things online like take action into your own hands, bring out the gallows. anderson, of course, that is not idle chatter. we saw people m...

Concerned about that. obviously the safety and security of the u.s. capitol, the congress, those are top priorities and i'm absolutely concerned about all of those things. >> we know that there has been chatter on these extremist forums. looking to august, some of these extremists thinking that's the month that the former president is going to be reinstated. have you seen any intelligence in the run-up to august or what is possibly planned during august that concerns you? >> certainly. we are absolutely laser focused on information like that. we're pay ing attention to that. we are -- we're no...

Social media presence for any information that might attract the attention of violent extremists." >> pamela brown joins us now from washington. pamela, what's behind the fbi issuing this warning? there are some specifics in it as well talking about social media. >> that's right, john and michae michaela. the latest bulletin is based on new information suggesting isis is renewing calls for attacks, particularly against u.s. military members in the homeland this morning sunday night by dhs and the fbi and it basically says that isis members overseas are looking for homegrown violent extremists ...