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To? i mean there is a history of this kind of intimidation and threatening behavior and threatening messaging around voting in our recent past. we saw that in 2012, in wisconsin and ohio, those threatening billboards. there is also of course a rich history of this in our distant past, plus or minus the available technology. in 1922, somebody flew biplanes over oklahoma city and dropped leaflets out of planes over black neighborhoods right around election time. those leaflets carried a message that was essentially the 1922 version of the president's tweet. the leaflet said, quote, do not attemp...

That's why we're all voting "yes" on c. the plan is paid for by corporations that just got a massive tax break. it's time for them to give back by helping all of us to fix our homeless crisis. with more affordable housing... expanded mental-health services... clean restrooms and safe shelters. vote "yes" on c. it helps all of us. schiff, the top democrat on the intelligence committee. thank you for being here. >> pleasure. >> so in july of this year before president trump had his putin summit, three or four days before that summit the justice department unsealed this massive indictment against...

Right? you can also see it's anonymous. paid for by a private family foundation. in 2012, we started reporting on those billboards in ohio. we later learned that threatening billboards like that were also going up in black neighborhoods and low-income neighborhoods in wisconsin. again, seemingly targeting low income minority neighborhoods. particularly wisconsin that. they seemed to be up all over milwaukee. eventually there was enough of an outcry over these things in minority communities that made it seem like you might get arrested if you turned up to vote, there was enough of a public outc...

Scared away from the polls. oklahoma city august 1, quote, following the dropping of cards from airplanes over the negro districts, negro voting has been light up to noon in today's primary. it's not like we don't have a rich history of this, right? a rich and effective history of this as a country, targeting specific voters and specific communities, that if they dared turned out to vote, they're going to maybe get themselves in trouble. maybe the law will come down on them. it's very threatening. it's very dangerous. you could find yourself in prison. we have a long history of this, but this ...

Company's own policy against anonymous political advertising. but had there not been news coverage of that, had there not been a public outcry over that, those threatening billboards would have stayed up through the election in 2012. this year in 2018, we're seeing the exact same kind of blunt threats over voting, making it seem like you might be in legal jeopardy if you turn out to vote. this year we're not necessarily seeing it on billboards, we're seeing it online. this year it's not some anonymous donor making the threats, this year the threat is from the president of the united states who...