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sat by while donald trump used the rally to go farther than he has before in this cultish alliance with this dangerous sometimes amorphous group called qanon by pushing lies that may sound bizarre and absurdist you can underestimate how serious they are and how they re building a following. i m not going to repeat or amplify all of them, but among them is the claim that certain hollywood actors and democrats are part of some secret pedophile group aligned with satan or who eat children. it goes on like that. i m not going to do much more of it for you tonight. i ll tell you why that is the top story. what does that have to do with midterm campaigns other than villainizing a few democrats? one of the theories is that trump will lead a battle against the forces and by the way, there are many versions and it rations of these conspiracy theories. it matters in many ways. you may recall right after donald trump was elected, a gunman opened fire in a washington, d.c. restaura ....
playing out before our eyes taking us to another scary place over the past fort night. a criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified information looming over the country and both major political parties with an even more significant specter casting a long, shadow in sharp relief. the very real possibility that a former president of the united states could soon be indicted for violating the espionage act or other federal statutes. it is extremely volatile and if donald trump is indeed indicted although that remains a big if, for the moment and we ll move beyond volatility and into more territory that s explosive into where there is a dramatic increase into more political violence than we ve seen already in our republic. in just the last two weeks we ve seen threats against the fbi and law enforcement surging. a pennsylvania man was arrested last week for threatening to kill agents of the federal bureau of investigation and a man armed with a semia ....
Gwen against good news which warranted a president ial hug. I feel fortunate and blessed to be standing here today. Gwen and we remember Washington Post editor ben bradlee. Covering the week, john harwood, chief washington correspondent of cnbc. Dan balz, chief correspondent for the Washington Post. Jeanne cummings, Deputy Managing Editor for bloomberg politics. And alexis simendinger, White House Correspondent for real clear politics. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live from our nations capital, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by how muc ....