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I mean, there are individual senators, members of congress. liz cheney, for example, has a capitol security detail. they decide whether this person should have a full-time capitol police detail, but the capitol police is really short staffed. really strapped for cash. lots of people retired since january 6th. kind of been a spate of retirements since january 6th, and they don't have the resources either money or human beings to really spread more, give more people security details, even in this time where political violence and threats of political violence are at an all-time high. >> thank yo...

Punch bowl news capitol police has begun re-examining security of members. paul pelosi, think about it, spouse to the third-most powerful public official in the united states. not even he has security, full-time capitol police security at his home in the middle of a large city when his wife, speaker of the house, who has a large-scale security detail is out of town. so i think there's just widespread fear consternation that this could happen. >> few public officials have security details. the president, the vice president. nancy pelosi. very few senators, even, legislaors have a full-time secu...

>> let's start small. we have video i can put out there and i enjoy. this is you leaving a meeting at the white house by bicycle to go back to your department as the secretary of transportation. question, how often do you ride a bike around washington? >> probably not as often as i should. i like to practice what i preach and i like to be on two wheels especially as we got out of the swampy summer days, i try to be on the bike more often. i'd be lying if i said that's my daily computmute but depends one day of the week. >> is it a security issue? do you have people travel with you on a bike do...

Continue campaigning ahead of the midterms now just ten days away, katie? >> all right, thanks to you ali rothe, live for us on capitol hill this morning. this attack comes just two months after the house -- created a residential security plan that gave members $10,000 to help secure their homes according to a house aide. and if you look at these numbers, you can clearly see why -- according to the capitol police, threats against lawmakers have nearly tripled in just the last four years. and we are hearing what it's like to be the person facing those [inaudible] -- elon omar is a second most t...

Fred, get pelosi, get schumer, get nadler. they all have security details. there are 435 members of congress, 100 senators. and the capitol police no way has the resources to protect all of them. >> right. it's so frightening. and you zero in on it. it is an issue of resources perhaps. all of this happening, too, after the gop, according to the "washington post", made nancy pelosi a top target in republican campaign ads. you mentioned the issue of resources. but given what is known about why and how nancy pelosi, among others, who are constantly targeted, why wouldn't there be resources made a...