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the fbi has had only eight senate confirmed directors. those directors all have a few things in common. they are all white men. they all favor a clean cut look, and each and every one of them, every senate confirmed director since the dawn of the fbi has been a republican. that includes current fbi director, christopher wray, who was appointed by donald trump. and you would not get that impression, given the way the director wray's fellow republicans attacked him and his agency during a hearing today. on capitol hill. >> when the court says that the fbi misled, that is a nice way of ...

Being neutralized, there hasn't been an outpouring. there hasn't been another january 6th style and direction against the courthouse, for example. really, that line in the washington post reporting, the nature of the threat is now different, where it is a smaller subset of individuals drilling down in a particular intense way to find individual people, and take their anger out on them. that really stood, out to me and mary, given your national security background, if you could explain that a little bit. >> that's exactly right. there's two points that i make, one is that is sort of part of the...

Trump supporters or post in the names of the prosecutors and government workers online. my question to you would be, how much can we even expect the government to keep people safe in this current landscape? >> these are situations like tim said where if there are specific threats, targeted threats towards particular prosecutors, fbi agents, witnesses, that might require some sort of special security precautions. including a signing escorts, potentially even to people's homes and potentially even and stalling security systems if they don't have those things. the government, if we inspect the go...

Is ludicrous. it prevents real discussion about important issues. >> not only is it missing the, point it might even be more malignant than that, which is that the former people who but -- that is liberal democrat plans. they are there as actors working in support of trump and his ends. i think jerry wise, for moore fbi supervisor charged in january 6th. mark abraham, and out of -- the agent at the time of his arrest. thomas caldwell, who claims he's a former section chief for the fbi. these people were working in law enforcement, and they were writing on january 6th. my question to you, tim, ...

On the condition ordered by the court is one of the conditions of his release where those witnesses names could be protected and not be distributed publicly. you can only take so many precautions. there is risk inherent in this, and we may be mentioned when i've been on with you before, tim and i both prosecutors for years and sometimes we would have threats against us. they are fungible, in another place, and -- extremists it's a completely different ball game. they don't seem to care about that, the extremist threats the rhetoric, is actual attacks don't factor into the account but that won'...