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How Congress Is Investigating January 6th — And Preparing For Any Future Attacks

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Is This a Purely Hypothetical Risk?

Recent examples of political violence, january sixth, the congressional baseball shooting a few years ago, how did those come up in this hearing? Yes. And i should say, all the scenarios that you mention at the top, there are things that members of congress themselves brought up as potential situations that congress needs to be prepared to consider. I mean, they repeatedly said that this isn't a hypothetical thing. If we look at the pattern of threats against lawmakers, that's really sky rocketed just in the last couple of years in loan. So it's like this job has become more dangerous, and this is a reality they need to consider more practically.

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