
The January 6th Hearings: #9 (10/13/22) full hearing
The Rachel Maddow Show
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The Secret Service Was Aware of Weapons Related Arrests in D.C.
The Secret Service was aware of weapons possessed by those gathered at rallies in D.C. as early as the evening before. The document details multiple arrests for weapons offenses, handguns, high capacity feeding devices, ammunition. What the Secret Service saw on the 6th was entirely consistent with a violent rhetoric circulating in the days before the joint session on pro-Trump websites. On one of these sites, as you've heard, one of those was called the Donald Dot Win. If I had seen something like that, I probably would have flipped it to someone at the Y... Would he have said we must flag this for secret service or something of that nature?
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