>>> THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS ABOUT THE SAFETY
OF THE FEDERAL JUDGE WHO REPORTEDLY SIGNED OFF ON THE
WARRANT TO SEARCH MAR-A-LAGO. ONLINE VIOLENT RHETORIC
PROMPTING A COURT IN FLORIDA TO REMOVE THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE
MAGISTRATE JUDGE LINKED BY SOME MEDIA OUTLETS TO THAT WARRANT.
POSTED ON PRO TRUMP WEBSITES HAVE BEEN CALLING FOR THE
JUDGE'S HOME ADDRESS TO BE SHARED ONLINE.
ANOTHER FOCUS OF THE THREATS, THE FBI.
THE BUREAU'S DIRECTOR SPEAKING TO REPORTERS DIRECTLY ADDRESSED
THE SAFETY OF THESE AGENTS. LISTEN.
>> I'M ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT VIOLENCE AND THREATS OF VIOLENCE
AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT. ANY THREATS MADE AGAINST LAW
ENFORCEMENT INCLUDING THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE FBI, AS WITH
ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, ARE DEPLORABLE AND DANGEROUS.
>> CNN'S DONIE O'SULLIVAN HAS BEEN REPORTING ON THIS VIOLENT
RHETORIC. DONIE, YOU TRACKED THIS STUFF
CLOSELY. YOU READ SOME OF IT AS QUITE
DISTURBING. GO INTO THE DETAILS AND HELP ME
WITH THE CONTEXT. IS THIS LOUDER, MORE THREATENING
PRIOR TO JANUARY 6th OR ABOUT THE SAME?
>> IT'S VERY, VERY HARD TO MEASURE THESE THINGS
QUANTITATIVELY. BUT WHAT WE CAN SAY IS RIGHT
AFTER NEWS OF THAT FBI SEARCH ON MAR-A-LAGO BROKE ON MONDAY, WE
SAW AN IMMEDIATE SPIKE IN VIOLENT RHETORIC.
IF WE CAN BRING BACK UP THAT WEBSITE, THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT
OF FLORIDA COURT'S WEBSITE. U UP UNTIL SOMETIME TUESDAY
EVENING, THERE WAS A PROFILE OF A JUDGE ON THAT SITE WITH
CONTACT DETAILS FOR THE JUDGE. THE JUDGE'S OFFICE CLERKS, ET
CETERA. THAT HAD TO BE TAKEN DOWN FROM
THAT WEBSITE BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE ON THESE
PLATFORMS CALLING FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST THAT JUDGE.
OF COURSE, IT DOESN'T JUST RELATE TO THE JUDGE.
I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THE THREATENING MESSAGES AND THE
RHETORIC PLAYED OUT ONLINE. SOMEBODY JUST POSTED LOCK AND
LOAD IN RELATION TO THE MAR-A-LAGO SEARCH.
KILL ALL FEDS. SOMEBODY ELSE SAYING, I'M JUST
GOING TO SAY IT. GARLAND NEEDS TO BE
ASSASSINATED. SIMPLE AS THAT.
OBVIOUSLY IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A
SERIOUS THREAT, SOMETHING THAT MIGHT RESULT IN REAL WORLD
VIOLENCE AND PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST TALKING A BIG GAME ON THE
INTERNET. WHAT WE DO KNOW IS ON THESE
VERY, VERY SAME FORUMS, THIS IS WHERE PLANNING FOR JANUARY 6th,
THIS IS WHERE VIOLENT RHETORIC IN THE LEAD-UP TO JANUARY 6th
WAS ALL PLAYING OUT. WE KNOW PEOPLE WHO WENT TO THE
CAPITOL AND COMMITTED VIOLENCE THAT DAY WERE ON THESE FORUMS.
>> DONIE O'SULLIVAN, THANK YOU. >>> JOINING ME, CNN'S MELANIE
ZANONA, TIA MITCHELL OF THE ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION.
THE LAST POINT THERE, DONIE IS SMART, THIS IS WHAT HE DOES.
YOU CAN'T QUANTITY STATE, IS THERE MORE OR LESS?
IS IT ABOUT THE SAME. FOR THE POLITICAL LEADERS USING
STRIDENT LANGUAGE THEMSELVES, AND THEY WOULD SAY THEY'RE NOT
CALLING FOR VIOLENCE, WE HAVE SEEN THE CAUSE AND EFFECT OF
WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE ELECTION BEFORE JANUARY 6th.
THAT'S WHY IT'S SO STRIKING TO HEAR THIS HARSH RHETORIC.
>> THESE CONCERNS ARE NOT UNFOUNDED.
YOU HAVE REPUBLICAN LEADER KEVIN McTHAR THINK NOT ONLY NOT
CONDEMNING THE VIOLENCE, BUT ACTIVELY ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO
BE LOUD AND SPEAK OUT. VERY DIFFERENT THAN CALLING FOR
VIOLENCE, BUT WE'VE SEEN WHAT FEEDING INTO CONSPIRACY THEORIES
AND RILING UP THE BASE CAN DO AS WITH JANUARY 6th.
YOU HAVE STEVE SCALISE ALLEGING WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE THAT THESE
AGENTS WENT ROGUE. YOU ALSO HAVE OTHER REPUBLICANS
ACTIVELY SPREADING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT FBI AGENTS
PLANTING EVIDENCE. SO IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT AN
UNFOUNDED CONCERN ABOUT POLITICAL VIOLENCE.
>> WE CAN SHOW YOU SOME OF THE WORDS.
PAUL GOSAR, NOTED CONSPIRACY THEORIST FROM ARIZONA, WE MUST
DESTROY THE FBI. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE, THESE
ARE THE TYPE OF THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN COUNTRIES DURING CIVIL
WAR. AND THERE'S MORE AND MORE.
IT IS STRIKING. >> IT'S STRIKING.
BEYOND THE GOSAR AND TAYLOR GREENE STUFF, THERE'S ALWAYS
BEEN THIS KIND OF RHETORIC BUILT INTO THE RIGHT WEEK.
IN THE 1990s, YOU COULD FIND PEOPLE THAT BELIEVED THE U.N.
INVASION FORCE WAS ON ITS WAY, THE BLACK HELICOPTERS COMING FOR
AMERICANS, FIND PEOPLE WHO REFERRED TO AT AS GOVERNMENT
THUGS. IT WAS THE GOSARS, IT WASN'T THE
MORE CENTRAL LEADERSHIP OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
THAT'S BEEN THE F EVOLUTION. THAT'S WHAT'S SO DRAMATIC.
SITTING SENATORS COMING OUT AND SAYING THE FBI IS SCHEMING TO
PUT TRUMP IN FRONT OF A FIRING SQUAD.
SITTING SENATORS TALKING ABOUT, WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER,
TALKING ABOUT PLANTED EVIDENCE. WHAT'S SO STRIKING, IT'S NOT
SOME RANDOM INTERNET CHAT FORUM. IT'S THE LEADING LIGHTS OF A
MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY. >> McCARTHY IS USING THIS AS A
RALLYING CRY FOR HIS PARTY, TRYING TO SCORE POINTS WITH
TRUMP WORLD, HE'S FUND-RAISING OFF THIS.
>> I HOLD THIS UP. IT'S HARD TO SEE AT HOME.
THIS IS AN ADORING KEVIN McCARTHY LOOKING AT DONALD
TRUMP. HE GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT HOW
FURIOUS HE IS THE DOJ HAS BEEN WEAPONIZED.
WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO DO OR CHOOSE NOT TO DO AT THIS MOMENT WILL
DETERMINE EVERYTHING. HE MEANS SEND ME MONEY.
BUT THEN YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THESE PRO TRUMP WEBSITES, ONE
POST HERE, ARE WE NOT IN A COLD CIVIL WAR AT THIS POINT?
IT IS THEIR JOB IN LEADERSHIP TO UNDERSTAND THAT'S OUT THERE AND
TO CHOOSE THEIR WORDS CAREFULLY. BUT THEY CHOOSE NOT TO.
>> TO MELANIE'S POINT, I THINK THEY BELIEVE THAT RHETORIC
AROUND A CIVIL WAR, RHETORIC AROUND PRESIDENT TRUMP AND
SPREADING CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND MISLEADING INFORMATION ABOUT
WHAT THIS WAS, WHICH WAS JUST A SEARCH WARRANT.
IF HE DID NOTHING WRONG, THEN YOU WOULD EXPECT THAT NOTHING
WOULD COME OF IT. THEY BELIEVE THAT THIS LANGUAGE
WILL BENEFIT THEM. I THINK THEY BELIEVE THIS
LANGUAGE WILL HELP DISTRACT FROM SOME OF THE THINGS THAT
DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN CELEBRATING RECENTLY.
BUT I ALSO THINK THAT THEY BELIEVE THIS LANGUAGE IS WHAT
THEIR BASE WANTS TO HEAR. IS WHAT THEIR BASE BELIEVES.
THEY BELIEVE THIS LANGUAGE WILL KEEP THEM IN POWER.
BUT I WONDER IF THEY THINK ABOUT TO WHAT END.
>> DO THEY THINK ABOUT THEIR COLLEAGUES.
AFTER TEN HOUSE REPUBLICANS VOTED TO IMPEACH TRUMP, MANY
RECEIVED THREATS. THIS IS ERIC SWALWELL.
REPUBLICANS DON'T LIKE ERIC SWALWELL, THEY THINK HE WAS ON
THE IMPEACHMENT COMMITTEES AND WAS OVER AGGRESSIVE.
YOU'RE ENTITLED TO YOUR POLITICAL OPINION ABOUT THAT.
THE QUESTION IS WHAT ABOUT HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILDREN WHEN THIS
COMES IN. >> SWALWELL IS A WORTHLESS BEES
OF [ BLEEP ]. CUT HIS WIFE'S HEAD OFF.
CUT HIS KID'S HEAD OFF. >> WHEN YOU KNOW THIS IS OUT
HERE. WHEN WE WATCH TWHAPD ON JANUARY
6th, IT SHOULD BE INCUMBENT ON EVERYBODY, INCLUDING PEOPLE IN
OUR BUSINESS, CHOOSE YOUR WORDS CAREFULLY.
>> DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A COMPLICATED CONCLUSION TO REACH.
>> I THINK THERE'S ONE OTHER ELEMENT TO WHAT YOU JUST SAID
WHICH IS A LOT OF THESE FOLKS WORRY ABOUT THE COST OF NOT
USING THIS RHETORIC BECAUSE THE EXPECTATION IS BUILT IN SO MUCH
INTO THE TRUMP WORLD, THAT THIS IS THE NATURAL AND NECESSARY
RESPONSE. KEVIN McCARTHY'S FIRST RESPONSE
WAS, WE'RE GOING TO HOLD HEARINGS.
THAT'S NOT GOING TO WASH WITH A LOT OF THE TRUMPLAND PEOPLE OUT
THERE MAKING THESE MORE INCENDIARY COMMENTS.