u.s president donald trump is preparing
to issue more than 100 pardons and
commutations on tuesday
his last full day in office the list of
clemencies reportedly will not include
trump himself
meanwhile u.s police have arrested an
elected official on charges relating to
the january 6th
storming of the capital corey griffin a
new mexico county commissioner
and founder of the group called cowboys
for trump
was also planning to travel to
washington dc armed with a rifle and a
revolver
to protest joe biden's inauguration on
wednesday
now security across the country has been
stepped up since the weekend in
anticipation
of fresh violence by right-wing
extremists
the calm after the storm ahead of joe
biden's inauguration wednesday
the level of security in washington is
unprecedented
after the attack on the capital on
january 6 there is a fear of further
unrest
not just here but across the united
states
let's all understand that there's a
perceived or a real success
of the january 6 attack so these
organizations are now emboldened
by setting up and if you will deterring
future events because of the presence of
law enforcement and military
that's sending a message to people and
i'm reading as recent as today
that many of these organizations have
decided that they're going to stand down
the investigation into the siege of the
capital is posing uncomfortable
questions
why was it so easy for the rioters to
breach both the west
and the east side of the building
new video evidence of the storming
emerges daily
it's now clear that dozens of the
rioters were listed in the fbi's
database as potential terrorists
and democrats are asking if the rioters
had inside help from republican
officials
those members of congress who had groups
coming through the capital that i saw on
january
5th are reconnaissance for the next day
those members of congress
that incited this violent crowd
do individual republican officials have
links to radical groups
and if so how extensive are they
investigators are ruling nothing out
security inside the capital has been
stepped up with lawmakers now required
to submit to metal detector scans
several hundred arrests have been made
across the country in connection with
the storming of the capital
this man was detained in nashville
tennessee on sunday
experts believe there are now tens of
thousands of far-right militants in the
united states
who could be mobilized by radical
organizations
it's going to be a constant challenge as
we deal with them because
it's a they've been radicalized and the
numbers
um have grown obviously over the last
over the term of this last
administration
and we're hoping now that we can return
to some sense of normalcy that these
agencies can be restored
and the guard rails that were in place
for our constitution can be put back in
place
for now the capital is secure the stage
for the inauguration is set
thousands of national guard troops are
on standby
they will all be hoping that the calm
after the storm does not become the calm
before the storm
protesters failed to show in large
numbers
in utah only a handful of heavily armed
pro-trump demonstrators
gathered outside the state house
in michigan too the mood was a far cry
from the scenes america witnessed
only 11 days ago when a riotous mob
stormed the u.s capitol
i'm not expecting much to come out today
to often
go enjoy work i just wanted to see what
happens with the maga movement
make america great again
[Applause]
one protester said that right-wing
social media platforms had discouraged
trump supporters from turning up
and a lot of people on there uh
especially on the right were saying you
know not to go
because they believe that their a could
be violent attacks from the left
or b you know that after the
capital riot they didn't want to be seen
as you know violent
so that's why a lot of them aren't out
here today
dw's william bluecroft is following the
latest developments in this story
william
the u.s was bracing for widespread
protests by
violent trump supporters on sunday those
protests didn't happen
but does that doesn't mean the danger
has passed does it
no terry it doesn't was bracing and is
bracing you
we should all be reminded that the fbi
and other law enforcement officials are
seeing a threat basically starting over
the weekend and going through
inauguration week through at least
thursday inauguration being
on wednesday and possibly even beyond
officials are looking at this as maybe
two ways perhaps because
law enforcement officials are now have
their ears perked up
after the january 6th of violence at the
capitol
that might actually put any plans to
rest that there may have been for
inauguration but the other scarier
option is perhaps these threats will
just be more diffuse that they'll kind
of
simmer under the surface that'll be kind
of a whack-a-mole uh
as we approach inauguration day then
maybe there won't be one big event like
we saw at the capitol last week but
maybe there'll be smaller events that
will be harder
to contain well the focus now is very
much on that inauguration
itself on wednesday 25 000 national
guard troops uh standing by
in washington dc to deal with the
possibility of violent
mobs but security officials are also
apparently concerned about
possible insider threats what more can
you tell us about that
absolutely those 25 000 that is about
that's more than double
of the normal national guard presence
foreign inauguration
uh defense officials uh speaking to
associated press said they are worried
about
insider threats within those national
guard troops
uh apparently vetting is a very normal
thing for the military to do for its
troops but the fbi is stepping in and
doing additional vetting and that's
something very
unique we should be reminded that
national guard troops
they're so-called weekend warriors
they're just average members
men and women of the public who serve us
a bit of time
in the military for the extra pay or to
do some service to the country and then
they go back to their communities their
churches their families
so it's really a reflection of everyone
in america and people who might be more
prone to
wanting to uh you know have access to
military training
and we should be reminded what happened
last week at the capitol
um that members of the military tired
and active members of law enforcement
local politicians were involved in this
mob violence
there is now investigations on going if
there was insider help from capitol
police or from even congress people
themselves
so the insider threat really is quite
quite present
william thank you very much was dw's
william bluecroft
you