{"id":1801708,"date":"2023-01-11T06:19:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801708"},"modified":"2023-01-11T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:24:08","slug":"msnbc-predicts-violence-as-result-of-gop-investigating-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-predicts-violence-as-result-of-gop-investigating-the-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Predicts &#8220;Violence&#8221; as Result of GOP Investigating the Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmsnbc-predicts-violence-as-result-of-gop-investigating-the-swamp%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801708&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Andrea20Mitchell20Reports20-2012_38_0020pm20-2012_40_1320pm20-2012_00_0120PM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s Andrea Mitchell fretted that the new House GOP-created Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government will be populated with incompetent hacks while Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson predicted violence as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell described the new subcommittee in this way: &#8220;One that will have.&#8221; \u201cextraordinary\u00a0powers and this committee will be able to\u00a0look at all of the top secret\u00a0intelligence that&#8217;s turned over\u00a0to the Intelligence Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell made a proclamation about Eric Swalwell that she would never make, \u201cBut these people on this\u00a0committee are not properly\u00a0prepared or briefed or cleared\u00a0for all of that, as well as\u00a0people like Scott Perry from\u00a0Pennsylvania, saying that there&#8217;s no\u00a0reason he shouldn&#8217;t serve on a committee that is investigating the\u00a0January 6 investigation at DOJ which is investigating Scott\u00a0Perry. How does that work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson lamented for his part this alleged politicization in national security \u201cYou know, what&#8217;s interesting to me is we\u00a0have come a very long way in our\u00a0politics when Republicans used\u00a0to be pro-law enforcement and\u00a0pro-defense.\u00a0Now we see Republican attacks on law enforcement, on\u00a0the intelligence community, on\u00a0the Defense Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only MSNBC could think criticizing the Pentagon\u2019s non-defense related social agenda or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/joseph-vazquez\/2022\/12\/17\/fbi-files-musk-releases-new-docs-exposing-twitters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI being Twitter\u2019s joke police<\/a> This is anti-defense or antilaw enforcement at its core.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was however just getting off to a good start. \u201cthe thing that I think is\u00a0important to point out, the\u00a0rhetorical assaults on the FBI\u00a0have, have in fact, translated into\u00a0physical assaults on FBI\u00a0offices. The one in Cincinnati in\u00a0November, for example.\u00a0This type of rhetoric does lead\u00a0to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson tried to shield himself from criticism by using his DHS tenure as a shield.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m putting on my Homeland\u00a0Security hat here and those who engage in this sort of\u00a0irresponsible, overheated\u00a0rhetoric, ought to be held\u00a0accountable when the natural\u00a0chain of events leads to some\u00a0deranged person out there with a\u00a0gun that decides to try to take\u00a0matters into their own hands and\u00a0attack a field office of the FBI\u00a0or other locations across the\u00a0country.\u00a0And so, from where I sit, it&#8217;s not just\u00a0the absurdity of the politics\u00a0here. This type of overheated rhetoric\u00a0in Washington does lead to real\u00a0dangerous consequences across\u00a0the homeland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This segment does not suggest that violence was a result of left-wing rhetoric regarding law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/conservatives-fight-back\/advertiser\/constant-contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Constant Contact.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This transcript is for the January 10, 2009 show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"collapsible\">\n<p>MSNBC\u00a0<em>Andrea Mitchell Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1\/10\/2023<\/p>\n<p>12:38 ET<\/p>\n<p>ANDREA MITCHELL: Let&#8217;s talk about this new select\u00a0committee because this is going to have extraordinary\u00a0powers and this committee will be able to\u00a0look at all of the top secret\u00a0intelligence that&#8217;s turned over\u00a0to the Intelligence Committee.\u00a0But these people on this\u00a0committee\u2014<\/p>\n<p>JEH JOHNSON Right<\/p>\n<p>MITCHELL: &#8212; are not properly\u00a0prepared or briefed or cleared\u00a0for all of that, as well as\u00a0people like Scott Perry from\u00a0Pennsylvania, saying that there&#8217;s no\u00a0reason he shouldn&#8217;t serve on a committee that is investigating the\u00a0January 6 investigation at DOJ\u2014<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: Right.<\/p>\n<p>MITCHELL: &#8212;\u00a0which is investigating Scott\u00a0Perry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: Right.<\/p>\n<p>MITCHELL: What does it mean?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: Good question.\u00a0First, I was in the Department\u00a0of Defense when we had the\u00a0turnover to Republicans in the\u00a0House majority 2011 and then\u00a02015 when Republicans won\u00a0control of the Senate, I was at\u2014I was at&#8211; DHS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You know, what&#8217;s interesting to me is we\u00a0have come a very long way in our\u00a0politics when Republicans used\u00a0to be pro-law enforcement and\u00a0pro-defense.\u00a0Now we see Republican attacks on law enforcement, on\u00a0the intelligence community, on\u00a0the Defense Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve come a long way from\u00a0the school of thought of John\u00a0McCain, Lindsey Graham, Liz\u00a0Cheney was the mainstream\u00a0thinking in the Republican\u00a0Party and the thing that I think is\u00a0important to point out, the\u00a0rhetorical assaults on the FBI\u00a0have, have in fact, translated into\u00a0physical assaults on FBI\u00a0offices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The one in Cincinnati in\u00a0November, for example.\u00a0This type of rhetoric does lead\u00a0to violence.\u00a0I&#8217;m putting on my Homeland\u00a0Security hat here and those who engage in this sort of\u00a0irresponsible, overheated\u00a0rhetoric, ought to be held\u00a0accountable when the natural\u00a0chain of events leads to some\u00a0deranged person out there with a\u00a0gun that decides to try to take\u00a0matters into their own hands and\u00a0attack a field office of the FBI\u00a0or other locations across the\u00a0country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And so, from where I sit, it&#8217;s not just\u00a0the absurdity of the politics\u00a0here. This type of overheated rhetoric\u00a0in Washington does lead to real\u00a0dangerous consequences across\u00a0the homeland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC\u2019s Andrea Mitchell fretted that the new House GOP-created Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government will be populated with incompetent hacks while Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson predicted violence as a result. Mitchell described the new subcommittee in this way: &#8220;One that will have.&#8221; \u201cextraordinary\u00a0powers and this committee will be able to\u00a0look &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1801711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,6203,4055,3746,5713,3819,7255,11009,3699],"class_list":["post-1801708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-gop","tag-investigating","tag-msnbc","tag-predicts","tag-report","tag-result","tag-swamp","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}