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Anderson Cooper 360

Acting DHS Secretary resigns as FBI issues chilling warning

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Chad Wolf, the acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary, announced his resignation after instructing the U.S. Secret Service to begin National Special Security Event operations for the inauguration a week early. Meanwhile, the FBI issued a chilling warning about “armed protests” planned at the U.S. Capitol and all 50 state capitols. The FBI is also tracking threats against President-elect Joe Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Jonathan Wackrow is a former Secret Service Agent during the Obama Administration. He joins AC360 to react to the FBI’s warning and Wolf’s resignation. Plus, Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown is calling for his colleagues, Republican Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, to resign after they both voted to overturn the election after rioters overran Capitol Police and breached the U.S. Capitol. Senator Brown says the Senate should expel them if they don’t resign. He tells Anderson Cooper the Senate needs to “take action.”   Airdate: January 11, 2021   Guests: Jonathan Wackrow Sen. Sherrod Brown To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening.

0:01.0

The acting Secretary of Homeland Security has resigned.

0:04.2

The FBI is warning the nationwide wave of armed protests planned for the coming weeks.

0:08.5

House Democrats will vote on Wednesday to make Donald Trump the first president ever to

0:12.0

be impeached twice.

0:13.7

We're learning more about the deadly insurrection he incited and the more we learn, the more terrifying

0:18.5

and sickening it becomes.

0:20.7

What is also sickening is what we've learned from CNN political analyst in New York Times

0:24.3

White House correspondent Maggie Heyberman.

0:26.5

She reports that President Trump is angrier at the Professional Golfers Association for

0:31.0

pulling next year's championship from his New Jersey golf club than he is at the prospect

0:35.8

of impeachment.

0:36.8

Angrier, she reports, by an order of magnitude.

0:40.3

Think about that, which may speak to something else beyond his greed and his grievance when

0:45.1

deprived of a money-making toy, namely how little pressure and sense of responsibility

0:50.4

the president is feeling right now.

0:52.6

For Wednesday's insurrection and attack on the seat of our democracy.

0:56.5

Because let's not pretend here with five people dead and nation traumatized and the FBI

1:00.8

warning there could be more political violence to come so far there has been no real reckoning.

1:06.6

In fact, until this weekend when flags began flying at half-staff the White House and

1:11.0

at federal buildings, there wasn't even simple recognition that lives were lost in the attack

1:16.2

let alone a reckoning with it.

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