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The Daily 202's Big Idea

Ahead of high-security electoral college votes, a weekend of chilling violence across America

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, News, Daily News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Plus, Russian government hackers are behind a broad espionage campaign that has severely compromised U.S. agencies, and the first vials of the coronavirus vaccine are arriving across America.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

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202 for Monday, December 14th. In today's news, Russian government hackers

0:11.8

were behind a broad espionage campaign that has severely compromised US agencies, including Treasury and commerce.

0:20.0

The first vials of the coronavirus vaccine arrive across America and Cleveland's baseball team plans to drop the name Indians after 105 years.

0:39.3

But first, the big idea. State and local officials of both parties are warning that President Trump's increasingly desperate tweets about election fraud

0:45.6

are fueling the potential for violence, as well as another ominous trend of 2020,

0:51.2

in which public servants are targeted at their offices and homes. of Last week an enemy's list of state and federal officials who reject Trump's baseless

1:05.1

election conspiracy theories floated up from the dark corners of the web, with home addresses

1:10.0

listed and red targets over their photos. The list falsely accused

1:14.4

swing state governors voting system executives and the former top US

1:17.8

cybersecurity official responsible for securing the election of quote

1:21.1

changing votes in working against the president in a treasonous

1:24.1

attempt to overthrow our democracy. The names from the list shared on social

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media included the hashtags Remember Their Faces and no quarter for traders.

1:34.2

Over the weekend, demonstrations by Trump supporters in DC,

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Olympia, Washington, and elsewhere turned violent,

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with four people stabbed in the nation's capital and one person shot in

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Olympia. These kinds of conflicts coupled with increasingly personal attacks

1:48.9

on public officials are raising fears of worse to come.

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Neither the White House nor the Trump campaign responded to requests for comment.

1:57.0

As electors plan to meet later today at the Michigan Capitol,

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State Senate and House offices will be closed because of quote

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