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All-American terrorism

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A wake-up call for federal law enforcement on domestic terrorism. How journalists who cover the White House are recalibrating post-Trump. And dogs return to the White House.

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National security reporter Shane Harris explains the soul-searching happening in federal law enforcement after Jan. 6, and how domestic terrorism might be handled in the United States. 

A conversation with Allison Michaels, host of the Post politics podcast “Can He Do That?” on the show’s pivot to the new administration.

Style reporter Maura Judkis reports on the return of Big Dog Energy to the White House. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

0:06.0

Hi there is the Mary Marissa Lang with the Washington Post.

0:10.0

Hey it's Dossie, order to pick your brain on the truck.

0:12.0

Hi, Wayne's Jonathan Johnson.

0:14.0

This is Post Reports.

0:16.0

I'm Martine Powers.

0:18.0

It's Thursday, January 21st.

0:24.0

Today, the rising threat of homegrown terrorism.

0:28.0

A new era for journalist covering Trump.

0:30.0

And dogs back in the White House.

0:40.0

Chief Justice Roberts.

0:42.0

So, Shane, in President Biden's inauguration speech on Wednesday,

0:48.0

he talked explicitly about the threat of white supremacist groups

0:52.0

and of domestic terrorism.

0:54.0

That we must confront and we will defeat.

1:02.0

Which, at least to me, seems like a pretty significant shift for what we've seen

1:06.0

presidents talk about before, especially during an inauguration speech.

1:10.0

What does that tell you about how the federal government is viewing the threat

1:16.0

of domestic terrorism, like what we saw in the Capitol on January 6th?

1:22.0

It tells you that this administration is going to see domestic extremism,

1:26.0

if you want to call it domestic terrorism, as a top,

1:30.0

if not the top national security or certainly domestic security threat that it faces.

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