Michael Fanone reacts to being targeted by a bomb threat at political conference in DC and Michael Cohen weighs in on CPAC.

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

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0:00.0	sure is. We are live, by the way, just so you know the people are beginning to pour in.
0:05.7	I like it. I like it. Well, Michael, good to see as always. It's Monday. I like to call it Michael
0:10.9	Monday. We're going to try to do this as often as we can. And it's kind of a manic Monday in the
0:15.7	nation's capital, mounting concerns about what's happening. Back in D.C. fears rising, not just among federal workers who have been on the receiving
0:23.9	end of threatening emails from Elon Musk and his Doche team, there was a bomb threat that forced
0:29.1	the evacuation of attendees that the principals first summon Washington over the weekend.
0:33.5	Former D.C. police officer, Michael Fanon, who was on the receiving end of that threat,
0:39.7	mentioned in the emailed bomb threat.
0:43.4	He joins me a little longer in the program to discuss that.
0:46.1	And I got that email.
0:47.3	We'll read us everybody in a minute.
0:50.2	Michael Cohen is here on the Jim Acosta show.
0:51.8	How scary is that?
0:56.8	The guy is doing his job. I know. He's a D.C. police officer protecting the capital. Whether you agree with what's going on or not, whether you're a pro-Trumper or
1:03.6	you're an anti-Trumper, all he was doing was his job. That's right. And to be assaulted and now,
1:10.2	you know, with bomb threats and swatting and doxing in the whole nine yards, it's so wrong. I'm going to ask him about it. I'm going to ask him about it because Enrique Atario from the proud boys, he showed up at this conference and there was a bunch of shouting going on. He obviously was trying to start a disruption there, an incident
1:29.2	there. And so, Phanone's going to fill us in on that. But Michael, I'm glad we have you with us.
1:33.5	He did. My understanding is he was re-arrested. I heard that, and the Cario actually assaulted a woman
1:41.3	protester. And yeah, they took them, they took them into custody.
1:46.1	Yeah, I mean, it just goes to show you that there's kind of this menacing climate in D.C. right now.
1:53.5	And you can't even go to a political summit without some of these January 6 types trying to roll in there and intimidate everybody. I mean,
2:01.7	they had CPAC over the weekend and you would think, okay, that's enough. You know, if they have
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