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I also cover Congress. So tomorrow a far right group is coming to Washington DC to try and show support for the rioters who

attacked the Capitol in January in an attempt to thwart the United States Democratic process that was of course a deadly violent day whose repercussions continue to play out across American politics

Talking about tomorrow's rally though. It's called Justice for J6 for January 6th and it's really the first major security test for the Capitol police since that attack

Which just to underscore how deadly and violent it was left at least 130 police officers injured

More than 600 of the rioters have now been charged and that's the focus of this rally. Claudia you have been covering this before we get into the context of what these people are trying to do with the Capitol.

There have been a few false alarms in January 6th. There have been some thwarted potential violent moments. There has been more violence at the Capitol.

So at this point how seriously our Capitol police taking this particular rally.

It appears very seriously hindsight being 2020 we're seeing a lot of what were the weaknesses highlighted that day and in the day since being talked about very loudly in terms of improvements just this afternoon security leaders for the Capitol and in the region held a joint press conference walking the public

Through their various preparations remember in the past prior to January 6th the public was largely in the dark when it came to how the Capitol was being prepared for various events and its security plans.

For example Capitol police chief Tom manger talked about the goals for tomorrow.

The US Capitol police department has been working around the clock for the last several weeks to ensure that we have a safe event tomorrow. But perhaps more importantly over the last eight months the leadership of the US Capitol police department has been preparing working to ensure that we don't have a repeat of January 6th.

So some really interesting comments from this press conference for example one of the key concerns is clashes between these protesters who are protesting the treatment of some of these individuals who were charged from January 6th could meet up with counter protesters and two to three groups could be there as counter protesters.

So what is the goal and the point of of this gathering.

So this group I spoke to the founder his name is Matt Brainerd and he said he wanted to raise awareness there were certain individuals he says that basically just walked into the Capitol and the way he describes it as if they were peaceful protesters.

We saw the video we saw officers being assaulted. However this is his claim this is his groups claim and they say they want to raise awareness they'll have draft resolutions in hand trying to focus attention on how some of these individuals these defendants are being treated.

So if they are being incarcerated the conditions that they're facing would have you the name of the group is is look ahead America and he said another group could be joining them but he continues to repeat that it's a peaceful protest and as many as 700 could be expected.

So a 700 at the moment a far far smaller estimate just to be clear of the amount of people who who came on January 6th.

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