 what this didn't happen in a vacuum there has been a steady simmer of threats of political violence for years now it's been growing more and more intense local uh... election workers have reported a spike in threats uh... government officials federal officials judges to leave of course in actual political violence uh... back in twenty seventeen there was a shooting uh... at a practice ahead of the great congressional baseball game that seriously wounded republican congressman steve scalise a man with a hammer entered former democratic house speaker nancy pelosi's house in bludgeoned her husband just a few years ago