Frank Figliuzzi says that in a time of rising threats, it's time to mobilize to protect lawmakers.
As Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is second in line to the presidency. That's why it's "confounding," Frank Figliuzzi says, that her home "had no fixed police presence." A man who invaded the speaker's home when she was away attacked the speaker's husband, Paul Pelosi, authorities say, and Figliuzzi says that in a time of rising threats, it's time to mobilize to protect lawmakers.
"The security of our lawmakers shouldn't be a partisan issue," he writes. "We want and need our members of Congress to be visible and accessible, not sheltered in some bunker." It's what we need to do, Figliuzzi writes, "if our democracy is to remain alive and well." Read Frank Figliuzzi's full analysis in your Tuesday MSNBC Daily.
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