Growing Threats Against Public Officials, and Trump’s Diesel Deal With Putin

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  From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

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  I'm Tracy Mumford.

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  Today's Monday, October 12th.

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  Here's what we're covering.

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  Trying to intimidate me because they don't like the way that, you know, I think politically.

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  He repeatedly called into my office threatening to kill me and my whole staff.

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  I mean, really, it was a feeling of being hunted.

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  Recently, The Times has been looking into how, across the country,

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  threats against elected officials have become the new norm in American politics.

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  Right.

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  I mean, your family's been involved in politics for a while, right?

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  And I wonder if any of your relatives ever had anything close to this kind of experience.

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  No, nothing close.

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  My colleague Nick Corsiniti has been speaking with dozens of politicians

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  and officials across the political spectrum about their experiences.

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  Seems like the temperature and the tenor is a lot more intense now than it was a number of years ago.

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