to the fbi laboratory. washington police airmail all available evidence request that it be given immediate examination in the struggle. the messenger had torn hairs and flesh on the scalp of his assailant, strands of hair from. each suspect were also mailed to washington. on the victim's coat was a bloodstain. the police were not sure whether it came from a victim or the assailant. in the surrounding section, technicians start immediately to study the bloodstain. i brought an item to show two different types of blood type old and type b. since the messenger is known to have type o blood, the fbi notifies police that the criminal is type b less information cleared. all but two suspects in the hair and fiber section of the fbi laboratory. other tests are being made. comparisons on the show that a strand of hair from the scalp is exactly the same as the hair of one suspect being held by police. confronted with the fbi laboratory report ap blood and identical hair, the criminal quickly confessed. innocence a da

i want to thank you for hosting the fbi headquarters for menstruation from the fbi's use. section 702 with pfizer. there is no question that it is a critical tool for collecting foreign intelligence, and protecting america. i appreciate the reforms that you put in place. you're trying to address with the court is calling specific filing issues within the 102 rules. i'm still protecting communications of innocent americans from the surveillance. i look forward to continue to work with you, to reauthorize 702 with a significant forms of privacy protecting within americans. i now turn to the ranking member. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, director. we really appreciate you coming. right now, is the time to have an honest talk about the committee and the dangers that we face. this is what the fbi is doing everyday. we can make you stronger in the face of a lot of threats. you'll be asked about the fbi's role in the monitor is asian of many religious organizations. this was caused by another hurricane. we have concerns within the world. we are going to move forward. you

that is not the fbi director or fbi's choice. >> if i can ask you about 702. i referred to 702 as perhaps one of the most important laws that the american people have never heard of. i know we have talked a lot about it. there is concern that the tools including surveillance act 702 can be abused. and it can be used to target u.s. citizens. let me just ask directly, is it possible to lawfully target american citizens under section 702? >> i think the so-called reverse targeting, targeting americans through the end run of 702 is prohibited. >> that is my understanding of the law as well. as a matter of fact, the foreign intelligence surveillance act is that, it targets foreigners outside of the united states. if a would-be terrorist calls an american citizen in the united states, you necessarily would know who is on both ends of the conversation, correct? >> even if it is just electronic communication, which is more often we see it periods >> it can be an email or a text -- >> correct. >> if you want to investigate that american citizen, isn't it true that you

at the fbi -- has the fbi ever obtained a court order to perform a u.s. persons search in this context? >> that is not the way we use cyber material. >> that is correct. the answer is zero. the office of the director of national intelligence and your statistical transparency report for 2020 revealed that the statutory requirement has been treated approximately 100 times, is that true? >> that, i cannot speak to the number. i think the report in question may involve incidents that occurred before the reforms that we were just talking about. >> i would appreciate if you would take a look at that an answer, for the record. let me go to another topic that has been discussed before this committee and voted on, on several different occasions. that is the child sexual abuse materials, that was a letter asking lawmakers to study the means and mark -- ai being used to exploit children through sexual abuse material. it can be used to create images of children in sexual positions or overlaying on abused images of children over abused children , to create csam. i don

i'm told by this whistleblower from the fbi that you use the fbi jet to make that travel. is that correct? >> all of my travel, personal or work related is required to be done on fbi planes. that is long-standing policy that goes back over a decade. >> i will take that as a yes. the whistleblower says that you regularly require the jet, based in manassas, to be flown to d.c. because wray doesn't like to sit in traffic. is that accurate? >> no, that is not accurate. >> he says that you only pay for the lowest cost commercial trinket for the atlanta d.c. trip, when it costs 20,000 or 30,000 to operate the jet. is that correct? >> the reimbursement that i provide is set by policy, and i follow that policy, which goes back over a decade, and has been chronicled in a gsa report from 2013. >> and you provide all of those records to this committee? >> whatever information is appropriate. absolutely. >> everything we ask for is appropriate. >> we will follow-up with you about providing information. >> senator butler. >> thank you mr. chair, thank you director wray for returning. i

the fbi had 80 fbi agents working with social media. encouraging social media to take down accounts, and remove quote, this information on election interference. this court found that the fbi, and other agencies asked social media platforms to remove content and change their moderation policies in a way that violated the first amendment. and it went up to the fifth circuit. the fifth circuit limited the injunction. but, here's what the fifth circuit said. the fbi quote, likely where's the platform. and encourages them to do so by affecting changes in their moderation policies. in violation with the first amendment. the fbi agreed with the plaintiffs that quote, federal agencies ran a foul of the first amendment by coercing and significantly encouraging social media platforms to censor disfavored speech. including by threats of adverse government action. like antitrust enforcement, and legal reforms. now, that's serious. >> welcome as you may know. first off, let me just say the opinions talk about a whole bunch of other executive agenci

david was now charged the fbi informant, the one that was a source for the source that alleges briberylse information in the fbi, that's what the agent was charged with, the informant was charged with. and of course democrats, they are getting with this news. congressman jamie raskin and even joe biden himself, they are calling for the impeachment inquiry to be dropped. but he was taking a very different tune last year when he agreed that this very fbi confidential human source was very, very credible. this is jamie raskin, not a friend of mine. take a look. >> do you also see the sources as highly credible paid six figures of information that they have been able to thread, would you say that that is accurate as well? >> yes, there is a confidential human source that the fbi works with who has proven to be very credible who reported a conversation with someone else. >> sean: first there's 1023 which was very but a very small part of what is a large body of evidence in the inquiry, and we will get to the fbi's latest failure in a minute. but none of this negates the fact that joe biden

that purpose is to force the fbi to do what the taxpayers pay the fbi to do. and that is investigate, in this case, the information contained in that document that goes by the number of 1023. it's all pretty simple. i didn't promote or vouch for the allegations in 1023 as the truth like some confused democrats and the partisan media have falsely said. i pushed the fbi to do their job because that's my responsibility to the taxpayers and the people of iowa. now, some confused democrats and partisan media have returned to their favorite line, fallsly saying -- falsely saying that our effort to get the fbi to do their job is somehow peddling russian disinformation. it's kind of like a nervous tick to all of them. for years they falsely said the same thing about my and senator joh johnson's biden family investigation, even though our investigation was based on obama, biden administration records and really on authentic bank records. some democrats and the partisan media apparently don't care about observing and reading the facts. well, this senator does care about

but i remember my time in the fbi. these people are considered informants, a source of information somebody to get us from point a to a case but oftentimes they consider themselves international man of mystery. and they may intimate that they have connections with the government. they work with intelligence agencies. they may say that to other intelligence agencies or two people, they're trying to do business deals with. remember? with smirnoff, you're talking about a guy that the government says has over 6 million cash in the bank and a wife or girlfriend who has another $4 million. so he wasn't being an informant necessarily for the money, even though he was well paid it seems that this was like many informants. part of his tool set. as he traveled around the world making business deals, getting in corrupt deals, being able to get out of them, playing both ends off the middle. this is the key question jake did the russian supply him information knowing that it would get to the fbi and do damage to the politics that t

the director of the fbi should know what it is. dir. wray: a ghost bus. i'm not sure i use that term before. >> pretty common in law enforcement. it's a vehicle that is used for secret purposes. it's painted over. these two buses in the middle, a they were the first arrived on january 6. i have all of this evidence. >> mr. chairman. point of order. sure. it has run over the time. >> you'll recall that i have been very fair in letting people finish their questioning throughout my tenure as chairman. i will continue to be fair on that regard. but i will make a note to the members, if you can stay within your time as possible, we have a lot of people that want to ask these gentlemen questions. with that, the gentleman yields. but your point, i have been very fair. >> i don't think i accuse you of being unfair. >> you're making a point? thank you. >> may i close the statement? >> no, i think your time is expired. >> i note that other members across the aisle have been granted time. i would like my question to be closed. this is a very significant hearing, mr.

york a huge setback for us house republicans in their effort to impeach president joe biden, a former fbi informant, whose story made up a key part of the gop >> case, was arrested on thursday, alexander smirnova's accused of lying to the fbi and creating false records, but republicans seem undeterred cnn's evan perez has the latest us prosecutors charged a former fbi and format with lying about corruption claims, i guess a president joe biden and his son hunter biden, and business dealings with the ukrainian energy company burisma. the charges against alexander smirnov undercut a major part of republicans corruption claims against the president and the impeachment inquiry that they've launched against them smirnoff was behind two fbi memos in 2,017.20. 20. the latter one came after joe biden launched his campaign for president and it included explosive allegations that a burisma executives claimed that the company paid joe biden and hunter biden 5 million each during the the time that biden was vice president, in exchange for assisting the company's business interests. the indictment in

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so the fbi told us that this source was cell 14 years. this source was a paid source by the fbi. well we were trying to get the 1023. they told us, oh, this could jeopardize national security promotion of a bribery scheme was false not at all. >> we're looking at the four facts i just gave you. those facts are true absolutely true >> focus and falls. >> like it begs the question why it wasn't given to us earlier. i probably reject the premise that like attempt points exclusively relied upon well for that doesn't mean demonstrated >> that last comment came from congressman andy biggs saying that the fbi informant, alexander smirnov, has now been indicted. so that is it's something to consider that these are just allegations here. anderson. but the question is, can they convince enough house republicans to move forward with articles of impeachment? at the moment, they have simply not done that yet. and this latest indictment only will undercut their efforts to impeach the president in the weeks ahead, anderson and as we mentioned, president biden's brother there are testified behin

even democrats said the fbi wase credible and there's a confidential human source that the fbi works with whong is proven to be very credible, who reported a conversation with someone else but.t to he was too credible. the biden administration is charging the fbdible,i infort with obstruction and making a false statement. remember, he informed the fbi that there were audio recordings of joe biden and hunter shaking down a ukrainian ceo for bribesce and coincidentally, aftert who arresting the fbi informant who fingered him for bribefis, e biden says it's time to drop the impeachment inquir'sy. >> an fbi informant at thema senate impeachment inquirynt at you has been indicted for allegedly lying. your reactiolyactionn to that? >> and should the inquiry dropped? he is lyind? g and should be dropped and has just been. e- >> it's been outrageous fort from the beginningco. >> now, as long as we're arresting fbi informants for making false statement>> jess, y isn't curveball behind bars? this was the iraqi informantg tg who told the intel agencies that saddam definitely had wmdsm . we went

the fbi informant was credible. >> there is a confidential human source of the fbi works with who isy credible who reported a conversation with someone else. >> jesse: but to credible, charging the fbi informant with obstruction and making a false statement. remember he informed the fbi that there were audio recordings of them shaking down over ukrainian ceo for bribes, and coincidentally, after arresting the fbi informant who fingered him for bribes, he said it's time to drop the impeachment inquiry. >> the fbi informant at the center of the impeachment category is indicted for allegedly lying, your reaction to that and show the inquiry be dropped? >> he is lying, and it should not be dropped, and it's just been -- it's been an outright courageous effort from the beginning. >> jesse: as long as we are resting fbi agents for full statement, why isn't curveball behind bars? telling the agency is that saddam hussein definitely had wmds. then curveball confessed he made up the story and walks around freeman. when are we going to arrest christopher steele? the fbi informant who said that

so the fbi told us that this source was selling 14 years. this source was a paid source by the fbi. well, we were trying to get the 1023. they told us, oh, this can jeopardize national security promotion of a bribery scheme was false. >> not at all. we're we're we're looking at the four facts i just gave you. those facts are true absolutely true >> the whole thing was bogus and false. like it begs the question why it wasn't given to us earlier i probably reject the premise that like point was exclusively relied upon for that. doesn't mean demonstrate and that last comment came from congressman andy biggs saying that the fbi informant, alexander smirnoff, has not >> been indicted. so that is something to consider that these are just allegations here, anderson. but the question is, can they convince? and now house republicans to move forward with articles of impeachment at the moment, they have simply not done that yet. and this latest indictment only will undercut their efforts to impeach the president in the weeks ahead, anderson and as we mentioned, president biden brother testifie

so the fbi told us that this source was selling 14 years. this source was a paid source by the fbi. well, we were trying to get the 1023. they told us, oh, this could jeopardize national security promotion of a bribery scheme was false. >> not at all. we're we're we're looking at the four facts i just gave you. those facts are true. absolutely true >> focus and falls like it begs the question why it wasn't given that's what's earlier. i probably reject the premise that like attempt points was exclusively relied upon for that doesn't mean demonstrated and that last comment came from congressman andy biggs saying that the fbi informant alexander >> smirnov, has now been indicted. so that is something to consider that these are just allegations here. anderson. but the question is, can they convince enough house republicans to move forward with articles of impeachment? at the moment, they have simply not done that yet. and this latest indictment only will undercut their efforts to impeach the president in the weeks ahead, anderson and as we mentioned, president biden brother testified b

he is charged with a line to the fbi and falsifying records. now, what the this new court filing which just came in in the last hour says that after smirnoff was arrested by the fbi last week, he said the following. he said that smirnoff admitted that officials associated with russia and intelligence, we're in in passing a story about hunter biden, business person. one is the one is what the justice department refers to in this filing, whether it is hunter biden that they are referring to now, smirnoff is due before a judge in the next few minutes, wolf, the fbi and the justice department want him to remain detained while he faces these new charges. and so we'll find out whether a judge agrees to keep him detained. but one of the arguments that the justice department is making is that he has extensive contacts with intelligence officers, not only in russia, but in other countries as well. and they say that he is, that he poses a flight risk wolf. >> i just went through this or what, nearly 40 or 50 page are charged this government's memorandum

what is the fbi doing to deal with that? >> that is still my assessment of the numerical disadvantage we are at and china has a bigger hacking program than that of every other nation combined and has stolen more of americans personal data than that of every nation big or small. it is a scale that is significant and in terms of what we are doing, in addition to trying to focus on recruiting and cyber talent both among agents but also computer scientists and data analysts and data scientists, we also focus heavily and some of this is in the budget request out before congress, focused on advanced training for existing workforce. one of the things that i do hear consistently from our agents who work in this area is that while people who know the ones and zeros are important, if you have a good agent who has good agent skills, if you get the right training, you can teach them a lot of the cyber stuff they need. we are trying to raise the median cyber efficiency and not just get out of the problem. >> i appreciate that and we did

with intelligence people overseas, and that they have information about its upon the fbi. it's incumbent upon the fbi and the justice department to assess these people to see what their stories are and whether they can believe them. and so the question anderson, tonight is for david weiss who certainly has had some of this information since 2020. and the fbi is what did they do to assess that to figure out whether what he was saying was bunk or whether it was true. and so according to the court documents, the fbi last year, as to to start taking a look at this so the question is, why did not happen earlier? certainly if you're joe biden and hunter biden and you've had to deal with these allegations for a couple of years. i think it's very, very important for them to understand why these lies were these, what the fbi says now, our lies, why they're allowed to live out there? for so long, anderson, a hunter, biden's legal team is now saying that this may have impacted the doing away with the plea agreement that they had riot, if you remember that court that courts proceeding

has suspicious the trust level i have with fbi is zero maria.look. we just we're following the money. smirnov never was a key part of this investigation never part of the investigation because we couldn't. marie: just one more confirmation for you. >> yeah, absolutely, you investigate every tip charles grassley brought this tip, smirnov did -- burisma paid hunter biden, that is true we found that he said in there that money was wired to various bank accounts that is true we know that, the part that has never been confirmed is about joe biden, or not, look. we're looking finding new accounts from joe biden every at the end of the day know bidens took over 20 million dollars from with adversary around the world failed to say one thing they did to receive that money. marie: yeah kwa, i think people are so frustrated by politics of all this, amazing to me, that your colleagues just play politics all if time, this is a serious matter security risk if this family has taken millions from chooen no wonder china has arched amped up aggression why is smir

he is charged with of lying to the fbi and falsifying records. now, what the new court filing, which just came in in the last hour says that after smirnoff was arrested by the fbi last week, he said the following. he said that smirnoff admitted that officials associated with russian intelligence were involved in passing a story about hunter biden business person. one is to one is what the justice department refers to in this filing, but it is hunter biden that they are referring to now, smirnoff is due before a judge in the next few minutes, wolf, the fbi and the justice this department want him to remain detained while he faces these new charges. and so we'll find out whether a judge agrees to keep him detained. but one of the arguments that the justice department is making is that he has extensive contacts with intelligence officers, not only in russia, but in other countries as well. >> they say >> that he is, that he poses a flight risk wolf. >> i just went through this nearly 40 or 50 page. are charged this government's memorandum and suppor

more data coming out about the role he played for the fbi. the fbi paid him to be a spy in russia.ed him because he was communicating with russia. that's what they paid him to do. i don't know anything about smirnov but his indictment and rearrest and the changing of the original indictment is concerning because everything i have had to do with the fbi has been suspicious throughout this investigation. the trust i have any fbi 0. maria: that was an incredible statement. with your reaction? >> first time in the history of the world that an fbi informant has been indicted. it doesn't happen very often. in my experience, 24 years in the bureau i don't remember an informant getting indicted for lying. he was an informant for 10 years, they have strict criteria for informants. every six months they have to be vetted. when you pay them you have to make sure their information is corroborated from several different directions. they ran a guy for 10 years, 10 years and paid him regularly and it turns out he was a liar. that calls into question all the information. any criminal prosecutions

they threatened to hold the fbi director in contempt. it was only then the fbi showed it.was something like a redoing of 2026 where this republican pressure from the house is causing the fbi to do things that are really outside of their policies and outside of their scope to create these sort of headlines against the bidens. >> i have to say just reading this filing, my jaw was dropping. maybe i'll be wrong. maybe it will be turned into a good spy movie. we shall see. but in the meantime, some serious stuff that is going to be seen going forward. ryan reilly, thank you always for your reporting, and paul butler appreciate you. tim, you're coming back in a bit. >>> in 60 seconds the political back and forth about putin, what the growing divide means for u.s. diplomacy and potential new sanctions against the kremlin. everywhere but the seat. the seat is leather. alan, we get it. you love your bike. we do, too. that's why we're america's number-one motorcycle insurer. but do you have to wedge it into everything? what? i don't do that. this reminds me of my bike. the wolf was

is incumbent upon the fbi. and the justice department to assess these people, to see what their stories are and whether they can believe them and so the question anderson, tonight is for david weiss, who certainly has had some of this information since 2020. and the fbi is what did they do to assess that, to figure out whether what he was saying was bunk or whether it was true. and so according to the court documents, the fbi last year asked weiss to start taking a look at this. so the question is why did not happen earlier certainly if you're joe biden and hunter biden and you've had to deal with these allegations for a couple of years. i think it's very, very important for them to understand why these lies were these, what the fbi says now are lies, why they're allowed to live out there for so long. anderson in. 100 biden's legal team is now saying that this may have impacted the doing away with the plea agreement that they had riot, if you >> remember that court courts proceeding last summer where the plea d

it's not until 1942, actually, that the fbi file opens. when the fbi file opens. it really opens wide right the claua nes dossiers over a thousandag in length, about 800 pageofhich are now available. certain parts of the file still reinnder wraps redacted, not available to the public for reasons that don't know and can't fully explain, but it's not until 1942 that they begin tracking her for about 100 pag of theile they think she's born virginia somewhere in the u.s. and it'sot much later in the file that they figure o that she she she migrated to the u.s. as a young person in 1950 she's tained for short period on ellis island. claire james is also going to be detained. she spends 11 months in prison not all that far from here in west virginia with a number of other of communist active s because she was not born in the u.s. they also had the government also had the ability deport her they did that after was released from prison after serving her roughly 11 months of prison and at that time she went back to back to england. she went england for the first time and l

and the fbi deep 6-80 it. once they got their hands on the report, the same prosecutor who got busted for cooking up hunters sweetheart plea deal arrested the informant and accused them of talking to people close to russian intelligence. isn't that why the fbi pays him? because he talks to people? former fbi agent stuart kaplan told us it was only a matter of time before the informant got popped. >> in that 1023 form was released last year, my colleagues and i knew at that point that informant was going to be sacrificed. it was just a matter of time. that informant has been on the books since 2010, '11, '12, up until more recently. you do not stay on the books with the fbi unless you have been vetted and you are credible. >> jesse: even democrats agreed the informant was credible. >> there's a confidential human source the fbi works with who has proven to be very credible, who reported a conversation with someone else. >> jesse: but the informant may have been too credible, and it looks like he is a straw man

now, it's upon the fbi is incumbent upon the fbi. and the justice department to assess these peoples to see what their stories are and whether they can believe them and so the question anderson tonight is for david weiss, who certainly has had some of this information since 2020. and the fbi is what did they do to assess that, to figure out whether what he was saying was bunk or whether it was true. and so according to the court documents, the fbi last year asked weiss to start taking a look at this. so the question is, why did not happen earlier? certainly if you're joe biden and hunter biden and you've had to deal with these allegations for a couple of beers. i think it's very, very important for them to understand why these lies were these, what the fbi says. now, our allies, why they're allowed to live out there for so long, anderson 100 biden's legal team is now saying that this may have impacted the doing away with the plea agreement that they had. >> right. if you remember that court that court proceeding last summer where the

what is the fbi doing to deal with that? >> that is still my assessment of the numerical disadvantage we are at and china has a bigger hacking program than that of every other nation combined and has stolen more of americans personal data than that of every nation big or small. it is a scale that is significant and in terms of what we are doing, in addition to trying to focus on recruiting and cyber talent both among agents but also computer scientists and data analysts and data scientists, we also focus heavily and some of this is in the budget request out before congress, focused on advanced training for existing workforce. one of the things that i do hear consistently from our agents who work in this area is that while people who know the ones and zeros are important, if you have a good agent who has good agent skills, if you get the right training, you can teach them a lot of the cyber stuff they need. we are trying to raise the median cyber efficiency and not just get out of the problem. >> i appreciate that and we did

i want to continue with the fbi, mr. perez, and commended in further from the efforts that are being made to prosecute the trafficking and exploitation of children. in august of this year, the fbi reported that during operation cross country, you were intimately involved with this operation, 200 victims of trafficking, many of them who were children and gone missing were recovered, were all the children who were reported missing, all the children that were found to have gone missing, have they been reported properly to nci, as the missing child? at the time that they were recovered by law enforcement? >> i do not have an answer for you. when we encounter a few things, we identify locations of victims, and also at times, surrendered to vacation, sometimes, that could be online cases, we have identified a victim that has been exploited, and we physically locate a child that has been exploited. i did not have information that speak specifically to those individual children. >> thank you, mr. perez. you familiar with child a

in fact, they have been defined, even though that fbi informant was charged by the fbi for making up these false at bribery allegations about joe biden then those now discredited claims were memorialized in a document and fbi document known as a 1023, something that republicans fought for months to make public last year. and it really was at the heart part of the reason why they opened an impeachment inquiry in the first place. but now they are trying to downplay the significance of that allegation. just take a listen to this exchange between manu raju and how judiciary chair jim jordan >> you said the 1023 is the most corroborating piece of information you outbreaks, but it doesn't, it doesn't change those fundamental facts. so now it's not true. well, so okay. so the fbi told us that this source was selling 14 years. this source was a paid source by the fbi when we when we were trying to get the 1023, they told us, oh, this could jeopardize national security, this aid to this source didn't want to release it. and now they're saying you know, he he he gave false information. the oth

the fbi. smirnov transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with burisma, in 2017 and later when biden was a private citizen with no ability to influence anything for any company into bribery allegations. he made up these allegations against the presumptive presidential nominee of one of our two major political parties after expressing bias againsted biden and his candidacy. the story doesn't end there. yesterday the justice department pleaded with a judge to keep smirnov behind bars. why? he told agents he had recent contact with foreign intelligence services including russian intelligence agencies and has had such contacts recently. some of those contacts are described as someone who purportedly controls two groups of individuals tasked with carrying out assassination efforts in a third party country. a russian representative to another country, and someone with ties to a particular russian intelligence service. all of that sounds pretty bad, but that's not even the worst

as soon as smirnov levied his allegations, the fbi was suspicious.oremost, because smirnov offered absolutely nothing to corroborate that claim. so they merely sit on it. but as you could imagine, word gets out and around in washington, d.c.. and once republicans catch wind of smirnov's claims, and four months afterwards in 2023, they push for the document with smirnov's allegations to be released, even though the fbi considered it to have been debunked. oversight chair james -- james cuomo even threatened to hold christopher wray in contempt of congress if the document was not released to lawmakers. after a great deal of wrangling, he allowed members of congress to privately viewed the document but not keep it. however, in july of 2023, iowa senator chuck grassley gets his hands on the copy of the fbi record that includes smirnov's false allegations. he proceeds to share it with republican colleagues and describes smirnov's claims to the public as, quote, very significant allegations from a trusted fbi informant, implicating then bright vice preside

. >> even a trusted fbi informant has alleged a bribe to the biden family. >> and a highly credible fbi source alleges that joe biden received $5 million in exchange for pressuring for the firing of a ukrainian prosecutor. >> reporter: tonight, a congressional source telling abc news the fbi informant the republicans were talking about is the same man who was indicted today for lying to the fbi about joe and hunter biden. the alleged motive for lying? the special counsel says smirnov had bias against then candidate joe biden. house republicans say it's still full steam ahead on impeachment. david? >> david: pierre thomas, thank you. >>> we turn now to that shooting at the super bowl celebration in kansas city. authorities now say the motive appears to have been a fight that then led to that eruption of gunfire. and tonight here, new images of the moment the shots rang out. just an extraordinary crowd had assembled. the sound sending people running for their lives, scattering to get away. as you know, one person was killed, 22 people were shot. nine of them were children. abc's alex pere

all they had was when fbi informant saying this.bi now the special prosecutor says this is made up, invented conversations that he claimed happened earlier when they didn't really happen. he had these context with burisma officials, but he said they happened a lot earlier they did when in fact he wasn't in contact with n burisma officials until 2017, after biden was out of office and couldn't be pulling strings are having influence as vice president it was alleged in the underlying allegations from a publicans. >> to your point, when we cover this the first time on air, i remember them saying let's take a step back and do a little objects here. was a 5 million dollar es abrib secretly shepherded to the sitting vice president at the time by a corrupt foreign interest that just no one figured out, including donald trump's own justice department was sitting on it? or was that fabricated? well, today i think we have pretty definitive answer. ryan riley, thank you very much. congressman jamie raskin democrat of maryland. he is the rankin

the fbi missed it. the fbi knew there was a locked closet over there, left without trying to open it. you are counsel to the fbi. this is your team used to work for. also, the special prosecutors, i mean there's so much here. how does that happen with the fbi eye on a premise like that? >> let me tell you what i think is happening. obviously this should not have happened, to state the obvious. i think the locked closet is more troubling to me than the hidden area where that kind of stuff can happen. it's a very large place. first place to start is the search warrant. the search warrant authorized the fbi to search in any location at mar-a-lago where there could be a document, meaning that the location, if the reporting is true, that were not looked at, the fbi was authorized to look in those locations. so it's not like they could say we didn't do it because the search warrant didn't allow it. the search warrant did allow it. in the issue is, well why didn't they? so the reason i find the locked closet i

the fbi data shows auto thefts did increase in larger american cities. washington, d.c.owever, is not in line with the national trend of violent crimes decreasing. in october, a congressman was carjacked about a mile from the u.s. capitol. >> i looked to the left somebody had a gun to the right, somebody had a gun. a third guy behind me. you have to stay calm. >> last year, homicides, sex assaults and assaults with a deadly weapon and robberies were all up in the city compared to 2022 and now washington is under the microscope again following the death of gill who had previously worked in the trump administration the former president writing gill was a special person his family and friends are devastated the federal government must take over d.c ongoing challenges for a major u.s. city that tonight is again reeling from senseless violence jesse kirsch, nbc news. >>> we are back in a moment with the fbi on a new mission to bus online scammers who promise love, even marriage, but end up stealing your money. >>> plus lessons in gratitude. the surprising way these students a