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it's 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm ana cabrera. president-elect trump just rang the opening bell at the new york stock exchange after "time" named him person of the year. he made news about pardons for january 6th defendants. trump saying, quote, it will start in the first hour, maybe the first nine minutes. he walked back his pledge to bring down grocery prices. let's go to brian cheung. what did the president-elect say about grocery prices? >> reporter: he spoke about the grocery prices saying once prices go up, it's hard to get them to go back down.

yesterday a report showed that grocery prices went up about .4%. across the board food away from home, dining out, remaining expensive as well. the president-elect saying that prices go up, but you don't want a deflationary environment. there's a balance there. it's not that the president-elect wants to reverse the price increases, but slowing the pace of them. >> brian, you grabbed the president-elect as he was walking and he spoke about tariffs. what did he say? >> reporter: we're on the floor of the new york stock exchange. i spotted the ceo of goldman sachs. the business environment is pretty excited about this new presidency. it's a playbook from the first round, lower regulation, lower

taxes. there's the looming concern that wall street and ceos have over what the tariffs would do. that would be a big impact. the question is what is the timing of the tariffs. listen to this exchange i had. >> when it comes to tariffs will you implement them on day one? >> you'll find out. we want fairness by other countries. we have not been treated fairly. >> reporter: he said you'll find out. he said it would be a negotiating tactic. in an interview with kristen welker he said it's had the effect, for example, preinauguration conversations with canada, in his words, having the effect of leading to what he describes as a trickle at the border by threatening a 25% tariff on our neighbors to the north. is this a negotiating tactic or something he intends to do? his response not necessarily clear, but it seems he want to

keep that door open. >> brian cheung, thanks so much. now to new reaction to a big announcement. fbi director christopher wray says he will resign as trump takes office three years before the end of his term saying he wanted to, quote, keep the focus on the mission. this as the loyalist trump tapped to replace wray, kash patel, has been making the rounds on capitol hill meeting with senators. let's bring in nbc's ken dilanian along with phillip mudd former intelligence advise for the fbi and john brennan. ken, what are we hearing from wray on why he made this decision? >> reporter: ana, as soon as donald trump announced he wanted to make kash patel the next fbi director, wray had a difficult choice to make. should he remain in place and

force donald trump to fire him when he took office or was there a more graceful way to bow out. there were arguments on both sides. they really wrestled with it. at the end of the day he came down on the side it would be less traumatic for the bureau workforce to decide to resign. listen to what he had to say. >> in my view this is the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important in how we do our work. this is not easy for me. i love this place. i love our mission and i love our people. >> reporter: you know, donald trump has been criticizing chris wray in recent days. they were concerned a firing would just magnify that and make it really tough on the fbi workforce. on the other side, has he stayed in, he would have underscored it's a norm-shattering moment.

the second fbi director donald trump is forcing out. at the end of the day chris wray is leaving quietly. >> before this resignation donald trump talked about who he wants to replace chris wray. remind us who kash patel is. >> reporter: kash patel is a former federal prosecutor and held mid level jobs in the first trump administration. he's the most vocal critic, maga articulator of the idea that the fbi has been politicized taken over by the deep steep and warped to go after donald trump. he's not saying anything about that right now. he had a terse response yesterday. take a listen. >> we look forward to a very smooth transition at the fbi. i'll be ready to go on day one. >> reporter: so it remains to be seen whether he can be confirmed. right now it doesn't look like

there are many vocal opponents on the republican side to kash patel. >> ken dilanian, thank you for the latest. phillip, how do you see it? what does wray's resignation mean for the agency? >> i think it means a lot. it's an embarrassment for the congress this is happening. if we go back in history for just a moment, the idea of the fbi is that the fbi should be outside political turbulence. the fbi director position is so powerful, so influential in terms of things like what you saw before, the russia investigation for example, or the investigation into hillary clinton. that position is so powerful that congress said that should be a ten-year position so it's outside the presidential election cycle. what does congress do? they watch the president-elect purposely put this position within the presidential election cycle, violating what the congress wanted to do and the congress is saying, at least republicans, we don't care. my first impression is it's really important for the fbi,

but an embarrassment for the congress. >> guys, let's hear from someone who has been in wray's shoes, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe who was dismissed by then attorney general jeff sessions. >> i believe strongly that the principle of fbi independent is worth defending. in this moment the way to best defend that principle, this post watergate reform that's been the core of the fbi for the last 50 years, the fbi that the american people rely upon, the fbi that's independent from politics, the best way to defend that principle is to remain in his position and force the president to fire him. >> you think he should have stayed? >> i do. >> director brennan, what do you think? should wray have stayed and forced trump to fire him? >> i was deepi heard director w decided to step down. i think he's carried out his

responsibilities, his solemn responsibilities over the last seven years with professionalism and integrity in a nonbipartisan. the importance of making sure the fbi director is going to be an independent actor and is not beholding to political individuals such as donald trump. it's clear that donald trump was going to fire wray and his selection of kash patel was with politically corrupt intent. he didn't like some of the things that wray did. donald trump wants somebody at the helm of the fbi who will carry out his agenda. kash patel has demonstrated over and over he's malleable in donald trump's hands. i think this is a defining moment and a very unfortunate way in terms of the fbi both because the congress, the senate, is basically -- looks like they'll be ignoring this

earlier decision to make the fbi director term a ten-year term. also, i think it just is going to fracture the fbi because one of the things that kash patel has said is sending shivers down the spines of many fbi officers. i think director wray would have done more of a service to the bureau by not capitulating to donald trump, by staying there. it's clear donald trump could fire chris wray on day one. the principle is important to be able to make sure that the fbi is going to be the premier law enforcement not only in the country, but the world, and not subject to the political whims and direction of individuals such as donald trump. >> i mean, largely we're seeing positive reaction from republicans, in particular republican senators, who have to confirm the next fbi director. senator chuck grassley said this

after wray's announcement. future fbi directors ought to earn lessons from wray's mistakes. phil, your thoughts on that. did wray make mistakes? >> look, i think he was a terrific director. there are no good choices when you're looking at whether to continue or shut down a russia investigation, just as we saw with the hillary clinton investigation years ago. remember, he came in with one of several missions. the big mission was limiting the turbulence in the bureau, the turbulence of the james comey era. wray was quiet, understated, exactly what the fbi needed. it's a debatable question about whether wray should left. i think he should have. if he had stayed, it would have been an ugly month or two. >> let's talk about kash patel more here.

23 state attorneys general signed a letter in support of him saying americans have a crisis in confidence of fbi's leadership. it's time for a leader to refocus the fbi. take a listen on what patel himself says he wants to do. >> we will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media. we're coming after the people in the media. i would shut down the fbi hoover building on day one and re-open the next day as a museum of the deep state. >> director brennan, your reaction to this rhetoric coming from someone who could soon lead the fbi? >> again, it's absurd. kash patel not only doesn't have the executive experience needed to run an organization such as the fbi, which has tremendous breadth of responsibility and authorities, but clearly he's somebody who is disparaging the work of the fbi, the work that is done every day by women and men across the country.

his attitude, i think, towards the bureau reflects the attitude of a donald trump. also, unfortunately, members of the republican party in congress who don't want to have an independent and apolitical fbi. they want something that donald trump can use for his own advantage and to go against his rivals. again, this is something that i -- i've seen this overseas in terms of authoritarian leaders, autocrats, who control the instruments of power and intimidation and fear. they put people who are just going to be sycophants into these positions so they can be used in a politically corrupt way. i hope this hearing kash patel is going to go through will expose this. i don't believe he's somebody who is qualified to lead the bureau. >> what do you think about that, phil? we heard kash patel in that clip say he wants to turn the fbi

building into a deep state museum. if he's selected and confirmed to run the fbi, he will be at the helm of an agency of some 38,000 people. what would his leadership prospect mean for the rank in file? >> i think the first question is really important. who's his deputy? when i went to the fbi, it was interesting to see how it operated. robert mueller was the outside guy. typically at the fbi the deputy is a senior agent who has been around for decades. the senior agent runs inside, how you run investigations, how you ensure investigations are run properly. one of the things i'll be watching, if mr. patel is confirmed, and i don't think he will be because he doesn't have the experience, will there be a

deputy that knows how things work? i'll be watching that closely. >> vaughn hillyard spoke to president-elect trump as he's transitioning from the new york stock exchange. he asked him if he wanted to comment on director wray's announcement, he said, i wish him well. >> thank you for participating in the conversation. the new evidence investigators say links luigi mangione to the murder of the health care ceo. also, president biden's pardons. who it impacts. and the deepening drone mystery in new jersey. and dick van dyke's wildfire

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scene and gun casings to the gun found on mangione and a notebook detailing his rationale and plans for a targeted precise killing of a ceo. nbc's valerie castro is joining us from huntington, pennsylvania, where mangione is behind bars. also retired nypd captain john monaghan author of "nypd takes boston" and national correspondent for "the new york times" amy chen. great to have all you here. valerie, walk us through the latest evidence. >> reporter: good to be with you, ana. it appears several key pieces of evidence are coming together in terms of the investigation. the nypd announcing yesterday that the gun that mangione was found to be carrying at the time of his arrest in altoona,

pennsylvania, is a ballistics match to the shell casings recovered from the scene f the shooting in manhattan. the nypd mentioning fingerprints. last week the nypd released surveillance images of the person of interest. they were images taken from a starbucks the day of the shooting close to the scene. police recovered a discarded water bottle and protein bar wrappers from that starbucks. they say fingerprints on those discarded items are a match to luigi mangione. finally, two senior law enforcement sources tell nbc news that a notebook that luigi mangione was found to be carrying at the time of his arrest details a sort of a plan to target a ceo in a shooting. that plan apparently describing the preference of using a gun versus a bomb or some other explosive to avoid killing innocent people. ana, certainly several key pieces of evidence appearing to tie luigi mangione to the scene

according to new york city police. >> valerie, castro, thanks very much. john, we now have a fingerprint match at the scene, a ballistics match to his gun at the scene and the suspect's own writings. your thoughts on the strength of the evidence and what investigative work is likely still happening right now? >> right, well, you know the science is great. in this case it ends up being evidence for trial. the science didn't find this man in this particular case. the fingerprints we had were partials. the ballistics we had went to a gun that didn't exist. he created that gun himself. that's a ghost gun. he cobbled it together from actual parts and a 3d printer. ballistics were run through the system right away. it matched nothing. a partial fingerprint you can't run it into a database. it was detective work that caught this man and produced that picture and had the person

at mcdonald's point him out. once we have him and his fingerprints, we can match them to the partials. now that we have the gun, we can match it to the ballistics. the science is evidence at trial. it firms up, you know, the detective work that brought us to this man. >> amy, in mangione's notebook that was recovered, he allegedly wrote he wanted to target a ceo at a conference writing, quote, what do you do? you whack the ceo at the annual parasitic bean counter convention. it's targeted and doesn't risk innocents. what else have you uncovered about the suspect's distaste for the health care industry? >> there's a lot we don't know, a lot about why he had this particular interest in the health care industry. it's still unclear. we know his family is a very

prominent maryland family and that they have been long-time supporters of various causes, including the greater baltimore medical center and also that they, you know, own a network of nursing homes in the area as well. so whether any of this might have played a role in his motivation for this is still very unclear, but it's -- what we do know is he really did come from this privileged life in maryland. >> john, it does seem that investigators have not identified a specific connection to united health care directly. the ceo of united health group, a bigger organization, andrew whitey is calling brian thompson one of the good guys. he said the best way to honor his life is do right by the people who entrust us with their care. now we're seeing this. in downtown manhattan a person

posting wanted flyers for other health care executives. how concerned are police about copy cats? >> we should be concerned. amy's article gave a very good background on this kid. the shooting wasn't deeply personal to the shooter regarding the individual he shot. he didn't know this man. people say he was a good guy. i don't think -- i think it's irresponsible for us to look at this kid who had a mental break and he focussed on the health care industry. he could have been focussed on anything. i don't think it's the ills of the health care industry, which could be many, but i think it's about a young man having a break. ana, there's something here about who called him and gave him information that brian thompson was leaving his hotel now. he was in the right place at the right time. that's something we need to know

about. the safety of other ceos, we really need to know how this kid got his information. >> that's a good point. so many questions about how this crime came to be, but there's questions about the impact this crime could have looking ahead to other threats out there. the nypd's deputy commissioner for intelligence warned about the threat environment after this attack saying, i think regardless of what the court determines the motivation to be, the impact is that of a domestic terror attack and it's being reflected in this torrent of online vitriol. this has all the hallmarks of something that is going to inspire and contribute to the contagen effect. how do you bat that? >> we need to know who his cohorts are. he acted alone, but he had intelligence information. where did it come from?

start tracking down those leads. it could have been an hotel employee that called him that didn't know there was an assassination afoot. we need to know where he got his information. like the commissioner said, there could be copy cats. i understand that the health care industry itself is looking at its executives and their personal security. that's something they need to do. it's about intelligence information and how do we gather that? by drilling down into this kid's resources in this incident. where did he get the information? where did he get the intelligence? >> amy, you mentioned luge igi mangione's family was philanthropic in the area. did anything strike you about mangione's background? >> what struck me that as -- he really had sort of what you would expect to be a kind of privileged and very -- he was obviously very smart.

he graduated valedictorian of his high school class at a prestigious prep school in baltimore. he went to the university of pennsylvania where he studied computer science and held several tech jobs after he graduated. clearly something happened over the last few months that really sort of -- as everyone that we have spoken with has described him, they're shocked and surprised that someone like this could have turned to this type of action. >> john monaghan and amen amy c thank you. one of president biden's final acts as president, the largest single day of clemency in history. an american found in syria after being imprisoned for months. who is he? or months who is he? everyday, more dog people are deciding it's time to quit the kibble and feed their dogs

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get a read on the government emerging after a rebel coalition toppled the regime. here was antony blinken speaking in jordan. >> any government has to adhere to basic principles. it should be inclusive, nonsectarian. they have to uphold and protect the rights of all syrians, including minorities and women. it has to preserve institutions of state, delivering services. we have to make sure that any interim government also makes sure that syria's not used as a base for terrorism. >> u.s. diplomats are trying to uncover more information about austin tice, the american journalist who went missing in syria in 2012. as that search ramps up, a shocking discovery when a different missing american was found. the man spoke with reporters and identified himself as travis

timmerman. nbc's matt bradley was there. he's joining us from did he ama. matt, what did he tell you and how did he end up behind bars in syria? >> reporter: travis timmerman was noted to be missing in missouri earlier this year. he was last seen in budapest. it was there he started his long strange journey that ended up in syria in a prison, in one of the world's most notoriously cruel police states. his name is travis and he was found in syria. he told me he had been released from captivity. the syrians said they found him barefoot walking down the road. he was living in the mountains for three days without food before he was found. he was on a pill gra midge to

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into actions president-elect trump may take on day one to implement his immigration crackdown. three sources tell nbc news he intends to scrap a long-standing policy that restricts custom enforcement agents from making arrests at churches, schools and hospitals. it was a move on the project 2025 wish last and in tandem with trump's mass deportation operation. it could happen as soon as he enters the white house. joining us now with more is julia ansley. julia, explain this policy and why it exists. >> it's something that was laid out in 2011 by obama's then i.c.e. director. at the time it laid out areas in the community where i.c.e. could not arrest people unless they got specific permission because they could prove it was a national security or public safety risk. they couldn't make arrests in

churches, houses of any religions, schools and hospitals and they couldn't go to funerals, weddings and rallies. this is something the previous trump administration kept in place. we're hearing from lawyers at the aclu who led most of the lawsuits against the first trump administration over their immigration policies. he's saying it's a brutal policy and could prevent people with contagious diseases from going to the hospital or children being uneducated because of deportation policies. people are worried about the impact of this policy. >> if arrests already were allowed at these places in certain circumstances, what's the argument for scrapping the policy altogether? >> well, really it's because they want to take these guardrails off and be able to boost their numbers as trump carries out his mass deportation policies and promises he made

during the campaign. they don't want anything holding i.c.e. back. they want them to be able to go anywhere they want to make arrests. think they did have to get permission previously. when you have to go up a there are limited circumstances where i.c.e. would go in and make arrests. you have to look at rallies. if there are protests, that's a place i.c.e. could arrest those people. >> julia ansley, thank you. up next, deepening concerns over these drones hovering over new jersey skies. are authorities any closer to figuring out the source? and ipad and apple watch series 10. all three on us. only on verizon. asthma. does it have you missing out on what you love, with who you love? get back to better breathing with fasenra, an add-on treatment for eosinophilic asthma

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growing louder over that mystery in the sky. this is such a huge mystery. dozens of unexplained drones hovering over homes, businesses, even military bases in recent weeks. residents say some have been as

large as dining room tables or even small cars. just this hour, an official with the national security council telling nbc they have no evidence at this time that these drones pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus. but where are they coming from? nbc's sam brock has the latest from new jersey. sam. >> reporter: well frustrations here are clearly mounting with no new information. the mayor of this township here in mine hill township told us he personally saw drones flying right sover town hall recently. as for the fbi, that's the lead agency this week. the pentagon slamming a claim from a local congressman that an oniranian mothership is behind all. for almost a month, swarms of drones the size of small cars have hebeen spotted over parts new d jersey, alarming local residents. >> i look to my left and i see two big drones. they were propeller driven,

going very slowly. >> reporter: r unnerving lawmaks who say they popped up in at least ten counties. the issue prompting a meeting wednesday attended by roughly 100 mayors and state representatives. >> are you telling me that in america somebody can start flying drones and we have no clue what's flgoing on? >> reporter: garden state leaders orsay they are confound by the federal response and their own governor eaching calm. >> we don't see any concern for public safety. >> reporter: according to dawn fantasia, the drones are large, up to 6 feet in ameter. there have been sightings every night since november 18th from dusk to 11:00 p.m. the lights are usually turned off making sightings difficult, and most are in unrestricted airspace. military officials say they have documented 11 unauthorized drone incursions over a weapons development center. and president trump's bedminster

golf club is also in the area, all of it leading to hard questioning for the fbi on capitol hill. >> what is going on in new jersey? >> we do not attribute that to an >>individual or a group yet. we're investigating, but i don't have an answer of who's responsible for that. >> reporter: after one new jersey congressman speculated this on fox news. >> iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago that contains these drones. >> t reporter: the pentagon immediately knocking that theory down and saying there's no evidence of foreign influence. >> there's no so-called mother ship launching drones towards the united states. >> reporter: local police have been launching their own drones into the sky to give chase. so far, the mysterious drones continue to elude them. as for the question of how do we know that these drones don't pose a risk to the public, isgovernor murphy in new jersey was asked that very question. he said after having high level teconversations with people fro the fbi tiand department of homeland security, that was their analysis, and yet, the

fbi's assistant director struggled before congress to that very question. sam brock, nbc news. back to you. >> such a mystery. we'll stay on top of that one.n and that's going to do it for us today. thank you for joining us. i'll yosee you back here tomorr bsame time, same place, and dot forget you can catch our show ch online, around the clock, on you tube and other platforms. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. ♪♪ good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i'm jose diaz-balart. acwe begin this very busy hour with the news out of the nation's top law enforcement agency sending shock waves through washington. fbi director chris wray announcing his resignation. >> after weeks of careful thought, i've decided the right thing for the bureau is for me to