let's bring in former assistant fbi director chris swecker. eels of house oversight chair james comer, you know, basically saying -- and we also have another gentleman that's going to join us in just a second. you know, can you talk to us about this indictment coming on the heels of house oversight chair james comer basically saying he did talk to kevin mccarthy, and kevin measure cac -- mccarthy talked to the gop conference about potentially impeaching president biden over what is going on and the corruption scandal there? if you ran the fbi criminal acquisition. -- tuition. how is this looking finish division. how is this looking for biden here involving devon archer in. >> yeah. i think that investigation is reaching critical mass from the standpoint of tying joe biden in to this what i call stream of services, services going in one direction, benefits, money, a meeting, firing a prosecutor going in the other direction, and and they core respond in time so there's no direct quid pro quo. that's what an aggressive prosecution theory, an aggre

bring in former assistant fbi director, chris swecker. chris, i heard you talking earlier about this. i'm wondering at the same time, nicole says police are busy, going room to room, making sure every enclave is clear. stand by, chris. i want to go a local reporter. >> after five minutes of it starting, hey, guys, we just received an alert that there's an active shooter. we're going to keep you in here for a second. i'm checking my phone. yeah, there's an active shooter in the building next to me. >> that is so scary. you get this alert and you realize then what's going on. you see these police outside. how did they get you out to make sure that you were safe and able to come out here? >> they just had us file out? >> how did you find out what was is going on? >> the university did their best. just talking to other students. this is an event that you can't plan for. >> did you see anyone injured or anything as you were being led out? >> thank god, no. >> just what is this like? you're a week in to class. you have to shelter in place. you'r

chris swecker joins us, former fbi assistant director. chris, thank you for helping us out as you have been. what do you make of this situation now and for a lot of nervous parents watching, wondering if their kids are okay, i'm not saying we're at the all clear here, but are we over the original crisis fear? what do you think is going on? >> yeah, i think the initial crisis -- wral is a local station. good sources in the police department. i've done security checks throughout chapel hill. i assessed that police department and reviewed several incidents on campus, one similar to this one. i know the place inside out. i'll tell you based on a their behavior, they must have had a very intense door-to-door, room-to-room-type situation and didn't want to put any information out there that would have been helpful to this person if he had any access to the media. >> neil: if he's in custody, i can understand waiting and holding off on an all clear until you search the area, swept the area for any type of devices and the like or accomplices. do w

let's go to chris swecker, we are in the situation yet again reports of either an armed person on campusr an active shooter situation. nobody has yet said active shooter, although we are hearing from reports on the ground people who are there who are just putting things out there to say this is what he is going on. but in a situation like this, gosh, we have seen this, chris, so many times and as the school year begins there, at unc chapel hill, here we go again. >> yes, and i have personally assessed the security on the campus, and one an armed individual, probably going on here as mentioned. stay away from doors and windows, indicates to me this person is armed and they may not have his exact location because of the scope of the lockdown, i mean, this campus is sprawling. there is a medical school, a dental school, it abutts right up against downtown, franklin street, so i'm sure that chapel hill police have responded, orange county sheriff's department has responded and probably everybody else in the area in terms of highway patrol, state bureau of investigation. sounds like they have

joining us now is chris swecker, former assistant fbi director.hought it was punked so hilarious. you cannot make this up at this point. >> you really can't. i mean, the irony, the fbi are the spy catchers. the cia are our spies. so he would supposed to be catching this guy and he is the guy that is investigating trump. it's beyond ironic. you know, i wonder sometimes laura -- not sometimes. whether the fbi completely took their eye off the ball when jim comey took over because this is one of the most important programs in the fbi is to catch spies, prevent them from spying on us and right in the middle of it of a high level executive position and comey promoted him later on is the very guy that we should be rooting out. unbelievable. >> laura: chris in a september 2020 senate testimony the fbi deputy assistant director this guy jonathan moffa was asked about the origins of crossfire hurricane and this was back in july of 2016, specifically he was asked how he became aware of it, and he said that i received it via email along a few others from the

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joining me now, former fbi director, chris swecker. it's great to see you. thanks very much.charged in the january 6th riot and yet jack smith is using that riot as fodder for the other charges? >> yeah, this is clearly a political indictment that takes a wrecking ball to the rule of law. and i don't say that lightly, maria. if you read the statutes, especially 18usc1371 which is conspiracy to defraud the u.s. government. that is probably one of the broadest statutes in the u.s. code. it will play to the worst political instincts of the jury and jack smith knows that and five of the six co-conspirators, i'm indicted, are attorneys. so now he's digging into the attorneys that donald trump hired to help him try to protest an election. this statute may be unconstitutional in my opinion. i'll defer to the constitutional professors. but it is a very squishy statute, the elements are mainly speech and thoughts and what trump thought and what he did. so it's going to be interesting to see whether he can get a fair trial in d.c. but this surely gets -- if gets convicted it surely get

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