<chris wray / fbi director: based on their initial analysis, they uncovered a latent fingerprint fromf the envelopes containing an ied. there is also a possible dna connection between samples collected from pieces of two different ieds.>( robin )sayoc will appear in federal court in miami again on friday for a pre-trial detention hearing and a status conference to discuss moving sayoc to new york, where the case will ultimately be prosecuted.he faces up to 48 years in prison. ( robin )thousands of migrants are walking miles and miles every day... heading toward the u.s.- mexico border in hopes of seeking asylum here. meanwhile the pentagon announced it is sending 52- hundred more troops to the border to stop that group of central americans from entering the united states. kron 4's michelle kingston has (mk)sot"the government that is there doesn't belong to us" central american migrants have dozens of reasons as to why they are fleeing their own countries in hopes of finding a new life in the united states.traveling thousands of miles by foot -- with little water and food -- with child

chris wray was two years behind brett kavanaugh at yale and yale law school, which is tiny.has less than 200 students per class. there judiciary committee questionnaire showed that they schoolrived at yale law and joined the federalist society, and have been members ever since. rod rosenstein was a member of the federalist society, but at harvard, where he went to law school. comeederalist society has over the last 30 years, become an incredibly influential, conservative group of lawyers advancing conservative legal principles, judges, and justices. president trump famously, during the campaign in 2016, held up a list given to him by the federalist society of 16 conservative judges and said these are the people from whom i will pick my supreme court, and the federalist society, the list included neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh. is the've seen federalist society very jurists,ive group of aimed at shifting the judiciary to the right. kavanaugh was an active member. wray has been an active member. rod rosenstein has been an active member. i am not saying that wray and rosenste

>> first, does chris wray need to say something? he needs to say something to his people, to the fbi. because they watch the news, too. and they're all over the world. and so i would think at the very least, you'd want to go out and in some way, in an all-hands e-mail and say, look, here's what happened. here's what we did. here's why i did what we did. here was my decision-making process. i think that's imperative. whether or not he makes a public statement is much more difficult because, again, to frank's point, whatever he says can be turned against the fbi. so there's communicating to your own people which is very important. and there's that much more difficult decision about it communicating externally. >> and he did that at one other point either after the mccabe firing. there was one other flash point in this presidency where he did find it imperative. >> frank is right. the men and women of the fbi are extraordinary. and they don't want to be in this position and they do want to hear from their leadership. they want to under

what does chris wray take from that? does he have to call don mcgahn and say i need clarity. at the end of this, we know the president attacked the fbi repeatedly and they have been reluctantly in the middle of the dram a. you do not want to come out of this with more questions about the fbi. how do you get clarity on what you are supposed to do right now? >> i think one problem with this, we all watch a lot of tv and think this is a full-blown fbi investigation. i don't think it's happening like that. they have a certain number of people. i don't get the sense that they are going to move far beyond that party and then the yale incident. i think they are working within the parameters. the big problem is the way this came together. there was thrown together very quickly. there was no real arrangement made about who was in and who was out and how to do it. they gavelled that vote through as quick as they could. this is what we are stuck with today. i will continue to say the people who can tomorrow the scope of this investigation are those people. they can object and say this w

no one can dispute chris wray.e is an appointee of president trump working for the attorney general. we had a real threat here. there's a lot of negativity in this country, wolf. step back, friday night, pop a bottle of champagne, the system worked. nypd put out the images, people knew about this stuff. we got dna, we got fingerprints, we found the mail sorting facility partly by postal inspectors and the takedown was smooth. you got to love it. it worked. >> david chelan, this suspect made it clear he was a huge supporter of president trump. i want you to watch how the president responded to that. listen to this. >> i did not. i did not see my face on the van. i don't know -- i heard he was a person that preferred me over others, but i did not see that. not at all, no t th, that -- th no blame, anything. if you look at what happened to steve scalise, it was from a supporter of a different party. you look at what happened numerous of these incidents that were supporters of others. >> why can't he reflect on the fac

still investigating. >> one of the problems that chris wray spotted in that testimony, is that unlike terrorists where there's a procedure for going into court, to monitor potential terrorists, there's no such comparable law. >> that's the controversial, i must say, fisa courts will fund surveillance. >> and there are some organizations in our country, particularly the southern poverty law center in montgomery, alabama, that keeps track of domestic aid group, they are counting close to 900 such groups and in the latest rise, there's been a steady rise in the last three years, these are white supremacists, ne-yo not cities, black groups and so forth. so it's a genuine problem that we have to worry about and we have to be careful not to stoke it. >> and somehow it gets, rabbi, it gets into the bloodstream on social media, there was a tweet that kevin mccarthy took down and there was a tweet about kevin mccarthy against george soros, and some stom steyer, an bloomberg accusing them of buying the election, minority leader, becoming the majority leader if the democrats win the house. but t

chris wray / fbi director: based on their initial analysis, they uncovered a latent fingerprint from one of the envelopes containing an ied. there is also a possible dna connection between samples collected from pieces of two different ieds. (ken)sayoc will appear in federal court in miami again on friday for a pre-trial detention hearing and a status conference to discuss moving sayoc to new york, where the case will ultimately be prosecuted.he faces up to 48 years in prison. (pam) thousands of migrants are walking miles and miles every day... heading toward the u.s.- mexico border.. in hopes of seeking refuge here. meantime, today, the pentagon announced it is preparing to send 52- hundred more troops to the border to stop that group of central americans from entering the united states. kron 4's michelle kingston has more. (mk)sot"the government that is there doesn't belong to us" central american migrants have dozens of reasons as to why they are fleeing their own countries in hopes of finding a new life in the united states.traveling thousands of miles by foot -- with little wate

director chris wray said part of the reason that sayoc was found so quickly was because he left a trailfor investigators to follow chris wray / fbi director: i want to focus for a moment on the amazing work of our folks at the fbi lab. based on their initial analysis, they uncovered a latent fingerprint from one of the envelopes containing an ied. there is also a possible dna connection between samples collected from pieces of two different ieds. none of sayoc's bombs ever detonated and after his arrest on friday, he reportedly told officials that he didn't want to hurt anyone, but investigators said the devices were dangerous.chris wray / fbi director : each device consisted of roughly six inches of pvc pipe, a small clock, a battery, some wiring and what is known as energetic material. though we're still analyzing the devices in our laboratory, these are not hoax devices.sayoc is expected in federal court just behind me at 2 o'clock today. his case will eventually be prosecuted in new york.in miami, natasha chen reporting, back to you.> ( james ) the f-b-i has sent the package found i

chris wray said the fbi got onto this suspect at some point last night. so you would assume the white house was briefed on that immediately. we don't know that was the case. but that's usually the case in these events. so in the middle of the night at 3:14 in the morning, i think, the president sends his first tweet out attacking cnn. he then sends this other tweet out at 10:00 in the morning. you have to go back and say one of two things happened. either the president doesn't know the fbi found somebody who's a pro-trump supporter and has pro-trump leanings and he's not staying on top of this case. or two he knows about this, and the fbi is going to make an arrest, the arrest was made within an hour of him having sent that tweet. and he's just taking the chance to flan the flames of a conspiracy theory. he will get to the podium and read the script, but he will find a way to send a signal to reporters that they don't have to believe what the press has to say. they can choose a conspiracy theory option that is more politically advantageous to what they se

it was very important when the fbi chief said, chris wray, said there could be more out there. everybody needs to keep an eye on that. add to that the markets. this pattern of staggered selloffs with the claw-back in the last couple minutes of the session continues on this friday. one thing is clear, this is the worst october for stocks since 2008. i want you to read this tweet on that news. check the date here. october 11th, former hedge fund manager and now bitcoin bull mike novogratz writing i think there is significant chance we put cycle highs in for the u.s. stock markets, inflation rates higher, dems winning the house possibly, i would imagine he put that in, terrible breadth and now fang cracking. sell rallies. mike novogratz here in a fox business exclusive. what did you see back a couple weeks ago that prompted you to put that tweet which now looks promisingly prescient? >> all year rates have been going at 3%, almost breaking and coming back. we decisively broke 3% right around the same time amazon announced $15 minimum wage. the fed announced that they are going to

ford's lawyers have written to the fbi director chris wray saying that there -- their client has not been contacted by the fbi and they have not asked her for an interview. would you expect that dr. ford would be interewed by the fbi as part of the investigation? warren: well, dr. ford has bee extensively interviewed prior to the fbi getting involv, and that is really up to the head person at the bureau to figure out whether there is anything additional to be spoken about. she was under oath during the hearing, and i don't know if there is any additional information that would be gleaned. if there is additional information, i'm sure they would contact the lawyers and set up an interview. we have to take it a day at a time, an hour at a time, a minute at a time, and they will exhaust every le. i will assure the public that that will occur. laura: how about the scope of the investigation? dr. ford says judge kavanaugh was drunk at the time of the alleged assault, so should t scope included his drinking in high school and college, especially with the questions of whether he was truthful

two and two fbi director chris wray calling it a hoax. and given what the president tweeted this morning when he put the word bomb in quotes. and then the third thing was this last question that i think wray gave a very weird answer to when he was asked when did you tell the white house -- when did you tell the president, and you wouldn't answer that. the answer is always we told them immediately because you always do tell the white house immediately if it's a matter of this importance. you keep them updated in realtime. the reason that's a problematic answer, he made clear in the press conference that they found this suspect yesterday. they were onto him yesterday. he made clear they called the florida department of law enforcement last night. it's hard to believe they wouldn't tell the white house yesterday. if you have the department telling the white house about this suspect yesterday and you have the president then tweeting this morning flanning the flames of a conspiracy theory, that is just a reprehensible thing for the president to

yesterday, i spoke with fbi director chris wray, and deputy director dave bowditch, and we met with andhe president to bring him up to date. fbi and atf are working on this, and i want to thank all of our law enforcement officers. in dealing with explosive devices, it point out again the courage officers display because certainly i would be worried, indeed, to have to handle something that could be as dangerous as this. across the administration, we condemn the actions that led to these activities in the strongest possible terms and are determined to make sure that we get to the bottom of it and justice is done. so let me say this. our shared work of fighting drug crime has never been more important than now. i was there in '81, half of high school seniors acknowledge using an illegal drug. over the next 10, 15 years, that dropped by half. under 25%. so i just would say to you, we are facing a crisis today, in many ways more severe than then, but we can make a difference. and we're determined to do so. this is the deadliest drug crisis ever in our nation's existence. we have not seen an

chris wray / fbi director: we have arrested cesar sayoc in connection with this investigation.authorities they've caught the person responsible for sending more than a dozen explosive devices through the mail to prominent democrats and critics of president trump and today we're learning more about the suspect -- 56-year-old florida resident cesar sayoc.a former boss says sayoc was a good employee but that he also had, quote "crazy political views." debra gureghian / former boss of cesar sayoc: he told me more than once 'debra, i like you as a manager, but i hate you for being a lesbian.'and sayoc's former attorney, who represented him for at least five years starting in 2000 or 2001, says sayoc was a loner who lacked an understanding of reality.ron lowry / sayoc's former attorney: he suffered from certainly an identification issue as to who he was. he needed people to be impressed with him. he had issues of insecurity.what authorities don't yet know, whether they have recovered all of the suspicious devices and are encouraging anyone with information to come forward.chris wray / fbi direc

, 56-year-old cesar sayoc told investigators he didn't want to hurt anyone but the fbi director chris wray says under the right conditions those packages could have gone off and there may still be more packaging working their way through the u.s. mail. >> so dna, fingerprints, cell phone ping, tower, the cell phone tower, all of that is what led authorities to an auto parts store parking lot in south florida and that is where they arrested sayoc yesterday morning. joe johns is live from the federal detention center in downtown miami. joe, what do you know this morning about how this will be moving forward? >> reporter: good morning, victor. well, 56-year-old cesar sayoc is locked up at the federal detention facility here in miami, as the authorities try to piece together as much of this story as they can. and the picture that is emerging is of a man who harbored some very dark thoughts. particularly about minorities and others in this country, particularly on the left. but what he is accused of is essentially going that further step, by putting bombs in the mail, political violence, and no

they wrote a letter to director chris wray saying it is inconceivable the fbi could conclude its investigation without interviewing her. to keep up with the latest developments, download the "abc 7 news" app and enable push alert. >>> today we are exactly five weeks away from the midterm election and california's voter registration hit a new record. nearly 19 million people in the state are registered to vote. about 76% of those who are eligible. it reflects a pretty steady increase in voter participation in the past decade when looking at midterm elections, and this year california implement a new program that allows voters to register while you are at the dmv. election day is on tuesday, november 6th. you probably already received your voter information packet in the mail. i got mine over the weekend. perhaps you did as well. to understand what's on the ballot, go to our website, abc7news.com/election. >> digital license plates are growing in popularity. some say it is the wave of the future. other expressed concern over privacy and whether they're safe to year. "abc 7 news" reporter chris w

. >> reporter: chris wray indicating that fingerprint found on one of those packages led fbi investigators to 56-year-old cesar sayoc, who is facing five federal crimes and up to 48 years in prison. >> based on their initial analysis, they uncovered a latent finger present frprint f of the envelopes contain an ied sent to maxine waters. we have confirmed that this fingerprint is that of cesar sayoc. and there is also a possible connection from pieces mailed in separate envelopes and a sample previously collected from sayoc. >> reporter: and now he is in federal custody, arrested in south florida. authorities also impounding this white van taking every precaution unaware of what may be inside. >> we just took him into custody. we want the road shut down and then we'll start evacuating. >> reporter: sayoc had been living in that van recently after being kicked out of his parent's house. that van covered in plit stioli stickers, as well as one that says cnn sucks. here he is at a trump campaign rally last year holding a sign saying the same thing. sayoc's social media accounts feature numerou

. >> what would senator mcconnell or grassley do if chris wray, we're on to a couple leads here, we need another week. according to senate rules 30 hours of debate. i don't know how they'll get all that debate in. that talk has not started. >> dana: the vote would be conceivably sunday. >> friday or saturday seems optimistic to me, without having seen the fbi report. >> dana: we'll stay on pins and needles as well and keep in touch with you. judge napolitano, thank you. how could heidi heitkamp's vote on kavanaugh affect her chances for reelection. president trump gearing up to talk to a convention about electrical workers about tax reform. while your spouse was serving our country, you were serving too. taking care of the family. moving. paying the rent. trtoday is that day.save up to buy your own home someday. because, by using your spouse's va home loan benefit, you could buy a home with no down payment. no. down. payment. at newday usa, you don't have to save up to move up. why rent when you can buy? go to newdayusa.com, or call 1-877-423-5744. >> dana: senator lindsey graham is spea

. >> chris wray, the fbi director called them ieds. he didn't leave any chance with that.h the pittsburgh case, the fact that it's a hate crime adds to the severity of the charges that will follow. in the case of the serial bomber, the fact that he was targeting former presidents, in particular, does that add to the severity of the charges he's likely to face? >> those would be separate charges. to your point, yes, it would add to that. i wouldn't be surprised if they don't bring terrorism charges at some point in time, building, transporting and sending wmds. that's what those ieds rrks weapons of mass destruction. since world war i, the fbi has tracked hate crimes. we didn't call it that then. certainly during the civil rights era, we all remember the 1964 mississippi burning case. there was a need for the fbi to step in in those situations. at that period of time you couldn't get convictions for murder of white men who had been accused of killing a jewish man -- i'm sorry, two jewish men and an african-american. yes, i think there will be additional charges. in many ins

nbc news obtained a letter send sunday from diane feinstein to don mcgahn and chris wray asking for aive that expand the scope of this probe involving brett kavanagh. >>> we're also learning more about what happened behind the scenes to force that fbi investigation. in fact, early friday senator jeff flake announced that he would vote to advance brett kavanaugh's nomination from the judiciary committee, but then two things happened. a, he was cornered in an elevator by two assault survivors who demanded he explain his support of kavanaugh. and b, hours later there was the moment during friday's committee meeting when flake's friend and committee member chris coons implored his colleagues to let the fbi investigate. >> when you were making that compromise proposal, you were lobbying your friend, senator flake. >> yes. >> you didn't expect to change the minds of other republicans, you were trying to change one mind? >> i was principally concerned about helping my friend listen to his doubts and his conscious. >> reporter: after he floated his compromise, republican jeff flake stood up a

yesterday, i spoke with fbi director chris wray and deputy director dave bowdich and met with and briefed the president to bring him up to date. kennedy: he's still attorney general. fox news is also reporting that the devices could contain a treasure trove of clues. everything from dna to fingerprints to fibers from the suspect or suspects' home. or clothes. the question now were the devices intended to explode or send a message? former nypd analyst and cia analyst buck sexton is here, welcome back. >> good to see you, kennedy. kennedy: talk about the devices themselves. based on what you've read, what you've heard and what you've seen, what are your first instincts and reactions? >> well, it's obviously really significant that none of the bombs have gone off, for two reasons. one is that it does -- kennedy: is that intentional or incompetence? >> based on the number of bombs we're talking about here, i don't know yet, and because they've been very withholding on the information up to this point. not free and sharing information. there's good reason for that, i'll get to that in a second

court nominee, and the head of the fbi was that nominee's law school classmate, like fbi director chris wray is to brett kavanaugh, and the deputy attorney general overseeing the probe is a co-worker of the nominee who showed up at his hearing to support his nomination, as rod rosenstein did for brett kavanaugh, if the shoe was on the other foot, you could imagine how nuts republicans would be going over the character of the fbi investigation at this point in the consideration of that nominee. but democrats don't pressure the fbi the way that republicans do. matt miller is a former department of justice spokesman has a very powerful op-ed that's just posted today at politico.com, lamenting this difference this the dynamic. do we have that op-ed? thank you. lamenting that difference in the way democrats and republicans handle these matters. so democrats don't pressure the fbi the way that republicans do. we're all waiting for the fbi investigation. republicans would be crowing about it like you can't believe. democrats appear to be just waiting for it. who knows if we'll ever see, for example

i suppose most important elements workjeff sessions and the director of the fbi chris wray, and talkingthat cesar sayoc has been charged with. if found guilty, mr sessions both of the that he could be in prison for as long as 58 yea rs. could be in prison for as long as 58 years. there was a reference as well to the 13 devices that had been sent, stressing that they were not hoax devices but of course it is still an ongoing inquiry. they are keen to get more information, more help from members of the public as they continued in use on a question and answer session at the end there one 01’ and answer session at the end there one or two questions were aired about possible motivation of the suspect. clearly at this portion of the fbi director mac —— mr wray was not going there. although he did say the things they have got the right man despite the fact that it was also stressed that he is innocent until proven guilty. let's give all this with gary. gary o'donoghue is in washington. what did you pick out a all that?|j what did you pick out a all that?” think it is fascinating to hear the so

in the words of the fbi director, chris wray, this is a stark reminder to all americans, our foreign adversaries continue to interfere in our democracy by creating special and political division, spreading distrust in our political system and advocating for the support or defeat of more political candidates. so this afternoon, an accusation that russia is up to its old tricks. the chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge on fox's top story live on capitol hill. catherine? >> shep, the criminal complaint was unsealed a half hour against in the eastern district of virgin virginia. there's these large server farms in virginia and this is where the foreign interference, if you will, touches down inside the united states. so that's why we're looking at that virginia jurisdiction. the 44-year-old is a citizen of russia, lives in st. petersburg and alleged to be involved in project lokva. this could be an area around st. petersburg. but more importantly, she's connected to a firm called "concord." that firm was initially indicted by the justice department and the fbi as interferi

. >> reporter: ford's legal team fired off a letter to chris wray writing, the investigation conducted over the past five days is a stain on the process, on the fbi and on our american ideal of justice. republicans say democrats are trying to stall. >> what we know for sure is the fbi report did not corroborate any allegations against judge kavanaugh. and the second thing we know is that there's no way anything we did would satisfy the democrats. >> reporter: still, the final vote could be close. one undecided democrat in a tight race for reelection, senator heidi heitkamp, is voting against kavanaugh. >> the process has been bad but at the end of the day you have to make a decision. i will be voting no on judge kavanaugh. >> hey, hey, ho, ho, kavanaugh has got to go. >> reporter: with protests on the streets of washington, the supreme circus is wearing down nearly everybody. >> because you've humiliated this guy enough and there seems to be no bottom for some of you. >> if he would apologize it would be over senator graham. >> why don't we dunk him in the water and see if he floats. >

some more details hearing from chris wray, the fbi chief, saying these 13 bombs are not a hoax, and referring to them as i.e.d.s over and over, improvised explosive devices. we're learning more details about the fingerprints, the possible dna they were able to use to track him through previous arrests through some of these packages. it is extraordinary the work of law enforcement here. so let me bring in first jennifer rogers to you on these five federal crimes, interstate transportation of explosives, illegal mailings of explosives, threatening previous presidents, threatening law enforcement and other officers. not taking the terrorism route. why? >> i think because it's so early. they just picked him up. all they have to do right now is get him detained and they have ten days to indict him. you heard them say they didn't want to talk about motivations, they're still exploring all of that. you wouldn't charge domestic terrorism unless you had that motivation piece. >> why is it so significant, josh campbell, for the fbi chief to refer to these bombs as i.e.d.s? >> it was very important. the

director chris wray said part of the reason that sayoc was found so quickly was because he left a traila moment on the amazing work of our folks at the fbi lab. based on their initial analysis, they uncovered a latent fingerprint from one of the envelopes containing an ied. there is also a possible dna connection between samples collected from pieces of two different ieds. none of sayoc's bombs ever detonated and after his arrest on friday, he reportedly told officials that he didn't want to hurt anyone, but investigators said the devices were dangerous.chris wray / fbi director : each device consisted of roughly six inches of pvc pipe, a small clock, a battery, some wiring and what is known as energetic material. though we're still analyzing the devices in our laboratory, these are not hoax devices.sayoc is expected in federal court just behind me at 2 o'clock today. his case will eventually be prosecuted in new york.in miami, natasha chen reporting, back to you.> ( james ) the f-b-i has sent the package found in burlingame to a lab for testing. the suspicious package was taken to the

that officer who remembered seeing something on television and then called the police department, chris wray put out a statement which i think is worth reiterating. if anybody sees something, even if you think it's something insignificant, call. you never know what little piece of information might trigger an opening in this case. and don't wait to call. if you think you have something of value to the fbi, let them know now. somebody somewhere must have seen something, and that is often the way that we resolve these cases. >> and, chuck, one of my greatest fears is one of these has been delivered and maybe they're sitting in mailboxes undiscovered, or like the deniro office, they were sitting in a bin having already arrived. >> absolutely. that is a danger. and, so, an extra vigilance, an extra precaution is really called for here, brian. but, again, lots of people might have seen something. and if one of those people right now is listening to your show, please call with information. that is always helpful to law enforcement. >> eli stokols, to your point to this plot line of blaming the med

you saw chris wray today, when did you brief the white house? a typical question you would get, we briefed the white house immediately. most white houses want the public to know they're on top of this and managing it. he couldn't give that answer because the answer is if we briefed the white house last night, the president would be spreading conspiracy theory this morning. the president's failure to treat this seriously and saying things that aren't true, permeate the administration where other people are stuck covering up the things he does or kind of carrying them out. >> paul, as a former federal prosecutor, how much faith do you have in the ability of people throughout the justice department, department of homeland security, who do work in the civil service, to function in this environment? >> i mean, i think today we saw why we should have faith in the ordinary women and men of the postal employees and law enforcement officers who keep us safe. this was csi stuff, chris. they knew about this bombing five days ago and now we have the perpetr

even though rosenstein, mueller, chris wray, they're all republicans.r another his choice. then of course the central park five. guilty. dna evidence cleared them. now, compare that to what we have seen from trump. time and time again. when it comes to strong men aria around the world. like vladimir putin. >> i believe that president putin really feels and he feels strongly he didn't meddle in our election. >> sound familiar? it's the same way he talking about the saudi king. and kim jong un. >> he wrote a beautiful letter. they're great. we fell in love. >> a man whose government found without parallel when it comes to stuff like extermination. torture and enslavement. listen, listen to me. what if we see what do we see here? if trump likes you, or if he fears you, then he's going say all right i'll take his word. let's go slow. the case of brett kavanaugh. roy moore. rob porter. they deny it i'm good with that. if the allegations work to his advantage, or confirm what he wants you to think, he's more than happy to get ahead of the troou. to believe no

her attorneys sending a letter to fbi director chris wray which reads in part it, took tremendous courageor dr. ford to come forward. she was eager to come before the fbi. the investigation conducted over past five days, is stain on the process on the fbi and our american ideal of justice. many senate democrats agree. >> white house didn't limit what the fbi does on the fbi checks. seems they did, limited number of witnesses or so many witnesses who weren't called, should have been. make it public. reporter: the white house though is describing the kavanaugh nomination as the most thorough vetting after supreme court nominee in history. they say they were hands off and they let the fbi and the senate set the guidelines. >> we allowed the fbi to do exactly what they do best. we haven't micromanaged this process. we accommodated all of the senate's requests. the president was very clear about that. >> what critics want is a never-ending fishing expedition into high school drinking. that is not what the senators requested. that is not where this investigation's scope went. reporter: after pr

. >> to that point, i wanted to actually share that fbi director chris wray, he's obviously confirmedot of what you were saying, that there is no statute, but at the same time, there is a growing threat of domestic terrorism. here's what he said. investigating 1,000 white supremacists, but according to "the washington post" it makes it a federal crime to provide to a foreign terrorist group. there is no law providing group for a violent white supremacist group. is that a problem when you start seeing the rise of trans national groups like arian nation, neonazis that have branches in europe and communicating through the internet and planning rallies and sharing ideology together? >> well, it is a problem, because we need to have clear guidelines and clear tasking for the agents to go forward and identify exactly what it is they're trying to engage with and gather evidence on. it's well and good as joyce clearly points out, the individuals arrested in this case are going to be charged with substantial federal crimes facing a lot of time and they're going to be packed away and not seen a

after several attempts, her attorney sent a letter to chris wray with a list of witnesses they say remainable to speak with investigators and says that the investigation was a stain on the process on the fbi and on our american ideal of justice. joining me now, sean henry, former fbi, and also barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney. now professor of law school. and i've spent a lot of time talking to both of you in the last week. a week ago friday, there were many who said there is something flawed about this process and jeff flake allowed some repair. and now some are saying this is the worst of all worlds, there was something that looked like a background investigation cond t conducted and it doesn't in the eyes of democrats contain enough information to further the conversation. where do we stand on this? >> well, i think one of the challenges here is understanding the difference between a background investigation and a criminal investigation. some is not a quest for proof beyond a reasonable doubt,s to give as issuers ransure assuran information to the decision makers. and so the white

we will hear momentarily from attorney general jeff sessions, fbi director chris wray and top law enforcement officials gathering in just a moment. let me go to pete williams now to give us the headlines of the day. pete? >> reporter: i'm going to duck out of here as soon as they come in, lester. those packages were still being discovered as the agents were closing in on him in florida. and i'm going to get out of the way, here they come, lester. coming up -- >> thank you all for being here. over the past week, more than a dozen suspicious packages have been sent through the united states postal service to a media outlet, a hollywood actor and at least seven high-ranking current and former political leaders in the democratic party. this is utterly unacceptable. political violence or the threat of violence is antithetical to our vigorous system of self government. it is a threat to that respect for law and process that allows our people to accept legislation, elections, court rulings, with which they do not agree. this is the central feature of our system of government. you advocate for your b

and i can imagine that this is what chris wray today was trying to avoid.ing to avoid coming out and saying hey, the process is broken, we wanted to do more, the white house handcuffed us. they'd be thrust into the spotlight again. so he doesn't want to repeat history. and also, brian, i've got to think he's trying to buy time for bob mueller. he doesn't want this to be the battle that causes him to get fired. some trump appointee that no one wants put in as fbi director and we lose the mueller investigation somehow. he was riding a fine line, thinking back to comey and saying i can't repeat that recent history. >> that's an interesting point. frank figliuzzi, david jolly. gentlemen, always a pleasure to have you both. thank you both for joining us tonight. coming up, the inevitable intersection of politics and weather. and these days both of them tend to be extreme events. more on that when we come back. i'm all about my bed. this mattress is dangerously comfortable. when i get in i literally say, ahh. meet the leesa mattress. a better place to sleep. this

of the background information, the communications between the white house counsel's office and chris wray or rosenstein we know jeff flake was on the phone with, that dramatic moment when he had the pause button pressed so you all could learn more about the incidents in question? are you interested in investigating this? are you suspicious enough to want to understand what happened behind the scenes? >> of course, i want to know. this was a critical debate about an important life-long appointment to the highest court in the land. i think whatever the marching orders were from the white house and senate republicans, the american people should know. >> do you take issue with susan collins' assessment of the -- where the bar should be? she asserted that the overlooked principle, the presumption of innocence was what swayed her in the end. do you accept that analysis on her end, and how did you personally -- i'm guessing you're a no vote. where did you place that consideration? >> we don't know the standard because it's not spelled out. and if it's a presumption of innocence and guilty beyond

tell them up front, chris wray will be asked about this i would expect in a senate hearing at some point and he ought to be able to say, look, we told you what this was and what it wasn't. it's up to you to determine whether you want to vote this guy in or not. >> great discussion. thanks for being here. >>> john, for more than a year as you know president trump has attacked the fbi and the justice department. so what effect will that have when the fbi releases its report into brett kavanaugh? a former director of national intelligence james clapper has a lot to say on that next. why bother mastering something? because when you want to create an entirely new feeling, the difference between excellence and mastery, is all the difference in the world. introducing the all-new lexus es. a product of mastery. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. plaque psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable, with reduced redness, th

chris wray wasn't available. to find out what would be a plausible -- >> i stand corrected. still, i think investigations need to go where they go. and how can you interview one person who may say, well, mary was at that party. you should talk to mary. and then you're cut off from doing that. it's exactly cutting the fbi off at the knees. and although we hear he loves the fbi, he respects the fbi, he treats the fbi like crap on a regular bass i. so i don't have a lot of faith in the white house and the fbi working hand in glove. >> i want to share the memo that outside counsel rachel mitchell put forth. she said, quote, he said/she said case is incredibly difficult to prove but this case is even weaker than that. i do not think a reasonable prosecutor would make this case. are we talking about the prosecutor or criminal case? i realize it's more than a job interview. but is she confusing us with a statement like that? >> she's conflating what's criminal. the point from earlier. think about the job of the senate hear. are they equipped with information to do a credible job of

chris wray, the fbi director, didn't just say call us with information.e also said call us even with the slightest thing. if you think something is wrong, if something doesn't make sense. by the way, do it now. don't wait. sometimes -- and nick knows this as well -- the tiniest bit of information can help steer an investigation. there is a danger that the fbi will be overwhelmed with tips and information, much of which won't be helpful. but there's always that nugget. and the fbi has the resources, more than 13,000 special agents that they can dedicate to this investigation. >> this morning, we learned about these postal facilities now in delaware that have been the recipients addressed to former vice president joe biden. can you talk about these facilities, these postal service workers, what kind of training they might have or resources available to them, given this is being sent through the postal system? >> sure. and there's a really interesting, very small, very professional component to the postal service that many people don't know about, hallie. th

you both identified a profile in courage, chris wray and also a structural change, resurrecting the 60-vote rule which reminds us that this is not a partisan question of the president's behavior alone, but changes in our institutions themselves like the senate which has become so polarized that both parties are pushing things through on party line votes. it didn't used to occur. in 1960 there was a 50% overlap between the most liberal republican and the most conservative democrat. in congress today, there is no overlap and the signature achievements of both president obama and president trump were pushed through on party line votes with no votes from the other side, the affordable care act and the tax law, unlike what is presumed before us. you have identified structural changes that can take place. great brainstorming. structural or profiles in courage or other solutions, we must hear your views on how to resurrect a culture of the rule of law. >> to quote somebody from a movie, how do i know, i can't even explain how the toaster works. but a couple things come to mind. i'm sort of ba

chris wray was two years behind brett kavanaugh at yale and yale law school, which is tiny.s less than 200 students per class. there judiciary committee questionnaire showed that they schoolrived at yale law and joined the federalist society, and have been members ever since. rod rosenstein was a member of the federalist society, but at harvard, where he went to law school. comeederalist society has over the last 30 years, become an incredibly influential, conservative group of lawyers advancing conservative legal principles, judges, and justices. president trump famously, during the campaign in 2016, held up a list given to him by the federalist society of 16 conservative judges and said these are the people from whom i will pick my supreme court, and the federalist society, the list included neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh. is the've seen federalist society very jurists,ive group of aimed at shifting the judiciary to the right. kavanaugh was an active member. wray has been an active member. rod rosenstein has been an active member. i am not saying that wray and rosenstein