. >> it is terrible news, but you know, chris wray, whatime. is he doing with his time?a is the number one threat, why is t he focuses on sitting fbi to the doors of the protesters who want to merge for their faith and demonstrate peacefully and he has s.w.a.t. ing team showing up at their doe in the morning to terrorize them? come on! let's put our priorities where they ought to be pure if china is the number one threat, let's start acting like it.ions why are we sending hundreds of billions of dollars to ukraine if china is the number one sam global threat? i mean, these people need to gen on the same page here. let's admit it come if china has the top threats, let's start acting like it. chris wray and the biden administration don't leave it and they are not doing anythin g to keep america safe. they are granting political access and trying to destroy the political opponents. >> laura: senator, i am glad t you survived the code pink aeric and you didn't wear pink tie, why is that? up time for americans about theh economy, but that is not stopping joe biden spin, that

. >> bill: something you don't hear every day from chris wray saying the u.s. is facing threats from all sides and he fears it could lead to a coordinated terror attack at home like this one that killed more than 140 people in moscow. a lot of people consider that low tech terror and it was. they are using semi automatic weapons there. it was two weeks ago today. good morning i'm bill hemmer. hello to you and happy friday. nice to see you, dana. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." great to be here with you to close out the week. one of america's biggest vulnerabilities are the southern border. they are catching migrants on the terror watch list. one from afghanistan. he was caught and released not once, but twice. let's go to el paso. >> that afghan migrant is back in u.s. custody only after roaming free in the u.s. for more than a year. federal source tells our david spunt mohammed was picked up after crossing in march of 23. he was allowed to go free. this guy was reportedly a member of political party of islam. anti-western, radical gr

but, you know, chris wray, what is he doing with his time.is the number one threat, why is he focused on sending fbi agents to the doors of pro-life catholic protesters who just want to march for their faith and demonstrate peacefully and he has got swath teams showing up at their doors in the morning to terrorize them? come on. let's put our priorities where they ought to be. if china is the number one threat, let's start acting like it. i will tell you the other thing weekend do laura, is, why are we sending hundreds of billions of dollars to ukraine if china is our number one global threat? i mean, these people need to get on the same page here. let's admit it if china is the top threat, let's start acting like it but chris wray and the biden administration, they don't believe it, they are not doing anything to keep america safe. they are out there grinding their political actions and trying to destroy their political opponents. >> laura: senator, i'm glad you survived that code pink fiasco. you didn't wear a pink ty. how sad. senator, tha

chris wray is expected to urge them to renew it.oes the speaker have to get this passed? he says he is committed to it, but donald trump tanking it from one side and now marjorie taylor greene and others, jim jordan of the judiciary committee. what chances does he have? >> reporter: let's talk about christopher wray. this is part of what he will say in his opening statement today. our most immediate concern has been that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the middle east to carry out attacks here at home akin to the i.s.i.s. attack we saw on the russian concert hall a couple of weeks ago. the intel community, the national security leaders, they strongly believe that if it were to go away, which it's set to expire, it would leave gaping holes in their ability to protect the united states. the proper for speaker johnson is the folks that need to hear this the moment don't believe people like christopher wray. they believe they are part of the problem and they believe it needs to go away. they

director chris wray testified several thienls hill, most recently sever several days ago, that all the lights are blinking. we anticipate and expect a terrorist attack on the homeland because we've allowed people on the terrorist watch list, none of us knows how many, to come through unevaded. we know single adult men, the vast majority of the people in some of these sectors that have come in, when we took 64 republicans to the eagle pass sector, the del rio sector back in january, january 3, largest congressional trip ever, they told us that 60% to 70% of the crossings at that border at that time for single adult males, military age and capability. what are they blotting? what are they planning? where are they? what small town are they encamped in? we have no idea but we anticipate the worst. we pray for the best. we pray these fears are not realized but this is a serious, serious thing for the american people. so i -- i put out a preliminary plan, as you all know on these measures, to handle these matters, from israel to ukraine to the done pacific region and the fourth bill in this

[laughter] >> steve: fbi director chris wray is warning americans saying that he can't remember a time when our country faced some threats to our national security and he is heading to capitol hill today at 2:00 to say much more. >> brian: supposed to make me feel better. meanwhile dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas finally admitting our border is in a crisis and raising concerns over the number of chinese nationals encountered down there. finally. >> lawrence: unbelievable. lucas tomlinson has the details on that. >> hey, lawrence, good morning. let's list some of those threats around the world right now. southern border, china, israel-hamas war. threats by iran, proxies in the middle east. russia war on ukraine. north korea. the world is a dangerous place and not many would dispute that christopher wray says, quote: looking back over my career in law enforcement, i would be hard-pressed to think of a time where so many threats where public safety and national security were so elevated all at once. but that is the case as i sit here today. now, the number of chinese nationals crossing t

. >> host: chris wray fbi director may get asked about that when he testifies today at 2 p.m. our coverage on c-span3, c-span.org and our free video mobile app c-span now. joe, tennessee, republican, you are next. >> caller: good morning, ladies. wasn't hillary clinton the one who is expert on this fisa where she had all this information that she bought and paid for such thing and is like 59 of the fbi site off that all this was actually true information?? i'm just a little lost on this fisa thing, have democrats can use it to their advantage. if someone can explain to me more about that i would really appreciate it. have a great day. >> host: any thoughts on that? >> guest: yeah, my understanding is that fisa, i don't have a recollection of this being used by a presidential candidate, unless i'm mistaken. the idea is that this is something that it is ruled by the fisa court which dictates how it canou be used. it is data that is intended to be used for intelligence investigations assisting in drug trafficking cases, or cybercrime or terrorism from what we know. i'm not entire

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chris wray called the alleged idaho plot truly horrific.bi was already worried about the potential of terror because of the israeli-hamas war. now with isis showing signs of resurgence, authorities are even more concerned, david. >> david: they will remain on alert for sure here in the u.s. pierre, thank you. >>> we turn now to the horrific images tonight, the newly released police body camera video of a deadly police shooting in chicago. graphic images showing a driver pulled over for a seat belt violation, opening fire and wounding an officer. police firing back, unleashing 96 shots in 41 seconds. we have a warning here -- this is difficult. here's alex perez. >> reporter: tonight, an independent investigation underway, after this traffic stop turned deadly. chicago police body camera video capturing the incident that ended with officers firing a barrage of bullets, killing 26-year-old dexter reed. police say reed fired first. >> roll the windows down. >> reporter: the ordeal unfolding just after 6:00 p.m. march 21st. reed, in the driver'

this comes to put in context, chris wray, fbi director issues this stark warning. >> most immediate concern is individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from events in the middle east to carry out attacks here at home. >> griff: the story was reported by nbc news that cbp released this guy and that is inaccurate. he is back in federal custody now, his court date is in 2025. >> steve: when this guy was grabbed on the southern border, they took a look at him, looked at his name, we might be on the terror watch list, they couldn't tell. rather than hold him, they released him. the second time, they said it was a flight risk. why take the chance? why not hang on to him until you know for sure? >> griff: that is exactly the point, steve. in that initial encounter, border patrol turns people over who may be from countries like afghanistan to the join terrorism task force and groups talook for derogatory in infor information. only later does the information become available. what is the secondary failure, whether or not dhs had the full picture in this past february two months ago

chris wray is telling us repeatedly, openly, and behind closed doors that one of these 300 people onf attack. he is saying -- he is ringing the alarm belsz. is he saying he has never seen this kind of threat in his fbi career. and with our wide open border, when you have dozens of peopople on the terrorist watch list coming across, i will remind everyone that san bernardino, that attack was from the terrorist watch list. pulse nightclub was from the terrorist watch list. and i think schumer is going to regret dismissing these charges. >> todd: if anybody should be sensitive to a terror attack it should be the senior senator from the state of new york. congressman michael waltz, we appreciate your time this morning. thank you, sir. "fox & friends" begins right now. have a great day, everybody. ♪ ♪ >> ainsley: it is 6:00 a.m. here on the east coast. it's monday, april 8th. and this is "fox & friends." hello darkness, our old friend. i will spare you the singing. we are hours away from that total sola

person information, in 2021 fbi director chris wray instituted significant reforms to prevent inadvertent queries and improve compliance. and virtually all of those reforms, which have been enormously successful, have now been incooperated in the -- incorporated with the statute that the house passed last week. well, here's an example. when fbi personnel conduct a query now, rather than having access to this database of lawfully collected 702 information, they're required to opt in to include that information. they have to affirmatively choose to search that database. previously that was not the case. section 702 data was included in every search by default, and most of the time it was completely unnecessary. multiple reviews have shown that these reforms have made a dramatic difference for the better. since 2021, since these reforms have been put in place, the total number of u.s. person queries have decreased by 98%. that's a dramatic improvement. it's not 100%, it's not perfect, we still have work to do, but 98% improvement strikes me as pretty dramatic. on top of that, doj conducted a

chris wray yesterday in an interview with lester holt talked about the national security threat thatposes as far as the fbi, the cia, bill burns are all concerned. let's watch. >> tiktok for us represents a national security concern. and the reason i say that is that tiktok's parent company is beholden to the chinese government. >> so, jeff, the biden campaign is using tiktok to reach especially their young people, disaffected of course, and that is a key component. but the president will sign this if it passes. >> yeah, absolutely. this was not a poison pill for president biden. because the white house actually supports this. but it is ironic as you rightly point out because it is happening at the same time that his campaign is making use of tiktok. and that is the overall irony to the whole thing. tiktok is a really important app for reaching young voters which the biden campaign capitals do but yet the national security concerns. the white house latest explanation for that is they are not asking to get rid of tiktok all together, they just want it for be divested. but he needs his

that was in his words, a serious national security concern in that context today, the fbi director chris wray, warned about his growing concern, and i want to use his words directly about the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, akin to the isis k attack we saw at the russia concert hall now in that congress hall concert hall, a crocus, 144 people were killed what more do you know about chris raise warning? >> i know that people are concerned. people are worried that uncertainty of what's going to happen because of this open border is making people worried. and we have to recognize that people said to me during my campaign. and even now, oh, the board of the board of the border, that's a republican issue. no, it's not. it's an american issue and we must address it now, the president has started addressing it much more. he talked about in the beginning of his administration. now he's talking about it more and i'm hoping he'll take some unilateral action and we can force a bipartisan compromise because we had a deal on the table that was endorsed by the wall street journal,

republicans deadlocked over the future of a very controversial surveillance law as fbi director chris wray urges congress to renew what he calls an indispensable tool. a direct quote joining us now the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, republican congressman michael mccaul, congressman. thanks so much for joining us. thanks for our american lives at risk, at risk. if congress doesn't reauthorize fisa, the foreign intelligence surveillance act as the fbi director of warren today 100% i agree with director ray wolf in my prior life, i was a federal prosecutor after nine 11 counterterrorism i worked with the fbi on fisa warrants. we stopped a lot of bad things from happening. if we do not reauthorize fisa tomorrow and we go dark it will put american people in jeopardy and put them at risk at a time when the world is actually becoming more and more dangerous. where there'll be hamas out of the middle east and iran two the jihadist and afghanistan and the middle east this is the wrong time to play politics with this again by recognizing are you okay with the two year extension of

the fbi director chris wray, he says that hate crime investigations against jews have tripled since the october 7 hamas attack and the war so that has followed. what is your sense of this threat level against the jewish communities, particularly as we approach passover so there is no doubt that it is higher, exceptionally higher that the antisemitism has grown in leaps and bounds. >> just this is what i mean by anti-semitism. it is hatred towards jewish people targeted attacks towards the jewish community for being jewish. so we can put the politics of this to the sayyed that there is real anti-semitism out there that is not just about physical harm and physical threats to the jewish community the numbers you hear can range extensively. so i want to go by the fbi numbers because various groups sometimes lump in a lot of other behavior, but the fbi numbers show us that we have the united states government defines anti-semitic hate crimes is three times greater, as you said, and it's just, it's, it's shocking. it is horrible and we have to focus on that because it is physical harm to the

just last week, fbi director chris wray said that threats to the jewish community have tripled since the october 7 hamas attacks and the war that has followed, protests are still going on at columbia university in new york city. and today, an orthodox rabbi associated with columbia is warning jewish students they should quote, return home until the campus has safer. now attention is running high after several days of pro-palestinian protests and more than 100 arrests on campus, the governor of new york, kathy hochul is tweeting today saying, quote, the first amendment protects the right to protest, but students also have a right to learn in an environment free from an environment free, excuse me from harassment or violence that columbia or on any campus threatening jewish students with violence or glorifying the terrorism of october 7 is antisemitism cnn's polo sandoval joins us now from new york. so polo, what's the latest, what's happening today? >> so alex, what we continue to see our two demonstrations that show no signs of stopping here and to be clear, there are demonstrations

fbi director chris wray warning of dire consequences if it's not removed. the so called fisa law allows u.s. intelligence agencies to spy on communications of foreign nationals without a warning. wray said the warning cannot be allowed to lapse, describing the most dangerous threat environment since 911 sparked by the war between israel and hamas and the resurgence of isis. it was put in jeopardy after president trump said to kill it under mining house speaker mike johnson. this morning congress is working on a compromise. a vote is expected later this morning. it's hard to know what's going to happen given how divide congress is. michael? >> michael: pierre, thank you for that. we're going to turn to the battle over abortion rights. vice president harris is heading to arizona after court decisions sent shock waves through the country up holding an 1864 law banning abortions with almost no exceptions. our chief white house correspondent mary bruce has more for us. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, michael. biden campaign this morning trying to

fbi director chris wray said allowing 702 to expire would be, quote, an act of unilateral disarmament in the face of the chinese communist party. close quote. so the stakes are extremely high and i'm glad that the republican-led house passed a strong 702 reform bill last week. this is not a clean reauthorization of the existing bill. this is a reform bill which corrects many of the problems that we've experienced with section 702 and application, including some abuse by fbi officials and others. it's designed to prevent that inadvertent abuse and to hold people who abuse that authority accountable. and to those who say well, this reform bill has provisions in it that can be likewise abused by somebody who's intent on violating the law, i say there's no law that can prevent people from lying, cheating, and stealing. in other words, we can do our best to try to pass a law that protects the american people both in their privacy and their national security. but no one argues that we can prevent all abuses. but we can go a long way and this bill does it to close up the opportunities to do

hill, steven jensen, all testified to the committee it was wrong guess who will said it was wrong, chris wrayaid this, we recall this information to avoid even the appearance of any overreach that even the fbi who systematically violated americans to save your pro-life catholic you're an extremist if you are a parent going to school board many guard terrors. even the fbi says this is ridiculous and they pulled back. three agents testified. and somehow -- the government chills american speech when they pressured big tech to censor that his chilling speech we have seen it first doctor peterson seen in his own country and now it's coming here, that is what we are concerned about i yield back to the gentleman thank you for yielding. >> thank you chairman i would echo that. i'm glad thomas massie started off of the recitation of the fourth mm that's really why we are here while the other side wants to relitigate j6 the title of the hearing is about financial surveillance of american citizens this is deeply troubling if you are a catholic occurs by your child's education and you shop at gander moun

chris wray, our fbi director, basically said this particular concern screens out with national securitym not telling you, you may be wrong. >> i don't want to wait for the trigger to be pulled we don't want the gun trigger pulled to understand there's a national security threat here. >> you answered yes, do you know things, won't discuss it but you do know things that have been at place right now, not for the future >> yeah. and i -- i think this is something that has been discussed in classified settings that is in part why you have such a huge bipartisan coalition of folks can i just say two other things real quick you know, bytedance repeatedly says that they don't want to sell they also say they're going to initiate litigation. i think there are a couple factors that weigh against it. one is that, you know, there are people in the intelligence community salivating at the chance of litigation in this particular case. why? because they can conduct discovery against bytedance and learn the secrets with regard to its connections to the ccp that's got to weigh heavily on bytedance and cc

warnings that in this possible terms about what is 702 laps would do to our security, fbi director chris wray said allowing 702 to expire would be pulled back an act of unilateral disarmament in the face of the chinese communist party. ". so the stakes are dreamy high and i'm glad the republican republican-led house passed a strong 702 reform bill last week. this is not a clean reputation of the existing bill. this is a reform and i'm glad the republican republican-led house passed a strong 702 reform bill last week. this is not a clean reputation of the existing bill. this is a reform bill which corrects many of the problems that we have experience with section 02 applications including some abuse by fbi officials and others designed to prevent that inadvertent abuse and to hold people who abuse that authority accountable. and to those who say well this reform bill has provisions that they can be likewise abused by somebody who is intent on violating the law i say there is no law that can prevent people from lying cheating and stealing, and afterwards we can do our best to try to pass a law

chris. >> ali vitali, thank you. >>> now an nbc news exclusive, a chilling warning from fbi director christopher wray about the potentialor a coordinated terror attack on u.s. soil. nbc's tom winter has more of this nbc news exclusive interview. what did the fbi director have to say? >> right, chris. yesterday when the fbi director started to speak to our colleague lester holt, he talked about the overall threat environment. he says it's one of the worst that he's seen in his entire career in federal law enforcement. that's when he looks at the threats from china, from iran, from russia, as well as domestic terrorism threats and then the types of threats that you're talking about. this chilling warning about a foreign directed terror plot. something we haven't seen since approximately 2015 or so. so it's been almost nine years since we have seen this type of attack. let's listen to what he had to say. >> we are increasingly concerned about the potential for some kind of coordinated attack here in the homeland, maybe not that different from what you saw against the concert hall in russia a few weeks ago from isis k. >> i