>> christopher wray: in effect, we have. we view this as combat posture, with respect to cyber activity. >> pelley: your orders are to help ukraine keep the lights on, keep the communications flowing, and keep their critical infrastructure from being taken down? >> wray: my instructions to our folks is to lean in, to lean forward, to be as helpful to them as we possibly can be to help them anticipate, prevent, defend, mitigate malicious russian cyber activity. >> pelley: has russia increased cyber-attacks on the united states since the ukraine invasion? >> wray: i'm not sure i would say they've increased it, but certainly they've continued what they've been doing for years. and the prospect of that becoming more destructive and more severe is something that we're keenly watching for. so, we're treating it as sort of combat tempo. we have a 24/7 cyber command post running, and we've had now for several weeks. we've been pushing out intelligence products to private companies and others. we've been pushing out technical informa

the numbers are so troubling that the fbi director christopher wray is sounding the alarm. >> violenceountry is one of the biggest phenomenons that i think doesn't get enough attention. last year officers were being killed at a rate of almost one every five days. an alarming percentage of the 73 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty last year were killed through things like being ambushed. they were killed because they were police officers. wearing the badge shouldn't make you a target. >> geraldo: are you surprised, dana, that christopher wray came out publicly to defend cops? >> dana: he is very reserved and doesn't do a lot of public things. but if you know him and you know his background, this guy is a law enforcement guy through and through from the beginning care prosecution. he was a prosecutor and u.s. attorney in atlanta and head of the criminal division after 9/11 and then he was -- he came back after he was asked, when president trump was there. there is the crime part of what they do and then there's the prevention, that's what that interview was supposed to b

fbi director christopher wray says the skyrocketing numbers of murders against police officers is unlikeenforcement in this country is one of the biggest phenomenons that i think doesn't get enough attention. last year officers were being killed at a rate of almost one every five days. one of the phenomenons we saw last year is that an alarming percentage of the 73 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty last year were killed through things like being ambushed, or shot while out on patrol. wearing a badge should make you a target. >> emily: kacie, the percentage increase in those ambushes that the fbi director mentioned, it's over 300%. it's undeniable that our law enforcement have become targets. one almost every five days. it's a thankless job off the bat. we saw this hatred for many women in uniform really started to sprout more and more throughout the pandemic, and it's devastating. this used to be something that generations partook in. my father was a police officer, my grandfather, my grandmother, and people jumped out that opportunity to dedicate their lives to protect

. >> carley: violence across cops is rising at an alarming rate and fbi director christopher wray saidw about this disturbing trend. >> violence against law enforcement in this country is one of the biggest phenomenons that i think doesn't get enough attention. last year, officers were being killed at a rate of almost one every five days. >> carley: clyde boatwright, lieutenant essica cage rosaio and founder of blue lives matter in new york city, joseph imperatrice. you just heard this is a phenomenon no one is talking about and it needs to get more attention. 73 officers murdered in 2021, which is a 59% increase from the year 2020, which is the year the defund the police movement. what is going on here? why is this happening? >> the water bucket incident you have politicians making it okay to resist arrest. making it okay to commit crimes and fight the cops. you will create dangerous situations, not just for the police officers but for the communities. >> carley: and officer shootings and ambushes are also on the rise. shootings have 46% this year. ambush style attacks, which is a pre

christopher christopher wray talked about this over the week end about violence against police and police five days. what is it like to be a police officer right now? >> it is a very, very difficult, difficult job. we've seen this before in the late '80's and early '90's. our justice system must work and right now it is not working. >> carley: paul digiacomo, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you very much. >> carley: you're welcome. covid relief money being used to pay for critical race theory programs. you heard that right. complete student loan forgiveness back on the table. how much will this cost you? >> todd: cheryl casone is here income. ♪ ♪ make way for the first-ever chevy silverado zr2. with multimatic shocks, rugged 33-inch tires, and front and rear electronic locking differentials. dude, this is awesome... but we should get back to work. ♪ ♪ this good? perfect. if you're gonna work remote... work remote. find new workspaces. find new roads. chevrolet. this is... ♪♪ this is iowa. we just haven't been properly introduced. say hello to the place where rolling hills

. >> jesse: is christopher wray the fbi director going to have to answer for any of this?em. the fbi is a disaster. there are so many problems that they have had whether it's their participation in the russian collusion hoax. being unaccountable to congress as congress tries to find out what's going on. refusing to even answer what their role was. meaning in the riot on january 6th there has been some reporting from the "new york times" that the fbi did have people there that have been refusing to tell congress about this. and until the fbi is cleaned up our country, our entire republic is in danger. this is a huge priority. it has to be a priority for republican party but really for anyone who cares about the country and having a functioning law enforcement intelligence agency like that. >> jesse: i couldn't have said it better myself mollie hemingway and everybody check out mollie's book it's great. thank you. >> thank you. >> jesse: last night "primetime" report first lady jill biden's secret service detail was infiltrated by foreign operatives. two foreigners one of th

among them, firing the fbi director christopher wray, and dr. anthony fauci. general, appoint a special prosecutor to investigate joe biden's son hunter. ryan nobles, cnn, on capitol hill. >>> so, the number of people who attended a washington event and are now infected with covid just continues to grow. the gridiron club says 53 people have now tested positive. they all attended a dinner of the washington power players last saturday. now, among the high-profile guests who have covid include the attorney general, merrick garland, the commerce secretary, gina raimondo, several members of congress and president joe biden's sister. and no one has reported severe symptoms from their infections, so far, thankfully. the u.s. is responding to china's covid outbreak, meantime. its advice to most americans there? get out or just don't travel there. the u.s. state department just authorized nonemergency u.s. government workers and family members of all government employees to voluntarily come home. meantime, in shanghai, the outbreak shows no signs of slowing. of the 25

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any minute now, merrick garland and christopher wray will address new actions to crack down on what they. >>> and in just a couple of hours, president biden is expected to address new sanctions against russia on day 45 of the invasion. this as the u.s. and eu are considering sanctioning putin's doctors. also breaking this morning, more attacks in ukraine, including an apartment building where emergency crews are searching for bodies in the rubble. and while civilians b for more violence. russia denying allegations of war crimes in

director christopher wray. >> violence against law enforcement in this country is one of the biggesttage of the 73 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty last year were killed through things like being ambushed. or shot while out on patrol. >> harris: do you think he could work his way to crisis? it is not a one off. this is tied to policies. los angeles county sheriff is calling out progressive policies, for example, like those of his own district attorney george gascon saying he hopes for a reckoning in november. >> i think it will be a referendum on a national disease that is going to finally see a cure coming along, wokeism is on the ropes. let's put it out of its misery in 2022. my only goal is to make l.a. livable again. i'm going to focus on that. >> harris: power panel now. sean duffy fox news contributor former wisconsin republican congressman. crystal knight former priorities usa political director and founding executive director of emerge tennessee. great to have you on the program. i'll start with you. i said directly tied to policies in part, the liberal pol

attorney general merrick garland and the fbi director, christopher wray, just wrapped you a news conference on these efforts of theirs to target criminal russian activity. cnn's evan perez is live for us at the justice department with the breaking details. what's in this, evan? >> well, brianna, this was a press conference to talk about some actions that the justice department is taking against the russian government, against some russian oligarchs. but one of the big headlines was the announcement from the attorney general that the justice department is helping to collect evidence of potential war crimes in ukraine. of course, he was referring to some of those horrific images we've seen from bucha and other locations in ukraine. the u.s. criminal prosecutors are in france and borki ingwork the europeans to try to collect some of this evidence for potential war crime prosecutions. it's a big, big move by the justice department. today's press conference, though, was about actions against an oligarch named constantine malopfef who has been sanctioned related to his actions in crimea going bac

plus fbi chief christopher wray warns that attacks against cops are out of control. black lives matter and democrats defund the police push has collapsed into growing attacks on police officers and minority communities. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: okay. check twitter's stock, it is popping. musk 44 billion-dollar cash and debt deal. will take it private. this would rank as one of the biggest ever leveraged buyouts. this thing went public in 2013. through the year, disney, sales force talked about buying twitter. musk says twitter's algorithm are so biased, they're so, so biased its feeds are cluttered with guns it will take an uber geek like him to fix it. lydia hu with more. reporter: good evening, liz. elon musk is a critic of censorship and bias on the platform that crusade has been driving this massive buyout. on news of the acquisition he said today, quote, free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy and twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated. twitter

announced a positive test result just hours after he wrapped up a news conference with fbi director christopher wrayand other top-ranking justice department officials. also testing positive -- commerce secretary gina raimondo, jamal simmons, the communications director for vice president harris, and congressmembers joaquin castro and adam schiff. attendees at saturday's dinner needed to show proof of vaccination but were not required to provide a negative covid test. meanwhile, new jersey governor phil murphy appeared in public wednesday for the first time in five days after isolating at home with covid-19. murphy, who narrowly defeated a republican challenger to win re-election last november, was one of the first democratic governors to urge a rollback of mask mandates and other pandemic health measures. in minnesota, prosecutors have declined to bring criminal charges against the minneapolis police officer who fatally shot amir locke while executing a no-knock warrant on february 2. body-camera video of the incident shows locke appeared to be fast asleep on a coucand wrapped in a blanket when a sw

any minute now, merrick garland and christopher wray will address new actions to crack down on what they call criminal russian activity. we're going to bring you those remarks live. >>> and in just a couple of hours, president biden is expected to address new sanctions against russia on day 45 of the invasion. this as the u.s. and eu are considering sanctioning putin's doctors. also breaking this morning, more attacks in ukraine, including an apartment building where emergency crews are searching for bodies in the rubble. and while civilians b for more violence. russia denying allegations of war crimes in bucha, but today, there are even more images of the devastation in that city. we're going to take you live to ukraine. for more on the situation on the ground in ukraine, i want to bring in nbc news correspondent, ali aruezi live from lviv. what are ukrainians saying and feeling about what's going on in their homeland, and this conflict, which seems to be changing? >> good morning, jose. well, you know, 42 days of relentless attacks by the russians has taken a toll on the ukrainian peop

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the big investigative stick is christopher wray at the fbi. until these people get involved, until these people try to hold the trump toadies accountable, we are going to be in this morass. we hope that merrick garland is awake and hooked in and we'll one day see him bring charges, criminal charges against the criminals who tried to steal the election. >> yeah, and i appreciate your vigor and care about that. you know, the way i put it, it's not my job. you joke about whether he has tv. he has tv. he has the internet. he also has the full investigative resources of the fbi and assorted intelligence. indeed, under the memo that his predecessor wrote, bill barr, he has access to international intelligence. so he has all of the info. i am not asking him to do anything. but i can say as a matter of principle, if there is evidence against people that they committed crimes, whether it is difficult to prosecute them because they are powerful or linked to a former president or they are a former president, none of that at a principle level should hold

director christopher wray says russia's malicious actions extend far beyond ukraine and into cyberspace. it's really that perfect storm marcos trotsky is the engineering head at cyber security firm checkpoint research, he says. it's clear cyber attacks are on the rise. and that hackers often backed by state sponsored groups in china and iran feel more empowered now than at any other point in history. checkpoint reports. hackers are also increasingly targeting nato countries with a nearly 120% uptick in cyber attacks within the last few months. it's actually probably more than what is being reported. sergio call to gerani is a former hacker for the nsa, who now serves as vice president of threat intelligence for dragos, a cyber security organization. he believes hackers are increasingly focused on attacking us industrial systems. nuclear sites. we're seeing a dramatic increase in the rise of tax against manufacturing. oil and gas continues to be a major target. these screenshots given to fox news show how hackers are using the war in ukraine as a lore targeting individuals with military

recently, fbi director christopher wray stated during an interview that there is a 59% increase in police officer killings. that, is officers being killed at a rate of almost one every five days. this is alarming to me. we had one of these incidents in our hometown. it's occurring at ambushes, attacks. you are asking for more money in 30 billion dollars and mandatory spending for law enforcement help. what are you looking at in this area to protect, i know hiring is an issue, but protecting our forces? this is very concerning to me. well, it's extraordinarily concerning to me and do all of the hundred and 20,000 members of the justice department. most of whom, are involved in law enforcement. so, these are our brothers and sisters who are sometimes being targeted directly, sometimes being killed in line of duty. sometimes, as a consequence of suicide. we have a overall task force involving investigative threats which includes in particular threats against law enforcement -- >> are using the threats go up. >> yes, extraordinarily so. you are right, i don't know the number that director wra

i subpoenaed christopher wray on the corruption of the f.b.i. investigation into the russian hoax.on whatsoever. so i appreciate the house members' efforts but they shouldn't hold their breath. >> bill: sounds like you're on board with them in the answer there. >> yeah. >> bill: there is a federal grand jury investigating this. it is supposed to be secret. leaks so far. why would they share anything at this point for you or anybody in the house or deafen democrats? >> when you have investigations into corruption within the public realm and talking about public political figures, we do this backwards. i think we should start with congressional investigations. we should have full access to all the information. if we see possible wrongdoing, then we would refer it to the justice department. what happens now is the justice department starts a criminal investigation and then congress, which means the american public, get no information whatsoever even though that information is crucial for the electorate to determine whether or not they want to vote for somebody. you've seen the polls.

recently, fbi director christopher wray stated during an interview that there is a 59% increase in police officer killings. that, is officers being killed at a rate of almost one every five days. this is alarming to me. we had one of these incidents in our hometown. it's occurring at ambushes, attacks. you are asking for more money in 30 billion dollars and mandatory spending for law enforcement help. what are you looking at in this area to protect, i know hiring is an issue, but protecting our forces? this is very concerning to me. well, it's extraordinarily concerning to me and do all of the hundred and 20,000 members of the justice department. most of whom, are involved in law enforcement. so, these are our brothers and sisters who are sometimes being targeted directly, sometimes being killed in line of duty. sometimes, as a consequence of suicide. we have a overall task force involving investigative threats which includes in particular threats against law enforcement -- >> are using the threats go up. >> yes, extraordinarily so. you are right, i don't know the number that director wra

bopp: fbi director christopher wray testified before congress soon after the attack, it was before theate on march 2, 2021. and this has been admitted into evidence. let me show you this. [indiscernible] when you testified before congress on march 2, you are a member of congress? and you said i was appalled, like you, at the violence and destruction that we saw that day, referring to january 6? rep. greene: yes. mr. bopp: i was appalled that you, is testifying before congress, looking at members of congress, our country's elected leaders, were victimized right there, in these very halls. were you a victim of the attack? rep. greene: yes, i was. i was in the house chamber when it happened. i had to be evacuated to safety. we were held for hours. in a secret location, protected by capitol police, military members, for hours, until they put the capitol. yes, i was a victim of the riot that day. mr. bopp: no further questions. mr. celli: i believe the testimony has opened the door about the issue of text messages representative greene sent on january 6 during insurrection. we will call for

his tragic death comes the same day fbi director christopher wray sounds the alarm on the increase inntry. >> against law enforcement in this country is one of the biggest phenomenons that i think doesn't get enough attention. wearing the badge shouldn't make you a target. >> carley: wright partially blaming the alarming number of criminals being released back on the street for aiming at police. >> takeover of the social media giant. the "wall street journal" reporting the two sides could strike a deal as soon as this week. musk is said to be woulding a select number of twitter shareholders. the journal also reports twitter started taking the bid more seriously after musk secured the necessary $43 billion in funding. to nascar on fox. final lap even the nascar commentators could not believe. watch. this heading to the wall. >> opened the door up for ross chastain. >> on the outside, kyle larson -- oh my gosh. >> ross chastain, ross is the boss of talladega. >> he is the boss. chastain's decision to stay inside allowing him to race by eric jones to cross the finish line and secure the