i would also appreciate an update on the progress to build a new regional counterterrorism architecture. finally i would like to understand the status of negotiations with regional allies and partners to facilitate this new fostering weathering and how the adversaries may attempt to constrain or stymie such efforts and strategies. before i turn to the ranking member for the opening remarks, i'd like to remind my colleagues that there will be a classified session immediately following this open session for the office of the senate security, and also remind my colleagues that they are scheduled three votes this morning so this will be somewhat atcomplicated. with that let me recognize thee ranking member. a. >> thank you mr. chair man and to the witnesses for appearing hereay today. welcome back. as the most senior policy advisers at the dod it is appropriate that you agree to testify in open session on these critical issues. servicemen and women were killed and at least hundreds of american citizens were left behind.an many thousands of afghan partners have been abandoned. although some

this is being investigated by counterterror police, but the - by counterterror police, but the merseysidee keeping an open mind about things here, some suspicions raised about the fact that this happened at around 11 o'clock on remembrance sunday. some patients have been diverted from the hospital, although emergencies continue to be treated. a local street has also been cordoned off and the police say they won't be any more details on the next few hours but they want people in liverpool tonight to be vigilant. and that was a film i can with the latest on what took place in liverpool earlier today. the headlines on bbc news... the prime minister borisjohnson says cop26 was a success — despite concerns over the watered down commitments on phasing out fossil fuels like coal at the climate summit in glasgow. the queen misses the remembrance day service at the cenotaph, because of a sprained back, but other members of the royal familyjoin the nation in falling silent around the country to remember those who lost their lives in conflicts. also one person has died and another is injured after a

the counterterrorism mission is still a requirement. there are still groups and individuals who would like to come into our nation and attack some of our allies and partners and i don't think that threat has diminished. i don't think that threat has diminished and what we are doing within socom is ensuring that we can prioritize the threat and then make sure we have a sustainable approach and we can in fact do that with the forces that t we have so as i look at d as i talk about a rebalancing that we can provide additional forces and strategic compass -- competition acrossat the globe while i will not comment specifically on activities or forces and where they are located and you mentioned taiwan is working with others in building resistance in building that resilience is absolutely i critical to allow them to build their own defenses against those strategic competitors. >> i wondered if he could talk a little bit about what the future holds for marine and naval warfare particularly seems clear what the green berets mission is going for

another part we are trying to focus in on is ensuring we are prioritizing the counterterrorism threat. where is the counterterrorism threat that we invest in and where is the piece of the china challenge will be most focused on, and how do we get the biggest bang for our buck? how do we make sure we are allocating resources in a way that will be most effective? sorry. too long of an answer. >> no problem. i do think that brings us to our close. so thank you, again, for a great discussion. we are so grateful that you joined us today. thank you so much. >> it was such a pleasure to get to see you. thank you so much. it is

this is an investigation involving counterterrorism police | involving counterterrorism police and securityd thomas, bbc news, liverpool. the government has heard an emergency cobra meeting with counterterrorism experts to discuss the attack. you say that they know the attack. you say that they know the identity of the attacker but it does not appear that he was known to security services before the explosion on sunday. and as our home affairs correspondentjune kelly reports, they're still trying to determine what the motivation was. was the hospital bomber�*s ultimate planned destination? and did he always intent to kill himself? some of the questions for detectives as they try to form a picture of the man who brought terror to liverpool. police have arrested four people said to have links to him, but who are not related. they're described as associates. our inquiries will now continue to seek to understand how the device was built, the motivation for the incident, and to understand if anybody else was involved in it. within hours, in london, ministers and officials were called to a meetin

from our counterterrorism operations, just in the counterterrorism area, we have petabytes of data. when you think about intelligence footage taken from uavs, think about captured material that came off of the battlefield. think about detainee reports we had for 20 years, and many other sources. we have turned to technologies like ai to pull this all together and unlock the full data to help us make decisions earlier. we are also investing in talent. for the past two years, we partnered with academic and nonprofit organizations in ai to bring in civilian interns into our workforce. i brought them in every single summer. i did pre-interviews and exit interviews. the preinterview, the common question i ask all of these interns, who wants to serve in dod? who can see themselves as a career in dod? the answer was none. but after working a summer in socal, most of all, getting to work with our operators, getting to solve their problems and seeing real world applications in what they got to do and work with, at the end i do the exit and they briefed me on what they did with their summer p

the counterterrorism mission is still a requirement. there are still groups and individuals who would like to come into our nation and honestly attack some of our allies and partners and i don't think that threat is diminished. what we are doing within socom is ensuring we prioritize the threat and then make sure we have a sustainable approach. we can in fact do that with the forces we have. as i talk about a rebalance that we can actually provide additional forces in strategic competition across the globe and while i will not comment specifically on activities or forces and where they are located, or i would talk about is that working with others and building resistance and resilience is absolutely critical to allow them to build their own defenses against those strategic --. >> i'm going to open up the floor to some people. >> could you talk about what the future holds for -- it seems pretty clear what the green berets mission is going forward in strategic competition but less obvious where marine raiders will take more specialized di

the global internet forum for counterterrorism is an example of strong progress, but we need to do so much more. end-to-end encryption brings further risk. in my view it jeopardizes the good work that has gone before. messages are encrypted to standard, but end-to-end encryption were neither the platform operator nor law enforcement can see the content, jeopardizes much of that work. reasonable people instinctively understand that law enforcement has got to be able to track and tackle the sharing of terrorist materials, or child abuse images, where it has a legal warrant to do so. that would be the same in the off-line world. merely removing offended accounts from a platform is nowhere near good in north, and social-media company's must take gator response abilities for the very crimes they are responsible for fulsome i will call on alex trebek united kingdom's approach of having that holding technology companies to account for the verbal content they host on their platform. if they neglect public safety when designing products. our online safety bill will place on technology companie

we had in the news conference _ counterterrorism unit.een doing. i was aware we had provided to tell accommodation i had provided to tell accommodation last night —— hotel accommodation but most people are able to get about their business in the city and the police are doing everything they can to keep sol one the police are doing everything they can to keep so— the police are doing everything they can to keep sol one of the things we can to keep sol one of the things we can sort of take _ can to keep sol one of the things we can sort of take in _ can to keep sol one of the things we can sort of take in a _ can to keep sol one of the things we can sort of take in a positive - can to keep sol one of the things we can sort of take in a positive sense l can sort of take in a positive sense is just to look at how it could have been, the concerns around the fact that as you say this morning it could have been a worse situation we were looking at. it could have been a worse situation we were looking at— were looking at. it doesn't bear thinkina

i'm honored to be here today of the fbi counterterrorism division i appreciate the opportunity to be here with you to discuss the current threats. it goes without saying the threat from domestic terrorism is heightened and significantly increase in the last 18 months. today i want to take an opportunity to highlight the fbi's investigation analytical resources that are being used to combat this threat. first and foremost the united states faces complex threat landscape by broad set of violent extremist ideologies fbi investigations into domestic extremist have more than doubled with the last year concurrently conducted approximate 2700 investigations on domestic violent extremist. the fbi for use words extremism to define these threats clinical or social positions it's important to remember the fbi cannot open an investigation based solely on a first amendment activity. as such the fbi divides the domestic terrorism threat into five broad categories. one, racially or ethnically violent extremism which is three subcategories of malicious violent extremism and sovereign citizen ship. i

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counterterrorism remains the highest priority of the ip fbi. and within that racially motivated violent extremism is at the top, equal to that of the threat of foreign terrorists such as isis. so we focus a great deal of resources focused on trying to disrupt and stop that activity and identify those individuals that may be responsible for them. we take this very seriously. >> thank you. well taking on white nationalist extremism is something i'm glad this administration is committed to doing but we have ask what happens when these holding those views are part of the law enforcement. a report found agent who is posted offensive and racist messages on facebook chats against agency policy were found to have a engaged in misconduct. while the discipline review board recommended certain punishments ultimately the officers faced far reduced penalties. a border patrol agent who posted a sexually explicit doctored image and derogatory comments about member of congress has -- reduced and awarded back pay. worder patrol supervisor who improperly posted

intimidate land and the assistant director for counterterrorism at the bureau of investigation. we have questions about the gravity of the threat and your agency's role in responding to it. we will also ask you to clarify for the american people, the limited but vital role of its mission. most americans here intelligence theyit think of a cia officer recruiting spies or nsa analyst listening to phoneni calls. election on domestic terrorism is and must remain different consist largely of gathering publicly available information or information gathered in law enforcement investigation. analysts then review it to better understand the threat and help policymakers mitigate it. but we ask you today, how are you distinguishing from protected speech on these online platforms from conduct on the role of x escalation to violence. how are you working with the private sector social media companies in particular to identify in shared doubt about the threats will stillid protecting individual privacy rights on these platforms. we are grateful for your presence and ice and eager and ready to

if they indeed did a raise counterterrorism and activate counter terrorism mechanisms. they see this is a very unnecessary escalation that could essentially intimidate other parents from stepping up with their concerns. like a reaction from april chapman, a political activist on the mother for she thinks the government has taken a step to thought they receive a credible threat. where parents are saying we're going to cause bodily harm to this school board or to dis, administrator. if you don't stop, then, then there are local officials that can investigate that. but i don't believe this . what's happening here. what we have here is an administration that wants to overstep their boundaries and they want to instill fear and intimidation in here. as i mean, point parents to send their children. so their local school and the children would come home educated in the basics that some of you see today the past couple of years. we have seen a deterioration in what our children are learning. our children are coming out less educated, but they're coming out more indoctrinated. po

the global internet forums of counterterrorism are an example of strong progress, but the truth is that we need to do so much more. end to end encryption brings further risks. indeed, in my view, it jeopardizes the good work that has gone before. messages are already encrypted as standard, but end to end encryption, where neither the platform operator nor law enforcement can see the content, jeopardizes much of that work. reasonable people instinctively understand that law enforcement has got to be able to track and tackle the terrorist material or child abuse images where it has a legal want to do so. that should be the same in the off-line world. merely removing offending accounts from a platform is nowhere near good enough, as social media companies take greater responsibility for the very harms that they are responsible for. and i will continue to call on our allies to back the united kingdom's approach of holding technology companies to account for the harmful content they host on their platforms. and if they neglect public safety when designing products, our online safety bill wil

to the bottom of the hour, justice department stonewalling house republicans on the fbi using counterterrorisml unit investigating parent as domestic terrorists. he hearing, he wouldn't know about her policy positions if you only watch msnbc again and again and again focusing only on identity politics keeping you in the dark. keep it here on the evening edit. ♪♪ for being a communist and the attack she was as you just heard her say. she came to the u.s. university is becoming less citizen. liz: not because of where she's born, what you -- show her position, what you call someone who wants central bank to take over all of your bank account and wants basically the central bank to regulate stock prices and regulate wages and regulate the value of your groceries and energy and bankrupt oil and gas and wipeout community banks killing tens of millions of jobs? >> i completely disagree with everything said. this is a substantive debate about the future of the american economy. it's not a surprise democrats and cheerleaders what accused republicans of racism or sexism or neo-nazis or who knows what. t

and prepare and induce science to this department largely unsung work of the united kingdom counterterrorism agency since 2017. thirty-one and the lack of the stages have been foiled in the threats we face today, have caused change but they can pay out on the battleground all in the bedroom. assist in the sophistication is changing the way we must all act to defend ourselves and all securityll issues, and terrorism becomes more complex so are responding to become more sophisticated and nuanced and costly striving to join our approach and strengthen our domestic and collective resilience in response bit serious that we are setting up our efforts and strengthen our ecapabilities to disrupt those who seek to radicalize others to violence and terrorism. in working with policing and other experts and a picture of a possible threat to society and i will continue to use every tool and every lever at my disposal. one of those tools as data sharing happening at the highest levels to protect us from terrorism and criminal activity and it will continue to push the united states and other allies to furt

and you might think no big deal but it came from the counterterrorism division at the fbi. where the email came from. so it comes from the counterterrorism division the day before the attorney general comes in front of our committee and says no, no. we are not treating the parents as domestic terrorist. get the day before you sent out an email to fbi agents across this country saying put a threat tag, put a label on moms and dads, put a terrorist tag, terrorist label on moms and dads. i think that's pretty don long what we want merrick garland to come >> trace: you talked about him answering questions. when he said parents were not being targeted before your committee, do you think he was out of the loop on this? do you think he was stretching the truth of it? what do you think the bottom line here is? >> either he is incompetent or he is misleading us and not being square with us and the american people. either one is bad. but i think one of those questions i want to ask you, we suggested to the chairman today, we said when will you bring him back? but the number one quest

. >> republicans want merit garland underwrote after saying the fbi director agents to use counterterrorism track parents critical school boards. virginia fox from north carolina, thanks for being here. the key passage, quote, the counterterrorism division and, division created a threat tag to track instances of related threads. we ask your officers apply the threat tag to investigations and assessment of threat specifically directed against school board administrators. how frightened should every american be at this being what the fbi's focused on? >> they should be very afraid. this brings us back to the days of hoover and mccarthy, labeling good honest american citizens being vilified and tracked by a department of justice in this brings it to the point that attorney general garland perjured himself in front of congress and should face the consequences. the great awakening of what happened in virginia because the mama bears woke up and saw what is being done and that is not wrong for them to speak out. we wrote a letter speaking out that we should have committee meetings talking about wh

explosive new documents confirm the biden administration as of weaponized the counterterrorism divisioninst concerned parents. the congressmen who receive this complaint has the details. he's next. (music) meet honeywell forge. analytical software that connects assets and people. to deliver a cybersecure record of your entire operation. honeywell forge industrial grade software. >> the justice department supports and defends the first amendment right of parents to complain as vociferously as they wish. i can't imagine any circumstance in which the patriot act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children nor can i imagine the circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism. >> laura: don't you just wish that guy was on the supreme court? new documents reveal that one day before attorney general merrick garland denied targeting concerned parents, they were planning to do just that. on october 20th, the fbi's criminal and counterterror division issued a memo asking them to use a so-called threat tag to track investigations and assessments of

tim clemente is an expert on counterterrorism. he loves this country, his parents were immigrants, so he's a 1st generation mark wanted to honor the country that accepted his parents. and he did that by first serving in the military. and then when he got into federal law enforcement. and i know mark was down near the capitol and merely for having been there on that day and near the capitol, mark lost his job, lost his security clearance, and probably ended his years of service to the united states government and to people in united states because of that. ibrahim says he went to the capitol that day because he was invited by an fbi informant, a man he had known in iraq. we have confirmed this is true. we've reached out to that man, the man that ibrahim went to the protest with. he denies he encouraged anyone to break the law. but that man did confirm that he has been an fbi informant, confirmed the fbi knew he was at the capitol that day, and he confirmed he invited mark ibrahim to the protest. ibrahim says, the two of them stood

what has motivated me on this issue is my background in counterterrorism. i am a former cia officer. i know firsthand, much of what it is the united states has been engaged in in our larger, global war on terror. when i came to congress, focusing on aumf issues was very important to me for a couple of reasons. this is a very clear place where congress has walked away from its responsibility. it is a church will allow the executive to run roughshod, to go about utilizing these aumfs, extending these aumfs, the further we get from the time they were initially voted on, the fewer members of congress are there. the larger real change needs to happen with the 2002 and 2001, making sure people understand that we still have them from 1991. we still have one from many, many years ago, decades ago. let's start. as we are bringing aumf discussion to the larger congress, 2001 will be a really difficult conversation. we can start taking steps in the right direction by saying, do we still need a decades old aumf? the one that allowed us to go into iraq is no longer nece

kennedy: criminals and terrorists, criminal and counterterrorism units within the fbi.itical strategy for democrat. >> these problems are local problems should be dealt with by local law enforcement if there are threats. >> if there are threats which there have been in states recently, kentucky and virginia, a school board member or another parent, i don't have a problem with the federal government getting involved because after jra six and other people in the country on both sides are willing to do what they believe, how violent our nation along these lines of division, you need to have our government protect us, that's what our government is supposed to do first the president and the department of justice to keep the laws and make sure we are right at a school board meeting, it's because they are threatening lives of individuals they disagree with will boards when we say somebody should have gotten involved when somebody follows through on these strengths? i hope it never comes to pass we are living in, i would not be surprised. kennedy: still a local issue is complet

as i think frank hasjust said, under counterterrorism l said, under counterterrorism legislation thele while they investigate before they are obliged to charge or release someone. so that gives them scope which they wouldn't have under normal arrest powers. that's an important feature of the scene. if they establish this had nothing to do with terrorism, then of course their powers will have to follow normal lines. but i think that is certainly as things stand at the moment they are fully entitled to regard this as being a potential terrorist incident.— regard this as being a potential terrorist incident. when we hear the ma or of terrorist incident. when we hear the mayor of liverpool _ terrorist incident. when we hear the mayor of liverpool saying _ terrorist incident. when we hear the mayor of liverpool saying the - mayor of liverpool saying the actions of the taxi driver may have saved many lives, it brings home what we could have been looking at here. �* , , ~' what we could have been looking at here. absolutely. i think possibly the one conclusion _ here. absolutely. i think po

for fy 22 we're seeking more than $1.5 billion, a 12% increase for our counterterrorism work. we are also talking aggressive steps to counter cyber threats, whether from nation states, terrorists or common criminals. in april we launched both a comprehensive cyber review and a ransomware and digital extortion task force. in june we seize ad 2.3 million dollar ransom payment made in bitcoin to the group that targeted colonial pipeline. keeping our country safe also requires reducing violent crime and gun violence. in may we announced a comprehensive violent crime strategy which deploys all of our relevant departmental components to those ends. we also launched five cross-jurisdictional strike forces to disrupt illegal gun trafficking in key corridors across the country. and to support local police departments and help them build trust with the communities they serve, our fy 22 budget requests over one billion dollars for grants. we are likewise convinced to keep our country safe from violent drug trafficking networks are that among other things fuelling the opioid overdose epid

i have launched a new counterterrorism operations center, bringing together the intelligence agencies and to promote the system, coordinating expertise, resources, and intelligence in the state-of-the-art facility. and while, our victims of terrorism unit is there to provide support for all victims, regardless of nationality after u.k.-based attack. we have to carry on working phenomenally hard through partnerships, and i will always encourage our partners to strengthen our arrangement when it comes to the appalling and a boring issue of child sexual exploitation and abuse, as well as counterterrorism. the instant communications enabled by modern technology, which is so positive in so many ways, inevitably makes the challenge of keeping our people more safe brother her. it also demands and -- rather hard, and it demands a global response. that is what i am pursuing. terrible ideas and falsehood spread like wildfire, radicalizing and emboldening an exciting the financing of terrorism, rife online. freedom of speech does not include the right to incite terrorism. the global internet for

with the counterterrorism unit with the fbi is already taking parents for things they think is a terroristrick garland is either incompetent and doesn't know what's going on, which everybody in this administration certainly is capable of being called, or is lying to the american people. but we know from the get-go that there was a connection between the national school board association and the department of justice for merrick garland to get on this in four days. >> sean: let's be clear -- >> everything else takes forever. >> sean: let's be clear, what merrick garland said, what was originally charged, the memo he said he didn't know anything about, is not true and in fact they empowered agencies under his authority to get involved and look at parents that are complaining about age-appropriate material, covid restrictions, crt as domestic terrorists. all right. now the next question. when we look at inferior evidence that is given to the defense, god's law 101. they have a right to the exact same evidence that the prosecution will bring into trial. they didn't do it. i do believe the moti

but here's the thing, the memo says the task force involves the counterterrorism division. national security division and the fbi. the patriot act is the primary tool used by those divisions that allow for easy wiretapping snooping on computers, phones. >> dana: foreign national. >> jesse: inserting -- well, people in this country. you can insert informants into those things and do all kinds of things, right? so that is why this is dangerous. they have already had a meeting about according to the memo, this task force. so we need to bring these people back to the congress and say "what happened at this meeting?" this is a huge escalation and remember fbi keeps files on a lot of people and they kept on martin luther king and marilyn monroe, helen carroll or they keep it on a lot of people and is not a good thing, geraldo. it's a threat matrix against the u.s. citizens where you can share information for local state and federal law enforcement. it is not good. >> geraldo: do you concede there is an alarming entry of apparently in these very vigorous -- speed went there was on

chief saying there is a danger— counterterrorism chief saying there is a danger of a christmas bombing we just don't know at the moment _ campaign. we just don't know at the moment. one of the key things here is whether— moment. one of the key things here is whether this was a single individual acting on his own volition. _ individual acting on his own volition, orwhetherthere individual acting on his own volition, or whether there was something broader here. and it's simply— something broader here. and it's simply too — something broader here. and it's simply too simple the macro soon to know, _ simply too simple the macro soon to know. but— simply too simple the macro soon to know, but that was something really troubling _ know, but that was something really troubling security systems at the moment, — troubling security systems at the moment, and that is why the government has increased the terror threat _ government has increased the terror threat level. a government has increased the terror threat level-— threat level. a line of breaking news on that _ threat level. a line of break

a whistle-blower revealed fbi counterterrorism and criminal units are spying on parents upset with school boards as if they're isis. ag garland testified this is not happening. is this about shutting down a powerful new voting block, school board parent? the scariest thought is this. is ag garland deliberately clueless or don't know what is going on? is the fbi a law unto itself. the gop calls this another terrifying egregious abuse of power. joining us darrell issa, dan bishop, jason smith, senator bill hagerty. former top dhs official chad wolf and former top i.c.e. official tom homan and former utah congressman jason chaffetz. the biden mandate is in trouble. osha suspended enforcement of it. they are moving to toss it out as unconstitutional overreach. what happens to all the workers fired because of it? what happens to them if this mandate truly does go away? we have biden's nixon whip inflation now moment. the new narrative out of the white house no one believes as biden big government spending stops inflation. obama officials larry summers and steve rattner dismiss that. democrats

other, these other understandings on counterterrorism are extremely important. but at this time, the or many of on should be our priority number one, and did life did honor their dignity bid this sustainability as, as a basic human right to have food. i'm in depth something so basic. and it's, i'm not seeing the kind of urgency globally um, in that regard when the crisis wouldn't be in front of us. be, god forbid, we'll see people dying on the street. some guy, honest donald of hunger, that we do live to act the time to act is now and we have to as an introduction to entity get our act together without deduct. thank you very much. hassan abbas joining us from the debate this time. thank you so much. well now 2 people have been killed and 18 injured after a boma set off in a mosque in afghanistan's manga province. the device has reportedly placed in the sunny most pulpit that has been at have been a spate of similar attacks. but these have been on sham mosques, many of which i think climbed by ice sale in afghanistan at the no claims of responsibility for this la

um, you know, in, in counterterrorism activities. nafta, anisette, it's, it was the 1st time. oh yeah, i could hear see, busy people say a maybe when he saw with a check board to go through things. maybe we need to take a pause for the cause moment before we pull the trigger, maybe x, y, and z. this is the 1000th time, the 2005 we've been doing this for a long time. there are no excuses. no excuses now said again, no excuses for not having the procedures in place that they claim. we might think about next time. have them already in place. this isn't the 1st time we fired a missile that's killed civilians. it isn't the 2nd time, 3rd time for time. it's the 100 times. and the reality is the united states, as known for some time now that the procedures it has in place, it carry out counterterrorism strikes in a real world, you know, real time a event are not sufficient to the task that we kill civilians. and yet we went for it anyways because there was political pressure being placed on the military to be seen as doing something that's not in the report. i'd like to know what pre

now they are talking about partnering with russia central asia is the counterterrorism on this capability. >> thank you, these are rates to be conducted against obvious targets but of course now you have the taliban control of large urban areas in these populations which the likelihood of collateral damage a big risk as we saw the strike after the mass murder attack afghans at the airport. it's almost impossible to gain visibility of a terrorist network without partners on the ground, helping with human intelligence to map the networks so i think it can be a band-aid, we could go after the most egregious jihadist terrorist leaders with this capability but the idea, effective counterterrorism against organizations like al qaeda is a pipe dream. the other thing to remember our capitulation agreement to the taliban, we still recognizing the airspace as well, reluctant to take actions we should be taking now against terrorizing afghan civilians or even forcing safe zones for refugees and those still resisting the taliban. i think over horizon capability has only a limited knowledge of what it

b, i has allegedly activated criminal and counterterrorism divisions in response to threats against school board members. we have an email that was provided to republican lawmakers from an f b i. leaker. and this email that was leaked seems to reference us attorney general merrick garland activating counterterrorism measures. this is what was in the email . the counter terrorism and criminal divisions created a threat tag. edu officials to track instances of related threats. we ask that your offices apply the threat tag to investigations and assessments of threats, specifically directed against the school board administrators, board members, teachers, and staff. many republicans fear that this could be used to target parents who are concerned and going to school board meetings concerned about the curriculum their children are being taught. now this e mail that was leaked is dated october 20th, which is the day before the u. s. attorney general testified before congress that he had done no such thing that justice department supports and defends the 1st amendment right of parents to complain

if they indeed did raise counterterrorism and activate counter terrorism mechanisms. they see this is a very unnecessary escalation that could essentially intimidate other parents from stepping up with their concerns. okay, killable for now. thanks for that update. caleb opened live from you. well as a headlong this hours they soon next for boom, boston those view new cake and catch up with the latest episode of going on the ground. so we returned and often our latest join us again with .

if they indeed did raise counterterrorism and activate counterterrorism mechanisms. they see this is a very unnecessary escalation that could essentially intimidate other parents from stepping up with their concerns. okay, kind of open that. thanks for that. up by caleb opened life from new york, alyssa headlands. this house they see next for boom, boston those view new cake and catch up with the latest episode of gun on the grounds. we were turned off an hour later to join us again with the boss who on business really can't afford to miss. i'm been swan never had to bore in washington coming up. germany had credited certification of the nordstrom to pipeline, sending gas prices surging and dealing another blow to the project. with like a look at how this affects the already strained energy supply in europe. than we break down the virtual summer between the world 2 largest economy, president joe biden, and teasing things hawks are raising some hope for better time potential to remain closet point and other crypto currencies take a hit, as china ramps up at the crack

we have a network of counterterrorism partners that didn't exist on 9/11. and frankly, we have heavy attrition, core al qaeda, the leadership on 9/11 was in afghanistan and pakistan. that part of al qaeda has been decimated. it's not eliminated, not zero, but it's a fraction of what it was. we have actually used, i think, the last 20 years to make ourselves safer. >> i would agree with that. i would say at the beginning, i said we're in a more dangerous situation than we were on september 10th, 2001. the reason is because of the capabilities we have developed, but the groups are growing stronger. i think we're learning exactly the wrong lessons. we're on a path to, anyway. the conventional wisdom about afghanistan is completely wrong, especially with the idea that nation build sg a dirty word. hey, the consolidation of gains to get the sustainable political outcomes has never been an optional phase in war. it is if you're doing a military raid, an operation of purpose and short planned withdrawal, but we have never been able to never do it again. and i thin

not documents come from the biden administration is weapon iced their counterterrorism division againstts. jim jordan has the details next. days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. .. >> the justice department support and defend the first amendment rights as specifically as they wish. i can't imagine any circumstance in which the patriot act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children or can i imagine a circumstance where they would be labeled domestic terrorists. laura: you wish that guy was on the supreme court. newest of lower documents reveal one day before merrick garland denied targeting concerned parents the fbi was secretly planning to do just that was october 20th the fbi's criminal and counterterrorist division issued a memo asking agents to use a so-called threat tags to track investigations and assessment threats directed against school board administrators and other school personnel, spying on parents who question or criticize the dictates of far left educrats. what i

they were using counterterrorism tools to investigate parents, a hash tag either that be i denied it. they did start this threat tag e d u officials, and that would be used on instances which should be investigated. do you believe that action was warranted against parents who are really just frustrated at their voices about their community? schools were not being hard. i'd like to where you characterize that their voices were not being heard by community schools. as of that, they were, they're saying, well, we need more distance learning opportunities for students. we want to make sure we're closing the digital divide. we want to have up to date pets for, for young people to make sure they can compete with china and other 1st world nations when it comes to our thought, well, they're out there protesting. they're out, we're running around. so they're against c r t was, doesn't it? since the civil they're just is gender students being able to exist on earth? you know, god forbid there's a transgender student, my school there doing how my kid have read reba. love it. oh no. you have to r

when - >> demanding merrick garland testify after was a lower says the fbi director and thieves counterterrorism measures to try -- critical their school boards, what did the attorney general know and when? you're watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. i'm todd piro. carley: i'm carley shimkus live from the hard rock hotel casino in hollywood, florida, the site of the third annual patriot awards, exclusive event celebrating patriotism and honoring every day he rose across the country. "fox and friends" weekend cohost pete hegseth will emcee the show. you will see more in a couple minutes. we had so much fun yesterday together. todd: we begin with the news this one, the battle over president biden's tax and spending it is intensifying as americans struggle with inflation, the white house undercutting the congressional budget office before it releases its assessment on the one$.75 trillion plan. live in washington, the latest. >> the infrastructure package is now law, president biden in new hampshire, builds back better, the estimated $1.75 trillion social spending bill focusing on