baltimore, evan perez, legal analyst, former prosecutor sonny hostin. let's first of all start with this additional stop that police have now revealed the van carrying freddie gray what does that disclosure suggest to you? evan let me start with you, you've been doing a lot of reporting on this. >> that's right, wolf it adds additional questions, what happened during that this additional stop? the other stop? this is something that adds to i think frankly the distrust that there's already out there with this investigation. it's not fair necessarily to the police investigators, they say that police department says that they are disclosing this information as soon as they can. in an effort to be transparent, and apparently this information was not, was not provided by the officers and it was not radioed in as it was supposed to be. this was discovered only as they canvassed the neighborhood looking for any cctv

details from evan perez who joins us now. what are you hearing from sources, evan? is something moving extremely quickly. i haven't seen one start so quickly so soon after an incident. the justice department said both the fbi down in south carolina and the civil rights division are both going to be taking a look at this. the justice department said we'll take appropriate action in light of the evidence and developments in this case. and of course the state is already bringing charges, which, you know sort of gives you an impression that post-ferguson, a lot of things have changed in the way both state and federal law enforcement deals with these incidents. >> evan obviously some people seeing this say, racism is involved. the officer is white and victim is african-american. because the federal government investigating, doesn't mean there's any federal charges or civil rights charges. could remain solely a state case. >> yes, we've talked about this on this program many times what the high burden that the federal prosecutors face in bringing civil rights charges in t

we begin, though with cnn justice reporter evan perez. use hacker attack. evan you broke this story. tell our viewers what your sources are saying. >> wolf those russian hackers got access to sensitive parts of the white house's e-mail system. they could even see the president's schedule nonpublic parts of it in realtime. they got access to this all in a clever way through the state department. once they got in there, they used that access to trick someone to get into the executive office of the president. now, investigators tell me wolf this is one of the most serious cyberattacks they have seen against the u.s. government and it's something that -- it's one reason why they've increased warnings about the threat from russia. >> was the information that the russians presumably obtained from the state department and the white house classified information? >> well it wasn't. when the white house first disclosed this back in october, they described it as suspicious activity and said it affected an unclassified e-mail system. ben rhodes in the

i want to bring in cnn justice reporter evan perez right now. evan tell us what's in this medical report according to this report from wjla? >> they say this medical report shows it's a preliminary report provided to the police department, and it's part of this report that went to the state attorney's office shows that he suffered a head injury and the telltale sign an injury in the head of freddie gray that matches a bolt that's in the back of the van. now, again we haven't seen this report and don't know whether it's completely accurate what they're reporting, but that is what they say this preliminary report that was provided to the police says. >> reporter: and also, the report from wjla says the driver of the van -- there's six police officers in question here and we've been told five of them gave interviews to the police that night, i think even. that day, within the 24-hour period of freddie gray being arrested and becoming paralyzed and this report from the wjla says the sixth officer is the driver of the police van? >> and has not provid

evan perez is getting some more information on a separate investigation. arson that was going on last night. is that what you're learning evan? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. we're hearing that the atf is bringing a second national response team here to the baltimore area to help with the local fire department and local police department to investigation all of these arsons. the plan is to bring some of these cases to the federal, to the federal court to bring federal prosecutions in some of the arsons. as you heard the police say they've brought in resources from the federal government police from new jersey and d.c. to help with the situation. we've seen a difference in the streets. just earlier today we saw them grabbing people off the street people who are agitating as opposed to yesterday where they were trying to hold back a little bit, saying they were caught off guard because this began as a bunch of 14 and 15-year-olds as the mayor and police said and turned into something much more serious. only three dozen of the 200 arrests were actually juven

i want to get right to cnn justice reporter evan perez. evan who is this american al qaeda member how high up the terrorist food chain was he how long have u.s. officials been trying to get him? >> reporter: well he's 29 years old, he was born in texas, but apparently grew up in jordan and in 2007 he was studying at the university of manitoba when he and a couple others decided to go to pakistan to try to fight and kill american troops over in afghanistan. what appears to have happened is that they instead became involved in training and helping provide logistical support for the training -- attracting more western recruits for al qaeda. they got on the fbi's radar after 2009 when the fbi busted a plot to commit suicide bombings on the new york city subways. zazi was arrested and apparently has been cooperating with the fbi since then. he is awaiting sentencing. what we now know is that this man was believed by at least some in the u.s. intelligence agencies to be really high up in al qaeda, helping recruitment and perhaps even providing tr

want to bring in justice correspondent evan perez in baltimore to discuss this highly anticipated reportwe even do that, evan, i saw a picture of you during the commercial break with significant police presence behind you, national guard, police, both, and where are you and why are they there? >> hey, ashleigh. we have both of them, national guard over my shoulder here, a few dozen and police. we're across the street from the mondawmin mall and frederick douglas high school where everything, all the trouble started on monday when kids got out of school gathered across the street at the mall and the disruptions began. that's what threw police off guard. they're preparing for friday which is when the police will turn over their report to the state prosecutor and will decide -- the state prosecutor will decide to bring charges. we don't expect that the police are going to release very much new information to us, the public. however, there's a lot of expectation on the part of the public as to whether or not they're going to be charges against these police officers and so what's happening to

justice reporter evan perez picks up the story from washington. >> reporter: john christine, russian hackers in recent months broke into sensitive parts of the white house e-mail system. they even conceived parts of the president's schedule not disclosed to the public in realtime. the hackers are believed to be working for the russian government. and according to u.s. officials, they pulled off one of the most serious cyber breaches of u.s. government agencies. this breach is one reason why u.s. intelligence officials recently increased warnings about the cyber threat from russia. the white house disclosed suspicious activity in its unclassified e-mail systems in october. but officials say even unclassified e-mails contain sensitive information that's valuable to foreign spies. the hackers got in first by breaking into the state department's e-mail servers. then they tricked someone into giving them access to the system serving the executive office of the president. federal agencies are now warning employees to beware of so-called phishing e-mails. these appear to come from trustwort

evan perez, thanks so much. stick around, kate will continue the conversation in new york. >> absolutely. thank you, john, so much. let's continue this discussion with former maryland state police, major neil franklin. he's joining us out of washington right now, as well as cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, danny cevallos joining me here in new york. a lot to discuss, not only the fact that the report we were going to be discussing, i was going to ask you, what do you think will be in the report, but the news that's coming out with this press conference. the fact that they turned over the report to the city's chief prosecutor. they call the state's attorney, a day early. is that significant, do you think, in this process? >> not in that if it was a day later, would it make that much of a difference, but sooner, i think, is better for public satisfaction, because they want to see answer as soon as possible. it sounds like from the press conference, they have a tremendous amount of resources devoted

evan perez is back with us. >> reporter: this is a 21st ed arrest since january. he was arrested today as he prepared to carry out what the fbi says was a suicide bombing at fort riley in kansas. this was an fbi sting operation. the inert bomb was provided by a couple of informants that the fbi had working for them. he had signed up for the army back in last year in february 2014. he was supposed to show up for basic training in april. in between that time the fbi found a couple of facebook messages in which he said that he wanted to leave the country to go fight jihad. they interviewed him. he confirmed that indeed that's what he wanted to do. the fbi left him alone and introduced informants over the next series of months. it appears that despite being talked to by the fbi, he was not dissuaded. he recorded a couple of videos -- video messages claiming that he had sworn a allegiance to isis and he was doing the bombing today on behalf of isis. >> he converted to islam, changed his name, right? >> changed his na

let's bring in our justice reporter evan perez. he has more on the federal role in this latest controversial case. what are you hearing from your sources here in washington? >> well the federal government got involved in this case very very quickly, very unusually quickly, and that's simply because of the video. the video really tells a lot of the story. so now what they are doing is going down there to try to see if they can find any additional witnesses who may be able to shed light on some of what brian todd was talking about, whether or not there was a scuffle, whether there was something that could back up what the officer has said happened whether there was some reason why he needed to fear for his life. and that is something that both the fbi and the justice department civil rights division are busy doing now. >> how common is it for federa authorities to launch charges against police officers in cases like this? >> well we have talked about so many of these cases on your program here and it's so hard for them to bring feder

with me now, our justice correspondent evan perez and cnn legal analyst sunny hostin. first, let's begin with this previously undisclosed police van stop. we have no idea what that camera captured. but it could be key, yes? >> right. i think it is key. we know what happened at the other stops. the police have disclosed what they know happened at the other stops. this one, it's clear they don't have enough information. the camera the surveillance camera clearly does not provide a conclusive answer to it. now the question is how they're going to solve this mystery here. it's amazing that at this stage we're adding mysteries. we're adding new questions rather than solving them and answering them. >> you want to have transparency sunny hostin and this just doesn't look good. >> it doesn't, especially because we're now learning at least from what athena is saying that they just got this information last week. but we learned very early, i think, in the investigation that five out of the six police officers had given statements. one would think those police officers would hav

evan perez is in washington with the very latest. >> reporter: john and christine, mohamud is the terrorist threat that the counterterrorism officials warned us about for months. an american who traveled overseas to fight for al qaeda and come back to plot an attack at home. the 23-year-old resident of columbus ohio is providing terrorist support to nusra. he became a u.s. citizen last year. two months later, in april of 2014 he flew on one way ticket to greece with plans to make his way to turkey and then to syria. justice department prosecutors say he got training in guns and explosives and combat. he came back last june days after his brother was killed fighting for nusra in syria. the fbi says mohamud said a friend told him to come back home to carry out a terrorist attack. according to the fbi, he talked about killing police and military execution-style. >>> thank you for that. happening now, air strikes by the u.s.-led coalition helping contain an isis advance in the city of ramadi several miles from baghdad. with tens of thousands of people fleeing that battle a senior open official

let's bring in cnn justice reporter evan perez who is covering the hearing today.> reporter: hi carol. the senator is getting ready to come over here to the federal court here in newark. the police have already put up barriers to control the media. this is an unusual situation. usually a senator, someone like this would be offered the chance to surrender away from the cameras. this senator has decided he wants to do it here. he's going to be processed and appear before a magistrate and be arraigned to hear the charges. altogether there are 14 counts eight counts of bribery, three counts of services fraud, conspiracy travel vie lilgs and false statements. there's a lot of salacious details in this 68-page indictment announced yesterday by the justice department including efforts by the senator to help get visas for girlfriends of his friend solomon maljin an ophthalmologist in florida, long time donor and friend of the senator. >> evan perez reporting live in new jersey. >>> also happening, indiana lawmakers are debating amended language to the religious freedom dea

cnn justice reporter evan perez is in washington. evan astonishing that the national guard was looking at u.s. citizens protesting as an enemy force. >> that's right, deborah. these e-mails reveal the way and how the national guard prepared for its deployment down there in ferguson anticipating that there would be protesters throwing molotov cocktails and a lot of disturbances and at the same time trying to be conscious, it seems, about not showing too much force and not being too public for fear that that would inflame tensions. they were trying to balance. these words, enemy forces adversaries, really are insulting to some of the people down there. we've talked to people down there who said that it's shocking that they were being treated that way and emblematic of the broader problem with the police department there. we have a statement from the national guard which defends this language and says essentially that they were there to protect -- they were there to make sure that they could deal with potential threats is what they're ca

hackers working for russia broke into white house computer networks and as cnn's evan perez reports, they exposed sensitive information. >> reporter: russian hackers broke into sensitive parts of the white house e-mail system. they could even see parts of the president's schedule not disclosed to the public in realtime. they are believed to be working for the russian government and according to u.s. officials they pulled off one of the most serious cyber breaches of u.s. government agencies. this breach is one reason why u.s. intelligence officials recently increased warnings about the cyber threat from russia. the white house disclosed suspicious activity in its unclassified e-mail systems in october, but officials say even unclassified e-mails contains sensitive information valuable to foreign spies. the hackers got in first by breaking into the state department's e-mail servers. then they tricked someone into giving them access to the system sevening the office of the president. agencies are warning employees of so-called fishing e-mails. these actually contain malicious software,

evan perez, cnn, washington. >>> now kenya where the country's foreign minister is asking the u.s. and other nations for more help with intelligence and security measures following last week's terror attack on a university. hundreds of mourners held a vigil tuesday to remember the 147 people murdered by al shabaab militants. david mckenzie was there and joins us now live from nairobi. probably one of the most painful aspects of last week's tragedy is that intelligence did exist, the kenyan government had access to that pointed to a threat at garissa university. this is a time when i know many people are just mourning the victims and the massive loss from that attack. >> reporter: that's right. i think you raise a very good point. people are both sad and angry because our reporting suggests or our reporting has found that the students were so afraid, some of them, that they had even, you know, planned how to escape should there be attack. we're getting from police sources that there was specific, actionable intelligence that an attack might happen at the garissa university in the da

evan perez.bt outfront seth jones the director of international security and defense policy at rand. seth i want to start with these two women. they were not unsophisticated. they had prepaid phones. when they weren't using them batteries came out, the sim card came out. they were trying to evade being watched. they avoided videos and websites that were commonly used for jihad. what does that sophistication say to you? >> well erin what it says to me is they were very careful about trying to learn lessons from past plots and past arrests in the united states. as you noted, they were careful in trying to take out batteries and sim cards. when they pulled out information from the internet they were very careful in not pulling out information like "inspire" magazine that would cause the concern from u.s. intelligence agencies the fbi. what it says is they were serious about plotting serious enough that they realized that doing it in such a way as to highlight concerns and at wearness of u.s. intelli

i want to bring in cnn's justice correspondent, evan perez who's standing by. such a surprise to hear this, not only that we got this report delivered to the state's attorney a day early, but that they actually released one piece of information. that there is a fourth stop that here to for they had not known, it happens to be the second stop of the paddy wagon. why do you suppose they would release that information and just that? >> well, you know, previously released a timeline, ashley, and the fact that this was oe mimit is shocking. this is something that should have been known certainly from when they released the timeline more than a week ago. and the fact that they say there's no record of it other than private surveillance camera video that came, that they uncovered as part of the investigation. it's kind of disturbing, frankly, this is not the way an investigation's supposed to go. i'm not calling out the baltimore police department for what they're doing, but it just, what it does is undercuts the trust that they say they're trying to build with the co

let's get over to justice reporter evan perez. you've been getting a lot of these details coming out. what else are you learning about the attack and most importantly now what the white house is going to do about it? >> reporter: that's a very interesting question because i know behind the scenes there's been a lot of discussion inside the government pushing for the u.s. government to publicly shame russia and say we know you were behind this hack and to try to bring this out into the open. there's a lot of discussion behind the scenes. i don't know that it will happen partly because the state department doesn't want to anger the russians and there's a lot of issues that are going back and forth. really the way the russian hackers got in here was through the state department. they first hacked into the state department and then they used that perch to be able to trick someone to allow them access into the white house. executive office of the president, which although it was an unclassified e-mail system as the white house has poin

and more on alleged aspirations for isis, joined by justice correspondent evan perez. what's the latest? >> well john t. booker also goes by the name mohammed abdullah hasan and today i understand he was arrested by the fbi as he was preparing to carry out what they say was a suicide bombing at ft. riley. he never had any explosions. this was actually a sting operation that was orchestrated by the fbi and a couple of informants who helped him obtain what he thought were explosives that of course never actually happened. they wanted to see if he would actually go through with that and that's why they took him all the way up to the back entrance of the base at ft. riley, kansas, before arrested him today. >> i understand it was couple of his facebook posts that prompted a tip to the fbi? >> that's right. he actually tried to join he enlisted in the army last year and in between that time and the time he was supposed to show up in april for basic training the fbi found a couple of facebook posts which were really alarming and went to interview him. i'll read you a couple

i also have our justice correspondent evan perez. we think it's important -- let's go with the fact that we now have one day early this report from the police investigation is now in the hands of the state attorney who's the city prosecutor. why do you think it happened a day early? >> there was a lot of expectation about this report that they were going to deliver findings to the public. that obviously didn't happen. so i think that they wanted to deliver it a day early as a show of good faith, that they were working as fast as they could. they had exhausted all their leads and it was time to turn it over to the prosecutor who is ultimately the one who will decide whether there are charges filed. >> paul, now that this sits in marilyn moseby's hands, she has the power to charge. there are six officers who are currently suspended. can you walk me through the process? she has all this information from the police department. obviously this is the police department's findings of its own officers. how does she keep that objectivity in lo

we want to bring in cnn's evan perez.altimore leaders are working to come up with a game plan, right? >> that's right. they're trying to lower the expectations for the report coming out on friday. we'll hear a little bit more about that game plan in the next few hours from city officials. the problem that they have right now is that the investigation -- this is going to be a preliminary report offered up -- >> this is the police department report? >> police department report. and it is considered preliminary because they'll continue their investigation. it's not going to provide any complete answers, not even to the state prosecutors. the issue is this even at this point, they don't believe that there's any clear-cut answers here as to what happened. there's no roadmap here for charges just yet. they're still waiting for some very key things including the medical examiner's report which could be weeks away. >> the last i heard, this was probably four, five days ago. five of the six officers had given preliminary statement

let's bring in tom fuentes and our cnn justice reporter evan perez. your reaction to this video, first of all, tom? >> i think it's incredible. i think that all that notice with the newspaper in tampa, driving all the way up to the d.c. area flying an hour or two, going right into the capitol with that that could have been a large helicopter with a squad of isis members land on the capitol like in some of the stupid movies -- we thought they were stupid movies -- maybe not so that showed washington under attack the white house under siege. and it might be right. might be time for homeland security to hire a troupe of boy scouts with bb guns. >> it is shocking to think about it in the aftermath of 9/11 to have an incident like this occur. if that guy wouldn't have had letters in that box that he had on the back of that gyrocopter if he would have had a bomb, that could have been a disaster. >> wolf all day today has been a mixture of amusement and concern, frankly, about this incident. on one hand you're talking about a flying bicycle outfitted with a

cnn justice reporter evan perez is following this investigation. tell us more evan. >> reporter: you know carol, as if there wasn't enough mystery and confusion already about what happened to freddie gray in this police van, this only adds to it. this prisoner this prisoner who was picked up during really the final couple of minutes before he was taken to jail we're talking about a six-block drive, between the time this prisoner is picked up and the time they arrived in jail. and according to him, he can hear freddie gray banging and thrashing on the other side of this partition. he couldn't see him, so it's interesting to know how this prisoner who's still in jail by the way, has come to believe that freddie gray was trying to injure himself. now, the family of freddie gray says that's impossible for them to know. they say that he probably was seeking, trying to get attention for his injuries trying to get attention, medical attention, so they don't believe this. and they don't believe he was trying to injure himself intentionally. >> all right. ev

our justice reporter evan perez is back with us for more details on the video. >> the "palm beach postiven everything that's been going on to look into police shootings and examples of excessive use of force over the last decade and this is one of the indents that they took a look at and they investigated and what we can see from the video, we see dontrelle stevens, 20 years old, riding his bicycle. he's in what is a rough neighborhood. the deputy's name is adams lynn he works for the palm beach county sheriff's. according to the deputy he seems him obstructing traffic and i decides to stop him. when he rides up there he stevens gets to the house where he is staying. police officer gets out of the car and within four seconds you hear shots fired and dontrelle stevens is down. he is now a paraplegic as a result of these shots fired. he was carrying a cell phone and that's what caused the misunderstanding and that the police officer decided to shoot him. >> initially the police correct me if i'm wrong, said that they saw him get something out of his waist, right? and they suspected it wa

let's bring in our justice reporter, evan perez. what are you hearing about a federal probe? the fbi getting involved now in what happened there. >> well now the fbi is now on the ground and has begun doing its work. it will want to look at -- going to want to talk to witnesses, witnesses like the woman there who says she hasn't talked to local police. that's exactly why the fbi and justice department say they are doing a separate independent investigation, because it's important for them to check to see that everything is done properly not because they don't trust the local authorities, but just to give reassurance to the local community that everything is being done properly. >> because the local authorities have basically punted and given the investigation to the state authorities, the south carolina state law enforcement division or what they call s.l.e.d. now there's a federal investigation under way, a separate one. >> correct. one of the things that you can see is developing here is this the pattern at least of complaints from local community officials that there's a s

evan perez is joining us from baltimore right now.e hearing about the investigation and what you are learning. >> reporter: well wolf you know the protesters out here are expecting answers on friday. the police are not going to provide any of those answers. they are going to turn over their investigation, the preliminary report to the state prosecutors office. we don't expect that we'll know whether or not there's going to be charges coming from this case for weeks, perhaps months because the investigation is going to continue now. what i'm told from talking to people who are close to the investigation is that there's no clear cut case here. they are still reviewing the evidence. there's no clear indication they can bring charges against the officers involved here. while the protesters are expecting handcuffs on police officers soon we are a long ways away from that. the question is how are the streets of baltimore going to respond. >> we will see friday when the report is made available. evan stand by. i want to bring in our fbi assi

that's why i was working with evan perez.was so wired at the police he heard it's about vetting. the third cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. thank you for being here as always. let's deal with these pieces and see how they fit to us. how do you feel about this report from "the washington post" about a guy in the van but was separated by a metal panel. and it matters. it means he could not see through, but he says the guy was thrashing around. i think he hurt himself. strong? >> no that's not strong at all. we don't know how that statement was taken from that person. i think we should really be looking at did the officers hear that statement from him, or did they pull that statement out of him? if he heard something on the other side of the wall how can he know if he was thrashing himself against the wall or maybe there was just some noise that was happening on the other side. >> taking it at its best tom, at its best if he's thrashing around if he needs leg irons, how hurt could he hav

here now is cnn's evan perez. >> reporter: a 20-year-old american man was arrested as he prepared to army base in kansas. john t. booker enlisted last year in the army. but the army cancelled his enlistment before he showed up for basic training. that's after the fbi says it found facebook postings, claiming he wanted to carry out jihad attacks. booker also goes by the name muhammad abdallah hasan. the fbi says he wanted to carry out friday's attack for isis. two undercore fbi informants helped orchestrate a sting motion helping him buy components of what he thought were explosives. one facebook post read "i will soon be leaving you forever. so goodbye, i'm going to wage jihad in hopes i die." >> the fbi says he told agents he wanted to carry out an inside terrorist attack like the one in ft. hood in 2009 that killed 13 people. >> evan perez, thank you so much. >>> still ahead, we're talking about the road to the white house, 2016. the reintroduction of hillary clinton. why we could see' different side of the former senator, and former secretary of state, who is expected to announce

let's bring in our justice reporter evan perez. as pamela noted, 26 isis arrests in america. just the latest. more on the way. what are you hearing? >> wolf this case represents the best look that the fbi has gotten so far. into the way isis is recruiting americans, and other westerners. until this case we've had a lot of people who have been self-directored. people getting recruited on the internet. people sitting at home looking at propaganda videos. in this case talking about pier to pier recruitment by friends and people who are family members, taking them trying to bring them overseas to syria to join isis. that's a big, big break for the fbi. >> and you're learning about new u.s. potential airport security risks. what are you hearing? >> well wolf jeh johnson, the secretary of homeland security put out new regulations today to guide the tsa to help them get a handle on how to secure behind the scenes of the airports, and this is really in response to an incident in december where in new york the d.a. announced there were a couple of former and current delta air lines em

let's go right to cnn justice reporter evan perez. evan tell us who this 20-year-old man who was apprehended is, and what did he intend to do? >> his name is john t. booker jr. he also goes by the name mohammed abdullah hassan. he is 20 years old. he was arrested this morning as he tried to detonate a van bomb or tried to arm a van bomb that he planned to drive on to fort riley in kansas hoping to kill as many u.s. troops as possible. this bomb was not active. it was a fake bomb that was constructed by the fbi and placed there with two informants that he didn't realize were fbi informants. he got on the radar of the fbi because last year february 2014, he started posting facebook messages in which he said for instance i will soon be leaving you forever, so good-bye i'm going to wage jihad in hopes that i die. it so happens that he had signed up to join the u.s. army and was due to start basic training in april. the fbi came and interviewed him and yet months later, he still falls for this sting working with a couple of informants and s

our justice reporter evan perez is in washington with the latest. >> reporter: mohamud is the terroristeat that the officials have warned us about for months. an american traveling overseas to fight for the al qaeda group and returning to home. the 2-year-old resident of columbus ohio provided support to the terrorist group. the fbi says mohamud became a u.s. citizen last year. in april of 2014 he flew to greece with plans to make his way to turkey and syria. justice department prosecutors say he got training in guns and explosives and combat. he came back in june. the fbi says mohamud said a friend told him to come home to carry out a terrorist attack. according to the fbi, mohamud talked about killing police and the military execution-style. >>> thank you. happening now, air strikes by the u.s.-led coalition are helping contain an isis advance in the city of ramadi 70 miles from baghdad. with tens of thousands fleeing, an official in anbar province says it is cutting off supply routes. troops need more reinforcements and weapons. ivan watson is following the latest for us. good mornin

cnn justice reporter evan perez is in washington. evan astonishing that the national guard

justice reporter evan perez has been looking into this part of the story. what are they going to be looking for specifically fbi, justice department officials? >> it's very unusual for them to get involved so quickly. but that gives you an -- that's one sign of how they're looking at this case. it looks a lot more like ferguson what they want to make sure that everything is being done very, very according to plan there. one of the things they're looking for is to see whether or not -- whether these six officers violated his civil rights whether they were intentionally looking to violate his civil rights. and that always is a tough thing for them to prove. >> the barter for prosecution in the civil rights allegation charges, very very high? >> it is. and as we saw with officer darren wilson in ferguson hundreds of witnesses were saying all kinds of things they could not reach it to the level to prosecute this officer. his statements won the day. we'll see if these five officers -- >> the civil rights division i take it at the justice department they're in ch

let's go to evan perez. tell us about this case evan. >> reporter: wolf he is 29 years old. mentioned. then grew up in jordan. what makes him interesting, according to u.s. officials, is that he was studying at and disappeared to join al qaeda. he has been the subject of debate in the u.s. government because there was some in the u.s. intelligence community who believed that he was high-level official inside al qaeda and deserved to be put on the u.s. kill list. because he is an american citizen, there was debate as to whether or not there was enough evidence to warrant that wolf. in the end they decided not to kill him. he was arrested by the pakistani government a few months ago. when they realized he was an american they turned him over to the fbi. he was brought to brooklyn. he appeared here in federal court today. he is due back after more questioning from the fbi, they want to know more about exactly who he was hanging out with in al qaeda and whether there's more information he can provide about that. >> evan perez, thanks very much for that. >>> let's bring in our mi

evan perez broke this story. he joins us now. evan, this just sounds tough. >> it's remarkable. this is an investigation that took about eight months. these are two soldiers who worked at army national guard armory near san diego. james casillas, 22 years old and reyes, 34 years old. they are now facing charges -- both of them facing charges of dealing firearms without a license. reyes is additionally charged with unlicensed transportation of firearms across state lines. this was an atf sting run by atf agents who told them, according to prosecutors in san diego, told these two men that these weapons they were selling were destined for mexican drug cartels. they were going to ship them across the border. apparently according to prosecutors they didn't seem to care. according to the charging sheet here, this is the arsenal they were selling, about at least seven firearms including ar rifle, ak-47, sas, 40 caliber pistol as well as thousands of ammunition that was stolen from the armory there in san diego. again, this is something atf says these men were doing well before they wer

. >> from what i understand, cnn's evan perez confirmed it through his sources in federal law enforcementhat justice department. there was actually no official statement or no confirmation in front -- >> you can confirm those kind of reports every day of the week. >> because there is always chatter. >> yeah. there is always. why this one a little more than others, you know, it might be. they might have a case with a little bit more specific chatter of an individual group or a number of people. again, this is all the time. there is every day of the week you, you know, we could come out and say threats are under way and there are. >> i hope we learn more. it's one of those situations damn if you do, damn if you don't. if you say something like this, the question is why is it so vague and if you do attack and don't say nothing, they say why didn't you learn more. tom fuentes, thank you so much. >> you're welcome, victor. >>> in several hours, family and friends will gather to say good-bye to freddie gray in baltimore. this, of course, a day after major protests and at least a dozen arrests.

justice correspondent evan perez has more now.this all because of the light punishments for those dea agents? >> reporter: you couldn't make it up right? no theis was like the straw that broke the camel's back for michelle leonhart. she had lost trust in the -- in the committee hearing she had a terrible performance in answering questions as to why the dea agents who were accused of this wrongdoing of the misbehavior were basically were basically just suspended for 14 days at the most and now they're still on the job. some of them still have their top secret security clearance. and she really couldn't answer those questions. that's what really did it when she lost the confidence of congress and the administration was not liking her because of the way she's handled -- the way the u.s. -- the federal government has handled the legalization of marijuana on the state level. there's plenty of issues with michelle leonhart. >> tell me quickly about loretta lynch and now how that human trafficking vote happened. will that be paving the w

cnn justice correspondent evan perez reports. >> abda rahman mow ham he had is the terrorist we have been warned about for months. an american who went overseas to train with al qaeda. he's a 23-year-old resident of columbus, ohio. the fbi says mow ham he had became a news citizen last year. two months later, in april 20, he flew to greece, then with intention of flying to syria. he came back last june just days after his brother was killed fighting for nusra in syria. the fbi says mohammed told a friend that a cleric told him to come back home to carry out a domestic terror attack. mow hhammed talked about killin police and military execution style. >>> an australian man with a promising future as a model and dee jay has been killed fighting for isis in syria. he told his family he was going camping last year. instead, they say he traveled to falluja in iraq where he served as an isis medic, a cook, and sometimes machine gunner. at least 20 australians have been killed fighting isis and more than 90 others are still out on the battlefield. >>> italian authorities have arrested 15 mu

he vows to stay in office so let's head to our justice reporter evan perez. jersey this morning with more. good morning. >> reporter: evan can you hear me? i don't think evan can hear me. i don't think evan can -- we're going to go back to newark when we get those technical issues -- when we get those technical issues taken care of. >>> in other news this morning, all eyes are on indiana and the controversy over the state's new religious freedom law. changes to the controversial religious freedom bill. if the new bill is passed businesses cannot discriminate or refuse services based on sexual orientation or gender identity. a short time ago republican lawmakers outlined the goal of the revised language at a news conference. >>> and in arkansas amid heavy backlash governor asa hutch chin son said he will not sign the state's religious bill until changes are made. let's talk about that with cnn's miguel marquez. stephanie wang is there. commentator l.z. granderson and paige pate. miguel tell us about this addition to the law, the fix. what is it? the r. >> the q

cnn justice reporter evan perez joins me live from baltimore.d wrap their investigation by this friday. but believe it or not, we're being told that the findings may not be made public that day. why, evan? >> reporter: that's right. the problem is they say that the investigation is going to continue for some time. they say it's not over. however they're going to stick with their original deadline of friday to turn over an investigative report to the state attorney's office. these are the prosecutors who are going to decide whether or not to bring charges. i think people on the streets are expecting charges on friday so that's going to be a problem. >> and you also have some new information into the fires that we all witnessed during the riots last night. what have you learned about those? >> reporter: that's right, jake. the atf is sending its arson investigators here and they're planning to bring federal charges in these fires. they already have some promising leads, particularly in one that destroyed a senior housing center in baltimore. they

evan perez broke the story. >> reporter: two members of the army national guard in california san diego, california. according to law enforcement officials i've been talking to these men thought they were working with drug cartels people who were sending weapons to drug cartels in mexico. instead they were actually trying to sell weapons and ammunition to undercover informants working with the atf out of los angeles. that's how they were arrested today. >> what exactly did they sell or try to sell? >> reporter: they had quite an arsenal. at least ten firearms. 4,000 rounds of ammunition. some of it was still in crates stolen from the armory. 24 armored vests, high quality vests that members of the military use and apparently this was also stolen from the armory there. we're expecting these guys will be in court tomorrow in san diego where they will be formally charged with trying to make these sales. >> evan thanks. set your dvr watch 360 whenever you want. coming up next what former new england patriot aaron hernandez had to say after a jury found him guilty of murdering his friends an

evan perez, thank you so much. >>> up next, he was already on the secret service's radar and even warned the media he was headed to the capital. how did a florida mailman manage to fly his one-man gyro copter through some of the most restricted air space without getting shot down? [♪] there is an ancient rhythm... [♪] that flows through all things... [♪] through rocky spires... [♪] and ocean's swell... [♪] the endless... stillness of green... [♪] [♪] and in the restless depths of human hearts... [♪] the voice of the wild within. [♪] >>> welcome back. a florida postal worker will make his first court appearance in less than an hour for landing his tiny aircraft on the capital lawn sending washington into a tizzy. doug hughes claims he carried out the act and it was certainly a bizarre incident that riveted the city and sent the u.s. capitol into lock down for part of the day. "tampa bay times" first identified hughes because he told them about his plans. >> violate the no-fly zone, nonviolently and intend for nobody to get hurt and i'm going to land on the capitol mall in front of the cap

. >> evan perez.k you. >>> the world lead is described as a desperate situation inside a key iraqi city surrounded now by isis fighters with thousands fleeing. running for their lives. coalition planes have been spotted in the area in hopes of slowing down the fierce offensive by isis. too little too late to keep ramadi from falling? that story, next. ♪ ♪ the pursuit of healthier. it begins from the second we're born. after all, healthier doesn't happen all by itself. it needs to be earned... every day... from the smallest detail to the boldest leap. healthier means using wellness to keep away illness... knowing a prescription is way more than the pills... and believing that a single life can be made better by millions of others. healthier takes somebody who can power modern health care... by connecting every single part of it. realizing cold hard data can inspire warmth and compassion... and that when technology meets expertise... everything is possible. for as long as the world keeps on searching fo

. >> evan perez, thank you so much.s always. >>> of course the big question we've been talking about that what will happen in new york when the investigation reports are released and we come to find out that there are no charges being filed or i mean shouldn't we know more? i want to bring in former tv judge attorney glenda hatchet. hi judge hatchet. >> good morning, carol. >> thank you so much for being with me this morning. i appreciate it. >> absolutely. >> i'm so glad you're here. do you think police should release some of the information that's in that report to the public on friday? >> you know, i agree with evan. it's a whole matter of managing expectations carol. actually if i were in that situation, i would really advise them not to release preliminary reports. let me tell you why. the investigation is continuing. what we want at the end of the day is a fair and thorough investigation in this matter. we want to know exactly what happened. we don't want police to be charged that they weren't responsible. what we

. >> of course we have a lot to cover, so let's start with cnn justice reporter evan perez, and he is following the investigation. >> a prosecutor is going to have to sort through this more confusing picture of what exactly, you know what the police are telling them happened and the police say that whatever happened happened in the van, and you hear that person who is close to apparently the police officer who was probably driving the van, and it says whatever happened, it told anderson cooper last night happened before freddy gray got in the van, and we know freddy gray a wagon was requested to take the jail at 8:42 and 8:46 the van driver says gray is being irate, and it's after that this prisoner gets into the van and they drive six blocks before they go to jail. now, the police commissioner has addressed some of this before and here is some of what he says happened there. >> the second prisoner that was picked up is that he didn't see any harm done to freddy at all, and what he said is that he heard freddy thrashing about and the driver did not drive erratically. >> that makes --

our justice reporter evan perez, is joining us now with details. what do we know about this alleged plot? >> wolf his name is john t. booker 20 years old from topeka, kansas. the fbi arrested him this morning as he was attempting to carry out a suicide car bombing attempting to kill u.s. military personnel at fort riley in kansas. he came on the radar of the fbi last year. he apparently attempted to join the u.s. army in kansas city. he was recruited and was scheduled to arrive for basic training in april of last year. but some time in march, he publicly posted on facebook the following, i will soon be leaving you forever, so good-bye, i'm going to go wage jihad in hopes that i die. this got the fbi very concerned and they introduced him to some undercover informants over the next period of months. he discussed carrying out an attack here in this country on u.s. military on the streets or on the base. wanted to carry out something like nidal hasan at fort hood. >> major nidal hasan. >> yes. this tells you about the type of people that are being att