we've been in contact with the f.b.i. we had a briefing with the f.b.i. and more than that, we also have heard and have had an opportunity to interview many of the men and women from state and local law enforcement who are a critical part of the security procedure on that day. we've also reached out to and will continue to hear from the men and women who attended the rally, because their observations, what they saw and heard and things in some cases they recorded on their phones are all part of developing the full fact picture of what happened that day. it is very important, also, to note because we are taking over the investigations that, of course, as soon as this happened, immediately, congress sprang to action. a number of committees within congress that touch jurisdiction here started their own investigations. we consolidated that into one place with members from those committees represented on this task force. so as we go forward, this is the committee that will have the ability to subpoena records if we do feel we aren't getting full and complete d

even the f.b.i. director admitted on multiple occasions how serious the terror threat is right now. >> all the lights are blinking red before 9/11. >> would you say there is multiple blinking red lights out there? >> i see blinking lights everywhere i turn. we have had dangerous individuals enter the united states. we're seeing a wide arare of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border. we've seen the threat from foreign terrorists rise to a whole other level. >> sandra: we have more. >> good morning, sandra. customs and border protection says this is simply about national security. and to reveal details of those on the terror watch list crossing the border would endanger that security. now fox had asked just for the nationalities of those crossing simply to see where the potential terrorists coming into the u.s. are coming from. according to border patrol figures 422 potential terrorists have been encountered at our borders so far this year. the majority of those, 283 at our northern border

to date the f.b.i. team has conducted more than 460 interviews, executed search warrants including at the shooter's residence, and seized electronic media to include phones, laptops, hard drives and thumb drives. legal process has been issued to dozens of companies and we received more than 2,000 tips from the public. the full resources of the f.b.i. have been brought to bear in furtherance of the investigation. agents, analysts, professional staff, experts, i've personally visited the site of this horrific attack and seen firsthand the work of f.b.i. pittsburgh and our partners on the front line and want to thank all involved for their ongoing and tireless efforts to get the answers that we need and to deliver justice. specialized resources deployed included evidence response teams, victims services specialist, laboratory and operational technology division resources to process physical and digital evidence, a shooting reconstruction team, additionally our explosive experts have age hraoeuzed the three

♪liberty, liberty,♪ ♪liberty, liberty.♪ >> sandra: f.b.i.mpted assassination of donald trump. they held a call with reporters yesterday saying investigators are piecing together the shooter's mindset but still a lot we don't know. >> at this time the f.b.i. is not identified a motive nor any co-conspirators or associates of crooks with advance knowledge of the attack. i want to be clear, we have not seen any indication to suggest crooks was directed by a foreign entity to conduct the attack. >> sandra: former f.b.i. agent bobby chacon was on that call. what did you take away from the calls and details provided to you? >> there was some confirmation on some things we already knew and some things that we don't know yet. it is a little unsettling we still don't know them but now we're thinking we may never know them. >> sandra: want to put up on the screen some new images and pictures they have now released. we had not seen these before involves the rifle as it was recovered at the shooting site. some of the other things like the backpack that

the f.b.i. still has not determined the shooter's motive.epartment with the latest. hi, david. >> that's right. victim impact statements are typical in f.b.i. criminal investigations. no different in this case. the former president said that his would happen today announced it in an interview earlier this week. we don't know any other details. law enforcement sources specifically are shutting us out on this information because they say that former president trump is a victim in this case. he went through a traumatic experience. they don't want to create any sort of media circumstance. any news from this victim impact statement would have to come from the former president himself. meanwhile, the f.b.i. continues to go through thomas crooks' phone and laptop. two phones discover. the problem are encrypted apps and encrypted accounts. the f.b.i. hired an israeli firm to help them with software to break through the encryption. looking at two social media profiles may belong to him. they are not 100% certain. one of the accounts is anti-semitic a

the f.b.i. releasing new photos of the shooter's firearm and explosives. the shooter's interest in violence dates back to 2019 but his motive is still unknown. cb cotton live on the investigation. >> federal investigators continue their review of the shooter thomas crooks online history. even after reviewing five years worth of internet searches the f.b.i. says it is still not ready to name a motive in this case. this as we see up close images of how the shooter was likely able to carry out this horrific attack. take a look. these are the newly released photos of the shooters weapon. investigators say it may have been used to conceal the weapon in the backpack. these were the homemade explosives the f.b.i. says it found in the shooter's vehicle. agency says the receiver for remote detonation was in the off position. the f.b.i. says crooks searched things like how to make a bomb from fertilizer and this spring the agency says cooks began searching for president biden and trump's campaign schedule

how worried are you when you hear the f.b.i. saying that publicly and what seems to be a path to the current administration on the border? >> it was quite a remarkable statement from director wray saying that all the red lights are flashing. never seen anything quite like this. it tells me he knows there are problems that the f.b.i. is not capable of managing. the scale of the risk is beyond their capabilities today. because the cbp has been told to stand down and border policies have permitted these folks to come in and the scale of the risk is so large. i did see it, shannon. these people are serious. cartels have real money and well funded and deeply connected to the chinese communist party. a lot of it is chinese money laundering. it emanates from all the bad actors and inside the gates of the united states as well. >> shannon: mr. secretary, good to see you, sir. >> bill: thanks for coming on. >> have a great weekend. >> shannon: markets wrapping up a wild week. reignited fears of a recession. what does it mean for 2024? la

they let an f.b.i. person go up there. what did he tell us? he told us like six hours after the attack, terrible amount of time. he gets up there and he says, well, we don't have his name and as soon as we have his name, we will release it to you. that was a lie. i was working at fox news. we were looking at the name because it was given to us by some people that knew what the name was. they were lying about that. then they said he is a 20-year-old male. i said how do you know he is 20 if you don't know his name? i buy that you can say he is a male. then they said there is no on going threat. how do you know that if you don't know his name? they lie about these things. and now they continue to tell us these fables and these stories that are not true. congress are going to have to stand up for themselves. they're going to have to continue to do this and let me go back. i wanted to make one more point about training as i wrap up. this is from one of those reports that was done. here is the question. it's the federal employee viewpoint survey. th

they let the f.b.i. person go up there and he told us the night, like six hours after the attack, terrible amount of time. he gets up from and he says well, we tonight deb have his name and as soon as we have his name we'll release it to you. that was a lie. i was working at fox news and we were looking at is the name because it was given to us by some people that knew what the name was. they were lying about that. then they said he's a 20-year-old male. how do you know he's 20 if you don't even know his name? ok, i buy that you could say he's a male. then they said there's no ongoing threat. how do you know if you don't even know his name? they lie about these things and now they continue to tell us these fables and stories that are not true. and congress, they're going to have to stand up for themselves, they're going to have to continue to do this. i want to make one more point about training as i wrap up here. it's the federal employee viewpoint survey. this is the question. i am ginn a real opportun

we erdz that directser ray from the f.b.i. get closer to the election, they continue to see threats really political figures on both sides of the isle. neil? >> neil: thank you for that update. crazy worlds we are living in, my friends. we will have more after this. [♪♪] still needs me. but sometimes i can't help due to burning and stabbing pain in my hands, so i use nervive. nervive's clinical dose of ala reduces nerve discomfort in as little as seven days. now i can help again feel the difference with nervive. aaasssiii... ...iiisssttt. linda asistencia. lowe's knows what a great assist can lead to. a chewy pharmacy order is en route for summit, who loves the outdoors. so her parents use chewy to save 20% on their first order of flea & tick meds. delivered fast, so summit never misses a dose. or an adventure. for quality meds. for life with pets, there's chewy. >> neil: jerome powell simply talks and the markets more than simply rock. two back-to-back strong weeks for all the major average. a lot of of this had to do with hi

the f.b.i.ter biden's laptop in december of 2019. they knew for almost a year at the time that they put the pressure on these tech companies to suppress the story that the laptop was authentic. so to me i think the big story is not just the fact that you have government putting its thumb on the scale and intimidating tech companies into taking actions that government couldn't itself do directly, but the deceit here under circumstances where they knew the true facts a year before they put this measure on the tech companies is astonishing. >> bret: there is this want to continue censorship. the question is whether this letter is the beginning of opening eyes about how much that is happening. >> i don't have a lot of faith in that. i think that since around 2015, 2016, the f.b.i. has turned russian disinformation into kind of a career path and they have a lot of people working on it. it is a thing notwithstanding the fact that if you go back in history, certainly since the cold war, political inter

you saw a huge abuses of power first by the f.b.i. in warning facebook and others that some russian disinformation relating to hunter biden was coming. that is a huge scandal in and of itself. you then saw the director of the c.i.a. approve the letter from 51 former c.i.a. directors and other top intelligence officials claiming that the laptop had all the earmarks of russian disinformation. that itself was disinformation. so yeah, you are looking really an extraordinary abuse of power by both the f.b.i., the c.i.a., on covid and other issues, by department of homeland security. we're still at the beginning of a reckoning here of really a panic that resulted from people's ability to get information from sources other than a few big media outlets that were favorable to the biden administration. so i think it is a huge step forward but still more revelations to come, too. >> dana: and so mark zuck says he is not going to get involved in politics this year and not make political donations. i don't know if it's his decision alone or advise

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the f.b.i. is investigating itself. we need to have outside information, outside investigators. >> sandra: certainly been slow going trying to get more and more information to the american public about all of this, congressman. meanwhile our nation's border security is a top voter issue this november. we know that and it has been for quite some time. vice president harris recently has changed her tune on toughness. now that she is on top of the democrat ticket. the running mate tore into the damage already done. >> what do you make of her transformation on this issue? >> i don't think it's a question of transformation. we have a crisis at the border and make sure -- we have to crack down on illegal immigration. what we need is comprehensive immigration reform. >> okay. not exactly the sound bite we were going for but he did downplay this transformation, he called it, on the border when it comes to kamala harris. she has a history of landing far left of immigration and once said and undocumented migrant is not a criminal

the f.b.i. hopefully will be able to wrap up their investigation soon. >> bret: all right. you. >> thank you. >> dana: a lot going on on this monday. the last week of august underway. before we go we have to do this happy national dog day. to all america's dogs and owners we have pictures of percy and cocoa. this is percy, e.t. also known as percy and he has been having the best summer. he has had a great summer for sure. >> bret: cocoa is a diva. amy is surrounded by guys with two boys and a husband so that's the female. >> dana: does cocoa have pink ears? >> that's pink feathers on the top of the ears. i don't have anything to do with that. >> dana: my grandmother had a dog named mo. they put ribbons in his air after he got groomed and my grandfather would say he would find the biggest manure pile to get into. >> cocoa likes them. >> dana: thank you so much. sandra smith is in for harris on the "focus." she is

and just ready to be -- there were so many stupid things it would take the f.b.i.en. >> why do you think that was, nixon wasn't a good person and didn't read people very well? >> great scene in history where king henry of england is being harassed by his former friend, beckett, and he says outloud someone rid me of this. and some ambitious knight and they slaughter thomas beckett in the cathedral. and to a certain extent that was the story of watergate. nixon hired young ambitious people, and bring the dead mouse to the oval office door and look what we have done for you, boss and they would listen to the enemies and the jews and -- and they would go out and do these incredibly stupid things and he would skip them or forgive them or so preoccupied with kissinger and talking about vietnam, russia andrussia, and we left oe was the first president -- this is a guy who had a lot of big stuff on his mind, but he definitely was a bad judge of personality. host: sam, in baltimore, maryland, good morning. caller: good morning. if you could answer this, it involves lbj, kis

in coordination with f.b.i. and d.h.s., it will collaborate with other members to research, produce and disseminate threat information for private sector entities within prioritized technology sectors and meets the needs of those institutions. this effort will be transformational in helping to protect our institutions but will take time to be fully functional and achieve the vision we have in mind. beyond these threats, i have asked the national intelligence council to begin leading efforts with the private sector to evaluate the balance of competitive strengths to help facilitate more net assessment coverage and conversation and this will be needed for many of the technology and techno economic categories that you hear us prioritizing today. but they will be needed for other political and civil society categories. we have a great deal of work that is going on and i am coming to the end of my remarks but i have one last thing i want to discuss with you. we need your help to make this work. as we develop these ef

all i can tell you is the secret service, f.b.i. basically are dragging their feet stonewalling us.ve gotten some transcribed interviews. the documents we request are heavily redacted. if you want to design an investigation to drive conspiracy theories this is exactly how do you that investigation. >> bret: do you believe the f.b.i. is dragging their feet and if so, why? >> no, we've seen no indication of that, bret. trust me, if i feel like there is feet dragging going on here, if i feel like there is anyone stonewalling, i will be the first to call that out because i want and demand answers. every single american wants answers to this and we want to know that our candidates are secure. doesn't matter whether you are a republican or democrat. we need to have the confidence that our candidates are secure and right now america does not have that confidence. but we have now received two briefings from government agencies. they started to produce documents to us. they have been cooperating by agreeing to produce folks for our transcribed interviews. we've received full cooperation on t

>> you're absolutely right, sean, and what really blows my mind is to see chris wray, the f.b.i.ome to congress repeatedly behind closed doors and ring the alarm bells, and i tell him every time, don't cover your rear end by coming to us. drive over to d.h.s.. drive over to the white house and tell them to close the damn border. period. but, sean, let's just add to the stats in this -- in jim jordan's report. 2,100 afghans, 33,000 chinese, 541 iranians, 520 syrians, over 3,100 uzbeks, and we know the isis smuggling ring has sent over 400 people in, eight of whom were rolled up in three different cities, plotting and planning an attack on the eve of the pulse nightclub hit. you're right. we're going to get hit. it is -- we're all watching it happen in real time and the blood is on biden's hands. it is on harris's hand and is on mallorca's hands. it is just the most frustrating thing i've ever experienced in my professional career. we're going to -- we're de funding everything we can. we just -- we've got to stop it and i don't know what else to do except get trump elected. >> sean

. >> the acting director of the secret service, ronald rowe, and f.b.i.r -- deputy director were questioned about security failures that led to the assassination attempt on former president trump earlier this month they appeared before

that is the issue the f.b.i. is faced with right now. i don't think there was one.ed inside the head of the shooter. i think he was an inadequate personalty. he wanted to make a personalty for himself, what higher profile than donald trumpment that is the way it went. that is just the guess. >> neil: your gis -- guesses are a lot better than people's firm view. i would say love to get you back to see where the information against goes. -- investigation goes. i want to go back to bryan in pennsylvania. i believe he had an opportunity to talk to president trump. what can you tell us? >> i did speak to former president trump and i asked him about florida's amendment four and the first time, former president trump told us he will be voting no on the florida amendment four, the right to abortion initiative. an amendment in florida in limit the government's involvement in abortions. this is what he had to tell me 37 are you voting yes or not in amendment four? >> i think six weeks you needs more time than six weeks. i disagreed with that from the early primaries when i he

the scariest time in my lifetime when the director of the f.b.i.we have terror cells across our country. i told my family be careful. this is a dangerous time in our country and you need to be watch out what is happening. >> harris: you talk about the elections in venezuela. so much is going on from that particular nation. we need another hour to talk about it. and i'm wondering now with the gangs so on and so forth how it affects america. we'll get into it another day. i haven't heard a conversation yet with national security that doesn't mention venezuela. all right. the dnc virtually confirmed vice president harris. they had a roll call by zoom and as the party's white house nominee is trying to get out there right now. that happened on monday. next day she tapped governor walz as her number two. j.d. vance says drama could still unfold at the dnc convention. >> here is my offer to kamala harris. if she would like to do the debate with me august 13th we should do that, right? i don't think she wants to anymore. one she probably doesn't know she

a former f.b.i.cial on the threat. >> venezuelan gangs operating in the united states with relationship to mexican cartels is very concerning for u.s. law enforcement. when they go into these smaller towns, aurora is large but not a major metropolitan city like new york there has to be federal resources directed in order to disrupt this and dismantle this gang before it continues to grow in power. >> john: more than 5.6 million illegal aliens are residing inside the united states since biden and harris took office back in january of 2021. americans in communities across the countries are feeling the serious impacts of this especially when it comes to the economy and crime. alicia acuna in denver with more on this. >> right now the aurora police department is not confirming the men in this video are connected to tren de aragua. however, there are folks who live in the denver suburb, including a member of the city council, who insist the gang has a large and dangerous presence. another look at the door

in addition, f.b.i. parallel criminal investigation into the shooter and the overall security failure. it is possible charges could be time by the d.o.j.but when asked today, the attorney general didn't give many details. watch. >> this was a security failure. and there is both and internal and external independent investigation of what happened. there is a congressional task force on the same subject and hopefully -- i know they will provide lessons learned to prevent such a failure from happening. >> reporter: when congress turn expect republicans and democrats to continue holding the secret service accountable for what both sides agree was a failure. josh holly, senator, says he has a whistle blower to alleges -- told agents working in the field at the trump events, additional resources could be denied. martha, this contradicts what the acting secret service director rose said to congress. le said during a news conference. the whistle blowers have been coming forwards. >> martha: thank you very much f

and you asked me and don't think i answered it with the task force or the f.b.i.ill get to the bottom of it? i think it's very confusing right now for whistle blowers. they're asking me who to turn to because there's the senate, the individual senators have a great amount of experience, senator grassley and senator ron johnson who is homeland security chairman back when jason was there, as well and his counterpart and they had experience in this. but it's so confusing for these whistle blowers, who do i need to talk to? tristan is helping them and i'm saying let's figure out a way to facilitate this but that's not my role. so it's confusing and i think multiple task forces aren't great. i think the homeland security committees in congress need to do this consistently, regularly, like jason did. >> i've got to admit, elon musk tweeted this yesterday, economic technology strategic plan for homeland security, the number one goal, d.e.i., diversity, equity and inclusion. that's the number one goal and we're talking about technology. i take it a little personally and k

constitution, president biden and in his white house opened up a portal and invited the c.i.a., the f.b.isorship agency, the center of the censorship industrial complex, d.h.s., i.r.s. and other agencies to sensor me and other political disdentses on social media. even today, user who fry to post my campaign videos to facebook or youtube get messages this content violates community standards. two days after judge oty rendered his decision this week, ace book was still attaching warning labels to an on line petition, calling on a.b.c. coincludes me in the upcoming debate. they said that violates community standards, their community standards. the mainstream media, was once the guardian of the first amendment and democratic principles and has join thdz systemic attack on democracy. it also the media justifies their censorship on the grounds of combatting in information. but governments and pressers -- oppressors don't sensor lies. they don't fear lies. they fear the truth. and that's what they sensor. and i don't want any of this to sound like a personal complaint because it is not. i -- fo

permanently gut the federal government with a plan to seek funds, the department of justice, dismantle the f.b.i. break up the department of homeland security, eliminate the department of education and commerce. limit the enforcement authority of the national labor relations board. the plan with destroy green energy policy, eliminate lgbtq+ protection, privatize government, throttle immigration, reject history, roll back women's simple rights, create a right to work nation and purge expert service to spur the consolidation of secure power. and i say hell, no. this election is a reflection of our priorities as a nation. a reflection of the ties that binds us and our common good. and listen. i know there's communal despair, a sense that working people are falling behind, that student loans need to be restructured. that rent and mortgages are too damn high. a growing sense that enough is not being done, that no one is speaking to the issues of the common man or woman. but the answer is not turning to a despot. that history has taught us will be painfully destructive to all of us. no. all of us must