edgar hoover and the fbi.t's motto single out the in-- not to single out the inquirer, that was true across the country. fortunately, when i accidentally found the burglars, two of the burglars thanks to john blurting out -- [laughter] a secret in 1989 we think it was, fortunately, they have agreed to come forward and tell their stories. they first came forward on the day that the burglary was published and at a showing of a, a private showing of a documentary, "1971," that's also about their story and that will be shown here for the first time on may 28th at the constitution center. that seems like a very appropriate thing, at constitution center. [laughter] and now thanks to their deciding that they would no longer be silent, they and the significance of what they did, i hope, can be remembered. i'm going to start with a question that i think a lot of people ask, it was just asked of me the afternoon by a reporter who was trying to figure out how in the world you were able to do what you did, what made it po

at the fbi.re rigged they do not go 150-0. that's not a real record. that's not actually found in nature. nobody is sfoezed to be above the law in this country, even the fbi. and there is something wrong, something obviously wrong with the way we are handling fbi shootings, if every one ever reviewed in the last 20 years has been ruled justified. in january, fbi director james comey announced the bureau had completed its shooting review in this man's death. he was shot while being questioned by the fbi and other law enforcement authorities back in may. i'm going to show you a couple of photos which i warn you are a little graphic and might be disturbing. but from these photos taken of that young man's body in the morgue, it appeared he was shot seven times including once in the top of the head. law enforcement officials have said that the man was himself unarmed when the fbi shot and killed him. and although the fbi's report on this man's shooting is reportedly ready to go, according to james com

edgar hoover and the fbi.tunately when i accidentally found two of the burglars, in 1989, fortunately they had agreed to come forward and tell their story. they first came forward on the day that the burglaries book was published. it was also about their story that will be shown here for the first time on may 28 that at the constitution center, it seems like a very appropriate thing at the constitution center. and so things to this, that they would no longer be silent, this includes the significance of what they did and hope that it is remembered. i will start with a question that i think a lot of people ask and it was just asked of me by reporter today who is trying to figure out how we were able to do this. what made it possible for you to do such a radical thing. was it in your evolution at that time? how would you describe how it was possible? >> i think that that is probably harder for the younger people to understand and there were an awful lot of things very wrong with our country at that time. not that

next, the fbi analyzed the ransom notes.ll were typed with a computer word processer program, and all were printed with the same font. on one note the word "exactly" was misspelled. investigators got their first real break from the case from a police officer who was walking in the shopping center near harry winer's bank. he noticed a sign in a bookstore window listing the sunday newspapers the store carried. in particular he noticed the unusual border. >> it was a five-pointed star with a greater than and less than sign shown consecutively. and corporal ayman thought about it and said i know i've seen it somewhere. >> the policeman immediately recognized it as the same symbol that was on the first ransom note. the owner of the store, david kopenheffer, said he made the sign with his computer and the border was one he mimicked after seeing it on other signs. kopenheffer was a friend of the winer family and denied having anything to do with sally's murder. >> they knew each other quite well. both families were members of the p

four from cia, two from the fbi. we asked thement -- them to please privately write down on a piece of paper. i'm almost embarrassed to tell the story. the name of five or six people who made them uneasy. don't forget, we're looking for a traitor here. and made them uneasy and individuals they thought we should take a close look at first. okay. then we asked them to please put them in rank or door. the one that made you the most uneasy, first place, second, and so on down. as we say, of it not a contest you wanted to win. we took the submissions, we totaled all the numbers, and a real surprise. rick came out on top. he had the most points 21. and i will toot my own horn here. as i say, i will use gene's words all those who voted on sandy gets the gold star. she him them in first place. now, here we are. we have new short list. rick wasn't the only one who got more than one or two points. what we did, we looked at the small group first. eventually it became the primary target. our primary focus. that is not to say tha

>> so we told her what the fbi report said. wayne williams cannot be excluded as the source of those two hairs. she listened. then this. >> without a shadow of a doubt, i really in my heart believe that wayne williams killed patrick baltazar. ♪ >>> next, trained to kill. >> were you trained in unarmed combat techniques? could you grab somebody bigger than yourself, put them in a choke hold. >> i'm sure there are other things in unarmed combat besides putting somebody in a choke hold. >>> good morning, how are you doing? >> when we return to prison for our final interview with wayne williams, we had one question he was not expecting. what wayne had written about being recruited for espionage training as a teenager at a secret government camp hidden in the woods near this north georgia lake, where he was given what could amount to a license to kill. it's called, finding myself. what's finding myself? it reads like an autobiography. >> go ahead. i'm listening. >> it's an account of your cia training. >> we're not going to get into

fortunately, the fbi used the best listening devices available. >> they're top of the line.hey can pick up a whisper at 50 feet, some of these things, if they're placed properly. >> placement of any listening device is crucial. after breaking into the isa apartment, agents did not have much time to plant the bug. they needed not only a place to hide the device, but also a power source. a battery-operated device is the easiest to plant. but with a long-term surveillance, the battery would need to be replaced periodically. >> get in there once, you are lucky. get in there twice, you are even luckier. and the third time, you tend to get caught. >> the fbi had been able to connect the devices to electric inside isa's apartment. and prosecutors learned that the wiretaps clearly picked up the altercation between tina and her parents. but the fbi was concerned about releasing the tapes for a public trial, fearing they would compromise their electronic surveillance of other suspected terrorists. ultimately, the attorney general of the united states at the time, richard thornburg, de

the fbi and the cia. these were not strangers here, and there's no question we were surprised at the final report. how and why that happened is beyond me. i don't know. but in hindsight, we probably -- when that came out, yes, we should have done that ahead of time. on the off chance because we didn't know what the official final paper was going to look like. we should have written our own. these are our beliefs, rick, blah blah blah, and this is the rope, but we didn't. caused lots of problems. >> this is about the tv program. i watched the two episodes that were aired. is there any way to see the other episodes? >> i'd like to see them as well. i will say this, there is hope. and there is -- the reason there is hope is because the president of abc announced to the press that the assets will be shown in full format, whether it's cable, whether it's netflix, whether it's back on abc proper. now, he said that one week after he cancelled us. but -- no, i have hope. i have hope. it's sort of one of these, st

she had numerous meetings with the fbi including the fact that fbi would sit in the king street patriot meetings. that wasn't all.

she had numerous meetings with the fbi including the fact that fbi would sit in the king street patriot meetings. that wasn't all. she was visited by osha. she was visited by the epa or the texas equivalent to the epa doing an investigation. she was visited by the atf and harassed by the atf. of course, she was harassed by the irs on numerous occasions. all she wanted was what every other organization that's trying to exercise the first amendment wants and deserves as a tax-exempt. because of that, as the chairman has said, the right to exercise the first amendment is there primarily so citizens can criticize government and not be afraid of government harassing them through their use of government administrative bureaucrats. all of these things happened to her. fbi, osha, epa, atf, irs harassed her because of exercising her first amendment right, and i appreciate the fact that the witnesses are here to tell us how government oppressed them for exercising that. i would yield back to the chairman. thank you. >>> we'll move to our witnesses. we have with us today katherine engelbrecht, fou

the fbi went to the bellamy's home. neither alvin nor the truck were there. but alvin's wife was. >> she proceeded to tell us where he was, that he was with his brothers, claude bellamy and larry bellamy. so that is the first time we come up with three names. >> around 1:00 a.m., a car approached the bellamy home, but it wasn't alvin. it was alvin's brother, larry, who was a lieutenant with the myrtle beach police department. >> they gave me the name of lieutenant larry bellamy, and my initial reaction was, they've made a bad mistake. there's no possible way that they've got the right person or that they should even be looking at this particular person. >> larry vehemently denied any involvement in the robberies. alvin came home a short time later in the truck identified as the lookout vehicle. the fbi found $116 in brand-new bills in alvin's wallet. >> fresh, crisp 5s and 1s. i started writing down the serial numbers to the $1 and $5 bills. >> there was basically one of those ploys that you use. >> i told him that i was going to take it back to the bank and

now considers a suspect. >> but fbi agents are hot on the trail of ghantt's accomplices.campbell. and they have tracked ghantt to mexico. >> he's got 30 grand, which runs out quickly, because he's eating where he wants to eat and spending money the way he wants to, because he thinks $8 million is on its way. >> he's getting occasional cash deliveries from a man he knows only as bruno. bruno's real name is michael mckinney, a friend of steven chambers. chambers made mckinney part of the heist gang to transport money to ghantt in mexico, and to get close enough to ghantt so he could kill him. the funds mckinney brings to mexico are usually between $5,000 and $8,000, much less than what ghantt expects. >> in between delivery, he would find himself having to eat grilled cheese sandwiches. he actually would be holed up in his 40e tell room for fear of getting killed, eating m&ms and listening to the eagles. david ghantt suspected there was a murder plot. all he knew was that kelly campbell wasn't visiting him. every time he called kelly campbell, some guy would come down that

fbi. >> fbi, irs, bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms. >> atf. >> osha. >> osha. >> and the texas branch of the epa. >> you mentioned very eloquently you're going to keep fighting, and i see that obviously. when you have to deal with this, you have a business, other things, trying to impact the country in a positive direction, when you have to deal with these agencies like this, it makes you less effective in pursuing your message. it has to. am i right? >> it certainly gives one pause to think there is interagency collusion against private citizenses. it's the weaponization of government. >> do you think people similarly sit rated to you may look at what happens to people to speak out and decide i don't want to deal with that and i'm just going to remain silent? >> that's absolutely the case. >> ms. garretson, what was the irs asking you to provide? it seems like these were very invasive and intrusive questions. >> they sent me a list of approximately 80 queps. it was an eight-page document. some of the questions they asked, they wanted to know all of my members' names. they want

. >> an fbi profiler agreed. since there was nothing missing from the home and no signs of violence, the profiler suggested heather's abductor might be someone familiar with the family and their routines. >> it's a very high percentage of crimes of that nature that the family members are involved, so you always look at the parents. you always try to check out their alibi or check out their motive and see if there's any evidence of bad character at all. >> the first suspect on the list was heather's father. at the time, he was separated from diane church and living on his own. >> the fbi wanted to talk to me for about four hours. i had the, like you see in the movie, the good guy/bad guy scenario, fbi agents asking me all these questions that some of them were really hard to imagine. they were very, very personal. things that, how i felt about my daughter. >> but mike church said he had an alibi for the time heather went missing. he attended a support group meeting for divorcees with plenty of witnesses. he left t

fbi profiler roy hazelwood came down to help.hree detectives drove him around the city and turned into jefferey mathis' neighborhood. >> as soon as we turned on to that street, everything stopped. a guy cutting the grass stopped. guys playing dominos on the porch stopped. i said, what's going on? everything stopped. they said, laughingly, that's because we have a honky in the car. >> john glover, who took over as fbi chief in atlanta that summer, said that's why he and hazelwood decided the killer had to be black. >> the killer is someone who is invisible in the black community and who is invisible in the black community but another black person? >> malcolm harris was one of the first task force detectives. he knew it had to be someone who went unnoticed. >> we felt like it was somebody who could come in the neighborhood and get these children and not draw attention to themselves. >> the question of which race struck a raw nerve. it had been only a dozen years since the murder of dr. martin luther king. on the surface, atlanta wa

must've been based on more than just antipathy for the fbi. i'd like to know what does he know about the fbi the e-mail of, which convinced him to take this rather drastic action. >> i can answer that question. we talked about it quite a bit. he had no file on the fbi, but what he had was a strong perception that turned out to beetroot. he thought that jay edgar hoover was a consummate bureaucrat and i saturate keep greatly detailed files on everything, including documents about how to deal dissent. he didn't have any idea that dirty tricks that would involve in dealing with such a thing. but he thought the jay crew affair would require the meticulous records to be kept up everything. he also is a right-wing ideologue and when you combine those two things that was the very day combination. he had no ideas what would be found, just that it was true. >> yes. the mac there was other fbi offices locally. one question is why media. my second question is over the five years, did the fbi ever get close to any of the way >> you couldn't do the downtow

she had numerous meetings with the fbi including the fact that fbi would sit in the king street patriot't all. she was visited by osha. she was visited by the epa or the texas equivalent to the epa doing an investigation. she was visited by the atf and harassed by the atf. of course, she was harassed by the irs on numerous occasions. all she wanted was what every other organization that's trying to exercise the first amendment wants and deserves as a tax-exempt. because of that, as the chairman has said, the right to exercise the first amendment is there primarily so citizens can criticize government and not be afraid of government harassing them through their use of government administrative bureaucrats. all of these things happened to her. fbi, osha, epa, atf, irs harassed her because of exercising her first amendment right, and i appreciate the fact that the witnesses are here to tell us how government oppressed them for exercising that. i would yield back to the chairman. thank you. >>> we'll move to our witnesses. we have with us today katherine engelbrecht, found. mrs. cleat that

anyone with information is encouraged to call the fbi 212-384-1000. the feds used to have to prove intent. it's not like that anymore. who's doing it? mostly teenagers. >> $10,000 as a reward. thank you so much. >>> a possible break in a cold case. sheila and kathlyn lyons were last seen at a mall just a short walk from their home in maryland. now police are releasing new information on a person of interest who they say may have been something to do with their disappearance. >> it was march 25, 1975 they walked the half mile to the wheaten plaza mall which is in their neighborhood in maryland. there were several witnesses who actually saw them at the mall, including, gretchen, their older brother and some witnesses even saw them walking home. one witness said that she saw a man who resembles this sketch you're about to see that was actually fixated on the girls at the mall. that sketch also resembles the person of interest, 57-year-old lloyd welch. known as michael welch. he's been arrested several times for sex offenses against young girls. police sa

fbi agents played along, didn't tell them they knew what he was up to and his russian handlers were fbi agents. a week later hoffman e-mailed the handler a message, the power is out. the feds chasted hoffman, charged hip with attempted epps nudge, even those a local report says he is less like james bond and more like the bumbling mr. bean. lea is in the newsroom downstairs. he -- lea was a fighter pilot. we're expecting him to speak. >> the sentencing hearing is going on right now and we could find out the results at any moment. prosecutors are seeking to put hoffman in jail for 30 years, but hoffman's lawyers are asking for just half of that. the never really dealt with real russian spies, only the fib agents who approached him. i spoke with a federal prosecutor who says the details may sound like entrapment but it's not if the government can demonstrate person had a predisposition to commit espionage. >> it does appear as though the fbi kind of targeted him, but at the same time, not knowing internal specifics of their investigation, i would imagine that they had some indication that

the fbi and local police call it vandalism. as if billy bob and bubba, after a few beers and a night out, get their hands on ak-47s and surgically knock out 17 transformers, 16 circuit breakers after cutting underground fiberoptic cables and outsmarting security cameras and motion sensors. these terrorists are still out there. and less than a week later, in a shockingly similar attack in tennessee, a suspect on a boat fired shots at a nuclear power plant and then engaged with police. a trespasser, you might say? someone armed from the water willing to engage in a shootout with law enforcement is certainly not bubba with a few beers in him. and even if no one attacks our grid, the sun will. the earth is exposed to intense solar flaring roughly every 150 years. the last time it occurred was 1859. do the math. we're due. now, i'm not saying this to panic anyone, but everyone, including our enemies, know that an artificially created electromagnetic pulse will shut down all power which risks our complete survival. we possess, the un

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field office of the fbi said it's investigated four similar cases in recent months. twice arresting the men accused and twice giving enough evidence to charge the guys. carlos vasquez flying from houston to dulles charged with assaulting a 15-year-old. he was rubbing her leg and thigh, up her shorts, touching her underwear. the girl, court records say, pretended to be asleep. >> victims are so shocked that they're being assaulted so it takes awhile to process it. >> reporter: prosecutors say the victim pretended to sleep too. he made abusive sexual contact against the woman. a stranger next to whom he was sitting. her hand inside her bra fondling her breast. when we dug deeper, we found similar incidents nationwide. including the new jersey man charged with molesting the passenger next to him on a plane while whispering kiss me in her ear. the man charged with groping a pregnant woman on a plane. we also found no federal government agency keeping official count of these cases. not the faa or the u.s. bureau of justice statistics which tracks crime data nationwide. th

that might have foretold of or allowed the fbi to investigate the plots on 9/11. the cia i think it's fair to say he was really buffeted by these particular hearings and then the 9/11 commission came along and had another set of hearings which really were very very tough. indeed the chairman of the 9/11 commission noted that their staff statement about what happened with the cia did on 9/11 was really an indictment of the agency's performance. a second factor that occurred that contributed to this momentous change of events in the fall of 2004 was really the 9/11 commission itself. they were a group of nationally prominent men and women who are able to build a national audience through a series of hearings about what happened on 9/11 and really they have a lot of cachet and a lot of influence and indeed they constructed their own strategy to be able to build a legislative proposal that would have a chance of succeeding and could be acted on very swiftly. the third factor occurring at the time was the failure for the miss assessment of iraq wmt was coming into star

also, shepard, it's important to note the fbi did not join in this alert. fbi has access to more actionable intelligence, more credible generals than anybody in the united states for the world for that matter, and they didn't join in this, which leads me to believe that the threshold for information is extremely low, coupled with the fact that the solution for it is bizarre, asking our counterparts overseas to do schwabs of shoes and run -- swabs or shoes and run them through an analytical device and determine whether a person can come on an airplane. that is not practicable and doesn't work and they're incapable of doing it. it's bizarre. >> anybody who flies in europe or outside the united states, you don't take your shoes off and don't put your laptop through the things. the rules are different and to expect them to change the rules to accommodate the united states' wishes, is that too much to ask? >> it's way too much to ask and is going to quadruple the amount of time to get through security. irthey're concerned the answer ises explosive trained dogs i

the fbi as of today has no idea who they were. from silicon valley to boston to sochi, this planet is not getting safer. and let me say, before i ask you about the events in your home state, what i found particularly sobering were the estimates that this was in fact a training exercise. and yet there has been no effort, i think, at a national level to really respond aggressively to the possibility that you may have a whole group of people out there trying to think how to take down our electrical system. as a californian, what was your reaction when you got briefed on the silicon valley incident? >> i think it's quite staggering when you consider the sophistication of the attack and how little we still know about what took place, whether this was an act of domestic terrorism like the oklahoma city bombing, whether this was preparation for something more sophisticated later. but it just kind of brings home the fact that, when we talk about sochi and we talk about soft targets outside the city, we have lots of soft targets here. and

he had not expected to encounter gary at that particular point. >> the fbi created an entire profile of the person they believe perpetrated this crime. >> we estimated his age to be between, i believe, 22 and 27. his education, we said he had graduated from high school. he lived within walking distance of where the crime had been committed. >> hazelwood predicted that the killer would be so traumatized that his weight would fluctuate, and he would look for a legitimate reason to leave the area. >> this was a frightening experience for this person, because in our opinion, he'd never killed before, and he did not intend to kill when he went into that residence. >> but if the killer had left town, how would police find him? this is the age of knowing] what you're made of. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long-t

so they would pick up the information and pass it on to the fbi.o in terms of reforms, you know, i could not see anything that i really disagree with on those 46 recommendations that came out from the white house panel, you know, hearing all these rumors that the president is killing ted do cosmetic changes tomorrow and nothing really sensitive which would be very disappointing, but actually it goes along with his track record. i mean to me is the guy that triple the number of people -- tripled the number of forces in iraq instead of ending in the first six months -- i'm sorry, and afghanistan, triple the number of forces in afghanistan and the first cut its office said in a minute. george bush had won drone attack in yemen in a year's. and obama has declared war on yemen. there are drawn attacks all the time. the first attack was not even address our attack. it was december 17th 2009. that was when he launched his first attack which was very telling. there were not enough runs in the area. there were all in afghanistan and pakistan. but there was

the fbi leading investigators saying these are the concerns. listen. >> we're particularly concerned with the level of violence used by these criminals. and the possibility of them acting again. resulting in serious injury to innocent persons. >> well, they've upped the security at other local banks and financial institutions. will that do any good? well, the manhunt continues, as i was saying. and how they're going to get any idea on this is no indications of that at this time. there's certainly a reward out at the moment, wells fargo putting up $35,000 for any identification and ultimate arrest and prosecution of these individuals. the police have thrown in another $2,000. but so far we've got no news from the fbi in terms of new leads. it's a mystery. and these men, dangerous as they are, at large, greg. >> dominic, thanks. >>> no charges will be filed against congressman michael grimm, caught on camera, threatening a reporter after the state of the union address tuesday. the u.s. capitol police say they have now closed the case against grim

the death in the apartment in florida -- >> yes. >> at the hands of the fbi. >> yes.here were two massachusetts state troopers present, as well. >> it was immediately after the potential signing of a confession to the triple murders? is this what this is about? >> those are the leaked reports. we haven't had any official accounts. i actually just got a press release just this afternoon saying that the florida state prosecutor who is conducting an independent investigation into this fbi shooting, he will have his own independent report out by the end of march. and that's the first official date we have had that there will be any official report as to what happened in that room. >> in that apartment. >> in that apartment. >> and you're saying this is the florida investigation. >> this is the florida -- >> this is not the fbi. >> this is not the fbi. >> they said that they would sew owe because there's all sorts of different versions of what happened. he's sitting at a table, they say he rushed the officers with either a knife and then in another account a pipe. he has a

the fbi, i've spoken with them a few times, maybe three or four.n't know what they are pursuing nor would they make that sort of information available to me. >> wow. explosive allegations coming out of the worst health care website state so far, oregon. it's still not functioning. i don't believe anybody signed up in that state. we're hearing from patrick sheehan, former member of the state representative there in oregon. thanks so much for your time today. >> thank you. >> tragedy strikes another cruise ship. the horrific incident that left a 4-year-old dead and his brother seriously hurt. an incredible story of survival or is it? why some are questioning one man's story about surviving more than a year adrift at sea. we want to hear from you on this topic. the "duck dynasty" launch agnew curriculum to be taught in churches. so would you go to a bible study and learn more about that? tweet me @gretchen carlson. we'll read your comments at the end of the show. 4 [ sneezes, coughs ] i'veot a big date, but my sinuses are acting up. it's te for advil

mike pelton is joining us live from the fbi office more. >> both that fbi and the u.s. marshal are involved. they stated that this man is armed and dangerous. he may be here in the bay area there responded because someone spotted him in san francisco. we have pictures to show you love him. that was to to take a good look at him. they stated that he is a convicted felon and a sex offender. he is accused of attacking a woman and a police officer in february. they stated that he has possibly been stayed in homeless shelters while making his way around. they stated that he to be closer than we think. >> people should be aware that he has worked in the hotel business before, landscaping, literally, he to be right outside your door. if we do not me to alarm people but you should be careful who you hired to do work for you. >> they stated that he may be headed to washington state or mexico. his 5 ft., 5 in. tall with a sunburst tattoo. he also has a pierced ears and tattoos on his armpits. he has used many different names and a couple of different birth dates making him betwee

that might have foretold of or allowed the fbi to investigate the plots on 9/11. the cia, i think it's fair to say, was really buffeted by these particular hearings, and then the 9/11 commission came along and had another set of hearings which really were very, very tough. indeed, the chairman of the 9/11 commission noted that their staff statement about what happened was the cia did on 9/11 was really an indictment of the agency's performance. a second factor that occurred that contributed to this momentous change of events in the fall of 2004 was really the 9/11 commission itself. they were a group of nationally prominent men and women who were able to build a national audience through a series of hearings about what had happened on 9/11, and really they had a lot of influence. and, indeed, they constructed their own strategy to be able to build a legislative proposal that would have a chance of succeeding and could be acted on very swiftly. the third factor occurring at the time was it this failure or the assessment was coming into stark relief in the summer of

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one by one, agents arrested ring members but the thefts continued until an informant helped the fbi 0hael martin. one of the last members, in his home in tracy. >> something is going on weflt had no idea. >> fbi agents spent several days watching the house and cars outside of the house. trying to get enough for a search warrant. they got the warrant and last wednesday, they went in the house. >> i heard them on the megaphones saying come out with hands up, fbi is here. >> car rena was home when federal agents raided the house. >> it's scary. being close to home and having kids scared. i was loud that morning. hearing officers in front of the house. >> in tracy patrick walker. >>> new york city police say they found 65 packets full of heroin and five empty packets in the apartment where actor phillip seymor hoffman was found dead, yechld medical examiners have not yet made an official determination. police say they found a needle in his arm. neighbor says they was regarded as a good father and neighbor and concerned about issues in his community. >> i'm just in shock. i feel so horrifi

hundreds of agents in the fbi, the mafia investigation.iting from the sicilian mafia, and from the cumorah in naples, and it's quite obvious. the reach they feel that these people won't turn, and won't become government testifiers, they are very very powerful. so it's an alarm signal going on today. >> and we'll continue to watch this one with you. good to have you. >> good to be here. >> let's head back to south carolina, and we're going to give it one more try. pete is back on the telephone, and he's with the south carolina department of transportation. and pete, can you hear me? >> good evening, john. >> how are you is the bigger question, and what's going on in south carolina tonight? what's the weather situation there? >> we're in a low right now. we have had one front that passed through today that brought us snow in the upper part of the state. sleet in the midlands and rain on the coast. and that started to move through. in fact, all of our primary roads and interstates are just being reported as wet. however, what we're expecting

it's an fbi sting called abscam. >> you got any other questions?me of the operation is offensive. what, abscam, arab scam, it's racist. >> what do you care, you're mexican. >> the operation got under way in 1978 and it sent shock waves across capitol hill when it finally went public two years later. >> a cover for the biggest political scandal to hit washington since watergate. grand juries in four cities soon will begin hearing evidence in a bribery scandal that involves eight members of congress and at least 20 other public officials. >> it was the first made-for-tv scandal, politicians caught on surveillance tapes, taking thousands of dollars in bribes from phony arab sheiks. at the heart of it is the man depicted by christian bale. >> like the veet congress man, right, i'm in and out, i was there the whole time. you don't know it. to become somebody who can pin their beliefs and their dreams on. >> bale, of course, played the character irving rosenfeld. it's loosely based on the actual mastermind of abscam, a bronx born con man. we caught up wi

all the way back in 1993 the fbi had this penetration. why didn't it come up?mission. he said he hadn't heard of this. this is phillip zelijko, now at the university of virginia. he hadn't heard of this. we had trouble reaching the actual agent, the former head of the fbi field office, maybe he'll want to see this and want to talk to me now, ed kern, what happened with this information. what the 9/11 commission did find -- also the 9/11 commission folks very much on the years right before the september 11th attacks and didn't dig that deeply back to 1993. but this raises questions about what happened to this source. was the cia or the fbi still running this source up into the 1995, 1996, 1997? and that question isn't answered. our sources for the story say that the fbi, los angeles field office lost track of the source. so it's not clear now what happened. when you look at this, we tried really hard not to bring this story as something that would just fd the landscape of conspiracy theories about 9/11, because we know it's a rich landscape. we really wanted to

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the human intelligence asset was run by this fbi agent. the connection to bin laden only came to light after he filed a discrimination suit against the bowero and his supervisor testified about the quality of his work and the assets he was running, quote, it was the only source i know in the bureau where we had a source in al qaeda directly involved. it's a very small group, but this person was already here. he was also connected to the blind sheik serving a life prison sentence for the hack in 1993. the information helped the fbi disrupt a terrorism plot against a los angeles messianic lodge in the '90s. neither lee hamilton who chaired the 9/11 commission, nor the executive director could remember be told about the fbi asset. a former head of the house intelligence committee said they were in the dark, too. >> this is the first time that anybody really did a deep dive into al qaeda. what were their capabilities, their plans, and why did we walk away from bin laden or his organization some time in the '90s when we were that close? >> in a

he told me the fbi had done this. i called the fbi, they went ballistic. hours his statement was changed where he admitted the cia had done it. >> reporter: morrell recently described by the "new york times" magazine as clinton's principle gate cooper. he gave up -- gatekeeper. the "journal" says he is close to hillary clinton citing unnamed officials. he declined fox's offer to speak on camera. in a written statement late yesterday he insisted the senate report strongly you ports the cia's position that the talking points were not politicized in any way. but that was not the view of republicans on that committee. martha: very interesting. we'll speak to senator kelly ayotte about this. bill: a real-life castaway says he spent a year at sea. but some are questioning his story. martha: the president taking aim the fox news on the same day hillary clinton did the same thing. >> do you think we are unfair to you? >> of course you are, but i like you any way were will be bill. it's just that i'm worried about, you know, "hidden things." ok, why's that? well uh

playing an fbi man has earned him his second oscar nod in as many years. each in collaboration with writer/director david o'russell. >> both sets have the exact same energy. which is very alive. anything can happen. >> can somebody say hey, let's be positive. let's have a good ending to the story. >> in 2011, it was russell who cast cooper for the lead roll in "silver linings playbook" with just days to go before shooting began. >> i thought i'm not right for this. >> despite all the bare lels -- parallels in your own life. >> everything good? >> i never had to cry on film. i never had to do that. >> "american hustle" began to come together. >> you were really in the creative process with it. >> yeah, from the begin. i'm so grateful that david sees me as somebody valuable to that process. >> russell was eager to reteam with actors who made his last films fly. for his character, cooper wanted something a little different. >> to make sure that he was first of all, not just this sort of antagonistic foil, straight laced fbi guy that you see in 100 movies. he'

the fbi is working with u-s marshalls to track briggs down. and federal officials are set to announce how much water they can release though rivers, canals and reservoirs. farmers in the central valley have low expectations. last year, some farmers received 20 percent of what is considered normal. an elderly woman is in critical condition after being hit by a cement truck while crossing a busy san francisco intersection. police say, the truck driver was driving north on fillmore. and had stopped the truck just past the crosswalk on california, to allow a car in front to park. once traffic started moving, the driver pulled forward and hit the woman, who he didn't see coming. police say. it doesn't appear that the driver is at fault for the accident. since the woman who was crossing the street was jaywalking. and may not have been paying attention. the incident caused delays on two muni bus lines. two workers are hurt in a frightening scaffolding accident in san francisco this afternoon. this is video from our helicopeter partnership with a-b-c

they would pick up the information and pass it on to the fbi.n terms reforms now, you know, those are -- i couldn't see anything that really disagreed with on those 46 recommendations that came out from the white house panel. you know, hearing all of these rumors that the president is not going -- he's going to do cosmetic changes tomorrow not anything substantiative, which would be disappointing. but actually goes along with his track record, i mean, he's a guy that triple the number of people in -- forces in iraq instead of ending up in the first six months. i'm sorry in afghanistan. tripling the number of forces in afghanistan when he got in to office instead of ending if in the six months. george bush had one attack in yemen in eight years. obama has declared war on yemen. the first attack on yemen wasn't even a drone attack. it was december 17th, 2009. that was when he launched the first attack on yemen. which was very telling. there weren't enough drones in the area. they were all in afghanistan and pakistan. but there was a navy ship. it