the fbi has been investigating this for three years.ring is not about the fbi, nor its investigation. it's about the response d the process of responding to three very dangerous devices that provide an eminent risk to people here the capital. the fbi was invited to be here today but they declined and i believe we have assembled an impressive panel of experts that can help us break down the response. this hearing isn't about the fbi investigation but something this committee does have oversight of which is the capital police and law enforcement that respondent how they respond to incidents like this. without objection all other members openin hearing and they are submitted, if they are submitted by 5 p.m. today. pursuant to paragraph b of the committee rule six the witnesses will please stand and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? let the record to show the witnesses answered in the affirmative, you may be seated in t

these fbi agents they all said this was wrong. information back to fbi headquarters in d.c. that is how our investigation began. but since te but since that we've the weevil and the financial surveillance wrote broader there is a specific objective. federal government is building profiles on the american people. the profiles up based on conduct but beliefs if you have the wrong political beliefs you are potentially a domestic violent extremists. how are they doing this? are the mechanics? as an entity discovered called the orwellian in sound and title it's an entity where the fbi tment fluent security work 6650 of 6650 largest companies in the world. these companies have to do over billion dollars of revenue in ayear. they represent two thirds of the gross domestic product of the united states economy. they worked through a controlled access world. but that on the screen right what are they sharing in the secret portal? we are not exactly suretsor ais r because again they might be an extremist for stop and think about that for a second period in other words if you are agains

why did you leave the fbi.d from comer. >> i can't blame comer. there are many people within the fbi at this point that i don't know that they even trust the fbi. there's fbi one, those that came to the fbi to uphold the constitution, protect americans, keep us safe. fbi 2 are those that are in high level positions using their law enforcement power to push their political and social agendas which is entirely unacceptable. that's what's tearing down and ruining the fbi. they need to get back to being the number one law enforcement agency in the country. they need to restore the trust of the american people. but that's sadly i don't believe it's going to happen until there's new leadership starting at the very top and trickling down. there's a lot of changes and reform that must happen to regain the trust of the american people. right now, it's a problem. it's very problematic and i understand where comer is coming from. maria: nicole, we'll leave it there. really well said. great to see you this morning, thank y

and and cases also when the adl have tried to infiltrate the fbi and the fbi is not like that, so there's a kind of a on off relationship. because they're just so close in in their involvement. yeah, well i, i then asked lamis about the material support for terrorism debate and and how it's being used against pro-palestine protesters. uh, i'm going to try to be brief, but you're gonna have to bear with me uh, i call them national security cases and material support cases, um, these are frameworks, these aren't just charges, these are actual frameworks that extend to the civil arena, the financial, the commercial, they become sanctions, they become corporate. compliance issues, they're very serious allegations and very wide all consuming network, and i'll tell you having handled these cases since approximately 2004, and having represented on one of the last ones, the last big ones to come, because we ended up shutting down a big part of the app apparatus that was manufacturing these cases, very well coordinated and often mobilized at first instance by the israeli government, the ccr along

you left the fbi. why?wo fbis. >> that's right. maria, i joined the fbi because i was a witness to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in new york city and i did want to give back and serve my country one day so i went to apply for the fbi after working on wall street. it was an incredible career. it started off very well. i felt like i was making an impactful difference, working violent crime, crimes against children, white collar prime, as time progressed politicization started creeping into the organization and a now it's as if there's two fbis. there's an article that talks about fbi agents internally that are disgusted and they're not happy with what's happening at the fbi. there was a foia request that was submitted that reveals e-mails sent by fbi agents to the ombudsman department, which is the way to provide confidential information to those up in the higher ranks to express to them what they felt and the fbi has a problem because you've got two sets. you've got fbi one which are fbi agents that are just tr

fbi i've told the fbi gon from bank of america specifically it received a list of any customer who purchases in the washington d.c. area generally fifth through seven, 2021. the whistleblower supersor i office corroborated his testimony when he spoke to the committee. and so did steve domestic terrorism operation section chief. but it was not just purchased pe data around a specific date the fbi got from bank of america. that was actually overlaid with any firearm purchase at any ■ time. how does the fbi get this information? they ask for it. you can see on the display on the screen here the e-mai that was sent to the fbi told bank of america to recapture morning call we are prepared to ask the transacting business in washington d.c. between these specific days. if you are in washington d.c., vmaybevisiting her aunt or justa friend the epic that wanted to know about every single person she made. and, are a gun owner looked out you are going to top of the list. for simply exercising your second amendment right you on arget list. never forget the federal government got this information without

now these fbi agents mr. hill, mr. jenson they all said this was wrong and in fact, sent information back to fbi headquarters in dc. that's how our investigation began but since then we continue to investigate but since then we've learned that the financial surveillance was broader and there was actually a specific objective. federal government is building profiles on the american people and the profile isn't based on criminal conduct it's based on political beliefs and if you have the wrong political beliefs, well, you're potentially domestic violent extremist. how are they actually doing this? what are the mechanics of this? domestic security alliance council, oil welling in town and title. the largest companies in the world. these companies have to do overi a billion dollars in revenue a year, they represent two-thirds of the gross domestic product of the united states economy o and they work through this controlled access portal, we will put on the screen here. what are they sharing in this secret portal? well, we

"the fbi hasn't investigated the adl a bit more, well i mean to be fair, the the fbi has investigated the adl, both in terms of the ideas attempts to infiltrate it way back in in the 40s and 50s, also then in the 90s when there was spy case taken against the adl and it was revealed that the adl were coordinating with the bureau of state security in in south africa's apartide regime, there were passing information about uh anti-apartide protesters to the south africans that they coordinated." directly with with the israelis, the fbi were investigating some of that, they in fact said, this is a this is clearly foreign agent of the israely government, it should be registered as such, etc., but of course there's always been in these circumstances attempt at the top of the american par structure to drop these things, it's been the case actually also with the cia, but especially with the fbi, there's been tons of examples where where the adl and other israeli spy operations have been have been flagged as being a problem and there's always been somehow some pressure put and the and the and t

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>> but then, in 2016, the fbi holds a press conference here in mcclellanville. and just minutes away from where authorities conducted an exhaustive search for her. >> and the fbi drops a bombshell. they come forward to say that they are ready to announce that brittanee drexel is dead. >> what we've come to discover through the course of this investigation now is that brittanee drexel did leave the myrtle beach area. we believe she traveled to this area around mcclellanville, and we believe she was killed after that. >> they were sure that drexel was deceased. they were sure where she was deceased at. >> after seven long years of waiting and praying for the return of my daughter, we know she isn't coming home alive. brittanee's life was stolen from her in a brutal and senseless fashion. >> the first question was, how do they know that she is dead? what happened to her was still being held from us. >> the fbi has some evidence pointing towards brittanee's death, but what they don't have is who's responsible for this. so they have to be very careful about what info

no-fly list is maintained by the fbi? >> that's my understanding. >> have anyrorists, suspected terrorists or who are on the no-fly list presented themselves at the southern border or been apprehended crossing illegally into the united states? >> we have seen over the last, i think, five years an increase in the number of ksts or known or suspected terrorists attempting to cross the southern border. >> have individuals on the knownist list, suspected terrorist list on no-fly if list presented themselves at a u.s. airports once entering the united states, attempting to fly? >> i believe the answer to that is yes as well, although i don't have that right in front of me at the moment. >> have they known? -- flown? if. >> well, there may have been instances where as part of an investigation if in close to potentially ap apprehend somebody somebody's allowed to fly in order to see where they're going and then take action. but intentionally. >> have individuals on the no-fly list been permitted to fly? >> i believe again depend

when the fbi file opens. it really opens wide right the claudia ne dossier is over a thousand pag i length, about 800 pages ofhi are now available. certain parts of the file still remainnd wraps redacted, not available to the public for reasons that don't know and can't fully explain, b it's not until 1942 that they begin trking her for about 100 pages of theilthey think she's born virginia somewhere in the s. and it'sotuch later in the file that they figure out that she she she migrated to the u.s. as a young person in 1950 she's taedor short period on ellis island. claire james is also goingo be detained. she spends 11 months in prison not all that far from here in west virginia with a number of other of communist active s because she was not born in the u.s. they also had the government also had the ability deport her they did that after was released from prison after serving her roughly 11 months of prison and at that time she went back to back to england. she went england for the first time and lived muc

fbi?ny individuals who are known terrorist, suspected terrorists who were on the no-fly list presented themselves at the southern border are been apprehended the southern border united states?ly i t >> we have seen over the last i think five years and increase in the number known or suspected terrorists attempting to cross the southern border. >> of individuals in the known terrorist this is suspected or no-fly list presented them at u.s. airports atit once entering the united states, attempting to fly? >> i believe the answer to that is yes as well. even though i do not have that for me at this moment. >> have the phone? >> oh well, there may have been instances where as part of an investigation and in close coordination in order to potentially apprehend somebody, someone is allowed to fly in order to see where they are going and then take action. but not intentionally. >> at the end of ultimately no-fly list been permitted to >> i believe again, depends upon what time. you are talking bu

to address this legal abuse of power by the fbi this committee included direction to the fbi in the iaa requiring notification to congressional leadership of any if counterintel investigation into a federal candidate for office. is there any counterintelligence investigation into either joe biden or donald trump? >> i would just say i'll refer you to the special counsel -- >> it's not a question about the special counsel. that's a requirement of the iaa of the fbi. is there a counterintelligence investigation into either joe biden or donald trump? >> no investigation that i can confirm here, no. >> is there a counterintelligence investigation? >> again i'm not confirming any investigation into east candidate. >> are you aware that that you're required by the iaa to congress of any if counter-- >> and we will, we will only ply with the law. >> have you already or complied with the law i? >> i believe we have beeaw. >> you believe you have been or has there been a notification to congress of any counterintelligence investigations of a federal candidate? >> i believe we have complied with

the fbi is there to investigate, not actually to prosecute. they're going to hand that material off to a prosecutor and what they do when they're tracking and want to potentially have them prosecuted for a crime is they assemble a assemble a game called a prosecutor of summary some of these and claudia is file are huge the largest. is 111 pages long. this plan for how are we going get claudia jones from the perspective of the government but these were fascinating in and of themselves here is a document taken from one of them the star is not going to be some kind of secret informant that had in-fill claudia jones's circle it's not going to be an intelligence expert who's been tapping her phones. it is going to be the headline librarian of the new york public library and the library of congress and their exhibits are going to be documents from the daily worker, other newspapers and magazines where claudia had published her work. this to me was so fascinating. the main bit evidence for claudia jones and against claudia jones was by librarians lib

now, according to fbi's data, the fbi looks at content in less than 2% of its searches on americans.as i have described it, using your data, the data from the fbi, doesn't our warrant■- requirement only applied to a tiny fraction of the searches the fbi conducts when you factor in all of these exceptions? i could go through them but i think you know them and i can go through them but i think know them. if there is any imminent danger, no warrant, you have to go get the warrant later, but the exception list is very long.the senate and in the house would apply to only a small fraction of the searches you are conducting. director wray:= percentage, it is not a significant percentage, certainly the number is significant.lem is it is the content that tells us whether or not it is an agent of a foreign power involved so i think that is part of the problem. sen. warner: if the witness will pause for a moment. >> permanent [indiscernible] sen. warner: continue. director wray: got cut off was i was just expanding that the fundamental problem is in the instances where we need to look at the co

the honorable cockell jr., christopher ray is the director of the fbi. jen easterly is the director of infrastructure security industry and general paul nakasoni. i too have to thank you general nakasoni. i don't want to play favorites but when i called you to try to convince you to do this, i felt a little guilty because you were doing your change of command. but the fact that you were willing to do this. more than the awards you're wearing on your uniform today just to the type of public serevent that you are. that you would be willing to do this. and you know, whether you're redeploying or changing command, usually you kind of trap your -- you kind of block your pack. i just wanted the outset of this hearing to thank you for an exceptional career of public service. the nation owes you a great debt of gratitude. >> we can stand for that. i asked the witnesses to stand and raise your right hand that was me lulling you into a false sense of security before the questioning begins. i would like you to stand so i can swear you in. do you swear or affirm und

or burns, the fbi director just mentioned president bush. diplomacy. now you are in the middle of a and now, you are in the middle of a that i think everybody up here hopes that you are going to be successful about. in that context, i want to ask you about the supplemental bill that has the ukraine funding in it. that is a bill that passed out of the senate with 70 votes. we almost don't pass anything around here with 70 votes, or broad bipartisan recognition of the importance of that bill. i agree with your assessment and the intelligence committee assessment tuk possibility to prevail in this conflict with russia. believed that but the way theye fought, the way they have been able to be supported by our intelligence, obviously, it has made a difference. they succeeded in ways nobody could have imagined.ere are people in the house that don't believe that.nt is differt than the intelligence communities and their judgment is different. but i would ask you since you are here a little bit about the negotiating posture that ukraine, the west, na

isn't this the fbi's■1 fault, fr accepting his intelligence?the number one thing to remember here before i get into the kind of crazy story that ise fbi arrested him for lying about joe biden and hunter biden. when it comes to the world of informants, i'm no intelligence expert. but just like dan golding who was on the oversight committee has talked about when you're dealing with wn's, sometimes these are people that are involved in crimes and that is why they are able to have information about things that are going on. but when it comes to this informant and this specific allegation, when it was brought to the attention of the fbi, there is no way to verify or corroborate it and the trump justice department actually looked into this and said we don't want to move forward with looking at this because it is unverified and we cannot verify it. these facts were known by the republicans in the senate and the house when they were trusting alexander smirnov at their biggest piece of evidence here, and that is really dangerous. so not only do we need

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and what did you make of when the fbi charged alexander smirnov with telling lies?ought, if you want an informant who is going to lie for a criminal conviction, they got the right guy. >> reporter: criminal defense attorney joseph benincasa warned the fbi in a sentencing memo when smirnov was a key secret witness in a case against his clients. you write, "the continental human source was known to the united states as a liar and a fraudster." you think it was known? >> wthout a doubt. >> reporter: what happened when you warned the government about him? >> at first they didn't believe us. >> reporter: benincasa says when his clients filed a civil suit against smirnov and threatened to dispose him, the feds cut benincasa's clients a better deal. >> they should have cut ties with him years ago. >> reporter: former justice department inspector general michael bromwich says the new charges against smirnov could imperil other cases. >> i think a review has to be done to find out not only what happened here, but whether there is a systemic problem. >> reporter: he also worr

fbi investigating after synagogue desig with anti-israel anti semitic graffiti. that's eight of literally pages of examples of anti semitic acts in the wake of october 7th. and it is notable that there has been basically silence. so it is true, the division must return to the nonpartisan work of protecting the rights of all americans, not just those that it favors, i look forward to hearing this morning how that will happen. i will now recognize the ranking member, the gentlewoman from pennsylvania ms. scanlon for her opening statement. >> thank you. assistant attorney general clark, i want to welcome you to the judiciary committee and this very important oversight hearing to help the committee and the american public understand the critical role that the civil rights division of the department of justice plays in protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of all americans. this hearing is particularly important since your predecessor refused the committee's request for an oversight hearing amidst the trump administration's efforts to weaponize the department

we have intelligent tax forces that are fbi led. they are relevant from this military agency that is right here. that is within that area. they have local law enforcement's that are very different. a part of giving them a different multiplier to help counter the threat. they have many numbers of investigations into different kinds of investments. actors are associated with the prc. trying to spy on them, if you will. targeting the military inspirations. -- installations. they are savvy about how they are looking at these investigations. making sure the lines of communications are wide open. they know what facility is in that particular action. whenever i'm looking at the field office, i'm visiting from this twice. this is the third round now. it never fails to inspire me. they are looking at the military presence. this is within the united states. >> i'm sure there are many partnerships that have been very successful in stopping many of these threats. we cannot rest on our laurels, continuing these conversations. it is going to be c

after 10 years the fbi assigned a new agent to the case but nothing new turned up. >> i believed the at that point, they disappeared to a foreign country and we would never be able to locate them. >> the only thing that changed were the images on the missing persons posters. from the baby harris loved to a computer simulated image of a teenager he barely recognized. >> if i die before i wake from this nightmare -- >> he stopped filming messages to savannah long ago but wrote one last poem. >> please keep an eye out across the fields, watch the end of a long driveway, someday my daughter will be there asking for me. >> had you given up? >> no but one has to face reality. here it is, she is 16, 17, 18 and you do not know where she is. >> perhaps the only sign that harris had not abandoned all hope was savannah's room, it's to adjust as she left it 18 years before. >> and you get a email out of the blue. what did it say? >> it said i have information about your daughter but again i have learned to temper my expectations over the years because the well had long since gone dry so all of a

has seen, the fbi is taking this very seriously. our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas leading us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the fbi investigating reports of another possible spy balloon flying in u.s. air space. the fbi becoming involved after fishermen discovered a concerning object off the coast of alaska. according to sources, the fishermen suspect it might be some kind of surveillance balloon. but tonight the fbi describing the unknown object as debris. sources telling abc news the fbi and other agencies will assess the object when it makes its way to shore this weekend, determining what, if anything, should be done next, including whether it will be flown to a government facility for further analysis. just last week over colorado, norad sending up fighter jets to intercept a high-altitude balloon flying at 43,000 to 45,000 feet. it was determined not to be a threat to national security. but president biden and the white house tracking the balloon's course. the administration keenly aware of such incidents comin

so i called the fbi. feds set her up with a wire so they could listen in on her meetings with board members and get the dirt straight from the source. she'd be meeting with these players, and they would be basically laying out the whole scheme to her. davis: the contract would be padded, um, by roughly $10 million so that that money would go then to the various players. at one point, i decided, i wonder if this goes up to the governor, because the governor appoints these individuals to the various boards. the feds were wondering the same thing, and over the course of their investigation, their suspicions proved to be spot on. out of the public eye, rod's fund-raising goons, chris kelly and tony rezko, felt safe to strong-arm money from donors across illinois. but unbeknownst to them, the fbi was following their every move as part of a far-reaching corruption investigation into the blagojevich administration. as the money rolled in, their role in rod's administration only grew, which had his father-in-law,

the fbi investigating after anti-somatic graffiti.t is eight literally pages of of examples of anti-semitic acts in the wake of october 7th, and it is notable that there has been basically silence. so it is true the division must return to nonpartisan work and not just those that it favors. i look forward to hearing this morning how that will happen and i recognize the ranking member for her statement. >> thank you. i want to welcome you to the judiciary committee and this very important oversight to help the american public understand the critical role that the civil's rights division of the department of justice plays in protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of all americans. this hearing is particularly important since your predecessor refuse the committee's request for oversight hearings amidst the trump administration's efforts to up and i the department of justice in a way that was unprecedented in the history of this great nation. under that administration, we some members of the department of justice leadership acting

in reference to talking about the fbi. >> i did not call the fbi agency liliars. i said they'd misstated projects i said i was speaking and i df all it does not say tony bobulinkski called the fbi this is a summary of two agents it took notes through my interview and their summary. apparently first met in person with persons of the biden family 2017 meeting in miami florida. this is an absolute lie. the final thing i'm going to say have a republican i don't think the impeachment of biden is appropriate to house speaker mike johnson'sam ability to talk me into staying herena is going to be about successful is the ability of talking me into it unconstitutional. >> okay let her hav over. the chair and out recognizes from tennessee. >> thank youe mr. chairman. july 30, 201,700 by directors chinese business associate agreement is that i'm sitting here with my father we would like to understand why the commitment has not been fulfilled? mr. bobulinkski whited agreement -- who did he work for when this message wasr. >> he?lexi work for director at cfc. >> connected to th

king did, the fbi contribute to that and? what was the impact of his king's assassination and on the nation and on law enforcement? well, yeah, the fbi contributed to it. i'm not of a conspiracy buff. and i know some people, people i really respect, who i for this book, including members of the king, including andrew young and james, they still think that it was a conspiracy that james earl ray did not act alone and maybe didn't even fire the trigger. i don't know about that. but i do know and i think it's verifiable that the fbi created conditions that would make think of king as the enemy and make him more vulnerable to, in fact, just three months before his assassination, the put out a memo saying that now that malcolm x is dead, really, king is the only one left who could become the messiah. and we must do everything in our power to disrupt him. and that memo went out to every bureau, fbi bureau office. so that's the conditions in which he was living. the fbi director, the most respected lawman in america, says that king

have a good relationship with the fbi or local field office. we were able to essentially run a sting operation back against the chinese, prevent millions and millions and millions and millions of dollar to be fleeced by the chinese and lure and officer who was involved to brussels where he was arrested and we extradited him he is now in federal prison. that is what we need to happen more often. it also shows if a company is sophisticated and as big as ge can fall prey to this what company couldn't? >> ge did the right thing. if the company was a ccp affiliated company with lived on the same thing? >> i would not count on it, thank you. i guess i want to build on something congress and was talking about. you talked about the importance of being on the tectum with ofdifferent communities across r nation. i was very interested in what you said about making people aware and organization aware of services being provided. a lot of the conversation stays statesman talking about how can we prevent some of this type of situation where we have the vulner

that again, hopefully -- you had some of the top fbi officials. they have said what we are witnessing is an invasion of military age men. you asked the question, try to understand people that think differently than you. for the life of me, i can't come up with any rationale or reason for this. >> so, there's two things you think of. number one, they maybe want the votes. i think they look at these people registered to vote. >> sean: i'll give you citizenship, remember me at the polls. >> i'm doing very well with hispanic. but the fact is you have two things. either they are stupid, or they hate our country. because it can only basically be one of those two things. other than the voting element, which, i don't know. i'm not so sure they believe that so much. i think it is down the road, and although they are trying to register people right now as we speak, we -- >> sean: in new york city, for example, local elections. we've got to take a break. we are just getting started. we are at the board in eagle pass, and we are glad you are with us. we conti

>> the fbi director's right.rorist threat to this country is enormous greater than it has been at any time since september 11th. we said we said 10 million people illegally crossing joe biden became president. i spend a lot of time down on the south border, border patrol agents are actively looking for hamas, palestinian jihad, terrorists coming across and have called for terrorists the carry out acts like october 7th on october 7th 12 people were murdered in israel with these terrorists call for is the same sort of mass murder here in the united states and joe biden in every congressional democrat is complicit and refused to do anything to stop it and worse than that it's not even just that biden and the democrats are overwhelmed and don't know how to stop the flow coming in the news just broke in the last 2 weeks that joe biden, the biden administration actively flew over 320,000 illegal immigrants from their home countries into the united states and to 43 different airports. we don't know that because biden to

it held that the fbi's communications were inherently coarser because the fbi as a law enforcement agency. and it held the the white house has engaged in coercion because it used strong language. if this court reaches to reaffirm that government speech se only if viewed objectively. and because no threats happened here, the courts should reverse. justice thomas: mr. fletcher, is the coercion encouragement framework the only way to look at the case? mr. fletcher: one is the coercion inquiry. you can think of that as an aspect of state action because private parties are compelled to act as state actors. respondents in the lower codes different way. they suggested that even absent question the government speech encourages private action. justice thomas: just so i understand your argument. do we normally apply state action doctrine in cases involving the government or private parties? mr. fletcher: both, i think. in some state action cases youhe because they are state actors. you see some suits like that. suits against the platforms or the government. justice thomas: are there any first amend

then we get to the justice department, the fbi.e fbi's generatedss■ document that chairman comber in the house and i made public alleging criminal bry the bideny and a foreign national. embarrassingly for thr years the 1023 collected dust until congress and the justice department forced the fbi and the u.s. wyse to interview that source. the federal indictment doesn't explain the full set of facts and leaves many questions unanswered. those questions include how the justice department and fbi could use this confidential human source forl@ approximately 13 years, pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars, use his information investigations and prosecutions and then ultimately determine after 13 or 14 years, that this guy is a liar -- lie y -- according to public documents,■3■1 the repore fbi as late as december 2023. this is matter that requires extensive sunlight. if not for my securing the document 1023 and releasing that you know what? the fbi would still be believing the lies -- the lies of their confidential human s and they'd s

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errol southers, a former fbi agent and former fbi s.w.a.t. team member. dr.elp us understand what happened in bucks county, pennsylvania, considering that andre gordon allegedly killed family members. what might have driven him to do this? what might his motives be? >> jonathan, that lies at the heart of what is happening today. they will be taking a close look at that. my first guess would be that it is probably some kind of domestic related issue and it could be exacerbated by some kind of mental illness associated with this. your question earlier with the other guest about data and resources, they will be pulling everything they have on mr. gordon. they will be looking at his mental history that is not hipaa protected, they will be looking at any contact he has had with mental facilities, with law enforcement, any stayaway or restraining orders that might be in place and whenever these things happen, the real question as you have asked, is why. so, that is going to rely with regards to the conversations that the crisis negotiators are having with him. that