fbi?> ma'am, they do not pick works based on your experience as it fbi veteran and targetedd the d.o.j.'ser unlawful acts, why do you think this political purity campaign is ongoing inside the fbi? >> i'm not fully aware of why they're getting rid of people with more conservative views or potentially not wanting people at this time man pick works i think your testimony is there also trying to get rid of anyone who holds christianan values and christian beliefs. is that your experience as well? works that is my expense especially see the comments leveled against me during the investigation. >> of a gentleman sitting next to you ranting and raving about project 2025. i doubt that he really understands anything about it. but ranting and raving about that.le that does not seem to be at all bothered by the fact you were targeted because you are a conservative and a christian. you find that odd? >> a defendant a bit surprising wish not be targeting groups of people within our organizations becau

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what was the fbi's role? you could do a whole museum on that i am sure b of a small display here at the fbi experience. >> the epi is a principal investigator at the agency and the watergate matter. when the burglary happened in june of 1972 is on a couple weeks after j edgar hoover died. immediately the washington field office was on the case. there were some odd things about it. it was targeted national democratic committee headquarters which was unusual. two, they were caught with electronic surveillancee equipment and other things. and three, there is the origins of the five people arrested were odd and seemed to suggest perhaps shady government ties to some extent. and that bureau became a fairly investigative work. the management got pulled into the politics of the day. senior administrator under hoover and then under gray who was one of the people in washington d.c. leaking to the press about the matter and potentially compromising the case. the impeachment hearings of nixon. it was the build up from o

you have served in the fbi. what is wrong with identifying fbi officials, partial addresses, hometowns, personal information, and making a threat. you may justify it because you think they are engage in evil but that is a direct threat from the way i read with it. what could go wrong with that kind of thing. and isn't that the kind of threat of violence that i think ought to be examined by a weaponization committee as opposed to what we are doing here today. your view? >> thank you. i wasn't with the fbi though. i was with the attorney's office right up the street there. but i tell you, i worked closely with the fbi. the washington field office. and, you know, we moved heaven and earth to prevent personal information from getting r tnes about people we were investigating. so as to prevent them from being unfairly perhaps, smeared with an investigation that did not result in an indictment. and, you know, i had my fair share of witnesses killed in washington, d.c. because their information got out. they were label

so fbi historian john fox.look a little grainy what's going on this room is built to look like one of our surveillance setups for for many years we have used situations where we've had to record people doing bad things. back in the 1940s, for instance, we were investigating a german spy ring and we had set up the office of our informant. so that he was recording all of the interviews with the spies that he was meeting with. this one looks a bit more like a more modern hotel room and, you know, it might be the setup that we used in abscam, the effort that led to the arrest of several congressmen for taking bribes, or it could be a more recent espionage case. and we have often had a situation where really the best evidence you can get is someone actually talking about their own crimes. and so you have to put them at their ease. you have to get them in a situation where they're willing to to share that information and expound on it for you. but, of course, they don't know that you're being filmed. so this room act

abbate served in positions with the fbi. serving as the deputy director for the bureau for the past three years, mr. abbate with investigative and intelligence activities. moderating the session will be steve, the security ceo microsoft federal. so please welcome them. [applause]. >> thank you, paul, for spending this time with us. i think you have the distinguished honor of having the most provocative title at billington taking the cyber fight to the bad guys. that's pretty exciting. so look forward to digging into that with youment so really taking a look at-- this has been a big year for the fbi. the department has been more aggressive at taking on cyber adversaries. what has changed in the world and what has gotten us here. tell us about your approach. >> first, thank you, steve, for doing this panel with me or the chat. it's a privilege to join you all for the 15th annual summit. thank you for billington cyber security and tom for having us here. when i think about it, that the idea of an aggressive approach, i think th

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fbi has deployed several specialty teams and assets from fbi headquarters and our lab division in quantico to include evidence and critical incident response personnel. the evidence response team is collecting and processing multiple evidentiary items. these range from the rifle, which is an sks model with a scope and obliterated serial numbers to two bags, the subject's electronics, and what appears to be ceramic tiles. dna has also been collected from those items, which are being sent to quantico for testing. we will also process the subject's vehicle for evidence. the cellular analysis survey team, what we referred to as cast, conducted thorough analysis of the subject's cellular device locations. the cost analysis aligns with witness accounts of the subject's presence at the scene both before and around the time of the incident on september 15. more specifically, we are continuing to conduct analysis and will be compiling the subject's movements in the days and months leading up to september 15. cellular data shows that the subject was in the vicinity of the golf course roughly 12 hour

they were undercover fbi agents.d to kill the former president and other top administration officials as retaliation for trump ordering the killing of top iran general soleimani in 2020. the iranian assassin operation aimed at trump officials is directly aimed at murdering former. trump among others. >> the islamic republic says death to america, they mean it. we have senior iranian political military and religious officials talking about the killing of former president trump and they mean it. >> merchant pled not guilty. the next court hearing will be in november. his lawyer also complained that they're letting him out of his cell enough. the cell is small and he wants to be let out more often. >> that's a good foot note on that. thanks, eric shawn. great reporting. he's following those developments here. >> firing the subject's movements in the days and months leading up to september 15. cellular data shows the subject was in the vicinity of the golf course roughly 12 hours before the engagement with the united sta

the fbi is responding. so that is obviously a very significant moment in this story, the attempted assassination attempt on the former president, alex. >>re ken, let me ask you something if you are not able to answer i will go next to frank figliuzzi from the fbi, the fbi is investigation is for the attempted assassination of former president trump. the words attempted assassination, how broadly might that be applied? we don't have any indication a shot was fired at the former president. could it include anybody who may have wished to do harm? someone who wasn't able to get close enough to do harm? but somebody who clearly had something terrible with their intent? could that be classified as an attempted assassination? >> reporter: well, alex, it would go beyond a mere wish or even a threat. obviously, there has to be some plotting involved. you have a man with an ar -style weapon in the vicinity of the president. it that we know. si we know those facts. what we didn't know or don't know if it was attempted

arthel: the fbi is reaching. they are investigated they are on top of that standby for me paul i'm going to toss it over too eric right now. eric: we are told president biden vice at president harris have been briefed this. they are relieved the former president is okay and is arthel just said the fbi not saying this appears to be an attempted assassination president trump. these second to this nation has gone through thankfully, we do not know if the gunmen got any shots off at the moment are waiting for confirmation for the news com conference is about to begin at some point you see on your screen right there whether or not that did have we do know the secret service agent we are told an advance team several holes ahead of the president as he was playing golf did see a man with a gun identified as an ak-47 and open fire on that suspect within flood was later caught on i-95. so, in advance team was able to do with the purposes for the secret service to try to protect the high profile protect these and were able

the fbi pass that information to local law enforcement and honolulu on behalf of the fbi. i would like to thank the palm beach county sheriff's office and martin county sheriff's office for their incredible work. and actioning the witnesses information and rapidly apprehending the subject i would also like to thank the united states secret service, the united states attorney's office for the southern district of florida the department of justice's national security division, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives and our fbi field offices in both honolulu and charlotte who had been conducted additional law enforcement activity related to the subject, your continued partnerships have been invaluable oftentimes in law enforcement, we tell citizens to be vigilant and aware of their surroundings. yesterday, a citizen provided remarkable assistance, which led to the arrest of this subject. we appreciate the public's diligence and passing potential tips and information regarding the subject and this incident to the fbi if you have any information, please call 1

the fbi has enough resources — the fbi? the fbi has enough resources to _ the fbi? the fbi? the fbi has enough resources to get the - the fbi? the fbi has enough resources to get the job - the fbi? the fbi has enough. resources to get the job done. in terms of their major priorities which ijust in terms of their major priorities which i just ticked off, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, major crime, major white—collar crime, gangs. those types of things. intellectual property theft, but threats presented by our greatest adverse areas like china, russia, iran, north korea. think it is a matter of prioritising those resources and putting them where they have the highest priorities. that's the problem with the secret service, they like to do investigations of minor frauds, bank fraud, credit card fraud is, that sort of thing, not that it should be not work but they have half of the resources devoted to that type of mission when the real mission, the core mission is protection. leadership at the top level and thatis leadership at the top level and that is what i've

fbi special introduction, iamjeffrey. fbi specialagent introduction, i amjeffrey.ion attempt of former president trump. review this is extremely serious and are determined to provide answers as to what led up provide answers as to what led up to these events that took place. i want to emphasise we arejust a place. i want to emphasise we are just a little over 24 hours into this investigation were going to provide as much as we can publicly while her investigation is still ongoing. we must also stress the united states attorney office is looking to press charges and their few details we can discuss publicly. yesterday afternoon, martin county sheriff took custody of ryan wesley routh and was transported back to the county office. our fbi agents attempted to interview him and he invoked his right to an attorney. in the last 24 hours, the fbi in our partners have been dedicated to investigating the incident in utilising all available resources and these include our investigative team include our investigative team in the united states attorneys office for the southern

as they learn more and as the fbi, andrew and you're a former deputy director of the fbi, is the fbi now in charge of this investigation? not the secret service, not the palm beach county sheriff's office. it's the fbi, which is a church. is that right? >> they absolutely are wolf as you know, under presidential directive 12th triple three, the fbi has primary responsibility for investigating any acts of terrorism here in the united states. >> this would certainly be considered an act of terrorism, possibly domestic terrorism, although, again, wait and see, we get more details about this. >> shooter. >> but absolutely that the fbi would be the lead agency. now it doesn't mean they'll do it by themselves. they clearly will work very closely with the secret service and also with the palm beach county in martin county sheriff's offices. but you will see the bureau kind of taking the lead role on the execution of search warrants the collection of evidence, preservation of evidence. and then i would expect pretty soon you're going to hear about southern district of florida prosecutors wei

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se investiga como un intento de asesinato, segÚn afirmÓ el fbi.re los hoyos cinco y seis en el campo de golf. trump international, cuando se escucharon detonaciones similares a disparos. el incidente empezÓ poco despuÉs de la 13:30 de la tarde, segÚn reportÓ en conferencia de prensa. el alguacil de palm beach, obligando al cierre de todas las calles que rodean el campo de golf. >> fortunately we are able to locate a witness that came to us and said. hey, i saw the guy running out of the bushes. he jumped into a black neeson and i took a picture of the vehicle and the tag. >> segÚn el alguacil, rÁpidamente pudieron localizar a un testigo que vio a un hombre huir de los arbustos que rodean el campo y que se subiÓ a un automÓvil negro. nissan tambiÉn pudo identificar la placa del vehÍculo con la ayuda del departamento de policÍa de martin county, pudieron detenerlo y tambiÉn ser identificado posteriormente por el testigo en el vehÍculo. autoridades hallaron un rifle tipo ak 47, un telescopio, dos backpacks o mochilas y una cÁmara gopro. segÚn los inf

attorney and senior fbi official. he is an msnbc legal analyst. and frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence and an msnbc national security analyst. we're expecting the mayor any minute now. when he comes to speak, we will go to that, but what more do we know about the allegations against the mayor? >> reporter: let's talk about what you mentioned, jose, that it is a five-count indictment on 56 pages. the counts are a count one conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal program bribery and receive campaign contributions by foreign nationals. count two, wire fraud. count three and four, solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national. count five, bribery. and going through some of this, one of the things that's hit me when reading this 57-page indictment of which i have not gotten through all of it, but something pointed here that the mayor received, it says, some $10 million in matching public funds for his 2021 mayoral campaign. they say that that was fraudulently received because they were using something called

agent, when these incidents occur this seems to be a pattern that the fbi did have note of who this individual was prior to these incidents occurring i would like to take a moment and read what the sec of the fbi miami did say in the press conference. i think it's import for viewers to understand he said he was the subject of a previously closed 2019 to to the fbi where it was alleged that he was a felon in possession of a firearm in following up on the tip the alleged complaint was interviewed and did not verify, did not verify providing initial information the fbi passed the information to local law enforcement in honolulu, here we are again there is another awful incident that occurred, thankfully president trump is alive this is on the fbi's radar back in 2019 in the fcc of fbi miami slipped it in the press conference, by the way this happened and again, i would like to make sure the fbi is following up on the tips and i would like them to look at that again was it exactly where all resources exhausted to make sure they cannot charge individual back then he's being charged yeste

everyone my name and i'm a special agent in charge of the fbi's ime field office. the fbi has assumed the role as a re- federal enforcement agency, then the investigation of the incident that occurred earlier today at trump international both course here in west beach florida. we have deployed a number of resources including the investigative teams, crisis response team members, bomb technicians, and evidence response team members as well. we need right now is for the public to avoid the area around the golf course. we will continue to support this investigation with the full resources of the fbi. alongside our partners with the united states secret service on the palm beach sheriff's office, as well as warning county sheriff's office, his state and local law enforcement. i would ask that if anyone has any information that may assist with this investigation, to contact her tip line at 800 — call fbi, or at t ips . fbi ., thank you. >> i'm david ehrenberg, state attorney for palm beach county and why think that bradshaw and a partners state and federal levels and i'

host: so, what's his relationship with the fbi and christopher wray right now? do they have much interaction? host: that's a great question. the fbi and chris wray have had a contentious relationship with donald trump and with a lot of congressional republicans recently, congressional republicans saying that the fbi has been weaponized. that could come to bear to some extent in these investigations. i would say that in the immediate days following the assassination attempt, we weren't working on anything like that. from the trump campaign they weren't ready to cooperate, figure out the facts and keep everyone safe. host: decatur, illinois, independent, good morning. caller: good morning. as the bullet ever been recovered? the bullet that was fired at mr. trump? guest: yeah, they have completely investigated the entire crime scene. the fbi confirmed that the former president was hit by either the bullet itself or pieces of the bullet and they did that through ballistics analysis and looking at the scene. host: i know that there were reports that trump would sit d

the fbi and secret service. you could not ask for better inter-agency cooperation complications after you got that, how quickly do you think sheriff's office yeah the time between when the balloon out and when we had the vehicle was a time at all. >> i just sat down to have my only second cup of coffee here today. and as soon as i heard the ball, i'll be on the lookout and the martin, i knew we got a sound mccarthy downside, getting ready to come out here. sure enough. we've got to talk there you have the sheriff the sheriff of martin county, which is right next to palm beach county, the sheriff william snyder updating that the suspect who was detained, it was relatively calm at that moment. and apparently, they they also found an ak-47 assault rifle that they have been involved in this what he described as very serious instead, it right now and i was going to ask you kaitlan as a former white house correspondent, you know, there is always a pool of white house correspondents who traveled with the president, cov

he explained why this was now an fbi operation.ficially determined that it was an assassination attempt against a sitting president, a former president, or a nominee for president of one of the parties, the fbi will take over that. they take over that investigation. but what you have eel too realise is, when we use those words like "they take over the investigation", the reality is that the fbi works closely with all law enforcement in most of these types of cases. it actually becomes basically a joint task force so they can reach out to not only other fbi officers, but also other law enforcement entities where this individual may have been known. they also work with intelligence agencies to see if any of the information comes back about this individual where he may have been part of a state—sponsored assassination attempt or any type of terrorist group. what do you make of the evidence that the fbi has got so far? because i've heard it described here in the us as being a gold mine, given we've got the gopro, we've got the gun, we

the vehicle in the hands of the fbi. you can imagine the fbi will do everything they can to find more about this person. the suspect's demeanor was calm, flat, not displaying any emotion, never asked what this was about when being pulled over and taken out of his car. he has been identified as a man, we did get that clarified. so it has been a very busy time for me. i want to thank all of my guests for being here with me. g i could not have done this without you. again, the assessment by the fbi, everybody, is that it is an assassination attempt. an as everybody is that it's an assassination attempt. and we take you to the press conference. >> we're going to give you everything we have. everything. so when we get done, think about your questions because i know it can go long. don't get into the whys. think about your answers and we'll be good. 1:30 this afternoon, a call of shots fired. because we're in constant contact of them at all times. we were notified of that and we had units here that immediately sealed off the a

the fbi is leading this ongoing fbi. as the attorney general stated earlier today, the fbi is continuing its investigation of this incident, as an assassination attempt upon the former president. the investigation remains at its early stages. the entire justice department, including the fbi, the united states attorney general's office for the southern district of florida and the national security division are coordinating closely with our law enforcementpartners to fully investigate and prosecute this matter. the charges announced reflect a strong collaboration of the agencies represented here. the u.s. attorney's office, the department of justice would be unable to carry forth our mission without the invaluable assistance of our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners. i would like to thank the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives, and we have chris robinson here, special agent in charge, and u.s. secret service for the invaluable assistance they are providing and have been providing. i would

of course, the fbi and the u.s. attorney's office do not see this they see this really what's important. just having covered these kinds of cases before going back to really the molar days when you and i both cover that this is a big concern for the government anytime a foreign national can exert what they say is this kind of pressure and this kind of influence it's on a politician is very significant and very concerning and it's also turkey and there's a lot of concern over that, certainly for the government but when you read this in diamond also, what's really interesting is that it's the years of influence the years of working. eric adams. and then when they need a favor basically with the government says is adams does that favor for them? and that is certainly something that is extremely concerning for the government, for the fbi and you can understand dan why they would do this investigation and why they would bring this case. but for the eric adams team, they're going to certainly raise a lot of issues pam, wi

how come fbi can't find her? woman, and the fbi is still looking for her. only her arrest or proof of her death will solve the mystery of the missing cryptoqueen. no body has ever been found. whether ruja is dead or not, it's very hard to be sure about this. it could be this is just another brilliant manoeuvre to throw everyone off the scent, and i wouldn't put it past her to do that, but it's more and more likely that, actually, she's dead. we're chasing a shadow. at some point, it becomes like "elvis presley might "be still alive." ruja might be still alive on some distant island with young boys around her. it's not really very likely. she messed with the wrong guys. live from washington. this is bbc news. israel's military announces it has found several bodies underground in the gaza strip, but hasn't confirmed if they're the remains of hostages. reports from eastern ukraine say at least eight people have been killed on saturday and many more injured in a barrage of russian attacks. vice president kamala harri

what do you think the fbi specifically? and what is top the list of things they're trying to figure out well, obviously everyone has access to his social media history. >> so that's one thing that they're looking at. that's a whole separate team that looking at if there's any accomplices, i mean, quite frankly, the opportunity to be at the right place the right time to take a shot at the former president is quite astonishing in terrorism and counterterrorism. we teach about these cycles of radicalization. we teach about this mobilization of violence. and it ought to begins with a night of violent ideation and then moves into a stage as we call pre-operational surveillance. and so just happening to be at the right time and the right place. this individual may have been filled or someone may have known that he was going there. i don't know how he knows that the president was going to be golfing that day. but that's certainly something they're looking at to see if they can link him to other individual or individuals that may h

. says and kumla agree, the fbi's said that that is not the case, and then trump said, well, the fbi did not invest, did not take into account all of the cities, especially the cities where you have a large number of of illegal immigrants, so what trump was essentially saying is that you have corruption within the american fbi, and we know that because the fbi went after donald trump when he was president, the fbi lied and carried out a uh fiser to get fiser warrant. to carry out an illegal spying operation upon a president elect and then president donald trump years ago so um i'll conclude with that part there yeah and of course all of these uh issues are uh quite intriguing for the international community who's watching closely what's happening in the us uh and of course the us as a country advocates democracy uh so uh mr. saysmily one of the most heated policy. discussions came up when trump and harris clashed over how they would handle russia's - the russia ukraine uh war and uh of course their responses revealed very huge differences uh what is your take on that uh by the way ju

says and comala agreed, the fbi said that that is not the case, and then trump said, well the fbi did not invest, did not. into account all of the cities, especially the cities where you have a large number of illegal immigrants, so what trump was essentially saying is that you have corruption within the american fbi, and we know that because the fbi went after donald trump when he was president, the fbi lied and carried out fiser to get fiser warrant to carry out an illegal spying operation upon a president elect and then president donald trump years. go, so um, i'll conclude with that part there, yeah, and of course all of these uh issues are uh quite intriguing for the international community who's watching closely what's happening in the us uh and of course the us as a country advocates democracy uh so uh mr. sasmily, one of the most heated policy discussions came up when trump and harris clash over how they would handle russia's uh the russia ukraine war. and uh of course their responses revealed very huge differences. uh, what is your take on that? by the way, just my my name is

the fbi's asked the community for their help. if you have any information about the suspect or has saw anything call fbi tip line. we are waiting to see if that suspect will be in court tomorrow or later this week. it is pouring rain right now but we will keep you updated and bring you the latest from palm beach i will send it back to you. >> thank you the second attempted violent butler. congresses investor the first shooting for our next guest is a member of the bipartisan task force on the attempted assassination of former president trump let's bring in florida congresswoman laurel lee. thank you for joining us we appreciate it. here we have a situation where again just in credible and quite frankly disturbing that for the second time in 64 days someone tried to take the life of the former president who could be the next president. your thoughts as far as were their failures here? is this the new normal and what can we do to prevent this from happening again? >> are a couple things that are important outcomes of the secret ser

the fbi had ruth on its radar. >> the subject of a previously close 2019 it to to the fbi where it waseged that he was a felon in possession of a firearm. >> jesse: the gun was stolen since a background check would've flagged the sale and the serial number was scratched off. and the car that he was pulled over and had stolen plates. how is a roofer from out of state with $300 on its checking account and no assets to his name operating like a seasoned pro? when secret service agent swept the perimeter of the course, they noticed that the sniper nest and open fire. he was not hit and fled the scene. and hopped in his nissan heading north on 95. but thankfully a wide-eyed local snapped photos of his car. a bullet went out and sheriff deputies pulled him over 45 minutes west of west palm. >> two steps to your right! take two steps to your right! walk straight back! keep walking! >> jesse: when he was taken into custody he was calm, he knew what is being pulled over for. he took the fifth asked for a lawyer. he was perched on the sixth hole, trump was putting for birdie on five. he was 300

, and the fbi nypd joint terrorist task force.s the attacks on u.s. embassies in africa and the uss cole in yemen, by al qaeda. he is also a bronx native. tom joins a team at one police plaza that is relentlessly dedicated to public safety and protecting new yorkers. >> the new police commissioner tom donlon will need a spreadsheet to keep track of the number of officials appointed by mayor eric adams who are currently under investigation. at the same time, former police commissioner caban's phone was seized by the fbi. they seized the bones of sheena rights and david banks and david banks brother, deputy mayor philip banks, who retired as a re-senior officer in the nypd in 2014 under a cloud of suspicion about free trips he had accepted, also surrounding his phone to the fbi was a third banks brother, terrence banks, who previously worked in the city's public transportation agency. all of that was just last week. last november the fbi approach the mayor himself and took two of his cell phones, reportedly in connection with the fb

any reaction to the fbi investigation? rare example of that transparency happened in 2016, when the fbi collected evidence on hillary clinton's misuse of personal emails. this was while she was the democratic nominee for president. >> this is going to be an unusual statement in at least a couple of ways. >> then fbi director james comey came out to announce the agency would recommend no charges to be filed to the department of justice. this was four months before the 2016 election. >> i'm going to include more detail about our process than i ordinarily would, because i think the american people deserve those details. in a case of intense public interest. and second, i have not coordinated this statement or reviewed it in any way with the department of justice or any other part of the government. they do not know what i'm about to say. >> kaplan says comey stepped out of line with that announcement, and the fbi should not make those announcements because prosecutors could decide to go another direction with their findings.

that the fbi while the fbi quote, had no problem breaking to the absent that j6 hostages as he falsely calls them. he says the fbi has been able to open certain apps to the man who attempted to assassinate him in florida i assume. i mean, what do you know that would the fbi had told him that as part of a briefing, is that something that they would disclose to him it's possible that they would have shared that sort of an investigative update with him as he is the victim of both of these crimes however, his case thomas has suggestions that they're not working hard enough or they're not applying the full scope of their capability because they don't like kim is absolutely absurd. it shouldn't surprise anyone that the former president who, as i understand it, doesn't even use email, isn't really aware of the complexity of trying to enter foreign a communications apps that utilize things like end-to-end encryption and very strong passwords. it is not an easy science, it's one that the fbi spends an enormous amount of time on and not not to beat a dead horse here, but the bureau has been argu

elections, the fbi is focused on ensuring that our laws are respected and enforced.hen we learn that our adversaries overseas are trying to hide who they are and where to propaganda is coming from as part of campaigns to deliberately sow discord, we will continue to do everything we can to expose the hidden hand and disrupt their efforts. so i will close by saying thank you again to everyone on the task force for the support you are providing us and for everything you are doing to instill confidence in our elections and ensure they are conducted in a way that is safe and fair and legitimate for the american people. thank you. >> thank you. thank you, attorney general garland, deputy attorney general marco and fbi director wray for your commitment to safeguarding our elections. with your leadership and your support, the criminal division's public integrity section continues to spearhead the election threats task force. there is no mission more critical to the then deterring, dissecting and punishing criminal threats to our elections. since we last met with leadership

any reaction to the fbi investigation?y happened in 2016, when the fbi collected evidence on hillary clinton's misuse of personal emails. this was while she was the democratic nominee for president. >> this is going to be an unusual statement in at least a couple of ways. >> then fbi director james comey came out to announce the agency would recommend no charges to be filed to the department of justice. this was four months before the 2016 election. >> i'm going to include more detail about our process than i ordinarily would, because i think the american people deserve those details. in a case of intense public interest. and second, i have not coordinated this statement or reviewed it in any way with the department of justice or any other part of the government. they do not know what i'm about to say. >> caplan says comey stepped out of line with that announcement, and the fbi should not make those announcements because prosecutors could decide to go another direction with their findings. that risks confusing the public.

what the fbi says, an attempted assassination of former president. what's the what is the current president said about it that's right. >> anderson, we just heard in the last hour new statement from president biden himself in a statement released from the white house, where he again expresses his relief that the former president donald trump is on harmed in this incident. and notably, biden echoes the language that the fbi used earlier that's significant language in which they call this a possible assassination attempt. they'll biden in this statement in part goes on to say, quote, there was an active investigation into this incident as law enforcement gathers more details about what has happened, i've said many times there's no place for political violence of any violence ever in our country. he then goes on to say that he's directed his team to make sure that the secret service has every and protective measure necessary to ensure that the former president remains safe. now, president biden himself, he has been here in washington at the white house

special agent, former leader of an fbi dive team. bobby good to have you on tonight appreciate your experience on this as you listen to law enforcement explain the situation leading up to this incident that they had agents a hole or two ahead of the former president. but as our reporter was saying, last hour they had not blocked off, it seems access to the golf course entirely. and by the way, there are other players there, i suppose, to some degree that's natural, but does that strike you as a sufficient enough coordination as it were around the former president which allowed this attempted gunman to get within 300, 500 yards of the former president >> but, you know, what they do after each of these events as they do a hot wash to do what lessons learned. and so one of the things coming out of pennsylvania was to push these boundaries back and one of the things coming out of this incident may be actually extend the security perimeters even further. i'm surprised they didn't deploy. this would have been a perfect example of deploying

closest agency to the fbi. that someone is planning a shooting or a threat of a shooting, what do you do next? do you do to nypd, the school safety team? how does that carry out? >> yeah so, very good question. i was actually in a task force that had representatives of all the federal agencies. and so sometimes these things would come to us. and realistically, you are very dependent on the caregiver. very dependent upon the parents. you need full cooperation from the parents if you have a situation where the kid is not arrestable. i had this in -- actually more than once in terrorism instances. 99 times out of 100 the parents are going to be real cooperative they understand they have a real problem. we had a couple where they were not. and you have a real problem there and we had one where the kid was just at the age of 17 at the time. we really didn't want to go forward with the prosecution but we had to because we got no choice. that's t the conundrum. with a kid this young you are really stuck. steve as we h

, fbi investigation. following a raid at her home over the summer. >> in conversation with ktvu. the mayor says she still doesn't know why the fbi entered her home and collected evidence. >> my attorney has been in communication with the investigators, and we are still asking those same questions around probable cause and the reason why they came into my home. >> so with an election on the horizon, we are working to find out if there is some sort of moral or ethical obligation from these investigative agencies. should the public know where the investigation stands heading into that recall election. >> ktvu james torres is live in the studio and bringing some answers to those questions. james. >> yeah, very complicated to understand here. but in order for you to understand this story, it's important to first understand who does what. it's the fbi's job to collect the evidence and turn it over to prosecutors. then the u.s. attorney's office will decide if there's enough evidence to prosecute. we did learn i

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, no, it was definitely not the fbi, but the fbi provided information to the court, which led the court to this conclusion, and of course, here... all these trials against trump were part of that campaign in which the fbi played a central role, and we talk a lot about the deep state in the united states, but it would be quite difficult to clearly define what it is. and i have a question for you, karen georgievich, so that i can define, i want to know your opinion, i have my own, but i want to know your opinion. who really runs america today? well, as an old marxist, of course, for me it is the financial oligarchy obviously, well, besides marxism, there is actually common sense, whoever controls the world under capitalism is the one who has a gun in his pocket, the one who has money in his pocket, as the character, anareda balzac, father gario, said, such an image. bourgeois life is a machine that is set in motion by money, therefore those, those who control the federal reserve system, and these are, as you know, private individuals, that is, those who control the printing press, those w

the fbi says it's the biggest decline in decades. here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, the fbi recording dramatic declines in violent crime, especially murders, which saw the biggest drop in decades. murders down in 2023 a stunning 11%. >> we have data back to 1960. we've now seen the largest decrease in murder ever recorded. >> reporter: the new numbers, which are actual crimes reported to police, and which cover 94% of the american population and all major u.s. cities, come as crime has been hotly debated on the campaign trail. >> you can't walk across the street to get a loaf of bread, you get shot, you get mugged, you get raped, you get -- whatever it may be. >> reporter: but the new fbi numbers show in addition to a dramatic drop in homicides, which are overwhelmingly committed with guns, there's also been a decrease in rape, down 9.4%. and aggravated assault down nearly 3%. decreases also seen in property crime, burglary, and larceny. the only significant category which jumped in 2023 was car theft, which increased by ne