it happened in garland, texas. simpson and another terrorist opened fire at a conference center. incredibly, an f.b.i. undercover agent was on the scene. >> i can't tell you whether the f.b.i. knew the attack was going to occur. i don't like to think that they let it occur, but it is shocking to me that an undercover agent sees fellas jumping out of a car and he drives on. i find that shocking. >> there's a lot of people gunning for me. i'm not going to be reckless. >> pelley: who is gunninr

look, there are examples that we are able to talk about, the garland,texas, one is the one we figured that we can talking about. there are other matters that we don't talk about because they might be under investigation, and we can't talk about that. which is a problem. the government needs to be tran transparent, i agree with that. but we need to control it so the bad guys don't know what we're capable of and not capable. but it is a real problem today. it's going to increase as we expect over time. but it's a real problem today and we saw it over the next several years. >> sir, in front of you. the gentleman in the beard here, first. >> my name is john meredith. i was surprised you mentioned you have no proposals from the fbi as far as legislation. how are we going to go forward if you don't make a formal request expressing what your requirements are to the appropriate committees in congress? >> there are a lot of legislative proposals but the executive branch is whether there will be a proposal put forward. this is not so hard that you can't write in a concise way a legislative pro

having, i think the number was over 100 communications directly from the person who showed up in garland, texas, and foreign terror operatives overseas. withof an organization whom we are at war, right? who are trying to provoke and inspire people in the united states to kill other people in the united states, right? that is there a of operation. 100 or so messages were encrypted so we could not tell what they were saying. we can see the network, but we did not have an understanding of what they were planning. that is the gap. that is the cost of encryption. that is what we are talking about. and so, that is the cost. so, these are costs that society is going to have to bear those terrorists were successful, that would be borne by the victims of that attack. the community, the families, and so on. so who is assessing that? what concerns me is that society is sort of moving along and decisions are being made, choices are being made, all by default. just letting things happen. if that is what the american people want that is what the american people will get. it is incumbent upon us, as i said ea

having, i think the number was over 100 communications directly from the person who showed up in garland, texas, and foreign terror operatives overseas. right of an operation within we are at war, right? into are trying to provoke and inspire people in the united states to kill other people in the united states, right? a of operation. 100 or so messages were encrypted so we could not tell what they were saying. we can see the network, but we did not have an understanding of what they were planning. that is the gap. that is the cost of encryption. that is what we are talking about. and so, that is the cost. costs that society is going to have to bear those terrorists were successful, that would be borne by the victims of that attack. the families, and so on. so who is excepting that? what concerns me is that society is sort of moving along and decisions are being made, choices are being made, all by default. i just letting things happen. if that is what the american people want that is what the american people will get. it is incumbent upon us, as i said earlier, to make sure they understand tho