we're joined by steve gomez.repeatedly made threats against him, but apparently there wasn't enough to charge him. is there something more that could have been done to prevent this, based on that tip? >> reporter: well, it depends on whether those threats continued from that point on up unto earlier today or yesterday. because the fact that he made threats, that should now put him on the radar with law enforcement and the newspaper, because the fact that you now have somebody, you know, saying that they are going to commit some type of violence, indicating violence. and the newspaper had to be thinking along the lines of could this be somebody who's going to commit some type of violent act. and in this day and age, anytime you have some kind of threat of violence you have to consider that as a righteous threat of somebody coming into the building with a knife or gun or whatever and trying to harm people. >> what lessons can we learn from this incident, especially for media outlets, with sometimes controversial re

we spoke with former fbi agent steve gomez about what, if anything, could have been done to prevent thisttack. >> the fact that he made threats, that should have now put him on the radar with law enforcement and the newspaper because the fact that you now have somebody, you know, saying that they are going to commit some type of violence indicating violence and the newspaper had to be thinking along the lines of could this be somebody who is going to commit some type of violent act. and in this day and age any time you have some kind of threat of violence, you have to consider that as a righteous threat of somebody coming into your building with a gun or a knife or whatever and trying to harm people. >> and police are being praised for their quick response time. they arrived at the newspaper 60 seconds after the call. one of the first tweets came from a newspaper intern who had the presence of mind to include the address of the building. >> we turn now to the tense hearing on capitol hill about the russia investigation and one congressman who ordered the man in charge of the probe to, qu