with other parts of the fbi. ? yeah. >> but also i think the fact there is an investigation sends a small to people in the future that you can't just do stuff like this and have in accountable. this is the one way to have at least some accountability for an event that really helped shape our hess tree more than we would have ever expected. >> reaction continues to pour in to this announcement. we will have to have you back to talk about the book. my apologies about that. the breaking news is of course the news of the day. we are waiting to get some sort of response, we assume we'll get a response from the president-elect to all of this at some juncture. breaking news the justice department investigating the fbi's handling of hillary clinton's e-mail probe ahead of the election. we will go to trump tower and talk to halle jackson for the latest from the president-elect. tech: at safelite, we know how busy your life can be. mom: oh no... tech: this mom didn't have time to worry about a cracked windshield. so she sched

donald trump's picks and hearings, the internal watchdog has launched an investigation exactly how the fbi and the justice department handled the information into hillary clinton's e-mail server. let's hand it to pamela brown. tell me about this investigation from scratch. >> reporter: the department of justice's internal watchdog announced it's launching this probe in how it handled the hillary clinton probe before the election, the allegations surrounding them particularly how it comes to how the fbi handled the public disclosure and the statement from the watchdog goes and lists all of these allegations and focuses one of the first ones on the list is james comey with his july press conference when he came out and said the investigation was closed that there was not probable cause to prosecute her but she was extremely careless how she handled the information. this is unprecedented normally if they don't find any wrong doing to prosecute they don't publicly go out and talk about the person and then right before the election with that letter that the fbi would be in essence reopening the

on november 7, 2016, mental health crisis at the fbi building. d was contacted by the anchorage fbi requesting assistance with a mentally ill person having disjointed thoughts, an apd arrived on scene they were informed by investigating agents mr. santiago had arrived at the fbi building asking for help. santiago was having terroristic thoughts and believed he was being influenced by isis. santiago had a loaded magazine on him, but had left his firearm in his vehicle prior to contacting agents. also in the vehicle, santiago's newborn child. based on the statements made to the agents, on scene in their own contact with santiago, apd transported him to a mental health facility where he was admitted. >> during this incident. santiago's weapon was logged into apd evidence for safekeeping. >> on november 30th, santiago attempt the to retrieve the firearm placed in safekeeping on november 7. at which time anchorage fbi was notified and contacted santiago while at the anchorage police department. santiago left without the firearm that day. on 11-17, a le

one of saying that individual jailers must second-guess the fbi? what are the consequences for the government's ability to have a coherent response to a national terrorist attack? that is precisely the type of thing that congress rather than courts should decide. in addition, the linchpin of the claims is that the fbi had gone these things wrong. that means they need to prove that the fbi had things wrong. this implicate the need to access sensitive -- chief justice roberts: so if the official policy, that we want to beat the prisoners everyday and that was the fbi policy communicated down, the prison administrator has no choice but to carry out the policy? >> no, your honor. in terms of there being a facially unlawful command, that is where you don't have qualified immunity. but there is nothing facially unlawful about saying opposed the most restricted conditions permissible until cleared. we all wish the fbi had been acting faster and these individuals could have been removed more quickly, but that is not the fault of the individual jailers. thei

let's take a listen. >> i have to give the fbi credit. that was so bad what happened originally, and it took guts for director comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had where they're trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. you know that. it took a lot of guts. i really disagreed with him. i was not his fan. i tell you what, what he did, he brought back his reputation. >> matt, that was a huge moment during the campaign. trump had been suffering from the allegations of sexual misconduct on his own part, women were coming out, suffering from the tape that leaked from "access hollywood" and then this came out, changed the narrative. he clearly had a new pep in his step. he had a reason for republicans to rally behind him. that being said, going forward, if it -- they even do find or are they going to be able to get to a point that they do find there were -- there was actual misconduct, if donald trump gets inaugurated and decides to put the kybosh on this whole thing? >> he he can't put the kybosh

that is what the fbi has said. but as you can see here, it's an allegation that something that the inspector general will be looking into, whether he should have recused himself regardless, wolf. >> and the other allegation that the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs should have recused himself as well. allegations that he improperly disclosed nonpublic information to the clinton campaign and/or should have been recused from participating in certain matters because of what political contributions that this individual may have made to the hillary clinton campaign? was that the assertion? >>assertion was there were communications between the doj employee, the department's assistant attorney general for legislative affairs and john podesta because he was john podesta's former attorney years ago. and some communications came to light where he gave -- one of the e-mails is where he gave podesta a heads-up about a hearing that would involve the clinton emalinvestigation. i don't recall the other communicat

the fbi holding a press conference on the florida shooting rampage. we go there right now. >> a number of individuals evacuated out of the terminal. we are working to make sure everybody was safe and secure. once we received that word from our law enforcement partners, we have been from the process of transporting those individuals over to terminal 4. we had dozens of buses transporting what we expect to be in the neighborhood of about 10,000 folks over to port evergrades. the broward county staff and red cross will assist those passenger to get to their destinations and hotels and food and shelter. we will continue to work with law enforcement partners here as we continue to try to get the airport back into an operational status. working with all of our airlines. the transportation security administration and others to try to get the ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport back in operation tomorrow morning. the goal will be to have us operational at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning. but we will be encouraging all of our travellers to check with their

i wrote up an eight-page memo and i faxed the memo to the fbi. about an hour later, steve coy called me and the first thing he said was scott, i think we have gotten off on the wrong foot. i think we will be working if are a while. the only way we successful was to work together. at that moment, i knew we were going to be okay. one of the thing that is the fbi did was to assign an agent by the name of pete. >> the first time i heard the name was at the christmas matter in 2000. i knew the fbi had gotten the name of the suspect, someone who may have matched one of these. you have a name and i would love to work with you on this. he said yeah, sure, i would appreciate your help. we worked the case together with him. we are the lead agency for the united states. we bring charges and there is a lot of pressure on us to get it right. knowing someone is guilty and fundamentally different that they are proving someone is guilty of espionage. let's validate the claim. she is an agent and who we are looking for. let's try to catcher in the act. national se

he wasn't on the radar for the fbi. even though he shows up and says these things, the judgment of the agents who are talking to him and even the people around him who had brought him there apparently was that he was having mental health issues. that might have influenced the way this was handled at the time. xwen they'll go back and take a look at it. but the fakt that mental health continues to keep coming up in these situations. we don't know how to handle it of the and we toedon't know whe these records need to become more than private records so that people can't fly with weapons and so on. >> to your point, i mean, if he didn't have a background, if he was not on the fbi's radar, you really cannot just add his name to no-fly list because then you have civil rights issue. >> and second amendment right, right to own firearms unless they've been adjudicated as tom points out, by a judge that they've been declared mentally defective. >> there will be a major post mortem to look back, see what might have been missed and

how important a moment is this here in washington and to the future of the fbi? est: look, i am a law enforcement geek, so i think it is usually important. one of the things that happened in this election is the fbi the game a critical player in the election, and that does not normally happen, so i think one of the things that this investigation is designed to didle is -- was what comey appropriate? was what his director did appropriate? should there be more clear rules we ever getd if into a situation again where the leading candidate for one or both parties are under active fbi investigations? people, frankly, even among law enforcement officials and prosecutors, feel very strongly that this is not the way it should have been done. some people support him, but a lot of people have very serious concerns about what happened. host: before we let you go, we want to go out to chicago and get your advanced word about and evidence that loretta lynch is holding, she calls it a holyark moment for chicago spirit what is going on out there? thet: this is essentially last b

being being determined by the fbi to be of interest mentally they were not not of interest. the oig quotes the security unit who explains that if the fbi cannot state whether or not it had an interest in the individual that individual was held of interest to the 911 it. so even if there is word being sent out that these men are of interest to the investigation, we have to be careful with them, what the petitioners received was designation which meant very little based on policy being applied. and then they received the detailed information that they were encountered by the fbi in context and had violated the immigration law and they might be interested in him. this this is the actual information that was provided that we have made available in the complaint. >> the fbi goes into a rooming house on there is nuclear weapon on the floor. they find it. and they might be another, would they be justified in taking ink custody every single person in that rooming house and looking into it? >> i mean for how long. would you say to them know you can't to it because we don't know there'

the fbi could say so. but they're not saying anything. and according to david corn's interview with the ex-spy who produced the information, they've had that stuff since this summer. what is going on with our fbi? tonight after saying for weeks that there would be no senate or house investigation of this matter, the senate intelligence committee finally said, yeah, we'll look into this. senate intelligence committee said tonight they now are going to look into russian cyber activity and other measures directed against the united states including in the 2016 presidential election. importantly, they also say they'll look into counterintelligence concerns related to russia and the 2016 election, including any intelligence regarding links between russia and individuals associated with political campaigns. as recently as this morning the republican chair of the intelligence committee said he wouldn't look into any of that. he had no interest in doing an investigation into any of that, particularly into anybody

and how he directed the decision-making from the fbi. , that's the reason why congress passed the law and the president signed that the fbi director is the only leader of an executive branch agency that does not serve strictly at the pleasure of the president. his term does not expire when the president's term expires. he has a ten-year term. that's why to keep politics out of it. now, unfortunately, the director helped become in the middle of this political firestorm with his july 5th announcement that he was now recommending charges. i think the part of that blame has to go back to the attorney generals, days before after the encounter with bill clinton on the attorney general's airplane when she said i will go with the recommendation of the fbi. i've said before and i'll say again, on july 5th, the director's only announcement should have been we've completed our investigation and we've submitted the results to the department of justice, for the department to decide whether or not to prosecute. and i don't care if the janitor at doj ma

statements, investigating the fbi. >>> also breaking, a new probe looking at how the fbi and the justice department handled the investigations of hillary clinton's e-mail server. we'll get reaction from hillary clinton's former campaign manager. >>> and obama surprises biden. a very emotional moment over at the white house as the president awards the nation's highest civilian honor to his loyal number two. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. the full united states senate in a closed door briefing this afternoon hearing about the u.s. intelligence report on russian medaling in the presidential election. this comes after james clapper, the director of national intelligence butt out a rare statement rejecting donald trump's attacks on the intelligence community and corroborating cnn's reporting that the classified report provided to president obama and president-elect trump last week included allegations that russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about trump.

no other luggage of any kind and the fbi saying that santiago r tarrta tartar gta targetted this airport. >> we have into the identified any triggers. >> we are expecting federal charges to be announced.into th any triggers. >> we are expecting federal charges to be announced. santiago is cooperating we understand, but a motive at this stage not yet clear. >> we have interviewed all of his family members that we have been able to identify so far and we will continue to do that. we have interviewed him. we're looking over all of his social media, things like that. it's giving us a picture of the individual. but it's way too early for us to really rule out anything. >> the fbi's field office in anchor raage will hold a news reference at 4:30 eastern with more information into shooting. we will bring it to you as and when it happens live. in there is always new details on the victims. five confirmed dead. the number of wounded lowered. originally it was eight, it's been revised down to six. gabe guttierez is live for us outside the hospital here in ft. lauderdale, florida. give us an update

with the fbi agent aware that he had weapons? individual did walk into our anchorage office in november will stop he came in and spoke with fbi agents. at that time he clearly stated that he did not intend to harm anyone. however, his erratic behaviour concerned fbi agents that were interviewing him and they contacted local police and turned him over to the local police. he was taken into custody by the local police and transported to a medical facility for a mental health evaluation. we looked at his contacts, we did our inter— agency checks and everything and at that point we closed our assessment. did you guys know he had firearms on him? that question i really don't have the answers for. again, it is very early in this investigation. we are working closely with our anchorage office to try and determine his activities there. i can't really tell you about his weapons. he voluntarily walked into the fbi office in anchorage? yes, he voluntarily walked into the office and was interviewed by agents in that office. a long with human

the justice department's internal watchdog, the inspector general is launching this review how the fbi and the justice department handled the investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server among the myriad of her alleged misconduct, you have this investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails just 11 days before the election, pamela brown is handling this, tell me more. >> reporter: there are more that the watchdog will be looking at. the big thing will be how the public was notified into hillary clinton's private server, one of the allegations is that the fbi director handled it improperly when he came out this past july and said the investigation was closed and said there was no evidence to prosecute any wrong doing and that she was reckless, he allegedly precedence into breaking the news, and because of information that came to light, the inspector general will be looking into information surrounding the letter so close to the election that was a break from justice policy and at the time the attorney general warned the fbi director not to do it but the fbi at the same said

the fbi director himself. a new investigation about why he made public further investigation of hillary clinton's e-mails days before the election. an election that discovered nothing. we will get to all of that but first donald trump's poll numberes have been ignored this week because so much other news pushed them out of the way. but those poll numbers tell you very clearly that you are not alone. >> fbi director james comey took trump aside and spoke with him one on one about the existence of the unverified allegations against him. >> he has said that he is not aware of that. >> okay. >> that concerns me. >> that's not true. >> what is not true? that i'm concerned? >> no, that i see. >> okay. i assure you. >> as you know, i have a no conflict situation because i'm president. >> can we just take a second here, guyes. like how is all of this real? >> don't be rude. >> i don't think he's done enough and he may sink in the swamp. >> the best vice president america's ever had, mr. joe biden. >> the vp with the hi

moments ago, the fbi wrapped up a press conference at a field office in alaska. the same field office the suspect visited just months ago. complaining that his mind was being controlled by a spy agency, that told him to watch isis videos. his family also revealing that he returned from iraq a changed man. talking about the destruction he saw, about the killing of children and the visions that haunted him. 0 so far, no motive for friday's shooting has been ruled out that includes terrorism. at the airport in ft. lauderdale, planes are once again departing from the affected terminal 2, the baggage claim area where the shootings happened remains closed. we have live team coverage. cnn's dan simon was at the fbi's press conference in alaska. boris sanchez is in ft. lauderdale. dan first to you, what did we learn from the press conference? >> well it seems like law enforcement is taking a defensive posture here. saying that they acted appropriately. just a few minutes ago. we heard from the head of the fbi office, here in anchorage, as well as the chief of the ampgampg

it was something the fbi has been handling, the counterintelligence division of the fbi has been investigating claims. again, still unverified. but he felt he was the one that should have handled this information to provide to -- to the president-elect. >> very interesting indeed. all right, evan, thank you very much. >>> let's get more on all of this. democratic senator jack reid of rhode island is joining us. he's a member of the armed services committee. in fact, he's the top democrat on the armed services committee. also a member of the intelligence committee. senator, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >> so the full senate, as you know, all 100 members, they've been briefed behind closed doors about russia, what its role was in hacking computers, interfering in the u.s. presidential election. is there any shadow of a doubt in your mind that vladimir putin himself was behind the hacking? >> no, not at all. in fact, the unclassified report which is public now, it concludes that clearly. what is not publicly released is some of the evidence. and that's to protect sources.

lot of people go to the fbi or law enforcement and say they're hearing things, supports isis, the fbianchorage responded by sending him to mental facilities. he also served american government in the military. circumstances may have made them believe he probably had psychiatric or mental disorders but as we heard george piro in florida, respected fbi agent, they are working with airng rath to see what they may have failed to determine. but show up at door of fbi office is not enough to do much except try to commit him for clear mental challenges he was having at the time. >> he tells the fbi he's hearing voices, taken for mental health evaluation, voluntarily checks himself in. at what point is he not allowed to travel with weapon or be on no-fly list? >> back up don, really look into the local law enforcement procedure. at least here in state of florida in someone voluntarily or involuntarily commits for a mental health evaluation, there is a procedure in place, that a law enforcement officer, especially if committed at their direction, those weapons in your possession should have be

documents were given to the fbi, to comey personally, by john mccain. ng-winded story. >> and if you consider what happened with the fbi and hillary clinton during the election, why didn't this come out before the election? >> first of all, the question of what is this? did harry reid, the former democratic leader, wrote a letter to the fbi. he was aware of some of these materials and demanded that the fbi release them. the fbi did not. the fbi said they didn't want during the middle of the presidential campaign apparently to release this information. now there is a concerted effort by the out going intelligence officials, some will stay on in the trump administration, but they want to make sure this matter is investigated. and that is a big piece -- >> jim, may i ask you the same question, why wasn't it investigated. and james comey discussing similar accusations, he said i'm not really making a commitment. i cannot confirm or deny. which seemed ironic to some of the people questioning him. why didn't this come up before the election? >> well, first of

if you had multiple calls from the fbi, by the way, chris, this is the fbi, someone is in your systemg all of your emails and you ignore multiple, multiple calls, they attempted to attack the rnc in the same way. they didn't get into our system, because number one, we had our head straight and we had defenses at the rnc and number two, when the fbi called the rnc said we have a hacking situation here, we brought them in immediately. and so granted, we have bad actors around the world and cyber-attacks have been happening for years but we also have an entity that's allowed through a wide open door a foreign government into their system. >> i get that. one other question, does president-elect trump accept the evidence that he heard, does he find it persuasive that putin's interest towards the end of the campaign was to help trump by des crediting clinton? >> i haven't asked him about that, chris, he accepts the fact that russia and other entities engage in cyber-attacks in the united states all day long. he accepts the fact that this particular case was entities in russia, so that's not

if you had multiple calls from the fbi, by the way, chris, this is the fbi, someone is in your systemg all of your emails and you ignore multiple, multiple calls, they attempted to attack the rnc in the same way. they didn't get into our system, because number one, we had our head straight and we had defenses at the rnc and number two, when the fbi called the rnc said we have a hacking situation here, we brought them in immediately. and so granted, we have bad actors around the world and cyber-attacks have been happening for years but we also have an entity that's allowed through a wide open door a foreign government into their system. >> i get that. one other question, does president-elect trump accept the evidence that he heard, does he find it persuasive that putin's interest towards the end of the campaign was to help trump by des crediting clinton? >> i haven't asked him about that, chris, he accepts the fact that russia and other entities engage in cyber-attacks in the united states all day long. he accepts the fact that this particular case was entities in russia, so that's not

by the fbi and the broward county sheriff's office. he will be charged federally and will most likely have his initial occurrence in broward county on monday. as i mentioned, with these types of incidents, as worse as they are, we are looking at all avenues. we have not ruled out terrorism, we will pursue every angle to determine the motive behind this attack. and any associates any connections, communication, anything that you can imagine. i assure you, we are pursuing every possible lead. thank you. >> reporter: the flight from anchorage to minneapolis and then to hear? >> yes, the individual flew from alaska to minneapolis to fort lauderdale on a delta airlines flight. >> why was he coming here? >> at this time, it is still too early in the investigation to truly know why he came to florida. so those are some of the things that we are looking at, his travel patterns. what brought him here. and his connections to south florida. >> reporter: were those fbi agents he talked to aware? >> yes, the individual did walk into our anchorage o

the "guardian" citing unnamed sources reporting that the fbi applied for a warrant from the secret fisa court in order to monitor four members of the trump team but that the fisa court, which turns down very few applications, turned down the application asking fbi investigators to narrow down their focus. another report from election night claims the fbi sought and was granted a fisa court warrant in october after narrowing the scope of its request. nbc news has not confirmed the fisa court claims if. that is true it means while it was publicly discussing its politically damaging investigation of hillary clinton, the fbi was simultaneously investigating trump's team over possible ties to russia while managing to keep that investigation a total secret. joining me now, "new york times" litical rerter and msnbc contributor nick confessore. this is such a bizarre story because at the center of it is a document which has now been made public whose charges are wyle -- you know, they're massively scandalous, if true, but also whose truth content we have no ability to judge. >> right and possib

the fbi saying today he specifically targeted the airport. why ft. lauderdale that remains unclear at this hour. now, federal charges against santiago are expected to be released soon. he is cooperating and talking with authorities according to fbi officials. and the number of gunshot victims was updated to six. one is expected to be released today. three others are fighting for their lives in the intensive care unit this afternoon. my colleague, jacob rascon, is here in ft. lauderdale. he's been tracking this story for us. joins us now from ft. lauderdale airport. jacob, what's the latest from airport officials on how they're helping both displaced travelers, getting operations back up and running and the security here at the airport? >> officials say they're doing everything they can to help these 10,000-plus passengers. we're talking about more than 20,000 pieces of luggage. and as i walk around the airport, you can see some of those who left yesterday, some after four hours of being interviewed by the police or eight hours of being stuck on the ta

the fbi, the florida department of law enforcement. broward sheriff's office and many local public safety agencies came together and worked with complete cohesion. the entire law enforcement and public safety community work tirelessly today and continues to work tirelessly as we continue this investigation. at this time i'll bring up mark. >> thank you, sheriff. airport director. first i'd like to say, again, on behalf of broward county administration, our mayor, county commissioners, express our condolences and sympathies and keep our thoughts and prayers with those that lost their lives here today as well as their family and friends. truly horrific incident. as the sheriff has said we had a number of individuals that were not only stuck on airplanes, planes that had landed but as well as some on the gates that were not permitted to leave right after this incident occurred. we had a number of individuals that evacuated on to the terminal on to the a problem areas. everybody is obviously safe and secure. once we received that word from

let's say the fbi director didn't pass this on and the president-elect who has been suspicious of the and other channels, that the fbi is investigating and mr. trump had relationship with the russians. i think it would be painful at best for the fbi. i think debatable decision. the fact it is under questioning of the united states and russian involvement and the fact mr. trump has questioned the fbi must have driven federal officials to say if we don't tell the president-elect this is swirling and he finds out elsewhere, we have a bigger problem. >> i will accept phil mud's characterization it is gossip, yet i still want to ask john cypher, does it nevertheless fit the m.o. of putin that he seems to gather this kind of data on business leaders, for example, that come to moscow? >> this is where i might disagree a little with phil. i think that information is completely invalidated, unvetted information, that the public has no way of finding out whether it is credible or not. however, the fbi and professional investigative intelligence services can look at that information, cross refer

lauderdale, we are waiting for the news conference from the fbi. we'll bring that to you live. five people are dead, eight wounded tonight after a gunman opened fire shortly before 1:00 this afternoon. law enforcement sources telling us the suspect is a man named esta baun santiago. tom foreman has more on the airport and how it unfolded. >> let's take a look at the layout of the airport. he had a layover in minneapolis and arrived at about a quarter past noon and would have been in terminal two. if we move a little closer, it seems that he came in right here, gate number five. if you follow the normal flow of people leaving that plane to head toward baggage, that would have taken him along a path 50 to 75 yards long, flowing out here, over to these escalators, down to the baggage section down below. this is the bag and weagage are. there's a restroom over there. there's one over here as well. if this were the case, based on the timeline as we know it, from the time his plane officially would have touched down to the tomb he time he would have arrived here would have been pushin

comey of the fbi. >> mr. nswer the questions as to connection either way between political campaigns and the russians? >> i didn't say one way or another. >> you didn't say -- >> that was my intention at least. >> you didn't say one way or another whether there's an investigation under way? >> correct. i don't -- especially in a public forum, we never confirm or deny a pending investigation. >> irony of you're making that statement here i cannot avoid but i'll move on. >> well, we sometimes think differently about closed investigations. >> greg, your thoughts. >> well, for the sake of the country, i hope that this didn't persist for the next four years. i think it's really damaging. i think it's very unnerving if there was contacts before the election. nothing is proved -- all of this stuff overnight, nothing is really truly proved. again for the country, not just the financial market which is i cover, but for the country as a whole, i hope we don't have four more years of this. >> the three big things will be

the fbi says that means $3,000. he then instructs the elected official to go to the men's bathroom saying, he's going to hook you up. that's where the elected official meets owner of central avenue liquors right here. pag paying the elected official money in connection to the sunday sales bill. in court the u.s. attorney says it was sun who caused the fbi to quickly wrap its investigation and raid several locations including the liquor board and area businesses last thursday. they alleged that he was trying to sabotage the case. according to the fbi affidavit, if you had a problem with went to go see sun. if you had an issue that you wanted to be taken care of in the legislature, you went to go see sun. this man is considered the center of this investigation, now being held at home until they're ready for him to come back to court. we are expecting elected officials to be arrested as well. last we heard is it was going to happen before the beginning of the session on wednesday. >>> a disturbing crime in the hallway o

lauderdale airport had been known to the fbi. investigators have not officially named the gunman but sources tell cnn he's being identified as stay van santiago. accused of killing five people, injuring at least eight others opening fire in a crowded baggage area at the airport. the gunfire sparking panic, hundreds spilling onto the tarmac, fearing for their lives. law enforcement officials telling cnn santiago showed up several months ago at an fbi office in anchorage, alaska. at that time, he told agents he went to the fbi agent office and told agents he was hearing voices in his head telling him to join isis. president obama though tonight did not call the shooting an act of terror. >> i don't want to comment on it other than just to say how broken we are for the families who have been affected. these kinds of tragedies have happened too often during the eight years that i've been president. >> the fbi at this hour is interviewing the aunt of the alleged attacker at her home in new jersey. we begin our coverage with boris sanch

we won't know if it's the fbi then i would counsel the chairs of the foreign relations committee, the intelligence committee to convene their own panel. >> senator chris murphy, thanks for your time, appreciate it. >> thanks a lot. >>> still to come, senator bernie sanders joins me tonight. stick around for that. >>> next, the huge news today, a new investigation into the actions of the justice department, the fbi and comey for their handling of the clinton e-mail probe leading up to the presidential election. that's after this break. americans - 83% try to eat healthy. yet up 90% fl short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more. add one a day 50+ a complete multi-vitamin with 100% daily value of more than 15 key nutrients. one a day 50+. >>> a bombshell announcement from the u.s. inspector general from his office, an independent entity, will investigate wide-ranging allegations of misconduct related to the fbi's probe into hillary clinton's e-mails. according to the inspector general, including allegations the justice department and fbi employees improperly disclosed

the fbi has the expertise there. there is tremendous investigative value when the fbi is able to conduct their own forensic review on devices that have suffered cyber intrusions and attacks. or some some confusion conflicting reporting as to whether the fbi requested access , thee dnc services democratic congressional committee servers. did the fbi request access to those devices to perform forensics on? dir. comey: yes we did. >> with that access have intoded intelligence findings concluded by the intelligence community? dir. comey: our friends expects would prefer to get access to the original device or server involved. experts wouldcs prefer to get access to the original device or server involved. a privatehighly -- company got access and shared their findings. >> is that typically the way the fbi would prefer to do the forensics? or would you rather do the for in six themselves question mark -- do the forensics? >> was there one request or multiple? dir. comey: multiple requests at different levels. it was agreed

and the fbi saying today that the ft.ale airport was targeted by santiago acting alone. >> indications are that he came here to carry out this horrific attack. we have not identified any triggers that would have caused this attack. >> now at this hour we understand that santiago is cooperating with authorities. officials don't have a motive yet. though terrorism has not been eliminated. >> we have interviewed all of his family members that we've been able to identify so far. and we will continue to do that. and we have interviewed him. we're looking over all of his social media things like that. it's giving us a picture of the individual. but it's way too early for us to really rule out anything. >> also this hour, we're learning more details about the moments leading up to this shooting. santiago was in fact not on any no-fly list. he did follow tsa rules

he was known to the fbi. as we hear from eyewitnesses who were standing just a few feet away from him. >>> also tonight, the face-to-face meeting inside trump tower. after weeks of president-elect donald trump taking aim at u.s. intelligence, questioning their work, questioning the russian hacking, tonight, mr. trump in the same room with them. and what he said right after. and this evening, new information declassified. authorities revealing vladimir putin wanted donald trump to win. >>> dangerous driving at this hour. the winter storm hitting tonight. set to strike much of the south and the east, then the system moving north overnight. >>> and a final goodbye. the names bidding farewell to a famous mother and her daughter. >>> good evening. and we begin tonight with that horror that played out this afternoon inside the baggage claim at the ft. lauderdale airport. authorities say a passenger, an army vet, pulled out a gun and suddenly began firing. five people were killed. several more rushed to the hospital.

the fbi, the florida department of law enforcement.roward sheriff's office and many local public safety agencies came together and worked with complete cohesion. the entire law enforcement and public safety community work tirelessly today and continues to work tirelessly as we continue this investigation. at this time i'll bring up mark. >> thank you, sheriff. airport director. first i'd like to say, again, on behalf of broward county administration, our mayor, county commissioners, express our condolences and sympathies and keep our thoughts and prayers with those that lost their lives here today as well as their family and friends. truly horrific incident. as the sheriff has said we had a number of individuals that were not only stuck on airplanes, planes that had landed but as well as some on the gates that were not permitted to leave right after this incident occurred. we had a number of individuals that evacuated on to the terminal on to the a problem areas. everybody is obviously safe and secure. once we received that word from o

that's not something the fbi can do and lock up. can you imagine the civil rights groups if the fbi said from now on when somebody talks something that we think is crazy we'll lock them up, put them in some kind of facility. it's just not going to happen. >> julia, if it turns out to be mental health issues, you know, there are conflicting rights here. the right of an individual versus the right of security for everybody else. there's only so much families can do to take care of somebody who has severe mental health issues. >> it looks like he did everything lawful. he got his gun and the ammunition were separated, they were checked. if he was in possession of those weapons before the mental illnesses showed themselves he would have been registered to have them anyway. this is why people in our community of your panel talk about engaging family members, community members so they can identify mental health illness, get the help they need and also in this case, will there's no blame here, but if there's things we can learn, were there

i understand you have new information about a visit the suspect made to the fbi before the shooting, is that right? >> reporter: yes, we learned they made contact in anchorage, back in november and we learned in the past few hours, sources telling cnn apparently visited the office with a weapon. apparently, the same weapon that he used in yesterday's attack here at fort lauderdale hollywood international airport. i asked with the spokesperson of the fbi yesterday if there was any attempt made to perhaps confiscate that weapon. after all, when he approached the office of the fbi, he told agents he was wearing voices and that those voices were telling him to watch isis videos. he told me he couldn't answer the question at that point and learning more about the shooter's personal life in an altercation he apparently had with his girlfriend back in january of 2016. she alleges that he strangled her and smacked her on the side of the head. he pled not guilty to charges of assault and criminal mischief or rather pled no contest to those charges and eventually went through a program and due

but he is a veteran of the counterterrorism division of the fbi. he is the one who led the team that interviewed saddam hussein after he was arrested overseas. >> reporter: very experienced interrogator. that brings me to a point i wanted to ask you about. the fact that sebastian is being interrogated -- we understand the questioning lasted several hours into the early morning. in what way can that questioning help or hurt the investigation? if he's cooperative or not cooperative? >> it can't hurt. they're trying to figure out why he did this. what i'm told is they don't want to characterize it. what i'm told is part of the problem in talking to him is ryi trying to figure out -- because he has deassociatative thoughts and talks in gibberish. they're trying to figure out how much they can rely on and how much is the result of mental issues he has. that's a challenge to work through it. anytime somebody you arrest is willing to lk, that's obviously a plus. >> reporter: all right. pete williams, thank you for that. let's go now to nbc's gabe gutierrez

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heal politically continues to be pick pick picked at with this investigation is this the case of the fbi just trying to get its reputation back? >> i think so. i think what the i.g. decided having gotten all these complaints i'm sure there are a huge number of internal complaints as well as external complaints but people who are career attorneys at the fbi don't like to see the fbi in the middle of a political cauldron, so when you look back at james