wray: -- rep. gaetz: is the doctor part of that threat? dir. wray: i don't want to speak about any particular investigation. rep. gaetz: here's why that is important. in april and may of 2020, we didn't have nearly 600,000 people dead as a result of the coronavirus. an fbi agent brought a scientist to meet with the doctor in new york on october 14. they met for nearly six hours. can you tell us anything about that meeting and what it tells us about the origins of this virus. it is unacceptable to sit here a year later and say he will not tell us whether or not there were -- there is information about the origins of our virus. dir. wray: i understand the point of the question. i have to be careful to not discuss specific investigations. in addition to our investigative work as i think has been recently public stated by the dni and the president himself, the intelligence community has been looking at this issue. there are differences within that there are differences of you within the organization --

wray: -- rep. gaetz: is the doctor part of that threat? dir. wray: i don't want to speak about any particular investigation. rep. gaetz: here's why that is important. in april and may of 2020, we didn't have nearly 600,000 people dead as a result of the coronavirus. an fbi agent brought a scientist to meet with the doctor in new york on october 14. they met for nearly six hours. can you tell us anything about that meeting and what it tells us about the origins of this virus. it is unacceptable to sit here a year later and say he will not tell us whether or not there were -- there is information about the origins of our virus. dir. wray: i understand the point of the question. i have to be careful to not discuss specific investigations. in addition to our investigative work as i think has been recently public stated by the dni and the president himself, the intelligence community has been looking at this issue. there are differences within that there are differences of you within the organization --

wray: -- rep. franklin: i know there was some talk about the optics of having guard troops at the capitol, you are not sure if you said that, but i heard you also say that you discuss the difference in the mission, and really what are guard troops are trained to do versus a special type of training required, could you expand a little bit on that? dir. wray: i do not recall saying it was that date because the optics were clearly a mob storming the capitol, that was not an important consideration at our time. what was important was getting the capitol secure into rapidly secured the capitol when you had criminals with perhaps lethal intent is what we were tracking, and that is a pretty's -- pretty high level task for a very well trained law enforcement to do, to take soldiers who were out on traffic control points to do that, to put them into that situation, we just were not positioned to do that. dir. wray: very good. -- rep. franklin: very good. i would like to make it clear that i think the guard

director wray, you are recognized. director wray: good afternoon. thank you for this opportunity to talk about fbi work up to and following the seat here at the capitol january 6. it has been more than five months since the violence and destruction and i have no less appalled today that i was then and no less determined to make sure it never happens again. our country witnessed an angry mob at the u.s. capitol in a failed attempt to interfere with our democratic process, and us all where you, numbers of congress, were victims, but where all americans and ascents were victimized and more than 100 law enforcement officers were injured in just a few hours. such acts of domestic temer wisdom are an affront to the rule of law and -- domestic terrorism are an affront to the rule of law and have no place in our country. we are working to track down those who participated in the attack and told them accountable. we have made close to 500 arrests with more to come. unfortunately, january 6 wasn't isolated. domestic terrorism has been and continues to be a to

director wray? >> there was a variety of social media chart, yes, sir. >> your norfolk report it's like an unbelievable intelligence failure, it seems like. it's inconceivable to me that there wasn't briefings with leadership in the congress and law enforcement. as director of the fbi, you should be investigating that breakdown to make sure that never happens again. any arrests on the pipe bombs at rnc and dnc headquarters? >> no, we've not made arrests on that. we are aggressively investigating it. recently you may have seen we put out dirnl higher quality photos to try to get information from the public on it. that's one of the investigations we're particularly concerned about. >> of the 500 people that have been arrested january 6th, do the charges, they range from trespassing, disorderly conduct, assault, insurrection, what are the charges? >> i would be better off to direct you to the doj for the full list but different kind of obstruction offenses, conspiracy charges. i'm not sure i could give

that's secretary wray. you had the -- the -- from the field office inro norfolk, that was shared with the capitol police on januaryh 5th? >> yes, sir. in three different ways. >> thank you. and, general piatt, you were not asked forou assistance on janua 5th? >> we were not asked for assistance on january 5th, congressman. >> thank you. so, i presume, if you're not going to circumvent the chain of command, can you please walk us through the timing of the troop mobilization from the moment the army received the official request for assistance from the capitol police board. 1. >> that assistance -- that request came on the 2:30 phone call. and immediately secretary mccarthy knew that it was urgent and it was required. and he ran down the hall to get that approval. we had approval by 3:00. we had mobilization approval by 3:04. what we didn't have is we didn't have a plan to get them re-missioned to get them to be able to respond to what the capitol police needed. there was never a doubt they needed -- once tha

director wray? >> there was a variety of social media chatter, yes, sir. >> and also your norfolk report seems an intelligence failure, there wasn't briefing in the congress and law enforcement. as director of the fbi, to be examining that break down so that never happens again. has there been any arrests made on the persons that did the pipe bombs on rnc and dnc headquarters? >> no we have not made arrests on that. we are aggressively investigating. we reefly, you may have seen, put out additional higher quality photos to get better information from the public on it. that's one of the investigations we're particularly concerned about. >> the 500 people that have been arrested on january 6th, charges of trespassing, disorderly conduct, assault, insurrection, what are the charges? >> there are a variety of charges. i would probably refer you to the justice department for the full list. but certainly they have ranged from assault on federal officers, to different kinds of obstruction offenses, we've h

and i'll start with director wray. director wray, we now know that the attacks were planned out in the open on popular social media platforms like parler and telegram. among thousands of violent messages, there were messages saying, quote, if they certify biden, we'll storm capitol hill, executions on the steps. also, wide social media activity included posts discussing specific details ahead of the attack, ranging from maps and construction plans for the gallows. during the judiciary committee hearing, you said that none of the people charged so far had been previously under fbi inspection. has the fbi regularly looked to social media as part of its efforts? >> it's not none, it's almost none. which is important. and our investigation is very much ongoing, and the facts are changing even as we speak here. and second, as to social media, it's understandable that there is a lot of confusion on this subject. we have very specific policies, that have been at the department for a long time, that guard our ability to use so

what kind of pressure is director wray under given that u.s.ernment can only do so much when it comes to private companies getting hacked, needing to have some of the security according to experts on the front end to prevent things like this from happening and getting into the situation where some of them as you heard from the head of jbs overnight facing this decision as they describe it to go ahead and pay up oftentimes in bitcoin here. >> yeah. hallie, good question. fbi directors are always under pressure, but to your point, there's only so much you can do. i mean in other words if you had asked the fbi or local police department to ensure that no car in their jurisdiction got broken into overnight, then you would have to rely on citizens to lock their cars. if they don't, the police or the fbi are only responding reactively. that's the problem that director wray has and the fbi has, to use a cliche as our weakest link or as weak as our weakest link. hackers will continue to look for unlocked cars or put it more bluntly, you know, vulnerabl

what have we and what are we expecting to hear from director wray? >> reporter: he is talking about the january 6th capitol attack addressing questions on that. he highlighted the fact that the fbi is still very concerned about the threats posed particularly the growing threat of domestic terrorism. this of course was something that attorney general merrick garland focused on this morning when the administration rolled out its first ever national strategy for countering counterterrorism. so we're hearing fbi director wray and stressing the fact that he has repeatedly raised the red flag about the uptick in incidents stemming from raciall motivated and anti government domestic extremists. he noted in the hearing that the fbi has doubled its investigations, doubled its arrests of these two groups of domestic extremists in the past three years and now he's pointing to january 6th as the perfect example of how these extremists organized and mobilized, and in large part over social media, and a lot of the talk has been about how they had easy access to gu

christopher wray. you know sort of how he works. they knew this was going to be one of those, i guess you could say, very thorough committee hearing. a lot on the agenda. what have you learned the most, pete, from christopher wray's testimony? >> well, i learned that he overtly said they're not investigating the president for any role in the riot. that's the guidance we had sort of gotten from the justice department. no one has said it publicly, though. it wasn't surprising but it was something he learned. there are close to 500 cases. that squares with our own count of various charges and he says there will be many more. and on the specific question of the fbi's warning, i'm not sure that this committee made a lot of progress in getting the answer. the fact is that there was this single piece that the norfolk fbi office passed along about an anonymous posting on a website that suggested violent attacks on the capitol. that's what wray said was passed along. there's a couple of things about that. one you heard ted deutsch there brie

>> thank you, director wray. please pass on all of our almost for what you and your agents and support personnel do. it seems to me you have a pretty full plate. is that fair to say? >> it certainly feels full. >> okay. if senator moran is right, which i'm sure he is, when you look at personnel cost increases, generally the costly of doing business, most of the increases requested, about 65%, go to that, and 150 million left for new programs. do you agree with that? new capabilities? >> well, sometime i have a hard time in this format tracking all the numbers. i think one of the challenges is that last year's budget had a significant number of enhancements, but at the same time also, a bunch of reductions to the base. so giving with one hand, taking away with the other. >> if the committee decided to increase by $100 million, your budget, could you spent it wisely? >> i can assure you that any money that this committee thinks, sees fit, i promise it will be put to good use. >> i believe you. so there is a record

fbi director wray's comments add an urgency. just yesterday, the white house issued an open letter to companies across the nation with a simple message that they, at the white house, cannot do it, alone. and as cnn's alex marquardt reports, the justice department has signalled it plans to treat these cyberattacks more like terrorism, movinge forward. >> reporter: cyberthreats against the united states have grown so much, it is like dealing with terrorism after 9/11. that urgent message from the head of the fbi, chris wray, today adding his voice to the alarm being sounded by the biden administration over the growing ransomware attacks here and around the world. there are a lot of parallels, wray told "the wall street journal." the scale of this problem is one, that i think the country has to come to terms with. >> worried that some people will get hurt, especially when we consider all these incidents that are affecting healthcare. >> reporter: healthcare, schools, and most recently, the colonial pipeline and jbs foods, which is

and he defended wray's commitment to diversity at the bureau. >> director wray takes every opportunitynd even mention, diversity, equity and inclusion, particularly to inside workforce, as well as every time that he goes out, externally, and he has the opportunity to do so. >> reporter: juessica schneider cnn washington. >>> thank you, jessica. we'll be right back. my really important job! scuff defense. honey! scuff defense. [ chuckles ] scuff! -defense! i love our scuff-free life. you too, scruff defense. today let's paint with the interior paint that's too tough to scuff. behr. exclusively at the home depot. tex-mex. tex-mex. ♪ termites. ♪ don't mess up your deck with tex-mex. terminix. here to help. finding new routes to reach your customers, and new ways for them to reach you... is what business is all about. it's what the united states postal service has always been about. so as your business changes, we're changing with it. with e-commerce that runs at the speed of now. next day and two-day shipping nationwide. same day shipping across town. returns right from the doorstep, and

there are a lot of parallels, wray told the "wall street journal." the scale of this problem is one that i think the country has to come to terms with. >> we are worries that some people will get hurt, especially when you consider all these incidents affecting health care. >> health care, schools and most recently the colonial pipeline and jbs foods, which is the biggest meat producer in the world. those attacks caused gas shortages and beef plants to shut down. >> i think this is going to be an ongoing struggle, increasing threat, increasing defenses. to the extent this counter terrorism analogy works, that's another way in which this will be a long-term fight. >> reporter: the justice department announced thursday it will implement practices used for terrorism cases, telling prosecutors to share more information and coordinate efforts on ransomware attacks which is when hackers take control of a network and hold it hostage, demanding money. the justice department says ransom payments often in crypto currency last year went up 300%. the white house

director wray was also pressed today about the attack on the capitol, on the case against those who did it. he was also asked about former president trump. wray saying he was, quote, not aware of any investigation into former president trump's role in the riot, but that there are literally hundreds of investigations, he said, into that day ongoing. >> this is a very ongoing investigation and there's a lot more to come and i would expect to see more charges, some of them may be more serious changes. >> director wray saying the investigation has yielded 500 arrests, and you heard him there say more to come. >>> now to the economy, to your money tonight. the prices you're paying at the grocery store, for gas, for clothes, even for used cars and what this all signals now about the economy here in the u.s. consumer prices up 5% last month from a year ago. that's the biggest jump since the recession in 2008. so, the obvious question, where is this headed? here's abc's chief economics correspondent rebecca jarvis now. >> reporter: tonight, from the grocery store to the gas station and the deal

fbi director christopher wray faced a barrage of questions today mixed with airing of grievances from on the house judiciary committee. with barely a moment to get seated, the fbi director was grilled on the handling of the january 6 riot and combatting right wing extremism. wray was repeatedly impressed with democrats about the former president. >> i asked if you referred these actions or deed of the president to the department of justice. donald trump's actions, words, deeds on that day. >> i'm not aware of any investigation that specifically goes to that, but we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of investigations related to january 6 involving lots and lots of different pieces of it, and i want to be careful not to speak with absolutes about it. >> i'm talking about mr. big, number one. have you gone after the people who incited the riot? >> i don't think it would be appropriate for me to be discussing whether or not we are or aren't investigating specific individuals. i just don't think that's appropriate. >> wray was also pressed about cyber hackers, security at the souther

this is wray moments ago. >> have you gone after the people who incited the riot?ll, i don't think it would be appropriate for me to be discussing whether or not we are or aren't investigating specific individuals. i don't think that's appropriate. >> the justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us with more. >> director wray spoke about the enormity of this fbi investigation, the 300 arrests up to this point. he danced around that repeated question about whether prominent politicians including the former president, whether they're being investigated for their words and actions that some have alleged helped incite the capitol attack. as you heard director wray first told congressman cohen he couldn't comment on whether specific individuals were being investigated but then he was pressed further by congresswoman sheila jackson-lee. the director was more forceful, saying he was unaware of any investigation to the former president but he wasn't definitive. that's been the big question ever since january 6th but director wray was very forceful speaking out against

>> reporter: director wray is really stressing that the recent cascade of cyber attacks are an urgent national security threat. his comments come just hours after the white house pled with business leaders in a letter across the country to protect their own systems from what are becoming more common cyber attacks. director wray's comments are also coming at a time when these hacks are increasingly impacting and thwarting every day american life and commerce as we've seen. the biden administration sounding the alarm about the growing threat of cyber attacks that in recent weeks have resulted in gas shortages and the shutdown of meat production plants. the fbi director christopher wray comparing the effort needed to combat this rapid succession of ransomware attacks to how the fbi reports the response to terrorism after 9/11. there are a lot of parallels, a lot of importance, and a lot of focus by us on disruption and prevention wray said. director wray told "the wall street journal" the fbi is investigating about 100 different types of ransomware, many that trace back to hackers in rus

and he defended wray's commitment to diversity at the bureau. >> director wray takes every opportunitye can and mentioned equity inclusion particularly to inside workforce as well as every time he goes out externally and he has the opportunity to do so. >> jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> thank you, jessica. we'll be right back. isn't it disappointing when your plug-in fades? once that freshness goes away, you're left thinking, “okay....now what?” febreze fade defy plug works differently. it's the first plug-in with built-in technology... to digitally control how much scent is released... to smell 1st day fresh for 50 days. it even tells you when it's ready to be refilled. upgrade to febreze fade defy plug. narrator: how prepared is your family... ...if disaster shows up at your doorstep? you can't just turn away a natural disaster. that's why it's important to go to ready.gov/plan before they show up. it has the tools and tips you need to make an emergency plan with your family. so if disaster comes knocking... mom: let's go. narrator: ...you'll be ready to help keep your family

that's essentially what wray is getting at. and we saw just yesterday the justice department roll out a memo essentially saying they'll start treating ransomware attacks in a similar way to terrorism attacks. there's going to be greater coordination in the department, greater information sharing and more resources thrown at this because it is such a significant threat. i want to read part of what director wray told "the wall street journal" in this new interview. in his comparison to 9/11. he says there are a lot of parallels. there's a lot of importance and a lot of focus by us on disruption and prevention. there's a shared responsibility, not just across government agencies but across the private sector and even the average american. so jim and poppy, now the question becomes, how do you deter this. it's a monumental task where the government needs to get companies to shore up their cybersecurity at home but also figure out some way to deter those attackez rs overseas. >> alex, thank you and stay with us. john, let me bring y

>>> fbi director christopher wray testifies today on the president's 2022 budget request. he's appearing before a senate appropriations subcommittee. watch live beginning at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3, online at c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> tonight on american history tv, we will look at the life and career of president ronald reagan. we will show you an interview he did with first lady nancy reagan at camp david where they talked about their marriage and life in politics. later his inaugural address and other speeches. that starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv. >>> we're back with john wood jr. who is the national ambassador for braver angels and he's here to talk with us today about his organization's efforts to bring america together to discuss our differences and reduce political polarization. john, good morning. >> good morning. it's great to be here. >>, first of all, tell us about what braver angels s what's the group's mission, was when it founded and why does it exist? >> absolutely. so braver angels is america's largest

wray has a pete, director wray has a message for all of these companies that are paying the ransoms. >> reporter: right shep, first he said the fbi urges these companies not to pay the ransom for a couple of reasons because every time a victim pays, of course, it encourages the hackers to do it some more, and second because he says it doesn't always work that the key the hackers provide doesn't always unlock the victim's computer but he said the number one message for companies that are hit is to alert the fbi. >> whether the company pays or not, what we really need is to make sure that the companies or other organizations who are victimized reach out and coordinate with the fbi and with our partners as quickly and promptly as possible >> reporter: speed matters, wray says, he says colonial pipeline did contact the fbi very early on, and that's one reason why the justice department was able to seize the hacker's bitcoins and get a good deal of that ransom back, shep. >> pete, director wray also facing questions about the investigations into the january 6th attack. eporter: right, wel

there's a lot of focus by us on prevention, wray said. director wray told "the wall street journal" the fbi is investigating about 100 different times of ransomware, many tracing back to russia. one study shows u.s. was hit by 15,000 ransomware attacks last year alone, costing businesses and organizations between half a billion and $2.3 billion in 2020. ransomware locks up computer files and hackers demand payment to release it back to the victim. >> cryptocurrency payments are sop of the techniques just described to you. so a 300% increase in ransom payments over the prior year. >> reporter: ransomware attacks have affected everything, from the gas line operated by colonial that led to gas shortages along the east coast, to individual health care networks, whose computer systems have been shut down sporadically across the country and the world. >> before long, we are worried some people will get hurt, especially when we consider all these incidents affecting health care. ireland's health care system went down. >> reporter: the department

a lot of parallels wray told "the wall street journal."he scale of this problem is one i think the country has to come to terms with. >> before long we are worried some people will get hurt and especially when all of these incidents that are affecting health care. >> reporter: health care, schools and, most recently, the colonial pipeline and jbs foods, which is the biggest meat producer in the world. those two recent attacks caused gas shortages and beef plants to shut down. >> i think the country does face some existential risks to its critical infrastructure and economical well-and individuals' pri privacy. >> the justice department announced thursday it will implement practices used for terrorism cases telling prosecutors to share more information and coordinate efforts on ransomware attacks when hackers take control of a network and hold it hostage demanding money. the attacks and amount paid have skyrocketed. the justice department says ransom payments went up 300%. experts say the government also needs to find a better way to take d

there are a lot of parallels, wray told "the wall street journal."le of this problem is one that i think the country has to come to terms with. >> we are worried that some people will get hurt. especially considering all the incidents affecting health care. >> health care, schools and most recently the colonial pipeline and jbs foods, which is the biggest meat producer in the world. the two recent attacks caused gas shortages and beef plants to shut down. >> i think the country faces existential ricks to infrastructure, economic wellbeing, securing of technologies and individual privacy. i think it's critical that people understand how far-reaching this risk is. >> the justice department announced thursday it will implement practices used for terrorism cases, telling prosecutors to share more information and coordinate efforts on ransomware attacks which is when hackers take control of a network and hold it hostage, demanding money. the attacks and the amounts paid have skyrocketed. the justice department says ransom payments often in cryptocurrency

why is wray testifying again? i don't know if that's how the dems have postured this particular hearing in the public's eyes so that that is a question i have a lot of people ask me, what's going on with this again? i thought that was mueller and that was done. and certainly the republicans will play it as if it is nothing more than a repeat of the witch hunt, to use their term, that went after donald trump, which is what jim jordan was getting at, which was just useful sitting in a chair. >> well, michael, you raise several big points, including one that i want to bring libby on. you know, i mentioned the congressional investigation. there was that house report that looked at january 6th. meanwhile, there hasn't been, of course, a largest commission that's been called for. but what michael and rachel maddow have been pressing on is the doj is in this special mind and the people were put through the trump pressures. there was a lot of tax on the rule of independence of those sbenties. just this week we had the tra

. >>> the director of the fbi christopher wray testifying on the surge of ransomware attacks in americahat he told congress about what companies need to do and not do when they get hit. >>> the secretary of defense backing a major shift in how the military handles cases of sexual assault. but will his support be enough to create change >>> and as president biden continues his first trip overseas, a brand new poll shows what the world thinks of us americans with him in charge let's just say, change is in the air. s t s t ai ♪ goodbye. ♪ na na na na... ♪ hey hey hey. ♪ goodbye. ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na... the world's first six-function multipro tailgate. available on the gmc sierra. ♪♪ strip away what you don't want, like added sugars and preservatives, and what's left is the good stuff. the real fruit juices of naked. strip down to naked. >>> the threat of ransomware and cyber attacks against those in our nation is growing exponentially. and over the past year, the amount of ransom money shelled out to hackers has tripled that was the warning today from the fbi director christopher wr

chris christopher wray compares the spike in cyber attacks to the wakeup call on 9/11. hiring is way up but still short of expectations. what it means for the covid recovery and the big biden agenda. big republican drama. donald trump gives a big political speech tomorrow. mike pence made one last night and made a clear break from his former boss over the capitol insurrection. >> president trump and i have spoken many times since we left office. i don't know if we'll ever see eye to eye on that day. but i will always be proud of what we accomplished for the american people over the last four years. >> let's begin right there. the former vice president drawing his line in the battle now consuming the republican party. how to characterize the insurrection and whether to side with trump in insisting the 2020 election was stolen and joe biden is an illegitimate president. for all his praise last night this is a clean break. >> january 6th was a dark day in the history of the united states capitol. thanks to the swift action of the capitol police and federal law enforcement,

maga cheerleaders taking turns questioning fbi director chris wray today in a house judiciary committee hears and while democrats pressed wray on the january 6th insurrection, a blatant attempt at destroying our democracy, the top rb, jim jordan used his time to whine about cancel culture and disgrace the ex-president's disgraced tv lawyer rudy guiliani while matt gaetz, remains on the judiciary committee, despite being investigated for alleged sex trafficking of a teenager by the fbi ho should probably be answering questions what role he played in whipping up the insurrection. instead got to question the fbi director, too. of course, it's hardly surprising that the republicans on the committee would avoid questions about the insurrection, given that another member, arizona republican andy biggs was named by the organizer of the rally that preceded the siege. alexander, one of the people who helped plan it. remains on the run gommar. >> january 5th talking to capitol police officers and said, you know, let's face it. most of the conservatives that come, they don't have any intention of

. >>> the director of the fbi christopher wray testifying on the surge of ransomware attacks in america what he told congress about what companies need to do and not do when they get hit. >>> the secretary of defense backing a major shift in how the military handles cases of sexual assault. but will his support be enough to create change >>> and as president biden continues his first trip overseas, a brand new poll shows what the world thinks of us americans with him in charge let's just say, change is t r.inhe >> announcer: the facts, the truth, the news with shepard smith, back in 60 seconds. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google, turn up the heat. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the threat of ransomware and cyber attacks against those in our nation is growing exponentially. and over the past year, the amount of ransom money shelled out to hackers has tripled that was the warning today from the fbi director christopher wray as he testified on capitol hill. >> we're investigating, i think, 100 different ransomware variants, and each one of those hundred has dozens if not hundreds of victims. the scale of this is something

wray telling "the wall street journal," quote, there are a lot of parallels.re's a lot of importance and a lot of focus by us on disruption and prevention. joining us now, atlanta's former chief information officer gary brantley. he's the author of "the art of organizational transformation." gary, so good to see you. >> good to see you as well. >> your point of view is very important because atlanta was hit with a ransomware attack just months before you actually took over as cio. and you were tasked with making sure it didn't happen again. what's your take on what we are seeing, what this country is seeing with these increased attacks? >> this has been growing year by year. i think we started to seriously have serious conversations about this as a warning about ten years ago and it's only rising. last year i think there were about 65,000 successful ransomware attacks. that's about one in every eight minutes. this is only getting worse, technology and devices are being put in the hands of not only employees but students as well. so we will continue to see thes

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. >>> fbi director christopher wray will be on capitol hill today to talk about the january 6th attackthe u.s. capitol. he'll testify before the house oversight and reform committee. live coverage begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3, online at c-span.org, or listen live on the c-span radio app. >>> how should drug laws be changed in this country if at all? should they be stricter or looser depending on the crime? we want to know your thoughts on it this morning. on the senate floor, judiciary committee chair dick durbin in april talked about racial disparities in sentencing during the war on drugs and during the current opioid epidemic. here is what he had to say. >> at the same time as we grapple with the opioid epidemic, we are also in the midst of a national reckoning about racism and mass incarceration in america. we hold more prisoners by far than any country in the world. this is largely due to our failed war on drugs which disproportionately targeted people of color. while the majority of illegal drug users and dealers in our country are white, the vast majority of people inc

christopher wray about intelligence failures before january 6th. kris van cleave is on capitol hill for us. good morning to you. a lot of people curious to know whether the director's testimony mentioned former president trump. >> reporter: good morning, the week started with a major bipartisan senate report looking at what went wrong on january 6th, but that investigation did not look at the role of the former president. during hours of testimony, the fbi director would not rule out the possibility the fbi was looking into the role former president trump played. more than five months after a mob crashed its way into the capitol, fbi director christopher wray wouldn't say whether his agency is probing if president trump provoked it. >> i'm not aware of any investigation that specifically goes to that, but we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of investigations related to january 6th. >> wray acknowledged almost none of the estimated 500 people now arrested for their roles in the riot had been on the fbi's radar. >> did the fbi simply miss the

they were flagging things and they were sending them to wray? >> except they never got to wray. >> right, of course. >> so the question becomes what happened to those agents who didn't recognize that this was serious and that it should be elevated? and i think we need to find out more. >> i want to talk about the jeffrey rosen emails that were released to the house oversight committee. the house oversight committee got its hands on. you know, what does it mean that the acting attorney general of the united states is being pressured by the president to investigate utterly fictitious and sort of frankly insane conspiracy theories in pursuit of using the department's power to do things like stopping states from certifying electors? >> so it's very consistent with who donald trump is. we saw it with the ukrainian president where he was going to withhold money that we had already authorized to be sent to ukraine because he wanted them to do an investigation of hunter biden. i mean it's always a quid pro quo with him. and in this case, he was threaten

what the chairwoman said to christopher wray was, what happened? parler reached out to the fbi. the fbi saying that there would be violence, saying that it would be directed to the capitol. what happened? and the fbi director christopher wray's answer was, he was not aware prior that parler ever reached out to the fbi but what he's learned since then is that parler did reach out apparently to a field division, poppy, and they are working through how that information flowed and, you know, long story short, they're looking into it. >> whitney wild, thank you. >>> now let's go back to jim in geneva. >> live here in geneva, we have a breaking update from the location of this summit between president biden and president putin. jeff zeleny is covering it at villa la grange, the location of all of this. jeff, talks got under way just under two hours ago. an update that the first round may have finished? >> that's right. the first round of talks between president biden and russian president vladimir putin, as well as secretary of state antony blinken and russian foreign minister sergey

you see director wray talking about policing violence. it is about two strides inside the capitol where that goes from freedom of assembly to i'm going to try to kill. >> the other thing that is unsaid, thud transition going from the trump administration to the biden administration. it feels like a reluctance to have any sort of forceful presence with trump supporters. let me talk about that. there is the politics. you can't disentangle them. here's ron johnson, a big apologist from these people that he hid from on january 6th. here he is lying about whether or not they were an armed threat. >> they talk about thousands of armed insurrectionists. i asked the fbi, not one 21 was recovered. either in the capitol or the grounds. that is just one of the latest big lies. >> i mean, the prosecution will prove him wrong. so why do you think he continues to try to make this pretense work? >> well, i just heard a phrase. the science fiction writer used the phrase, contact lunacy. i think a lot of these folks may not have been crazy before this beg

wray. >> what have you dealt with in the aftermath of this? you are out there, and you and brian sicknick's mom have been on capitol hill. is that something you have ever done before? i doubt this is an experience that you're used to doing. you put yourself out there. what has been the reaction that you have gotten? >> no, i have never done this before. and as i was saying yesterday, i'm just a regular person who happened to be thrust into this due to the events of january 6th, like most, i would say, you know, people who were moved by the footage of that day. i was appalled. and i could not sit idly by and do nothing. also, obviously in addition to knowing that someone i loved very much suffered and saw his colleagues suffer during his last moments on earth, you know, i felt compelled to do something. and because of that, sadly, i have received a lot of backlash and unkind comments online. but you know, that's not going to stop me from doing the right thing. i feel that this is more important than dealing with trolls and people who hide behin

fbi director wray comparing what we're dealing with now to 9/11. someone was asked about private companies and what role they need to play in their own security because there is such an interplay between the private sector and government in the operation of our infrastructure. here is that how it unfolded -- here is how it unfolded on abc's this week. [video clip] >> businesses know how to do this. it is relatively easy to do the simpler things like two factor authentication. we will pursue that versus what you are talking about, a more heavy-handed approach. >> a significant number of these attacks are emanating from russia. is it time for this administration to take an aggressive approach and target the source of these attack? >> well, this is a top priority. the president has been clear. we are evaluating all of the options and we won't stand for a nation supporting or turning a blind eye to criminal enterprise and the president has said we are considering all of our options and we are not taking anything off the table as we think about possible

d i director christopher wray.to because it encourages more of these attacks and frankly there is no guarantee that you're going to get your data back or he added you see the bottom of the money paid triple that there last year. this report comes or after attacks on oil pipelines meat processors and other especially our critical infrastructure food and transportation. will companies listen to his adviser to hackers hackers have is all but the hard drive. here its main studio former cia officer covid operations blah, blah and chairman and ceo mike victor. >> that was a great intro. now we don't have time for anything so thank you and goodnight. kennedy: christopher wray says to the companies don't pay the hackers. is it easy to say and hard to do? >> it's easy to say if you aren't running one of these companies and you are locked up and you can't move forward until you do something for the couple of things he said he encouraged people to turn to the fbi as quickly as they can if they have a problem. if they get hit

. >> a senate appropriations subcommittee had fbi director christopher wray testify on the 2022 budget for his agency. he also spoke about the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol and raised concerns about a nationwide uptick in violence against law enforcement. the hearing runs about 1.5 hours. >> i think it must be you, director. this committee is not always this quiet. good afternoon. i apologize again for being late. i'm delighted to open this commerce, justice and science appropriations subcommittee hearing with fbi director christopher wray. we're very pleased to have you here and look forward to our conversation. pologize again for late. i'm

director christopher wray is comparing the threat from r attato 9/11 ansayssi one group of hackers isng more brazen by the day. here's cbs' jeff pegues. >> reporter: tonight, the hackers linked to the ransomware attack on j.b.s. sending a bold message to u.s. law enforcement in russian, revil saying it chose the meat distributor for the revenue, and because the parent company is located in brazil, where the attack was directed, adding, >> the gloves are off. >> reporter: adam myers tracks cyber-attacks and the groups behind them. it also looks like that they like the attention. >> i think that they don't necessarily like the attention, necessarily like the attention, but they hav but they have the attention, so they're going to use it in the way that they think will benefit them the most. >> reporter: f.b.i. director christopher wray comparing the bureau's response to the ransomware attacks to how the bureau evolved after september bureau evolved after september 11 to c 11 to confront terrorism. >> there's a model in place for this, and they are pulling out all stops. it's not just a