the plan at the fbi. the document we have received asserts savings is 545 million dollars can come from reductions in dei programs, pet projects duplicate tip intelligencefo activityti. is that accurate? is not capable of being done we can find most people would call waste, fraud, abuse artist have real consequences level personnel thehe capability to feign the mission of the fbi? works my job, senator, is to make sure we can find it we've identified a lot of them already. we will continue to do irrespective of where the budget landsed because we cannot have waste, fraud, abuse i'll make the mission work on whatever budget we are given. watch that means lowering the mission, right? works right now where we are, senator stepping back from years ago there are vacancies at the bureau that have been held they vacant for a number of years. so run the books for 38000 foes have less thieves and tears that is been down to about 35 and change because those have gone unfunded. we are not an imposition right now to

the fbi has reassigned and pushed out career fbi agents for political reasons. we have seen the fear and intimidation promoted throughout the bureau including by polygraph in your own staff. we have seen the arrests of a sitting judge in wisconsin. during her confirmation hearing you committed that there would be no polarization, no retribution at the fbi under your leadership. you have reportedly placed fbi employee is responsible for investigating january 6 cases upon leave. is that keeping up your promise of no politicization, no retribution? dir. patel: it is because that is wildly inaccurate. let me tell you what the fbi has done. 8276 3000 cases against violent offenders. sen. murray: that is not my question. dir. patel: you asked if i am weaponizing the fbi and i am not. sen. murray: but you have placed on leave employees responsible for the investigation of january 6. that sounds political to me. dir. patel: i have not placed any one on leave who has not violated their ethical obligation to the constitution. sen. murray: so you believe they were violatin

to support the fbi analysis that this shooter conducted an opportunistic act of suicide by cop, the fbi analysis refers to comments by family members speculating at the possibility based on a lack of significant number of fatalities here and he did not think enough people died for that to be the case. aside from being incredibly offensive to the four victims shot by the attacker, this analysis fails to note that the shooting began -- when it began, there were no uniformed police officers anywhere around visible to the shooter and further, the fbi analysis claimed the shooter moved toward the gunfire. there was no support for this claim in the case file. the fbi did not conclude -- conduct critical interviews with victims and eyewitnesses and as a result, no witnesses were given an opportunity to contradict this theory. on the other hand, the media did interview the eyewitnesses and they found that the shooter targeted victims from a concealed position to protect himself. finally, our report finds the fbi's press release was used to mislead and influence public opinion. for example, the

was sent to the fbi, i as a director of the fbi said we are not responding to it. who sent it. >> a general account from the department. >> my next question, the information that my fbi and my district sent to that agency, how is that information protected? >> i'm sorry, are you saying the agent responded to that e-mail? >> are you saying that they did not. >> i told the work force not to. >> you told me that they did not receive the e-mail. let's just assume they did, where did that information go and how is it protected. >> that information would have only been sent to the immediate supervisor and every supervisor in the bureau was told if they received any information, not to action in any way. >> what happened with that information to the supervisors. >> i don't know, i'll have to get back to you on that, if any was collected. >> so you said that the fbi, that a different agency sent that e-mail. what was that agency? >> it came from the department of justice. >> okay. and those e-mails never went back to the department of justice who requested it? >> no, sir.

this was the fbi, spied on the president campaign. those of the fbi the said if you're a parent going to school board meeting you need investigative. this was the fdot the set if you're pro-life catholic you're an extremist. this is yet back a rate of president trump's old and this is the fbi who at 26 confidential human sources at the capital on january 6th. and it's the same fbi who can't tell us who planted the pipe bombs come again tell us who leaked the dobbs a pink who can't tell us who put propane at the widest dash of cocaine at the white house. we shouldn't be surprised they reached the wrong conclusion. they knew what the facts were as dr. jackson just said and as a chairman burgess said. the good news is is as ronnie indicated we don't have folks running this organization who are asked to focus on doing with the fbi should be doing on getting the truth to the american people and even with bad guys. kash patel is doing a great job. pam bondi at the chested form, todd blanche and their team are doing a great job and that's a

the fbi try to do in the u.s. they had they had the legal letter, the boilerplate ready, they were going to do it, it would probably reveal the operation because in the u.s., there's all these, of course, issues around, discovery. you have to tell somebody how they were cool. that never happened because higher ups at, doj refused to approve it. there. tension inside, i guess. not the fbi, but the doj more broadly, the legal side. and they want to have it done. so nobody inside america was arrested based on that. that being said, in a very cruel twist, the doj charge criminals who sold the phones to criminals. so even though these people were selling the phones basically for the fbi, they ended up getting charged and a bunch of got extradited to san diego and then just last week, i reported that they've pled guilty basically because, well, it's not i'll go to prison for years, essentially. so maybe get two or three years now, i don't know. but yeah. and real quick question, did they catch everybody in the book i re

the fbi knows who it is. >> bret: does the fbi know who it is. >> the fbi under me and dan bongino'sdership has reestablished that investigations of great public importance that almost b blue up the dnc and rnc in washington, d.c. an area that then vice president harris was in the vicinity of is something that needs to be answered. we learned that fbi leadership in the prior administration slow rolled and basically shut that investigation off. we turned it on. we have some great leads and dan is actually going to talk about that when he does "fox & friends" tomorrow. >> bret: okay. you don't want to give us a little something? [laughter] >> i can't get ahead of everybody. >> bret: all right. what did you make of your predecessor's walk on the beach with these shells 86 47? >> you know, the fbi is bigger than any leader it's ever had or ever will have. james comey is a private citizen and walk around the beach and talk about sea shells and crayola crayons and talk about the conspiracy theorists. i remind the people of one thing when that man was the leader of the fbi he perpetrated th

our exclusive interview, fbi director kash patel told me the fbi's real estate portfolio is about totically, but the mission will not change. if i want to get to a few specifics, and i know you can't talk about any active investigation, so -- and our viewers understand that. how come we don't have more information on the assassination attempts on president trump? >> there's two reasons. two two open, ongoing prosecutions. if so two of the investigatiy ce individuals are dead, but there's two live prosecutions. and so we can't get ahead of the federal court case. a lot of that information will come9 out in the federal court cases, but we have personally invested our time in making sure that we have looked at all the, any possible international connections to terrorism and adversaries alike, and we've both been down to quantico, we've both done the laboratory testing, we've both seen the firearm physically held. we are all in on these investigations. maria: are we going to be surprised at what you learned? >> you know what, maria? kash is not kidding, we've been personally briefed exte

instead of the fbi's previous assessment. the chairs of the intel and judiciary committees, representatives rick crawford and jim jordan joined representative jackson to discuss the report's findings. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> thank you all for being here. can you hear me ok? i am congressman rick crawford. i have the privilege of chairing the house permanent select committee on intelligence. i want to thank you all for being here today. a lot going on so i won't spend a whole lot of time today. i'm joined by the chairman of the house intelligence subcommittee on oversight and investigation and the judiciary committee chairman, jim jordan. want to thank both of them for their partnership in this effort and most importantly, i want to thank current and former intelligence committee members and staff who spent a significant time on this investigation to uneart

the fbi. and if you're an undercover operative, someone what i did your cover protects you. it can protect you from something like a bullet to the head. worst case scenario. but it can also mean that your if your cover is peeled away and you can't work anymore, you can't the things that you were trained to do. there is a really bad guy. and like i said, i could just spend a half hour telling you all the things he did. some of it's class still classified. it would get me in a lot of trouble. but what's more important than what he did, i think is how he did it. because he wasn't just a damaging spy. he was our first cyber spy. believe it or not, this guy was one of the first spies to change the game of espionage. he stole information from computer systems at the fbi that were never built to defend from a trusted insider. and he would save the money. all right. we're going to go back in time, everybody. floppy disks. who remembers those? we're going to go in a little bit of a time machine during

the fbi. and if you're an undercover operative, someone what i did your cover protects you. it can protect you from something like a bullet to the head. worst case scenario. but it can also mean that your if your cover is peeled away and you can't work anymore, you can't the things that you were trained to do. there is a really bad guy. and like i said, i could just spend a half hour telling you all the things he did. some of it's class still classified. it would get me in a lot of trouble. but what's more important than what he did, i think is how he did it. because he wasn't just a damaging spy. he was our first cyber spy. believe it or not, this guy was one of the first spies to change the game of espionage. he stole information from computer systems at the fbi that were never built to defend from a trusted insider. and he would save the money. all right. we're going to go back in time, everybody. floppy disks. who remembers those? we're going to go in a little bit of a time machine during

within the fbi and outside the fbi. and we will do it through rigorous constitutional oversight. that's music to our ears. americans gave us a clear mandate in november to restore confidence in the fbi and de-weaponize the doj and they haven't minced words. we've heard from communities across the country who want to see a separation between politics and justice. after 4 long years, i'm confident that you have the ability and sheer determination. to reinforce the fbi's mission of protecting the american public and upholding the constitution. i'm looking forward to your leadership in tackling some of the most important and dangerous issues that our nation is facing. in fact, we are already starting to see progress since you were confirmed for this role earlier in this year. first and foremost, we finally have secure borders, making our communities safe again. our borders when unsecured provide an express lane directly into our country for fentanyl and other illicit drugs that target our children, our schools, our families, and our neighborhoods. from a crackdown on cartel operation

the fbi. and if you're an undercover operative, someone what i did your cover protects you. it can protect you from something like a bullet to the head. worst case scenario. but it can also mean that your if your cover is peeled away and you can't work anymore, you can't the things that you were trained to do. there is a really bad guy. and like i said, i could just spend a half hour telling you all the things he did. some of it's class still classified. it would get me in a lot of trouble. but what's more important than what he did, i think is how he did it. because he wasn't just a damaging spy. he was our first cyber spy. believe it or not, this guy was one of the first spies to change the game of espionage. he stole information from computer systems at the fbi that were never built to defend from a trusted insider. and he would save the money. all right. we're going to go back in time, everybody. floppy disks. who remembers those? we're going to go in a little bit of a time machine during

. >> the attorney general and the fbi director announced the results of an fbi initiative to identify, track, and arrest child sex predators. the attorney general said nationwide operations lead to the arrest of 205 suspected sex predators. >> good morning. thank you all for being here. we have a busy day here at the department justice on sure a lot of you have seen. today we are proud to announce the results of the fbi operation restore justice initiative. this historic unprecedented nationwide operation but to the rest of 205 child sex predators. unbelievable. in just five days. this was an incredible operation done in conjunction with fbi and our prosecutors. children and their families now have a chance to heal. these are online predators. think about this. 115 victims, victims, children in five days we were able to help. this kind of work takes a toll on fbi agents and the prosecutors who are doing this every single day. they are working tirelessly online dealing with the drugs of our society, the worst of the worst. the people that behind behind -- that high data computer and ta

done and can junction with fbi and our prosecutors.hildren and their families now have a chance to heal. these are online predators. think about this. 115 victims, victims children in five days we were able to help. this kind of work takes a toll on fbi agents and thehe prosecutors who are doing this every single day. they are working tirelessly online to learn with the dregs of our society. the worst of the worst that people who hide behind a computer and target our young children every single day. our law enforcement, our prosecutors sit there and deal with this every day to get these monsters off the street. streets.director patel and i alt daily talk about these cases. the officers andnd prosecutors w many lives are being saved how many children are being held by this. director patel will get into the specific cases with you in a minute. but, what i will tie these depraved human beings, if convicted, face the maximum penalty in prison. we will find you, we will arrest you and we will charge you. if you are online targeting a child,

fbi. and, jason, we are very we're we've got a lot that we're looking at. but the american people voted on november 5th to change how things were done. they gave a mandate to donald trump. they want to put an end to this two tiers of justice. they want to put an end to having government weaponized against people. and, you know, look at what is happening with deportations. and you've got mayors like our nashville mayor here in tennessee that is trying to defend the deportations. these criminal illegal aliens, and protect them from deportations. >> senator, you do. >> have your all of this. >> senator marsha blackburn, you do have your hands full. as we look at looking live at air force one, touching back down at joint base andrews. stay with us. we're going to cover that live. and coming up, tapes of biden answering questions from special counsel robert hur were just released. and they show how bad biden's cognitive cognitive decline was. we'll play more of the tapes. doctor marc siegel joi

do you think that this was just some accident that the fbi director, former fbi director didn't know was posting up about donald trump being obviously number 47? >> my opinion of him is so bad i don't know that i could give a fair and balanced answer to that question, jason. everything he was involved in that i was involved in investigating, there were mistakes made, there were lies told, there was incompetence demonstrated at every step of the way. so my confidence level in james comey is so low i can see he made a simple mistake but it wouldn't surprise me at all if that was intentional and they were trying to stir up some type of coup or some type of insurrection or whatever. they are losing their minds over trumps success at securing the border, all of the things the media said president trump couldn't do that he did in the first three weeks of his term has made people like comey very anxious now. and who knows what led to the decision to post that picture. >> chairman, think you so much. and you were split screen here, you are seeing that air force one has touched back down here

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this was an incredible operation done in conjunction with fbi and our prosecutors. children and their families now have a chance to heal. these are online predators. think about this. 115 victims, victims, children in five days we were able to help. this kind of work takes a toll on fbi agents and the prosecutors who are doing this every single day. they are working tirelessly online dealing with the drugs of our society, the worst of the worst. the people that behind behind -- that high data computer and target are young children every single day. our law enforcement, our prosecutors sit there and deal with this every day to keep these monsters off the streets. director patel and i almost daily in our meetings talk about these cases and what it does to our officers and our prosecutors but also how many lives are being saved and how many children are being helped by this. director patel is going to get into specific cases with you and the minute but what i will tell you is these the prayed human beings, if convicted, will face the maximum penalty in prison. some lif

after reviewing fbi files. the two made it clear there is no evidence indicating any cause of death other than suicide. bruce springsteen is doubling down against president trump. the singer going on a 3-minute rant second con senator england over the weekend saying in part, quote: in america my home they are% executing people for their trite free speech. he ignored a question about trump while signing autographs. >> what is your message for trump? >> thank you for a great show. >> carley: this all combings after wednesday. springsteen criticized trump during his first con senator england. after washed the president responded calling him in part, quote: highly overrated and those your headlines, guys. >> brian: what about the prune part. >> ainsley: not a talented guy. called him a noxious jerk. charlie charlie is he kind of prune issue in looking. >> brian: that's what trump observed. >> charlie: is he very talented at seeking these things out. >> brian: speaking of talented let's go to the governor of minneso

the museum is near the local fbi office in less than a mile from the us congress. the israeli ambassador danny danon described the attack is a deprived act of anti-semitic terrorism and as he heard in the press conference the suspect, 30-year-old eliasson rodrigues is now in custody and they are questioning him at the moment. the weapon used has been found. when he was arrested he said free, free palestine. the israeli ambassador has just been speaking to the press talking about just how resilient the community is in the united states, how they will stand strong despite this attack, talking about the young couple who were attending the event who were shot just hours ago. let's go live now to our correspondent in washington, dc who also has more detail on these events. what can you tell us? this is a question, the biggest question around the killing is, of course, the motive and you just heard the fbi say they will look into investigating this as an act of terrorism, they will investigate this as a hate crime. we just heard the suspect was in custody and still yelli

the fbi has a dedicated website, ic3.gov. it is the central hub for reporting cyber enabled crime and sticking with cybersecurity. a big shakeup at the white house after president trump announced that mike wallace is out as national security adviser. he plans to nominate him to be the u.s. ambassador to the un. it is a surprising move. after walters came under fire back in march for inadvertently including a reporter in a group chat discussing sensitive military details about a planned strike on houthi rebels in yemen. during today's announcement in the rose garden, president trump said defense secretary pete hegseth, who was also in that group chat, will keep his position. >>if mike's leaving, that's the president's decision and we support that. this administration has already shown that they're incapable of nominating people for these very important roles who are actually qualified to do the job. >>president trump says secretary of state marco rubio will temporarily assume the duties of the national security adviser. coming

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are we seeing the most acute case of tds here in the case of a former fbi director? we talk about it with value attainment found there. great to see you here today. how do you explain the behavior of a former fbi director posting 8647. >> great to be back with you, well. here is what i will tell you i was on the army if somebody served in the army and you told me they don't know what nco stands for, not commissioned officer, they don't know what bd you means, they don't know what xo stands for, co, or any of these acronyms ait, i never really knew what that meant that is not possible. specialist and knows it, let alone if you are the general of the army. if you were the sergeant major of the army what do you mean you are the director of the fbi and you don't know what 86 means what do you mean you don't know what 8647 means. irresponsible comment and by the way he has a book coming out so some people are sinking may be doing this because he wanted to market his book. this has to be the worst idea anybody gave him about marketing to our book because you could market y

the fbi is investigating it as such. our joint terrorism task force is here working in lockstep with the palm springs police department, the atf, and a whole host of agencies that have already mentioned if anyone has information regarding this incident, i urge them to call one 800, call fbi for any tips that might assist us in our investigation. now, i'd like to turn it over to palm springs police chief andy mills. can you. state your. >> name again, please? and your dad? >> yes. akil davis, assistant director in charge, fbi, los angeles. thank you. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm andrew mills. i police chief in palm springs, and i am with me today is our mayor pro tem. >> and amy. >> soto. this side. >> as well as. >> council members david ready, jeffrey bernstein and grace gardner and our city manager, scott styles. i'm really saddened by today's attack on our city, but i'm also hopeful because this city will rise and this city has resilient and will be strong as a result of this. i am also extraordinarily grateful f

what do you make of what is going on at the fbi? >> transparency is coming back, which needs to happen. >> steve: you having a great time? >> having a great time. >> steve: sounds like elon musk is leaving government service. what is your name? elon musk when he did doge cuts, what do you think? >> i think it's a nobel effort, $175 billion to date, in terms of materiality, talking about 6.5 trillion, $175 billion on 6.5 tril knowion, i'd like to see more. >> steve: chris, come down here. great these people showed up. you having a good time? [cheering] >> steve: chris, swing around, it is 81 degrees, who is hot? [cheering] >> steve: anybody like to jump in the pool? >> yes! >> steve: they are wearing their work clothes, a lot of waiters and waitresses. are you two old enough to jump in the pool? >> i think so. >> steve: dad is right over there. on three, three, two, one, yeah! how does it feel? >> it feels good. >> steve: anyway, ainsley and lawrence, having a great time at popstroke. check it out at popstroke.com. hold on a second,

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you are the former correct of df the fbi. president of the united states who by the way was rightly elected is out of the country in the middle east no less talking to one of our greatest threats, the iranians, the qataris and you go and pull a stunt like this? how juvenile? this is high school. >> laura: it's unbelievable. >> this guy needs to be prosecuted. this has got to stop. >> laura: yeah. and this is after we still don't know anything about thomas crooks who almost killed donald trump at that field in butler. we know nothing -- how is it that america, with hundreds of billions we have spent on intelligence and technology and the best of the best over the last, what, 50 years, we can't tell the american people who was this thomas corroboration? did he really act alone? we don't know. we know nothing about him. it's crazy. >> do you know why we know so little about the investigation? because so little investigation was done. the secret service, the fbi, and the department of justice under that crypt keeper of the attorn

so i'm sure the fbi is writing up the search warrant now that will be executed by the fbi agents in chicagot happened? the fact that he was seen pacing, which is, again, something that is especially outside of jewish community center or jewish museum like this is suspect. but it wasn't. no one confronted him at that. he approached the four shot two, killed them, and then went into the museum. and we did not find out if he if he surrendered or if he went in, maybe to look for more victims and then was seized by security in the museum. so that one wasn't given out. but he did, they said, admit to the shootings. he led them to where the gun was. he did not have the gun, it seemed, but he led him to it. so right now, the case for the murders is somewhat very, you know, tight and compact. they have the evidence, they have the statements. now they have to just do everything. so all those admissible in court, just, you know, dotting the i's and crossing the t's, as far as all the statements that were made, again, he'll get a lawyer and they'll try to get those statements withdrawn. but really, his

you worked as an fbi supervisor.t in the investigation? >> well, right. >> now. >> this. >> is a. >> washington, dc homicide scene. >> but because. >> of the diplomats and the possible other implications in this, they're going to be assisting with them just in case they get intelligence through other means that are looking at, like. terrorism related, if it's. >> a. >> conspiracy type. so again, it's the lead. >> of washington. >> d.c. homicide, but the fbi is going to be closely monitoring it and lending any assistance that they need. >> and i see that we have a statement from fbi director kash patel on x saying, my team and i have been briefed on the shooting tonight in downtown dc outside the capital jewish museum and near our washington field office. while we're working with mpd to respond and learn more in the immediate, please pray for the victims and their families. we will keep the public updated as we are able. so. so tell me more about what you actually expect to hear from this press conference at this poin

so i'm sure the fbi is writing up a search warrant now that will be executed by the fbi agents in chicagoar, they said, what happened? the fact that he was seen pacing, which is, again, something that is especially outside of jewish community center or jewish museum like this is suspect. but it wasn't. no one confronted him at that. he approached the four shot two, killed them, and then went into the museum. and we did not find out if he if he surrendered or if he went in, maybe to look for more victims and then was seized by security in the museum. so that one wasn't given out. but he did, they said, admit to the shootings. he led them to where the gun was. he did not have the gun, it seemed, but he led him to it. so right now, the case for the murders is somewhat very, you know, tight and compact. they have the evidence, they have the statements. now they have to just do everything. so all those admissible in court, just, you know, dotting the i's and crossing the t's. as far as all the statements that were made, again, he'll get a lawyer and they'll try to get those statements withdraw

the fbi is investigating it. as such, our joint terrorism task force is here working in lockstep with the palm springs police department, the atf, and a whole host of agencies that have already mentioned if anyone has information regarding this incident, i urge them to call one 800, call fbi for any tips that might assist us in our investigation. now, i'd like to turn it over to palm springs police chief andy mills. >> can you. >> state your. >> name again, please? and your dad? >> yes. akil davis, assistant director in charge, fbi, los angeles. thank you, thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm andrew mills. >> m i l l s. police chief in palm springs, and. >> i am with me today is. >> our mayor pro tem. naomi soto. >> this side. >> as well as council. >> members david. >> ready. >> jeffrey bernstein and grace garner and our city. >> manager, scott styles. >> i'm really saddened by. >> today's attack on our. >> city, but i'm also hopeful because this city will rise. >> and this city has. >> resilient and. >> will be st

at one 800, call fbi or to submit an online tip at tips fbi.and with that, i will turn it back over to judge. >> thank you very much. all right. we'll take a couple questions. go ahead. >> yes. so we had spoken to a witness who said that this was a private event, that it wasn't publicized. is there any idea how he actually knew about this and showed up at this specific event? >> you know, that's something that we're investigating right now. i think that, chief, you'd agree with me on that. that's the kind of thing. do we know? >> and that's still under investigation. >> yeah, we're looking at that. there's a lot. everybody understand this is fluid. it's happening now. go ahead. >> madam u.s. attorney, you mentioned terrorism. can you speak to any possible nexus to terrorism? and assistant director jensen, are you confident that this gunman acted alone? is there any indication at this point that he was inspired? and then also curious if the chief has any concerns about copycat attacks? >> well, first of all, let me say that we're going to contin

the fbi looking into this as a potential hate crime. but i can tell you, just having covered concerns about anti-semitism across washington, d.c. over the past couple of years, this is a community that's been on high alert. you might remember a little more than a year ago, there was a member of the military that self-immolated outside of the israeli embassy who videotaped it, streamed it live, talked about, the reason he was doing it being israel's military action in gaza. and so there has been serious concerns among jewish groups in the nation's capital about safety and security. and so, no doubt, those communities here and, and across the united states are going to be on high alert in the coming days. you heard the mayor of d.c. say that her administration is going to be talking to schools, to synagogues, making sure that they have the necessary security in place. but this is an incident that really has has shaken this city. and we also know that the president of the united states, donald trump, called the israeli ambassador a little

the fbi is investigating it as such. our joint terrorism task force is here, working in lockstep with the palm springs police department, the atf and a whole host of agencies that i've already mentioned. if anyone has information regarding this incident, i urge them to call one 800 call fbi with any tips that might assist us in our investigation. now i turn it over to palm springs police chief andy mills. yes, the assistant director in charge, fbi los angeles. good afternoon. i am andrew mills, police chief in palm springs. and with me today is our mayor pro temps as well as councilmembers david reddy, geoffrey bernstein and grace garner and our city manager, scott stiles. i am really saddened by today's attack on our city, but i'm also hopeful, because this city will rise and this city is resilient and will be strong as a result of this. i'm also extraordinarily grateful for my partners at the fbi, who were here almost immediately. i called assistant director davis and he happened to be in town, and he came over here, l

we have. >> the fbi. >> all of our. federal agencies. >> will work. >> hand in hand with you, chief, as we have done. and you, mayor, to do everything we can to keep our citizens safe. we will follow the facts. we will. follow the law. and this defendant. >> if charged, will be prosecuted. >> to the fullest. >> extent of the law. >> okay. >> two. one. two. yes. >> hi, i'm michael koziol. >> of the sydney morning herald. just on the man in custody. could you confirm the spelling of his name? you said. >> that he. >> was from chicago. do we know if he. >> traveled to. >> d.c. with. >> the intention of. >> you know, committing. this act? and just finally. >> did he say. >> anything else. >> while in. >> police custody other. >> than free. >> free palestine? so the correct spelling of his first name is e, as in echo, l as in lima, i as in india, a as in apple. s as in sierra. last name rodriguez, romeo. oscar. delta. romeo. india. golf uniform. echo zulu. and as i've stated before, the case is still under investigation and