Reporter exactly. And the president likes to be his own chief of staff and Communications Director and press secretary. Its a maddening job for whoever goes into any of these positions but mulvaney is seen as somebody who keeps the trains running on time. That might be what the president needs. Yes. Thank you to all of you for joining us. Anderson starts now. Good evening, thanks for joining us. The Breaking News tonight in america is once again heart breaking. At least five people dead. Multiple wounded in a shooting at a news room. The news room at the Capital Gazette in annapolis, maryland. A suspect is in custody. A white male. Over the next hour well have the latest on the investigation and what were learning as details emerge. The shooting did just happen about five hours ago. The investigation is in the very early stages. Police officials are expected to give an update, a Press Conference any moment. Well bring it to you live as it happens. Stay tuned for that. Tragically the shootings happen so often theres a dangerous of becoming numb. One person, a white male in his late 30s in custody. And our criminal investigation division, investigators are interviewing him now. He entered the building. This was a targeted attack on the Capital Gazette that is located at 888 Best Gate Road on the first floor. He entered the building with a shotgun, and he looked for his victims as he walked through the lower level. We have secured the building. We are in the process of notifying the next of kin. We have five confirmed fatales and two injuries. The injuries to my understanding are superficial, possibly from glass from the shotgun blast. We are working on now securing his residence. He does live in the state of maryland. We are in the process of securing that residence and preparing for Search Warrants. So this is the next phase of this scene, and that is the investigative phase. This is the part that takes the most time. As i would assume many of you have already heard from many other Police Agencies in the state of maryland and across the country, the investigative process is very difficult. We must be thorough. Thats why you will not get the information from social media or from us unless its been confirmed. We have allowed our investigators to do their job. They are there now, and we are going to continue to provide you with information. I want to to share something with you that i think is
important. We mentioned before about the improvised explosive device. That is not an ied. It was actually canisters of Smoke Grenades that he used inside of the building when he entered the establishment. This person was prepared today to come in. This person was prepared to shoot people. His intent was to cause harm, and as i stated before, the investigative part of this is going to be thorough, and its going to take some time. As you can see behind us, we opened up bestgate road. We thought that we may need to secure that roadway for a long period of time. And as we get further into the investigation, we realized that we dont need that roadway. But the building, 888 bestgate
will be secured for some time. I do not have a time frame on that yet. Well be inside there for quite a bit, until this investigation is complete. When i have more confirmed information, i will share that confirmed information with you. You said he targeted specifically this newspaper. What was his beef with the newspaper . Thats what were investigating now. But there are already reports he had a history with the newspaper a couple years ago. Thats what im hearing, but before we confirm that, i need our investigators to look into that and make sure thats correct. Does he live in annapolis . Was there difficulty identifying the man . I cant share that with you. Its the first time ive heard facial recognition. Is he being cooperative and answering questions . I cant answer that. He is at our criminal investigation division. Our detectors are down there with him. Ive not interrupted them to ask if hes beingcooperative. Is this somebody who was known to you . Can you confirm if the suspect had a connection . The only connection i can tell you about right now is possibly, possibly through social media. I have no other confirmation. As anybody in your department or other departments had issues with this guy. I cannot confirm if our department has come in contact with him. Well have that at a later time as well. Any comment from my Family Members . Is he a resident of maryland . Hes a resident of maryland. You said he was walking and looking for thats going to be part of the investigation. I cant confirm for you whether or not he knew employees or just targeted the business in
general. Can you tell us where in maryland hes a resident . No. When are you able to confirm his identity . Very soon. Very soon. Was this a sporting shotgun, a tactical shotgun, and can you provide information about the Smoke Grenades, if there were commercially available or i dont have that information. They were shot on the first floor. Deputy chief, theres talk about the gunman trying to hide his identity in certain ways, maybe with his fingerprints burned off and things. Can you confirm any of that . I cannot. Its the first i heard facial recognition and the first ive heard anything about fingerprints. We have no verification on either. Were there any threats on social media or directly sent to we know there were threats
sent to the Capital Gazette over social media. Were trying to confirm what account it was and who sent them. When were the threats sent . Im sorry, what . How long ago to my knowledge, the threats were as early as today. Were there broken windows on the fourth floor . I cant answer that. The broken windows on the fourth floor, as i mentioned before, we have a twophase approach. One is tactical. One is investigative. The fourth floor, im almost positive they came from our tactical guys. Were all the five fatalities employees of the Capital Gazette . I cant confirm that. Have you had a chance to see the videos yet . We have not. In fact were pulling them as we
speak. We have Property Managers here and everybody thats associated with that building. Heres the interesting part. Governor hogan and mr. Shoe, our County Executive mention third down numerous times. If you see this gentleman behind me from the red cross, weve had so much support from around this state not only Law Enforcement but both private and public sector, and this gentleman is one of them from the red cross that has come and just asked what they can do. And thats important for us. We have to take care of a lot of people in a scene like this, not only Police Officers but our victims, our victims families, and then we have to get everybody back to normal. Right . Thats our job. So thats why we have these people here. Chief, can you tell us anything about how i cant thats part of the investigation. And when im able to give that information to you, i will. Was there any security in place given the fact that they had threats . How about his age . Late 30s. Thats part of the investigation. Were looking into that as well. Based on the threats, not to my knowledge, no. Was there any kind of response to a threat . If they have, im not aware of that personally, but we will look into that, because of the threats an well get back to you on that information. Chief, were you able to take his fingerprints . Were we able to take his fingerprints . That will be part of the booking process, yes, eventually his fingerprints will be taken. There were reports of i want to be really clear about this, guys. We have no information about facial recognition or anything about his fingerprints. If i had that information, i would give it to you, but we dont have that. You guys are trying to verify the social media account. Can you talk about the
specificity of the threat . Can you talk about the threat . What kind of threats were made . What i can share with you know is they were general threats toward the capital as a media outlet. Was it saying i want to kill somebody . Was it harm they were threatening or just saying im never going to buy your paper again . Thats a good question. When i have a Information Available to you, ill be more specific on the threats. Can you say they were violent threats . Were they involving a specific story . No. Were they violent threats . They indicated violence. Was he targeting we do not have any we have no knowledge at all that he was targeting anyone specific at the capital. Was anyone at the capital talk about recently threats. Had they personally talked to you . No. Look, i want to be clear about
another point. The capital newspaper is our local newspaper. We interact with the capital newspaper daily. Lieutenant frazier is our Public Information officer. We have friends at the capital newspaper. We speak with these Men And Women on a daily basis to get stories out that are important to the citizens of this county. So were here. Were invested. Were going to get this investigation right. And were going to come back and were going to give you credible, confirmed information to answer all your questions. When will we have a name on the suspect . Soon. Was there a boosted Police Presence of any kind after the threats were issued . No. Last one. I cant answer that. We have two individuals and we have one at another place. One more. Thats it. Was there any tactical train . We dont know that yet. Will you release the name tonight . Just to update you guys, with the next briefing. We dont anticipate further information until tomorrow morning with releasing the suspects name. Theres a lot of investigation thats going on right now. We dont want to jeopardize any of that. Again, we just from the police department, we interact with these reporters every day like we do a lot of you guys that are local reporters. I think sometimes in the major events, that gets lost. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and the victims families and to friends. These are people that we knew personally. If youre just joining us, we heard the latest information from authorities. There were social media threats made. Thats the only kind of threats theyre confirms ing at this point. One of the threats was made as early as today, earlier today. The person who is accused of this, they say is in their late 30s. Theyve not given out a name. They say this was a targeted attack on the Capital Gazette. This person looked for his victims. Five fatalities. Two superficial injuries from broken glass or trying to escape from the shooter. They are in the process of getting Search Warrants. They have secure third down persons house. They havent entered the house. Theyre getting Search Warrants first. This person had Smoke Grenades which they used which showed a level of preparation according to Law Enforcement. In a moment were going to have my complete interview with two reporters who were there when all of this happened who hid under their desks. Their accounts are chilling. We go into a lot of detail with them. Were going to bring you that interview in a moment. I want to bring in our Law Enforcement analyst, our former fbi supervisory agent, and also
a former fbi agent, and a retired fbi supervisory specialist. Police are saying a targeted attack. This is early hours. What stands out to you based on what we just learned . That statement was a main take away for me. The question always starts with why did this person do this . What was the motive . Was there a connection or was it random . That was the question weve been looking to answer. Was it targeted . As my colleague evan perez and others have reported along with talking to some of our sources, there was a connection, and as weve Learned Police are on the verge of entering an residence while they continue to gather information. That answers that question. The one remaining factor for me is we look at some of the evidence that weve heard, the devices, and obviously the vng who was there walking on the first floor and seeking to take
life. It will be interesting to see whornt t whether or not the conclusion that this was targeted was based on that evidence alone or if the subject is cooperating with authorities. Weve talked to sources. Weve learned at within point he wasnt cooperative. That can change at any time if Law Enforcement convinced him its in his best interest to talk. A lot of unanswered questions. We have this issue of social media. Thats something the Law Enforcement officers will look at anyway in a situation trying to determine what are the means someone uses to communicate. The medium may also have been used as a threat will be of interest to Law Enforcement officials as this longterm investigation continues. James, the shooter was not carrying i. D. According to sources and based on sources that he reportedly wasnt cooperative. There was also a report he had somehow altered his fingerpri s fingerprints. The chief of police would not confirm that. For you, what is all of this saying about the level of preparation . The Smoke Canisters as well . First, in crisis incidence, inaccurate information is always a problem that we have to sift through. So the chief of clear there. He said were going to be careful. Anything we put out is going to be very accurate. We dont want to put out anything erroneous. We heard reports maybe fingerprints were altered. Earlier reports also said potential ieds. He corrected that saying it was smoke cannons. Exactly. I think sometimes for civilians they might think a Smoke Canister is an ied. It causes fire and smoke. What those things are used for from a military perspective, you use them to signal and to obscure. Now, using them in this kind of situation, did he use that as a distraction . Did he use it as something that was going to cause fear and pan sni ic . He used a shotgun. The chief didnt say whether it was buck shot or bird shot or a
slug. A slug round is a dangerous round. Theyre less accurate because its a scatter gun type device. Obviously a lot of people have shotguns for home defense. So probably didnt raise any suspicions that he purchased this. But not the kind of weapon weve seen generally speaking in these types of incidence. Motive is always important. Not yet determined. We dont know why this news room was perhaps targeted. Even if the shooter knew any of the victims or editors at the paper. The two people who lived through this who ill talk to, reporters, distinctly describe the path the gunman took through the news room and where people were and who it was that he seemed to, in their opinion, be looking for. But, again, we dont know yet motive. Some threats were made over social media. At this point what do investigators do to try to
determine motive . Obviously theres the interview process. Whether or not hes being cooperative is unknown at this point. Right. Well, obviously speaking directly with the shooter. Shes still alive. Hes still alive. Hell be able to give them the best information. I think theyll want to confirm this is what it sounds like, but theyre going to want to know was he doing this alone . Or was this in coordination with anybody or did anybody know about this . And a lot of clues about motive might come from the people around him. Friends and family. If he was doing this alone, you know, lone wolf shooters are very difficult to identify and prevent ahead of time, because usually the people who are seeing signs of it are the people closest to this person. And just to relate this back to kind of a bigger conversation that weve had this week about civility and rhetoric, lone wolf actors are often alienated individuals who are looking to displace their anger and frustration onto some kind of
outside entity or enemy, and i think its worth pointing out that weve had a constant rhetoric coming even from the president that the press is the enemy of the people, thats been repeated constantly, and i think its worth noting if there is a link, the publication was being targeted that kind of rhetoric can be very dangerous in these times. And again, we dont know the history. If this person does have some sort of history with this newspaper, how far back it goes. The police chief was talking about what happens it was years but there was a social media threat made today. Joining me is lieutenant frazier. At this stage can you stay whether or not the shooter is cooperating with authorities . At this point were not saying whether he is cooperative or not, but we do have him down at our criminal investigation division. Hes being interviewed by our detectives and theyre trying to find out as much information as
possible. Its still very early on in the investigation. As you know, unfortunately since weve seen these things happen across the nation, this is the invest ga investigative part. It takes a long time. We have several investigators assigned to this. Theyre interviewing him and witnesses. We had approximately 170 people inside that building that we were able to get out safely that are all central witnesses. Ov our detectives are interviewing them and collecting surveillance from the building and surrounding buildings. We have a lot of leg work to do. Its the tip of the iceberg. Were up to the task and will make sure we get justice for these people who have lost o their lives. Its interesting from a pio standpoint. This is our local newspaper. These are people i had personal Close Relationships with. Many of the people in our department have it hits close to home when its people you know. Its unfortunate, and our
thoughts and prayers go out to them. Pio is Public Information officer for our viewers. You talk about a Search Warrant. Youre getting a Search Warrant right now in order to be able to enter the property. How long a process is that to get a Search Warrant . It kind of depends on the case. At this point we dont have were in the process of that. Thats one of the many things that our detectives will continue to do throughout the night into tomorrow. Once were able to identify locations that we believe we have probable cause to go in and get Search Warrants for, those will be served. But you can secure the area around this persons house. Is that right . The house or apartment . That i cant confirm. I dont have that information. It certainly is part of the process. I dont know if were there at this moment. But again, certainly part of the process. Thats one of the steps, one of the procedures when we obtain a Search Warrant for an address. I talked to two of the reporters who lived through
this. This office was on the ground floor. How easy was it to somewhere enter the building and how close was the news room to the entrance of the building . Yes. When you enter the build, the news room is on the first floor. Its accessible building. When you walk into the building, there are several other businesses and places of employment. Doctors offices and other businesses. To get in, its easy, open access. It would have been easy for him to get inside the building. To what extent he knew about the building, were not sure. We do know at this point this appears to be a targeted event. Its pretty clear from the evidence thats left behind, and with the damage that was done, that he had he went into that building to kill people. Theres no doubt in our mind with that. He went in there with a purpose. He was engaged very quickly. I believe we were there within a minute and engaged and protected a lot of people in there. Yeah. A minute is were proud of our officers that got there. A minute is an extraordinary response time. Just you talk about this as being a targeted attack. And that he went there to kill individuals. To your knowledge, was he targeting individuals . Did he know specific people that he was wanting to do harm to, or was it not so directed just targeted against the paper in general . Do you know at this stage . Yeah. I understand. Thats a great question. To my knowledge, i dont have specifics of any individual or reporter that he targeted. It is my understanding that he had some type of conflict with the paper in general. So we dont have any information at this point that he was targeting one individual reporter or anything like that. It just seems like he was upset with the paper as a whole. Can you confirm if the
shooter said something, yelled something, when he was being taken into custody, and if so, what that was . Yeah. To my knowledge, i dont know of anything that he has said. Detectives are continuing to try to get information from him. Theres been a lot of information on social media. Social media can be a good or bad thing. At this point, it seems like a lot of information, a lot of rumors spreading. Has he obliterated his fingers . Thats not true. That stuff has kind of spun out of control. We have him in custody. Were talking to him and doing everything we can to try to find out a motive. How long this was planned. Theres a lot of questions we need answers to, and were going to stay at it all night into tomorrow. We anticipate a briefing tomorrow morning with the suspects name and further informin information. We know its important to get it to the public. Were a tight community. This was our local paper. We had a lot of good
relationships with them. Our hearts and prayers go to the victims and the families. You said its not true about the fingerprints and the chief had said that was the first he was hearing about it. He didnt say it wasnt true. For clarifications sake, youre saying there was no attempt or something to do with fingerprints, altering of fingerprints . Not to my knowledge. We saw that on social media, and spoke to detectives down at our criminal investigation division. They had no idea where that information came from. Thats not true. Good clarifiation. Lieutenant, appreciate it. I know you have a busy night ahead of you. Well hear more of my conversation with two Staff Writers at Capital Gazette. I want you to hear what they had to say to describe what they saw hiding under their desks. What they saw and heard, thats next. Before nexium 24hr mark could only imagine. A peaceful night sleep without frequent heartburn waking him up. Now that dream is a reality. Nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for allday, allnight protection. Can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn . Let with one a day womens. A complete multivitamin specially formulated with key Nutrients Plus vitamin d for bone health support. Your one a day is showing. Look for new one a day womens with natures medley. Join tmobile. And get netflix included for the whole family. So you can get Lost In Space in your own backyard. Or get pumped up for your grand entrance. Only tmobile lets you watch your favorite movies and shows in more places, without paying more. Get an unlimited family plan with netflix on us. And right now at tmobile, buy one Samsung Galaxy s9 and get one free. You always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed . M lets get someone to say it with a really low voice. Carl . Lowest price guaranteed. What about the worlds lowest limbo stick . How low can you go . Nice one, carl. Hey ive got an idea. Just say, badda book. Badda boom. Badda book. Badda boom. Nice. Always the lowest price, guaranteed. Book now at choicehotels. Com
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writer. Understandably, some of their descriptions are emotional, and there is some strong language. Im so glad youre both safe. Im so sorry for all thats gone on, phil, if you can, walk us through what you saw, what you heard. I know you tweeted that the gunman shoot through the glass door to the office. Yeah. So the timeline is im struggling exactly to remember when it happened. Im sure police described it, but one gunman shot through the glass door to our office. We are in a shared office building. Were in one of the suites. And started opening fire on several of the employees inside. Once he got entry. What floor are you on . Were on the first floor. And were relatively close to the main entrance, and as were a suite thats right near the main entrance. Theres a list in the front of the building that shows where
each office is in the building. You said he shot through the front door. Did you see him, or did you hear that . I did not see him do it, but i did see the door shatter. Essentially he shot through the front door. The glass shattered. I turned around to see it. Once i started to realize that something was up, i didnt know what it was, i just assumed the worst, and kind of hid you should my desk under my desk and didnt see anything after that until he was apprehended. And phil, you said the initial shot, that you saw the shattering. How quickly after that were there further shots . I mean, it seemed pretty instantaneous. He was going down our news room, starting from the front, and yeah. Just continually shooting people. At one point im pretty sure i heard him reload while i was
still under my desk where he was only a few feet away from him, and i impleerngs it wasnt it was not a long event. It certainly felt like an eternity. Im sure anyone else who went through Something Like this would say the same thing, but in all honesty, it was probably all of two two three minutes. Selene, where were you and what did you first hear . I sit pretty close to phil. I remember i was working at my desk when i heard the shots. And it took a couple of them for me to realize what was happening. And i looked at anthony, the intern. And i said im getting out of here. I grabbed my purse and went to the back door which i was only a couple steps away from, and it was locked. And i said its locked. And at that point it was me,
anthony, and then john and rachel, and anthony and i got under the desk. Rachel went to the door, but she tripped, and i think thats how she ended up getting hurt. And i think she got behind a filing cabinet, and i think john was still trying to get out the door. Im not sure what im not sure exactly in the next couple seconds what happened, but then i know that john was standing up. I heard the footsteps, and he john got shot. It was very close. I saw him get shot, but i didnt see the gunman or anything. He fell down. I mean, i heard footsteps a couple times. My purse was on the floor just
away from the desk, and my sunglasses were on the floor. And im sure i was breathing really loud, and i was trying not to, but i just i couldnt be quiet, and he never came to our side, but i did hear footsteps very closely, and then we were trying to call 911, but im sure you know the rest of the story. Yeah. And i know as phil said, selen, time is difficult to tell in a situation like this. Was anybody saying anything . Was the gunman saying anything . Were people being quiet . Do you remember the sounds . I just remember the shots. I just remember i dont remember if it was before or after the shot john said what the fuck, and those are the only
words i can remember. I dont know. I didnt hear anybody yelling. We just from the sounds we knew what was happening. But i didnt hear anything else besides the shots. Yeah. I would say thats accurate. I think as soon as everyone found out, everyone tried to hide under their desks, but it was clear that he went after some people that were and phil, i mean, i know youre a crime reporter. I mean, you covered this kind of stuff professionally. Obviously its a different thing when its you underneath the desk. Can you just describe what was going through your mind . I mean, ill tell you when it first started to happen, i mean, you just immediately go into panic mode. You dont know why theyre there, who theyre going after, if its random, if its not family or a domestic dispute or what have you. You just try to get yourself out of it, and then once i started hearing that he was kind of making his way up the hall, or up the alley way or whatever you want to call it that runs through the pit of desks in our office, just trying to stay quiet, hoping that the glow of my computer screen didnt point out the fact that i was hiding under my desk, hoping that the various buzzings on my phone wouldnt put out my position to him and ultimately try to get him try to find out where he was. You know, at some point when i was listening to him reload, its you know, are we all going to die . Its not necessarily is he done. Its is he not going to leave until everyone in here is dead . Yeah. That was about the same for me. And had you, selene, your colleagues doesnt any active Shooter Training drills, or any
even fire escape kind of drills . No. Weve just no. We cover the drills that happen at the schools. But, like, weve never had one, and there have been some talks. There have been some talks. Were part of the Baltimore Sun media group that i know of. Im not trying to attribute it to anyone, but simply a heightened sense of awareness when it comes to news rooms as to protect their own and the likes. There were some talks before, but we never went underwent any of that sort of training. Phil, had you or any of your colleagues seen the shooter before . No. Well, i dont want to speak for everyone. Were not all here on this call. I know at least one other person that wasnt in the office, and i imagine others at all were questioned because they were with me at the police department. But when the Police Showed me
the photo of the guy, i didnt see him until after they brought me into the department. He didnt stand out to me as someone we would have or should have known. Was anybody aware of any threats made at all to the office . Obviously you news rooms are sometimes receive threats. Not recently. You know what . Ive been there for about two years. I dont think wed ever correct me if im wrong, se selene never any sort of real threats or anything came across our desks to our knowledge. No. And um. Go ahead. Im sorry. I just yeah. I just wed had maybe, like, an incident where somebody was
trying to track our boss, but it was basically blown off as, like, oh, this is just a crazy person. And i mean we went to the police about it. They know about that, and that is not this person. And i have to say that what happened here was very calculated. But not personal enough, i think. I think that this person was going after editors, and i could be wrong. I dont know anything, but thats what happened here. Editors died. But you think that might have been intentional or is that based on where people were sitting . I mean, i dont know for sure. Its just the facts. Editors died, and thats all i
know. The path that he took, and i dont know about selene, i have not connected with some of the advertising people in the front during the time it was happen, but the path that he took, i dont know, john was trying to get out. Maybe it was just an opportunistic shot. I know two of the editors that he went after were in a similar position to the other reporters where they were at their desks. Can you say what he looked like, phil . I can yeah. Police showed us a photo of him once they brought us into the department. He was kind of a maybe late 20s, early 30s. White male. Maybe 57, 510 in height. Long black hair. It was kind of unkempt. Not a very descript face. No distinguishing features on the face that would make him stand out in a lineup outside of his hair, really. And selene, how are you holding up . I watched someone die, so not super great. I was under the desk with anthony, and i think we had a lot of support with each other. I could be definitely, obviously, doing worse, but its hard for me to think past the next 30 minutes right now in my life. 30 minutes is a long time, and i just the answer is not good. Right . But im here and im talking to you. And i know that a lot of people are listening. I have heard that President Trump sent his prayers. Im not trying to make this political. All right . But we need more than prayers. I appreciate the prayers. I was praying the entire time i was under that desk. I want your prayers, but i want something else. Yeah. No. Its and many people that dont know what its like and certainly i would never hope anyone to go through a situation like we just went through. It makes you feel powerless. It makes you feel helpless. It removes all control from every facet of your life within only a few seconds once you understand whats happening. This is a situation where these are people that were working in an office doing their job who had no reason, at least to the best of our knowledge to think someone would have a motive, and come down and gun down employees just doing their job that day
who had no seeming motive to hate this man, and were to her point about prayers, you know, youre right. I was praying when he started reloading that shotgun that there werent going to be more bodies. And you know what . If were going to have a position in our society where all we offer each other is prayers, then where are we . Where are we as a society . People die and thats the end of that story. This is going to be a story for how many days . Less than a week. People will forget about us after a week unless we keep tweeting. I dont really care about tweet right now. People are this is i honestly didnt even expect to be talking with Anderson Cooper today. I thought people would get,
like, an apple news notification, and they would just blow it off like what happens to everybody. I reported on pulse when pulse happened. I went to school in florida, and i remember being so upset hearing about the victims who were texting their families and there i was, sitting under a desk texting my parents, telling them i loved them, and i just i just dont know what i want right now. Right . But im going to need more than a couple days of News Coverage and some thoughts and prayers, because its our whole lives have been shattered. And so thanks for your prayers, but i couldnt give a fuck about them if theres nothing else. Selene and phil, again, im
sorry its under these circumstances, but i appreciate the strength of you post talking. Thank you. Thank you. Well have more on what happened ahead. Well be right back. Mines way better. This ones below market price and has bluetooth. Same here, but this one has Leather Seats use the cars. Com app to compare price, features and value. Again, our Breaking News, police say at least five people are dead and two wounded at the shooting of a maryland newspaper. Other stories happening today. President trump proved again today that the Russia Investigation is far from his mind. In a tweet he wrote russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our election. Theres the dnc server . Why didnt they exam it . Why isnt hillary russia being looked at. The Russia Investigation was backdroped to an often contentious here on capitol hill today. Conservatives squared off against Rod Rosenstein. It was remarkable on a lot of fronts. We have the details. I am the Deputy Attorney general of the united states. Okay . Im not the person doing the redacting. Youre the boss, mr. Rosenstein. Did you threaten staffers on the House Intelligence Committee . Media reports indicate you did. Media reports are mistake snchblt. Who are we supposed to believe . Staff members who have never misled us, or you guys who weve caught Hiding Information and tell a witness not to answer our questions . Who are we supposed to believe . Thank you for making clear its not personal, mr. Jordan. Reporter Tonight Republicans Lashing Out at the Trump Apoint Appointed republicans who lead the fbi and justice. You have received requests that you havent complied with subpoenas and you got seven days to get your act together. Reporter Rod Rosenstein responding in a rare display of frustration. If youre interested in the truth, the truth is we have a team of folks. Theyre Trump Appointees and career folks doing their best to produce the documents. Reporter the fbi director Christopher Wray said hundreds of thousands of pages have been provided to the hill including documents related to criminal investigations. For months weve been working with your committees to answer questions and produce or make available to you and your staff over now 880,000 pages. In just the past week, for example, weve had approximately 100 employees working day and night dedicated to this project. I didnt think i was going to be spending the first ten months of my job staring down the barrel of a contempt citation. Reporter the answers didnt seem to trey gowdy spent more than two years investigating the 2012 attacks in benghazi said it was time to end the Mueller Investigation thats been running for 15 months. We are being divided. Weve seen the bias. Weve seen the bias. We need to see the evidence. If you have evidence of wrong doing by any member of the trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury, whatever you got. Finish it the hell up. This country is being torn apart. Republicans also continued to seize on the antitrump Text Messages between two fbi officials voinvolved in the initial stages of the probe. For them it was an investigation to stop donald trump. Reporter democrats argue republicans are only making Document Requests for sensitive materials now to give the president a pretext for Firing Rosenstein who oversees the mueller probe. They want to impeach you and indict you and get rid of you. They want to undermine this investigation. Mr. Rosenstein, good luck. Were in the minority. Jessica joins us now. There was another exchange between congressman jordan and rosenstein. Thats right. Congressman jordan asked rosenstein, did you threaten House Intelligence Committee staffers . What jordan was referring to right there was a fox news report saying that Rod Rosenstein had threatened to subpoena phone and email records of Committee Staffers during a january meeting. Now, the fox report cited staffers emails and anonymous sources. The doj and rosenstein and Jeff Sessions have repeatedly said rosenstein never threatened anyone. And today at the Hearing Rosenstein reiterated the fox report was wrong and when jordan pressed again and he asked rosenstein, did you threat ton subpoena phone calls, well, rosenstein responded saying, well, its not even possible to subpoena calls themselves. That sent the room into a bit of muted laughter, but rosenstein was firm and even said it was wrong for jordan to personally attack him. So very fiery exchanges, for sure. Jessica, thank you. Coming up, first lady visiting a Detention Center for migrant children. This is hhs refuses to answer simple questions about the children separated from their families. Details on that next. Coppertone sport. Proven to protect Street Skaters and freestylers. Stops up to 97 uv. Lasts through heat. Through sweat. Coppertone. Proven to protect. Where are reporter we dont have many answers. We have no answers as of tonight. We have asked hhs are you still receiving children who have been separated from their parents. They havent answered that. We asked for a full accounting for the numb number of children reunified with a parent or guardian. And weve asked what are the ages of the children still being held. They have not answered those questions. Today we got a new at the same time from an official at hhs. They said only that they are currently holding 11,869 kids. Now, that is not something that we asked. Thats something that we already knew. That includes this broader number that includes the minors that showed up at the Border Unaccompanied without an adult in addition to the kids separated from their families. That provides less than we knew a few days ago by grouping those groups together. Earlier today on capitol hill a hand full of senators were briefed by dhs, hhs and the doj about this and senator durbin left that briefing frustrated. He called it sad and embarrassing the level of information they received. Heres how he recalled that briefing. How many children have we separated from their parents and have in our custody in our government . They said we dont know. How many are under the age of five . Because the Court Order Out Of San Diego two days ago said within 14 days they have to be reunited with their parents. We dont know. Well, how many parents can you identify that have given up their children into our government . They said ten. Ten. Under i. C. E. In custody. Where are the rest of them . Those are parents of kids under the age of five. We dont know. Reporter now, we did receive some new information of the location of the kids
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