dozens of bills addressing china s economic and scientific produce ease. the role in the spread of covid and post temperature toward taiwan. in a new hour the china select committee begins its first hearing. and e.p.a. administrator michael reagan returned to ohio suffering from derailment. he was new community welcome center. first, our exclusive interview. flush mr. director, thanks for the time. we are here in the strategic operation center at the fbi headquarters. we appreciate you talking to us. absolutely. happy to talk with you, bret. bret: you know, polls show that the fbi s reputation is at a real record low. what do you make of that? well, look. there are all sorts of opinions out there about the fbi just like there are about every major institution these days. i can tell you that we are focused on the opinions of the people we actually do the work for and the people we do the work with. and i look at things like, for example, our recruiting, the thousands
interested in all the appropriate legal tools that will help us go after them. we are going after them. obviously we re not responsible for the physical security at the border, but we recognize that the threats emanating from the border are serious and we re determined to do our part as a team effort to combat those threats. we have field offices all across the border that have made, you know, hundreds of arrests. just last year, i mean, i will just give you one example. you know, our ballcarrier our ae division one seizure last fall seized a million fentanyl pills as if that weren t enough, loads of methamphetamine, something like $2 million in cash, lots and lots of guns, ballistic vests, hand grenades, those million pills, think about that for a second, if just 1%, 1% of those pills contained a lethal