family knew stuff that they did not tell anyone about. so the concern that they do have is that the mother or someone else could have seen something suspicious, and after all, she was living in a house with a bomb lab in her garage, and she didn t say anything. so that is a question that they have. evan perez, thank you so much, and a lot of new information there. and back with the panel, former fbi assistant director chris sweker, and counter terrorism specialist tim clem ente, and s the money is suspicious, but the mother gets half of it, and does it raise any red flags to you? yes, the evidence is mounting against the mother here as it was just mentioned, and basically a bomb-making fac trishgs and ordering am munitio, and stockpiling the ammunition, and all of the accouterments of
great question. that s what the fbi still has on their mind. those questions are not yet answered. they want to talk to the members of the family again about what they knew. one of the things that the fbi director said last need about this idea about seeing something, saying something, he very concerned that members of the family knew stuff they did not tell anyone about. the concern that they do have is this mother or someone else could have seen something suspicious. she was living in a house with a bomb lab in her garage and she didn t say anything. that s a question that they have. thank you so much, evan perez. a lot of in information there. back to our panel. chris, $29,000 this guy borrowed. that in and of itself, who knows if that is suspicious, but his mother gets half of it.
is farook trying to cover his tracks making sure he didn t draw any attention? again, plotting this attack as far back as then. pamela, let me ask you about the mother. syed farook s mother who lived in the house with the terrorist couple while they were stockpiling ammunition to a degree, while they were building bombs, a bomb lab in the garage. what are investigators saying about her? and we also know that part of the loan he got just a couple weeks before the attack, this $28,500, around half we re told was handed to his mother. we don t know if she was aware of why she was getting that money. because we know he moved in with his wife to her home. so perhaps it was to pay for rent or perhaps something more sinister, we don t know that. but investigators want to figure out what did she know co great reporting, pamela brown, evan perez. let me turn to senator rish
electronics, though this information is not easily accessible, there s a layered approach to this kind of thing and will not stop trying until they are able to retrieve as much as they can. you ll bring it to us as soon as you know from your sources. thank you very much for all of that on the investigation. i want to go to paul in redlands, california, where the house is where they found this home made bomb lab. the investigation certainly expanding. today what are they looking at? when i was there a few days ago, they had already gone through the garage in question. one neighbor called the bm factory is now closed down and got everything out of here that it wanted. one place the investigation has expanded to is the childhood friend and neighbor of farook. this neighbor is the person who in san diego purchase d the rifles that were used in the massacres. and the fbi has gone back twice and done a consensual search of
location because we are continuing to be extremely methodical. we have brought in a reconstruction team to apply those tools to ultimately paint that. picture of how everything transpired that day. we have collected over 320 pieces of evidence in this investigation so far. we have transported a numb of those pieces of evidence to washington, d.c., primarily to our laboratory, our bomb lab, analytical center. the last thing i want to talk about before i open up for questions we have found evidence of planning, participation, finance iing. what will i will tell you this. we have found evidence of preplanning. let me correct that. what i want to say is you want to make sure the public rest