Of bin laden, associate of alqaeda. And you had that photo up there, then you would feel pretty threatened. You would you would see the message theyre trying to convey and you could argue that maybe these students are lost and young. But again, this is very knowable information if they google their names, their the information about them is right there. And as a former government counterterrorism official, i know what these guys were up to, and thats that kind of message. Thats not protesting against the war. Thats not calling for a ceasefire, thats not even protesting for divestment at Columbia University Policy that is sending a message to students who are israeli, who are jewish or anybody really that this is the mess. This is what they stand for. They stand for what these guys are representing. And by the way, one of those Terrorist Organizations Palestinian Islamic Jihad is actively holding hostages in gaza right now, imagine that kind of message hagar, the white house, responded
government or law enforcement had authority over him. tweeting any crime that has been claimed i committed i am one, immune from prosecution anyway, two, all the evidence is fake. this isn t the first time law enforcement has seen a claim like this. it seems to fit the profile of a lone wolf. reporter: a former senior counterterrorism official for the u.s. government. whether this threat gets manifested by single individuals posting online like in this particular case or larger groups coming together like they did here in michigan with a plot to kidnap governor whitmer to the extreme end with the insurrection january 6th. we have seen different models of what this threat could look like. this isn t going away anytime soon. and that s the concern that officials have. thank you, omar, for that report. we will be following that court appearance today closely. we ll be right back after this.
attorney and senior investigator for the generations committee and phil mudd, a former cia counterterrorism official, nice to have you here. gentlemen, you heard just go talk about just the alphabet soup and the idea of this being stuffed in different places like almost a junk drawer, phil, when you hear about the classifications on the markings, summit levels that are not supposed to even go to allies let alone just be put with a post-it note somewhere in a box somewhere down in florida, what is your reaction? there are couple of things, chaos and the chaos in of administration that did not want to accept the election laws. when i saw the stories about the number of boxes, 15 boxes, 14 of them had classified documents, my take away was the president did not want to accept the election results obviously, in the final days of his presidency, someone went around the white house made the over office said everything from, pronouncing it to
government officials have six days to black out any details they feel could compromise that investigation, which likely means if more is revealed, it would be light on any real information. what we do know is there is now a sharper focus on the former president as a possible subject of the criminal investigation. that s because the cover sheet of the warrant application has been unsealed, and it shows three potential crimes, quote, willful retention of national defense information, concealment or removal of government records, and obstruction of federal investigation. let s discuss this with criminal defense and constitutional law attorney page pete and a cia counterterrorism official. guys, thanks both for joining me today. we have a lot to discuss. page, i want to get to this new language we learned about on thursday. willful retention of national defense information. that was just revealed.
what we know, though, is that the fbi has been over the process of 18 months has been engaged in all of this to try to figure out how to get these documents back. and the former president has posted on his social media platform saying that the whole nuclear thing is completely false. we don t know at this point whether the documents in question have been retrieved as part of this search. we re waiting to find out a little bit more, ana. okay, evan perez, thank you. so many questions. here to answer them is former federal prosecutor, an fbi senior intelligence adviser and cia counterterrorism official, and a cnn national security analyst, who was assistant homeland security assistant under president obama. thank you all for spending part of your friday here with us. we ll discuss the nukes angle in just a moment. the deadline is just two hours from now. do you think we ll see the search warrant? will it be unsealed? i think that s likely because