brand new data out from cvp that shows the number of people on the terror watch list headed to the border is shooting through the roof under president biden. border patrol arrests on the terrorist screening data base, known or suspected terrorists. fiscal year, 2022 so far, still has four months left in it, 50 border patrol arrests of 50 people. before that only 26 in the previous five years. we re essentially doubled the previous five years and we have four months left in fiscal year 2022. bad actors know now is the time to try to get into the united states with our porous border. take a listen. those data bases prevent add lot of terrorists from coming to the country, but they re meaningless because if you re a terrorist now, watching the news, why buy a plane ticket
individuals i ve ever met. and the fact is, we had to hand-select these teams, people who supported three-letter agencies and build an unclassified lab that tried to mimic a classified lab. we were able to do that on a limited budget and i m very proud of them. but linking those numbers to those names or specific types of data bases, i m not going to mention the names right now, but we were very effective in helping the committee linking names to numbers, thousands of them, we were also very effective in helping writing the subpoenas for records and actually identifying other, i would say other high value assets, right, that were in the ecosystem at that time. you said right before that you were so troubled by what you saw that you had to step away from your computer. what do you mean? what did you see that was so troubling? i think you know, i think i said before, you know, you start with these people can actually believe these things, but i was looking at former colleagues th
anti-semitism, and the work of course now begins, or probably began at the beginning of this crisis between u.s. and uk officials to look at things like communications, travel history, to work out whether or not this was a lone figure acting on their own or part of some wider plot. and were there any elements that plot may still be a threat around? i have to say listening to the coherence of akram in that recording of him in the synagogue and other suggestions about how sophisticated or unsophisticated frankly this plot was, that may point investigators toward what his family is suggesting, there could be mental health issues here. but certainly all efforts now being put in by uk and u.s. officials to work together to get to the bottom of this. and i understand from our colleague josh campbell that u.s. and uk officials at this stage aren t seeing many traces of akram in their data bases in terms of somebody they already had on their radar. but even president joe biden
much about him on a day to day basis, with much information on the u.s. and british side of things, not much evidence of him as someone they had in their data bases in the past so a lot to think now i think will be focusing on his behavior, some of the incoherent you may have heard in the recordings of him speak, lack of sfophistication around that plot, may lead some to agree with his family s assessment of mental health issues but a focus now on what the uk can provide the u.s. investigation, what can be discovered at this stage as well and, of course, whether there is any potential on going threat or wider network. although, at this point, no public statement to see that effect, poppy. nick, thank you very much for that reporting. when we come back, ukraine accusing russia of a huge cyber attack on its government. i ll ask if the u.s. is getting mired in another cold war. plus, new data suggesting that cutting covid quarantine from 10 days to five could have