The hour. BidenHarris Administration refusing to disclose information about Terror Threats at the southern border. Fox news asked customs and Border Protection for the nationalities of Terror Watch List suspects. Freedom of information act request was denied for the second time in the past three months. The cbp cited privacy concerns. All right. This is the faulkner focus, im sandra smith in for harris, cbp told Fox Yesterday Release of this information would reveal cbp investigative techniques used in apprehending and processing terrorists. We originally filed the foia request last october. Agency rejected it in may saying the privacy interests of the individuals and the records you have requested outweigh any minimal Public Interest in disclosure of the information. Cbps own southern border numbers show the encounters have skyrocketed under biden and harris. Even the f. B. I. Director admitted on multiple occasions how serious the Terror Threat is right now. All the lights are blinki
Last night. Meantime, cnn has learned investigators are struggling to bring officer sicknicks kill tore justice. Cnn security correspondent Josh Campbell is starting us off this morning in washington. Josh, so remarkable to be back at the scene, just a month after officer sicknicks death. Reporter thats right. Laura. And this was the Scene Of The Crime, this was the same building that former officer sicknick protected for over a decade inside at various time with the Capitol Police. A solemn ceremony as you mentioned last night, a hearse arrived at the east steps of the capitol carrying the remains of the fallen officer. Once inside the rotunda, two officers escorted his remains and an American Flag into a table at the center. We saw members of congress and his former colleagues with the Capitol Police file in, paying their respects. A very solemn, a very quiet moment, again, for this fallen officer. Now, we got word just before 10 00 p. M. Last night that the president s motorcade had
Mccarthy is leaning leaning toward removing congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene from the Education Committee. Now greene has endorsed statements calling for the execution of democratic leaders. Shes harassed survivors of school shootings. Shes suggested Mass Shootings were staged hoaxes, and this morning the reporting is that mccarthy is leaning toward removing her from the Education Committee. Well see if it happens. Why . Just leaning . What might be pushing him this way . And what is she refusing to do that might help her keep her committee post. That in just a moment. First, Josh Campbell In Washington where officer Brian Sicknick lies in honor this morning. Josh . Good morning. Were taking you live inside the Capitol Rotunda where the remains of this fallen officer are currently Lying In Honor. There has been a steady stream of people coming to pay their respects. Lawmakers, as well as members of the capitol police. Many of them wearing black bands around their badges to symboliz
A man opened fire yesterday on f. B. I. Agents attempting to serve a child pornography warrant. After he spotted them on his security camera, killing two of them, wounding more. The bureau identified those agents as 43yearold Laura Schwartzenberger and we do not yet have the photograph of 36yearold david alfin who also was killed. Three other agents wounded. A live report from sunrise, florida, is coming up. President biden is set to meet with democrat senators at the white house this hour on his covid19 Stimulus Plan after suggesting that republicans counter proposal is dead on arrival. Biden told Top Democrats he wants a big, bold package and the party is prepared to pass it without republican votes despite the president s push for unity and working together. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. Democrats are fast tracking a Stimulus Plan despite lacking any republican support as the president faces increasing pressure from the far left of his Political Party to act.
Time. In july 1998 a delusional, seriously mentalally ill man walked through carrying a loaded. 38 caliber smith and wesson revolver. Jacob chestnut stopped the man and asked him to go through the metal detector. The man turned and shot the officer in the head and killed him and shot and Wounded Another Police officer. Officer Douglas Mcmillian who Returned Fire and hit the attacker. Shot and mortally wounded a u. S. Capitol police detective. John gibson. As gibson told members of congress and their staff to take cover. Detective gibson was killed by the attacker that day. But before he died he nevertheless was able to return fire as well and that is apparently what took the gunman down and ended that oneman attack on the u. S. Capitol in the summer of 1998. The attacker, although he was shot by officers that Returned Fire, he survived. A u. S. Senator, who was a Heart Surgeon was nearby when the Gun Fight Broke Out and may have saved the gunmans life after the shooting stop and accomp