I think the radio was starting to hear something about an altercation that had happened and from that point the days started to blend. By the afternoon of friday august 21, 1992 the quiet isolated area of Northern Idaho known as ruby ridge have been overwhelmed by federal agents and outoftown journals. Just that morning the u. S. And marshall had been shot in the cabin belonging to randy weaver and his wife vicki. Shots were fired and we got up there immediately picked. I was at the newsroom and we got a call saying there has been gunshots on the mountain and all kinds of la Law Enforcement joi. The word had gotten out so you want to make sure we dont have other people running in and out with guns, without guns. There were so many unknowns. One thing was clear, decorated u. S. Marshal William Degan was dead. He has been shot and killed in a confrontation with a fugitive in north. A federal firearms charge has been pulled in a cabin for naples more than a year. Killing a federal Law Enf
I think the radio was starting to hear something about an altercation that had happened and from that point the days started to blend. By the afternoon of friday august 21, 1992 the quiet isolated area of Northern Idaho known as ruby ridge have been overwhelmed by federal agents and outoftown journals. Just that morning the u. S. And marshall had been shot in the cabin belonging to randy weaver and his wife vicki. Shots were fired and we got up there immediately picked. I was at the newsroom and we got a call saying there has been gunshots on the mountain and all kinds of la Law Enforcement joi. The word had gotten out so you want to make sure we dont have other people running in and out with guns, without guns. There were so many unknowns. One thing was clear, decorated u. S. Marshal William Degan was dead. He has been shot and killed in a confrontation with a fugitive in north. A federal firearms charge has been pulled in a cabin for naples more than a year. Killing a federal Law Enf
Hours east of paris. Our Senior International correspondent Nic Robertson is following the story for us. Tell us more nic. This appears to be a situation where france if you will has literally dodged a bullet. Police were responding to a call that someone had been injured. When they arrived, they thought they were witnessing the french president said they were witnessing a victim but they realize he was under investigation. The french Prime Minister said this man had been under investigation last year and this year by the police and when they came across this man, they also with him found a vehicle, they say, weapons of war, which they describe as pistols, flak jackets, communications equipment, computer equipment as well and from all of the material they found in the vehicle, it was very clear he was about to attack two churches and also that he planned to try to go to syria as well. The french believe that they have narrowly averted over the weekend on sunday this attack against the
Drones in front of the white house. And now, this latest chapter involves two agents, and the car wreck at the white house and allegedly booze. Michelle kosinski is not farr from the crash site known as the white house lawn. What is the latest that you are hearing . Right. Keep in mind that the seekcret service is not confirming any of the details coming out by the Washington Post, but they are not disputing any of the facts either. What the article is saying that about a week ago on march 4th, two of the top agent, and one of them the number two agent in the president s protective detail, and one is a supervisor and coming back from a work party, the retirement of the spokesperson of the secret service, and allegations that they were drinking at the party, and came upon this barricade at the white house, and there was an investigation going on, and some sort of pact inexplicably they showed the badges but then drove right through the tape and crashed their government car into the very
Details that have come out. They broke the story. But the secret service isnt disputing any of these facts either. What the article is saying about a week ago on march 4th these two top agents i mean one of them was the number two agent in the president s protective detail and the other was the supervisor. They were coming back from a party, a work party. The theretirement of the spokesperson of the secret service. They were drinking at the party and there was an investigation going on a suspicious package. Inexplicably they showed their badges but then drove right through the tape and crashed their government car into a temporary barricade that had been set up. To make this even stranger, the allegation is also that officers at the scene there did not only want to arrest these agents or test them if theyre sober or not but the supervisor ordered them to be allowed to go on. So uniformed officers at the scene were the ones who wanted to give them an alcohol test . Reporter yeah exactly