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listen, i think that s a very valid question. it s something that we have to assess very quickly. these two individuals had a very complex cover story, right? this is the prosecutor had stated that these were not defendants that were playing dress up. this was a very well-organized and coordinated effort. why remains unknown. what we saw was a lot of items that were taken as part of evidentiary value, that, you know, consisted of weapons, and, you know, tactical gear and a lot of police equipment. you know, that is something that we ve seen a lot of times in the past with people who are, you know, trying to mimic law enforcement. but to me, the most concerning issue here is the level of detail that these two individuals placed in their cover story. and the cover story is the reason why people believe that they were law enforcement. how did they do that? they actually faked being in,
this was going on as fire crews covered the plane in foam to prevent a fuel spill. we re learning new details about two men accused of impersonating department of homeland security agents for two years. even duping the secret service. here is whitney wild. reporter: posing a darm to the community significant flight risk because when investigators searched their apartments, they found a shocking amount of guns, ammunition, and tactical gear and evidence of extensive travel overseas and foreign contacts. investigators said he had multiple copies of his driver s license and various id cards. invest investigators said ally traveled to iran, pakistan, and egypt. the defendants were not nearly playing dress up. they had firearms, ammunition, body armor, tactical gear, surveillance equipment. they were arrested earlier this week and charged with impersonating department of
negative, but the white house said it is certainly possible he will test positive at this point. norah. o donnell: that s the state we re in. weijia jiang, thank you. well, tonight, we re learning more about the two men accused of pretending to be federal agents and giving financial favors to secret service officials. in court filings today, prosecutors said the defendants were not merely playing dress-up. they were engaged in conduct that created a potential risk to national security. here s cbs catherine herridge. reporter: appearing in federal court, the bizarre case of arian taherzadeh and haider ali took a serious national security turn with confirmation from court records they compromised u.s. secret service personnel with access to the white house. now suspended, secret service personnel assigned to the first lady, the white house, and the vice president s residence, arguing the suspects are flight risks, the government filed evidence photos of multiple weapons, tactical ge
would be ticked off too. that violated everything i swore to defend. and so when you convince that number of people, it is not a far thought, wolf, to think that some day, some militia shows up somewhere to do something and then some counter militia and at that point that is how you end up in a civil war. i never would say that we would ever have ended in that position but i now believe it is a real possibility that we have to be wide-eyed as we walk into so we don t have that happen again. and anybody that thinks that sounds cool, or they get to play dress-up because they somehow think it is going to be fun to go out and camp with their buddies and have a civil war, there are people that really think that, well, you know, the four or five heart medicines, walgreens won t have them available and that is how serious this is. you fear potentially there could be a civil war here in the united states? i do. and a year ago i would have said no, not a chance.