virginia state police, and especially the alexandria police for their work and helping us respond and mitigate this incident. we continue to provide a robust and visible presence at the capitol complex and to monitor national and world events to provide a level of security that s appropriate. reporter: can you describe officer griner s response? as part of the investigation and i won t comment. reporter: agents who were with congressman scalise, is it a protective detail? what is their mission? their assignment today was to protect the congressman. reporter: was he the only one who had protective detail? we had capitol police officers assigned to monitor the event. reporter: there is video and audio recordings of the gun battle. it would appear to have been
investigation ongoing because people are getting we can t comment. we would like to talk about this that we re doing. they do say it. it s the president who doesn t say it. as a whole. i think the special counsel is a gift to trump. it allows him to basically say, everything is secret for the next year. if he is able to say that. hasn t done that. but there s there s counsel but there s also other human beings who know things. there s no muzzle on these other people who know things. there s nothing preventing other people from divulging what they know. nothing guarantees the headlines will go away. the president is on his way to saudi arabia. coming up next, two people who have been on the plane at such crucial moments. at red lobster s seafood trios
to. that s the question. i think it would be better for them and for many consuming news if they would say, there s an investigation ongoing because people are getting we can t comment. to say we can t comment on this. we would like to talk this that we re doing. they do say it. it s the president who doesn t say it. as a whole. i think the special counsel is a gift to trump. it allows him to basically say, everything is secret for the next year. if he is able to say that. hasn t done that. but there s there s counsel but there s also other human beings who know things. there s no muzzle on these other people who know things. there s nothing preventing other people from divulging what they know. nothing guarantees the headlines will go away. i want to thank everybody on the panel. as we said the president is on his way to saudi arabia. coming up next, two people who have been on the plane at such crucial moments. [fbi agent] you re a brave man, mr. stevens. your
what happened, a dramatic turn of events, because donald trump, we know, before he became president, was very apprehensive of engaging any type of syria conflict, in fact, in 2013, he said the president did not have the authority to do so, without the approval of congress. well, tonight, he acted decisively, but the secretary of state, rex tillerson, he said this, don, i was trustruck by t comment. he said, the u.s. could not turn away, or turn a blind eye to this. now, they did not, you know, suggest that this was going to change u.s. strategy towards syria at all. they did not talk about removing bashar al assad from power. this was a very limited strike on that specific strip of airfields that had launched the chemical attack earlier, but as barbara s been reporting all evening, this was designed to send a message, a message to assad. a message to russia, as well.
issues. how she could conduct the shooting. the fact she may have been the first female active school shooter in the country. tonight, sincere gratitude toward a father who had to make an excruciating decision to turn in his own daughter in order to save other people s children. it had to be a very agonizing decision. a decision i m sure no parent would ever want to make but ultimately the right thing to do for his daughter. very difficult but the right thing to do. tonight, nicole savario is at a local hospital undergoing mental health evaluations. when she gets out she will be taken into custody on explosive charges. she could face up to 50 years in charges. her father hasn t spoken out publicly. we reached out to him and said he did not want it comment. is there any indication anyone else was involved in this alleged plot? no. the sheriff tells us there is no indication they had gotten that anybody else was involved.