feds. the democratic chairs of the house intelligence oversight committees want answers over what fallout could await after top-secret documents were found at trump s resort and are asking the director of national intelligence to provide an immediate damage assessment. let s bring in two former trump administration insiders former counterterrorism and covid adviser to mike pence olivia troye and former white house press secretary steph nye grisham. thank you both for being with us this evening. the thing i can t wrap my head around is why a president who notoriously paid little attention to his daily intelligence briefings as reported time and again while he was in office why would he hold on to this stuff and have it around mar-a-lago. you were his press secretary for a period of time. why does he suddenly care about top-secret materials? your guess is as good as mine and i ll leave it up to law enforcement and the investigation to come to that conclusion. there are many t
reporter: we ve learned from multiple sources that the person is ricky shiffer. we are trying to find out what kind of connection he has with right-wing extremist groups. what happened was at the cincinnati field office of the fbi. he walked in there, according to our sources, armed with an ar-15 style rifle and nail gun and tried to breach that office. an alarm was sounded. he was pursued by law enforcement not just on the federal side but local and state as well. there was a standoff for several hours in a rural area of ohio which ended when law enforcement tried to have nonlethal ways of bringing him in, tried to negotiate with him, but then he was killed in the standoff when none of that was working. like you said, we have come across a user account on donald trump s media site, truth social, bearing the same name and authorities have not confirmed it is his account but we have one source telling josh campbell there is a government i.d. matching the same picture. in at
good evening, after days of increasingly violent rhetoric against the fbi, right wing social media and elsewhere, in the wake of the api search of the former presidents mention and attempts to discredit the bureau by republican lawmakers from several cable channels, we have seen the first deadly consequences. and armed men killed in a shootout after trying to beach the fbi cincinnati office, somebody whose name is on the social media account spelling out in vivid detail the war he apparently was launching. cnn s brynn gingras is reporting on the deeply troubling story with the latest. brynn, what happened and what are you learning about the suspect? anderson, we learned from multiple sources that the suspect is ricky shiffer, 42 years old. investigators are trying to figure out what connection he had with right extremist groups. what happened earlier today is that the cincinnati field office of the fbi, ricky shiffer walked in there, armed with an ar-15 style rifle and a na
was injured at the capitol after an altercation involving proud boys members. this comes as the doj just announced the most serious criminal charges so far in its ongoing investigation of the capitol attack. it is indicted the head of the proud boys enrique tarrio and four others with seditious conspiracy. they are accused of working together to intimidate members of congress and law enforcement on january 6th, prompting them to flee. trying to prevent congress from performing its official duties of certifying joe biden s presidential victory. joining us now, cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz and legal analyst elie williams. seditious conspiracy, that s significant. it is. it is a new charge, it is a more ambitious charge, jim. these are five leaders that are charged in this case, five leaders of the proud boys that we heard of before. these guys have been charged previously with conspiracy, to obstruct the january 6th certification of the election. an
Loyal to him. Voters not sufficiently pure enough either in the first choice of a candidate, as in the case of haley voters or in their religion, in the case of jews who dont vote republican. The list of political enemies gets longer and longer and while this isnt new, its trump being trump, after all, some republicans worry its not helping him in november, in the same way condemning vote by mail cost him in 2020. Condemning anyone who questions him or maybe doesnt have him as their first choice might cost him in 2024. Theres vaughn. If not in total viewers. And in republicans ability to keep the house or win back the senate. Youre seeing the sausage being made, folks. The former president quote, needs to be sensitive to where hes strong and where hes weak in the political map. Joining us now, as i mentioned, nbc news correspondent Vaughn Hillyard whose face you saw half of a moment ago, New York Times Political Correspondent who wrote a new piece on trump and evangelicals, mike bender