sir. thank you. as you look at what happened in garland, texas, clearly, these guys were inspired by isis, yet thankfully, they didn t succeed. they were killed, only being able to wound one security officer. how far are we away from one being able to succeed? i think we re very close. if it weren t for the courage of the garland pd and fbi, they would have succeeded there. they got a break. the fbi had some information about these people. they were at least monitoring they weren t surveilling them. the director also came out with statements that more people are going to besurveilled, which is a very labor intensive operation. this is not a bank robbery gang. this is a movement of people dedicated to the philosophy of killing us and imposing surreal lawyers. we have a lot of trouble coming. and the fbi director seemed to allude to that. i want to put up the quote from comby.
suburb. here s what cnn has now just learned. the fbi did indeed warn texas authorities about one of the suspected gunmen here elton simpson, three hours before the attack. this coming to us from our justice correspondent, evan perez, having just spoken to the director of the fbi. a security guard was injured before officers at the scene killed simpson and his accomplice. let me bring in cnn law enforcement analyst tom foounuentes. explain to me as a former assistant director of the fbi, when the fbi tips off garland police and to be precise, it was that aln to simpson had expressed interest in this evident. where does the ball go from there? i think the ball was always in the court of garland pd from the beginning of event planning. even from that time, several months in advance, they knew this event would probably attract somebody who would want
of a threat was imminent at all. and i assume you couldn t hear or the people inside couldn t hear what was going on when these two guys drove up? no. apparently there were a few people who were either outside the door or close enough to it that heard a few shots, but most of us did not. and how did most people react? so i was in the hallway with about five other people and a guy in camouflage came running towards us shouting getting inside the conference room immediately. we all went in there, the doors were shut and the room became actually fairly quiet. i think we were all listening to see if we heard anything outsigh the doors. in the video, there is guys in khaki, who look like they know what they re doing. are those private security or local police? it was a mixture, so i m not sure which ones you re referring to. but there was apparently a s.w.a.t. team. there was private security. garland pd was there. fbi was there was a lot of
actually fairly quiet. i think we were all listening to see if we heard anything outside the doors. in the video, there is guys in khaki, who look like they know what they re doing. are those private security or local police? it was a mixture, so i m not sure which ones you re referring to. but there was apparently a s.w.a.t. team. there was private security. garland pd was there. fbi was there was a lot of different people there. i m assuming it s the s.w.a.t. team we re actually looking at. at one point in the auditorium, the lights went out, i understand? right. after we had been in there about 30 minutes, all of a sudden the lights went out. that was really the only moment that i felt a little bit nervous or scared, because it wasn t planned. i don t know if it was just a fluke or a timer, but the lights went out for maybe 10, 15 minutes with only a few lights in the corners. and the actual event itself, what, there were cartoons