asking about was deeply dist disturbing. we had an individual wearing a tactic call vest and gun and nail gun who tried to attack the cincinnati field office. a subsequent review of the subject s devices and online postings identified a pretty striking anti-f.b.i., anti-federal law enforcement hostility. he was calling on others to kill federal law enforcement claiming he felt he was fighting in his words a civil war. it is unfortunately part of a broader phenomenon that we have seen not just against the f.b.i. this is important to add, but against law enforcement all across the country. not just against law enforcement professionals themselves, which is appalling enough, but calling for attacks against their families, which is truly despicable. that man was captured and eliminated, was he not? yes. a few days later was the arizona f.b.i. department subject of armed violence armed protestors? well, i know that our phoenix field office has had a number of very concer
will be charged or indicted related to january 6th i had not heard that. it is a quasi quit yeah system. do you agree with that? certainly not quotas. that doesn t make any sense. goals is more of an ambiguous term. certainly not quotas. certainly not quotas. do you know in any of the personnel of the f.b.i. are on the investigations promised that will lead to indictments by the january 6th quotas used by attorney grace? it doesn t found same ill area to me. you told the committee that a small group of people on the u.s. capitol on january 6th had all sorts of weapons. do you remember being here for that committee hearing and testifying that way? in general, yes. it has been report evidence
violent extremism attacks against pro-life facilities and we re investigating those. it covers a wide spectrum. what they all have in common is three things, violence or threats of violence, motivated by some ideology and it varies in violation of federal criminal law and that s the violent extremism i am talking about when i identified this phenomenon. can i enter into the record two letters both from david weiss, the a pointed u.s. attorney in delaware rebutting allegations concerning partiality in the investigation of the hunter biden case? no objection. director, what s the difference between a traditional catholic and radical traditional catholic? i m not an expert on the catholic orders. your f.b.i. wrote a memo
whitaker also. they invoked your name and then they mentioned you. defund the f.b.i. was the accusation that ted lieu had, jason, saying that s what republicans are seeking. what s your reaction to that? they want accountability. should it be reorganized in such a way it has become too unwieldy with 38,000 f.b.i. agents in a portfolio so wide and broad and politicized maybe they should look at it. that s a responsible way for congress to act. they should have that debate. i think the democrats are organized in just invoking trump, trump, trump and very pinpointed. i m shocked that the republicans have not asked some of the pointed questions that they should about biden. classified documents that biden had. how come they aren t asking about the hunter biden probe? i haven t heard david weiss, the