Would be investigatings area as december 21, when the committee was pretty new in this work and just starting on thin endeavor to interview thousands of people and putting together a massive report that they re now in the process of putting together. but we were able to catch up with chairman thompson after he first made the comments. he did sort of reiterate that the panel was in agreement that there were going to be criminal referrals, but they re having a meeting this evening, that s going to be virtual, where they ll probably decide, or at least decide the steps forward on who exactly they are going to refer to the doj in these proceedings. and how they re going how this process is ultimately going to work. as we ve said, countless times on this program, criminal referrals from congress are symbolic, they hold no legal weight. but they do make headlines, and
Set to be arraigned on manslaughter. police arrested them in a warehouse where they were hiding. this is exclusive footage to cnn in the moments right after they were apprehended. this followed an hours long manhunt for the fugitives who were supposed to turn themselves in tuesday. how they were led under surveillance that is something they say needs to be dealt with. oakland county sheriff michael bouchard did admit his officers were stretched thing in investigating this tracking. surveillance team is quite a few people. and they work around the clock. those people are working the actual homicide. so, i would have had to have pulled them off of investigating the deaths at the school. we have to interview thousands of people that were in and around the school. we have go through hundreds and thousands of hours of digital evidence. it is an expansive job,
Pulled them off of investigating the deaths at the school to put them on a surveillance of somebody she says she might charge. i understand. she said is going to charge them that s why i m asking you because i said as a layperson, sheriff, that one would think that. but also, i remember sitting in this very seat reporting that there was a search warrant on the house and the house was part of the investigation and one would think if the house is part of the investigation and the family lives at the house that someone would be there checking on the house or surveilling the house. it just seems like common sense. well, we did the search warrant and everything of evidentiary value was seized and the house was released. there is a tally sheet created. there was nothing left in the home to be seized. there is no reason to surveil it and again, every time you put somebody somewhere to watch an empty house, you re taking them off the investigation. we have to interview thousands of p
Reporting that there was a search warrant on the house and the house was part of the investigation and one would think if the house is part of the investigation and the family lives at the house that someone would be there checking on the house or surveilling the house. it seems like common sense. we did the search warrant and everything of evidencery value was seized and the house was released. there is a tally sheet created. there was nothing left in the home to be seized. there is no reason to surveil it and again, every time you put somebody somewhere to watch an empty house, you re taking them off the investigation. we have to interview thousands of people that were in and around the school. we have to go through hundreds and thousands of hours of digital evidence for us to sit on the if come she may issue charges is not something we have the luxury to do when we re running home different things to ground. had we simply been told charges are coming so get ready, a simple phone c
can you tell us about the videos on his cell phone? horrendously disturbing. obviously talks about what excuse me, he intends to do and the kinds of things he s thinking about. it is just chilling. do you have any reason to believe that his parents knew about some of the things that he had created or that they knew that he was accessing this new weapon in the house? that s all part of the investigation at this point. we don t have any information that they knew that this was a path he was headed, but, again, that s very much an active investigation. while it feels ls like a lot of time has passed, we re only a couple of days past this tragedy and we have to interview thousands of witnesses and go through reams of paper and many, many hours of digital evidence as well as video. did he, sheriff, have any specific association with the