this individual, according to the complaint, wanted to take down as many as he possibly could, take down people in the white house, blow a hole in the white house and broaden the attack to include the washington monument, the lincoln memorial and a specific synagogue here in washington as well. if you read it i know you have gone through it it s all pretty terrifying. it is very terrifying. it shows that even in our midst now, it s been a while thankfully since we have seen these attacks. there have been a lot of arrests since 9/11. they have been taken off the deck by fbi and federal and local and state officers. it shows that they are out there. you have people that are still inspired by some of the overseas groups. even though we have talked about this, you and i have, our experts said even though groups like isis are being defeated on the battlefield and their territory is being taken away, this is an ideology that continues to inspire people. we have seen that with this case
are learning about this dramatic arrest that took place here in the united states from nick valencia. it involved a 21-year-old who was arrested by federal agents today as part of a plot to attack the white house and various buildings inside the washington, d.c. area. this stemmed from a tip that came into the fbi, an individual reported that this subject was becoming radicalized and exhibiting signs that worried him. the fbi opened an investigation. they moved in. what followed was this dramatic development where you have the subject talking about wanting to travel overseas to an area controlled by the islamic state. then focused on conducting some type of attack here in the united states. again, you had several fbi agents, undercover employees involved in this to try to determine what was his motive. we actually saw throughout the complaint that the individual was trying to gather weapons. i will read part of the complaint that tells you how this took place and how the individual was
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go back to syria again anyway when isis triples in size if we re not careful. do you think this kind of decision is the kind of thing that even general i m sorry, secretary mattis should resign over? i mean, is it that big a mistake, in your view? well, that s a decision, obviously, for secretary mattis. if i was in that position, i would have a hard time moving forward on executing a strategy that i think will put the united states in more danger. we have to keep this war against isis on keep them on their heels. this announcement today, i pray the president reconsiders. and i ll give him great credit for reconsidering. but if this goes through, i mean, it would be tough for anybody in that position that knows this is wrong to continue. but the president can do it. what do you say to the viewer at home who thinks we can t just be abroad fighting these wars for the rest of our lives. we re never going to kill every member of isis in syria. we re never going to kill every memb
to fix the story of his son as to why he s taking that meeting with somebody who then turns out to have been using talking points connected to talking points in russia, and in which they were supposedly promised dirt on hillary clinton. i think the question for a lot of people who watch the show, a lot of people who tune in is, at what point does the liability attach to him? lots of people are in trouble. paul manafort, michael flynn, sis on, in trouble, jared kushner, maybe, who knows. it trump are liability and be prosecuted for any of this? yes. i think special counsel mueller is looking at obstruction of justice charges. steve miller, in the white house now, had a sitdown to talk about this letter that he jenned why comey should be fired. toop transparent. admitted it was about the russians. the white house counsel said, not a go and made a move going to rod rosenstein at the justice department to come up with