speech. and it was a speech that he knew he would be giving to some of his most die-hard fans, people who would follow him to the end of the earth, and that was crucial at that moment in his political life because just a few weeks earlier the wall street journal had been first to report that that same vice president he was under federal criminal investigation on potential felony corruption charges, bribery, extortion, tax evasion, a whole bunch of stuff. this was very shocking front page news at the time. it was very damaging news for obvious reasons to the vice president, and he was completely enraged about it. so he flew out to california to give a talk to his most rabid supporters. it was the national conference of republican women. and these women were hard core activists, as a group generally speaking they were quite right-wing, and a group generally speaking they were quote devoted to superhero agnew. this has been forgotten in history but agnew was seen as being much
tonight. a bulletin from the fbi and department of homeland security warns of a surge in threats and calls for violence against federal law enforcement officers and government personnel. according to nbc s kelly o donnell, the bulletin includes the following passages. these threats are occurring across multiple platforms online, including social media sites, web forums the fbi warned that it has seen personal identifying information for possible targets of violence, like home addresses and identification of family members as additional targets. horrific stuff. earlier today, a man died by suicide after driving a car into a barrier outside of the u.s. capitol building. the individual got out of the car, and as officers approached fired shots into the air before ultimately shooting himself. this all comes on the heels of the cincinnati fbi field office attack on thursday, carried out by a former january 6th insurrectionists, who seems to be incited by the maga cult response t
specific actions you would take to control the border. i was there yesterday. i saw the difference in intentionality from the last administration to this administration. i literally stood in a junction where the last administration s wall stopped and this administrations wall began. to give you a sense, one of the walls was 30 feet high, unclimbable. the other one my 9-year-old would have had fun climbing it in two seconds. we need to be intentional about protecting our border. we need to instead of you want to defund something, lets defund the 87,000 i.r.s. agents. let s defund that and why don t we use that for border patrol agents and technology to make sure that our border is safe. then the last thing is i think we really need to designate the cartels a terrorist organization. they are flooding our streets with fentanyl. 80 to 90,000 americans die every
have. and one member tweeted quote, let s defund and dismantle the f.b.i., end quote. another told fox news that quote, republicans should defund the bureaucracy, end quote. a third told the press he thinks the f.b.i. needs to be split up and moved out into pieces, end quote. those are direct quotes and only a small sample of what s out there. can you briefly describe for us what the effect would be on our national security and on our domestic tranquility if the f.b.i. were to be defunded or dismantled? certainly it would be disastrous for 38,000 hard working career law enforcement professionals and their families. more importantly in many ways it would hurt our great state and local law enforcement officers who depend on us every day to work with them on a whole slough of challenging threats.
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