oversees the fbi labs analyzed the shoe bomb 17 years ago. that told us that that device was built by someone other than richard reid. while reid failed to light the detonator, the fbi team showed a jury the explosive potential. we took a sheet of aluminum, put the shoe, our recreation of the shoe with the exact amount of explosions on that detonated it to educate the court. jeager explained the forensics on the al qaeda influenced 2013 boston marathon bombing. pressure cookers killed three and injured several hundred. that is fragments of the pressure cooker. copper kettle steel shot and b bs and small nailed a fragmentation for them to be lethal. graphite where one of the backpack was situated. when beam are fleeing for their life they are leaving behind purses, backpacks and other items. every one of those things becomes another potential device that has to be cleared. inside this mask fbi
there is no allegations of any crime occurring. there is not an indication theres that criminal investigations underway by the fbi. which the fbi conducts all the time as our main counter intelligence bureau. if we get down that road, that is a decision that attorney general sessions can make at the time. the senators can call for it on their own. you called for it against your campaign against mark prior. how does this russia allegation, one does that rise to that level? i think that s far down the road from what our inquiry might reveal or what the fbi inquiries might reveal. right now there is no credible evidence of these contacts beyond anonymous sources in the media and anonymous sources can t always be trusted. anonymous sources are how we find out about a lot of scandals in this country. anonymous sources are not the tone of the conversation.
real harm to our national security. but take it at face value. it says the fbi went to president trump and reince priebus and said that reports of contacts between trump associates last year and russian intelligence officials were grossly overstated. isn t it reasonable for the chief of staff to say to the fbi director, are you going to say anything to correct the record on this? i think that s a perfectly reasonable response. now, the fbi and other intelligence agencies have reasons they don t go out and call balls and strikes on news stories because we don t want to let our adversaries what we know or how we know it. but i don t think there is much alarming here. let s go to the issue of the white house trying to enlist the chairman of the two intelligence committees, but in particular senate burk who has announced an investigation. was that appropriate? as reince priebus said last weekend, nunez was already
morning. especially cabinet secretaries. we also asked for them. ultima ultimately, the white house offered a deputy press secretary, and so we declined. let me go to the senator cotton interview. i think the story of the weekend has to do with the white house contact with some of these investigative entities, fbi senate intel. tom cotton not ready to go the route yet. no. but a couple steps down that path i thought. he was very vocal on the need for a vigorous, din independent investigation. but they have been asking for a special collect independent committee. i think that s where this conversation is going. i think republicans have resisted. but i think they re sending the signals and senator cotton sent one to you that they realize that optics are going to require an independent investigation. it is interesting that he
he is a member of the senate select committee. he also got an earful from people worried about losing health insurance when he appeared this week in a town hall and called for repealing and replacing obamacare. do your job! do your job! do your job! do your job! do your job! quite a week for you, senator. welcome to meet the press. fun week in arkansas, chuck. nothing wrong with being a part of democracy in action. any time you can get 2,200 of your voters to turn out, that s a good thing. let me get to this reaction r. you concerned about the white house contacts with in particular, the fbi and the chairman of the senate intelligence committee since your committee has already announced it is investigating all of these allegations of russian interference in the election, do you think that contact was inappropriate? chuck, let s step back.