potentially swindle more than $5 billion, almost $6 billion in taxpayer money. marc thiessen and ari fleischer in moments. first to david spunt who is investigating this. good afternoon, david. good afternoon. this came as an urgent alert from the pandemic response account ability committee better known as praac, this is a watch damage made up of government officials and government organizations. march will be three years since the government went into a lock down. many businesses survived but in not the same as from before. praac uncovered 69,000 questionable social security numbers that received 5.4 billion and that s just from studying more than 33 million applicants. there were many more. in many cases, the name did not match the correct name and birthday or the number was bogus, not even from the government. still the money went out in many cases. last spring i sat down with michael horowitz, chair of the pandemic response accountability committee and inspector general
the lead starts right now. 11 victims now dead with the latest update from the hospital from the massacre in monterey park, california. today what we re learning about the victims and what we re trying to piece together about the 72-year-old gunman s motive. he s been described as quick to anger. plus, a high ranking fbi official now in federal custody. he s facing money laundering charges and questions about his connections to a sanctioned russian billionaire. plus the bizarre defense in court for the january 6th rioter who kicked up his feet on the desk in speaker pelosi s offic. how a stun gun in his pants was key evidence in the case. we start with our nation lead-in. a search for answers in monterey bay, california. what started out as a festive lunar new year celebration in the town outside los angeles became a nightmare on saturday when a 72-year-old asian man opened fire inside a dance studio. this afternoon we learned the death toll has risen to 11 with 10 o
going forward, and it s noting that the special counsel isn t technically up and running yet. this has a number of steps to go and is very much a live process. we learned yesterday you and kaitlan collins reported the chief of staff is going to be stepping down and going to be replaced by jeff zients. he s very well known in washington and also very well known in the building behind me. he was president biden s covid response coordinator when he first came into office when the pandemic was raging throughout the country. he was the co-chair of his transition team as well. before that he served in a number of high-ranking positions inside the obama administration. ron klain is obviously a powerful chief of staff and has his hands in everything that comes across the president s desk, across the administration. his departure is significant, someone who has known and worked with the president for decades and has been integral to the operations in the building. it was something
the fbi commenced an assessment to understand whether classified information was mishandled in violation of federal law. this is the second time that we know of where fbi agents searched biden s properties that they had already combed through. the same thing happened more recently after his team had gone through his wilmington home and the fbi went back and double-checked it. nobody has said if any more searches are planned. bidened attorneys are said that they looked through his rehoboth property and found nothing. the fbi has not gone back over to double-check that property for anything else. members of congress are still asking to see the classified documents and questions. the justice department said they re working with the director of national intelligence to allow some information sharing with the senate intelligence committee for national security oversight. documents are very sensitive, materials are sensitive. they pose a counter intelligence or national security threat to
the rationale given by the spokesman was that this is underlying information that s tied to the investigation and it is better for the justice department to answer those questions while that investigation is ongoing, and once again, it underscores attention for white house officials as they attempt to try and address some of these issues, address what is very much an ongoing investigation, and over the course of the last two weeks has seen multiple sd disclosures, every two or three days classified documents discovered at the think tank in washington, and also at his home, while trying not to run afoul of an investigation that is under way. the folks person did not say whether there was an expectation that they would be offering other searches, perhaps of his rehoboth property. the white house says they will maintain complete cooperation