Going forward. You know, chris, the president S Homeland Security Department did say earlier there was no specific credible threat involving other public venues in the united states. How do they make that determination for certain . What they had in front of them, i think they are referring to based on this incident. I think theres always a generalized threat out there in large public events. Those soft targets weve been talking about. And people need to be aware. I saw a lot of people at that concert standing around watching what was going on instead of seeking cover, and i think that probably created a situation where more people were hurt than needed to be i mean, these fully automatic weapons can kill a lot of people very quickly, but we just have a very low level of awareness. Chris, we thank you for your insight. John and kayla, thank you. Well touch base with you little later on this morning. If youre just joining us this morning, good morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Q
Well continue to watch this throughout the night. The hope is pretreated roads in Northern Virginia will hold up to the snow sleet, rain ice tonight. Vdot crews were out in full force for hours getting the streets in arlington, fairfax, Prince William counties. About 500 trucks are out right now ready to retreat roads as the snow falls. Crews will be out again on sunday night as well. They ask everybody to slow down if you have to be out. He spent more than 30 years teaching special education students in bethesda. Tonight that teachers career is over after he was indicted on child pornography charges. Derrick ward is live outside of Bethesda Chevy Chase High School with more. Reporter by all accounts a popular teacher. None of the charges with which he is charged or is facing are believed to have had anything to do with the school. None of this happened on school prop he did make his first appearance today in federal court. Federal prosecutors charged 61yearold peter flynn with one cha
The department of Homeland Security calling the 2020 election the most secure in american history. These Election Officials confirming tonight theres no evidence that any Voting System compromised any votes. Thats coming from the president s own administration. But thats not stopping him from tweeting baseless claims of voter fraud, and he still wont concede the race. Come on, man. Meanwhile, president elect bidens team say they are undeterred and moving full speed ahead with transition plans. I want to bring in john hardwood and Senior National correspondent correspondent mr. Alex marquardt. Good to see both of you. Ale ex, the president s own Homeland Security department is rejecting his baseless claims of a voter fraud. In a statement from the department of Homeland Security and other Election Security officials, which would normally be a cause for celebration. The statement says no votes for changed, none of them were lost. But instead, rather than focusing on how secure this race
All of what i know has been available through public comment. I know chairman nunes confirmed he was on white house grounds tuesday. Frankly any questions regarding who he met with or why he was here should be referred to him. I have seen some of the comments hes made to your out let in particular about whom he met with. I would refer you to his comments that he made. Im not going to get into who he met with or why he met with them. Ill let him answer. He is the one who has discussed what he is reviewing, and so i will leave it up to him and not try to get in the middle of that. Im asking a slightly different question. Which is, does the white house know what happened now beyond public accounts . And are you satisfied that you dont have a leak in the executive branch. No, were not concerned about that. I know that he is everything i know about what hes done is through public reports that he has made on the record to different folks when he has multiple sources. He has met with differen
On making history as the longest ever. Today is day 20. Tomorrow it also really hits home for the 800,000 federal workers who arent getting paid because tomorrow is when they miss their first full paycheck. Lets start at the white house. He talked a lot about the National Emergency before he left. Beyond words, what are you hearing from the white house and what he will actually do. Reporter we havent heard much detail frumt white house about what the president believes he can do given a current law and what they are willing to do which might be Different Things here. What we saw this morning from President Trump was someone who seems very agitated, irritated by the state of negotiations with democrats. He talks a lot about his powers that he believes he still has to do this, but he said it is contingent on what happens in the room with nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer after talks yesterday broke down. Listen. If we dont make a deal, i would say it would be very surprising to me that i wo