and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, ken, what do we know? reporter: chris, this happened at 9 a 15 a.m., two law enforcement officials told nbc news that a man entered an fbi field office in cincinnati, ohio, and fired a nail gun at law enforcement personnel. the man then held up an ar-15 style rifle before fleeing in a vehicle, we re today, and then a pursuit occurred on highway 71. the suspect then got out of the car. and there is a standoff. the fbi, cincinnati field office, confirmed in a statement that an armed subject had attempted to breach their visitor screening facility. they said they activated an alarm. and armed special agents responded and that the subject fled northbound on interstate 71. the clinton county emergency management agency said recently in a facebook post that the suspect has not yet taken into custody but is contained. they say he s wearing a gray shirt and body armor and is armed. chris, obviously, this comes amid a big uptick in threat
we re learning that person is matthew pottinger. and he is set to testify, apparently this coming thursday. he served on then-president trump s national security council. but he decided to resign in the middle of the riot. one of my staff brought me a printout of a tweet by the president. and the tweet said something to the effect that mike pence, the vice president, didn t have the courage to do what should have been done. i i read that tweet and made a decision at that moment to resign. that s where i knew i was leaving that day once i read that tweet. a reminder of what that tweet said, quote, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, unquote. when trump was out of sight from the public during the riot, of course, he had time to slam his on vp on twitter and did nothing to lower the temperature anywhere across this country, let alone at the capitol. and for all the hours and hours and hours of vid
Un aid workers warn they will have to end their operations tonight, if they dont get more fuel. And the situation on israels northern border with lebanon remains tense. Hello, im lyse doucet. Welcome bbc news, live from jerusalem as we report on the top headlines israel gaza crisis. This is a 19 pin group. Today, the emphasis from United Nations agencies and from countries around the world for a humanitarian pause in the Fighting Israel Hamas seven desperately needed aid can be let into gaza. Israel has allowed food, water and medicine into the territory, but isnt allowing fuel supplies , over fears theyll end up in the hands of hamas. Hamas is designated as a Terror Organisation by many western countries including the united kingdom. The United Nations is repeating it was michaels not only humanitarian pause also for desperately needed fuel tanker. All the while, the images coming from the while, the images coming from the gaza strip where israel says it to target hamas infrastructure
Wrong, and they can be s ambassador this is the accusation that hes been facing. To the United Nations told the un there was a bit of Security Council on tuesday antony a detour into sports. Basically, they spent a lot of time blinken attempted blame iran for the talking about the buffalo bills. So for people who might not know, israel gaza war. That accusation they are a big nfl team, and mr cohen was giving examples continues to be made, including by of how donald trump tried israel, where today, again, they to inflate assets or how he was asked to inflate assets, have reiterated the accusation at and that donald trump wanted to buy the nfls team, the buffalo bills. Hamas was directly involved in he said they used Financial Statements with inflated assets aiding hamas. Where is israel in to show trumps ability to purchase the team, but trumps bid this conflict . What are the for the bills was unsuccessful. So thats one of the examples ambitions. With an expert and thats been used in
Department that essentially says the president is above the director, therefore the president is not subject to the jurisdiction of the director, therefore it doesnt meet the definition of urgent concern, therefore the Inspector General is done. The Inspector General cant investigate anymore. Thats the Inspector Generals reading of the Department Opinion, that he is no longer allowed to investigate this. Is that your reading as well . Chairman, not necessarily the president , but the allegation has to relate to the funding, administration, operation of an Intelligence Activity within the responsibility and the authority of the director of National Intelligence. Okay. Im just trying to get to whether the president is somehow beyond the reach of the law. No, sir. No person in this country is beyond the reach of the law. Well, thats the way it should be but im trying to figure out whether thats the way it is as a practical fact. The Inspector General believes that based on the opinion tha