plot. except what he didn t know is exactly when it was going to happen. also under interrogation the brother allegedly came out and said he spoke with the attacker. his brother, the attacker, in manchester just 15 minutes before the attack. so that is a crucial piece of evidence and a crucial testimony that investigators here will be very, very interested in. poppy? and we have learned that british intelligence services are now handling. is this number right? handling more than 400 active terror plot investigations. well, that s right. that s not entirely unusual given the size of the u.k. what we don t know is whether those active terror investigations are connected to this week s attack or these were investigations taking place beforehand. in terms of the status of the investigation that s going on now for the attack, we know that police so far have made ten arrests. two people have been released without charge. but there are still eight people currently in custody. and some of
task force, and now msa security president of investigations. we ll get right to it. you ran terror investigations at the bureau. there were times that information you developed was shared with the british. if it ended up in the british tabloids, i m guessing you would have been upset too. yeah, leland, first of all, thanks for having me. yes, i can completely understand why the brits and manchester pd are upset. the mayor was almost he was livid. yes, yes. we re day three, day four out from the attack. names, addresses, locations, detailed information about the bomb and its components. now you re looking at a negative impact on decisions they have to make. you know, now people may be fleeing, evidence may be disappearing. and that s not a good thing. leland: you know, the president has talked a lot about leaks. he says he s going to get to the bottom of this and find the leakers. right.
let s address that, greg. i will steer clear of gender and anything that has to do with that. we get some guy or girl in their they can do the job and drain the swamp and go after public corruption. not only do you have to take on these terror investigations, go after public corruption.on that will rally the american people. supporting the new director. do you think, jesse, that firing three and a half months later can drain the swamp? president obama canned three defense attorneys. they resigned. because they disagreed with the president. all right, okay okay. everybody leaves the swamp. [laughter] unless you work for goldman sachs. o somebody rolled on my pillow commercial. [laughter] thoughts on the media and how they are attacking this?
why do we have to use any kind of gender? let s address that, greg. i will steer clear of gender and anything that has to do with that. we get some guy or girl in their they can do the job and drain the swamp and go after public corruption. not only do you have to take on these terror investigations, go after public corruption. that will rally the american people. supporting the new director. do you think, jesse, that firing three and a half months later can dream drain the swam? president obama canned three defense attorneys. they resigned. because they disagreed with the president. all right, okay okay. everybody leaves the swamp. [laughter] unless you work for goldman sachs. somebody rolled on my pillow commercial. [laughter]
targeting an oppositional party. joining us from circa news, john solomon, sara carter. sara carter, we are glad to have you. what was that increase, from 201310 now? what is the justification? do we have that much of an increase in terrorist activity that fisa and our agencies need to up their game that much? not necessarily. if you look at the story if you go back to testimony, there are 2,000 terror investigations in the united states right now. here you have an enormous amount of data being collected on americans. almost like a backdoor intercept into emails, metadata as well as actual physical data of those conversations. i think what john choate, john correct me if i am wrong. over 300% increase since 2013