fbi. interesting. because after the president made his initial comments a couple weeks ago about the fbi there was testimony on the hill by the new director, chris wray. a lot of agents, fbi people in the country awaiting to see what chris wray would say when asked about the president s comments and when he said the fbi was in tatters. let s listen. tens of thousands of agents, analysts and staff working their tails off to keep americans safe from the next terrorism attack, gang violence, child predators, spies from russia, china, north korea and iran. the fbi that i see is tens of thousands of brave men and women who are working as hard as they can to keep people that they will never know safe from harm. which i thought was a great answer. it was. the veterans from the fbi, must have made them feel a little better their trump-appointed boss is on their side. people have to understand. the agents, the analysts, the
really at every half block. we ve seen canine officers with canines walking along the route as well. we ve seen some of those concrete barriers lining the streets, feeding into the parade route. some of these blocker vehicles are going to be stationed at the streets as well, these blocker vehicles filled withstand weighing some 16 tons. so we have seen lots of evidence of the enhanced security here along the route. but what we ve also seen are thousands and thousands of happy, thankful people. you know, right after the terrorism attack on halloween, the halloween parade went off at night. you remember then the nypd officials saying they were encouraging people to come out and enjoy the day. today is just like that day, folks coming out and giving their thanks. jason carroll, thank you for that. happy thanksgiving. i want to take us straight to the president now addressing military members via teleconference. let s listen in. surrounding me is a lot of
as mentally ill. all the evidence suggests there was no mental illness. same case in the shooter in the steve scalise case over the summer. there wasn t real evidence that this is a guy who would have risen to a threshold of being diagnosed as mentally ill. so the reality is, and by the way, there are millions of people who have mental health issues who would never do anything of the sort. so the overlap between the people with mental illness and shooters isn t there. the only real connection is the access of people mentally ill or not to weapons that are capable in very short order of taking out 7% of the town in yesterday s case. and having access to those weapons. easier access to them than getting a driver s license, than getting a beautician s license. until we have that conversation and by the way, have it immediately because we re having the conversation immediately when it s a terrorism attack,
the president, danny, was tweeting about the suspect here in the terrorism attack in new york, saying he wanted to see him go to guantanamo, then he backed off of that. the other thing he s been tweeting about, no prison time for bowe bergdahl, but a dishonorable discharge. the president called bergdahl a traitor and said the sentence was a disgrace. did that have an impact on the sentence? not directly. at least the judge in the case said that it would not have an impact, even though the statements might be considered at sentencing. but here s what you need to know about military sentencing. the judge has almost complete discretion to fashion a sentence. and another thing that you don t see in civilian courts is the concept of unlawful command influence. the president s statements can create an improper prejudice on a criminal trial in the military context, because the president is the commander in chief of the armed forces and it s been happened before.
terrorist based on the eyewitness accounts and nypd is hearing of somebody yelling allahu akbar after the incident. it was only a matter of time that we would start to see the incidents that happened in germany, in nice, et cetera, where terrorists grabbed a vehicle and just used that as a weapon. also in london, jake. to the general s point, i mean, look at the symmetry of what just occurred here in new york and lower manhattan and what happened on the london bridge. in that instance, the folks that perpetrated that were wearing fake explosive vests. in this instance, the reporting that we just got stated that the subject jumped out of the vehicle with a fake handgun. so we know in these instances the perpetrators of these attacks, they re not looking to negotiate. they re not looking to take time and talk to police and try to work something out. they re looking to either kill themselves or be killed by a police officer. and i know it s too early to say that, but, jake, i ve just go