Raid in provo sparked by alleged threats against President Biden and other officials. Authorities say they had treason believe the man was serious about his intentions with President Biden scheduled to arrive in Salt Lake City in just a few moments. Senior correspondent Claudia Cowan is in Salt Lake City tonight with the latest. Good evening, claudia. Good evening, bret. As you mentioned. This happened in provo, utah. Thats about 45 minutes away from Salt Lake City. At the home of a man who has been on the fbis radar for many months. According to a federal criminal complaint, Craig Robertson claimed online to be a 74yearold former air force vet and the owner of many rifles, shotguns and handguns. And a socalled gilly suit. Thats a type of camouflage. The fbi says robertson posted many credible threatening messages on social media. And was planning to take action. The complaint quotes robertson as saying i hear biden is coming to utah. Digging out my old gilly suit and cleaning the suit
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Laura not just unquestionably fair minded, he does cardio, and weights. His personal health and exercise correlates to how he approaches prosecution and strategy. Jack smith will Donald Trumps head as he sits in a prison cell. Laura the real jack smith is just another attack dog in the kennel of antitrump prosecutors trying to make a name for himself. One person who counts most now is saying, hold your horses, judge cannon slapped down the doj absurd request to file motions under seal. Cant have the people knowing anything, right . Judge cannon is putting smith team on the spot about use of a Dc Grand Jury to gather evidence after it indicted trump in florida using a grand jury in miami. The case was brought in the miami Federal District court, so it makes a lot of sense. Dc grand jury is what smith, mr. Unassailable prefers. The get trump media, who has tried to discredit conon, went bon customers. Judge cannon will make the prosecutors work. We have a judge who may be a loose cannon
We sure do love a strongman, and from Teddy Roosevelt all the way up to our Reality Tv President , nowhere produces more of them than the empire state. And i get it. In an age where Congress Approval rating hovers somewhere around sewer rats, we wanna vote for the politician who can finally just get things done. That was Eliot Spitzer to a t. But when new yorkers sent the sheriff of wall street to the governors mansion, we all learned the hard way that White Knights can have dark secrets. Spitzer was caught breaking his own sex work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. Eliot spitzer blazed a trail through new york that had him in Spitting Distance of the white house, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. This will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the new york you dream of begins tonight. [cheering] so theres this honest politician named Eliot Spitzer, a white knight, new york official with a reputation so pris
That they have gone through, frankly, are continuing to go through. This crisis is far from over. Theres so much frustration, theres so much suffering, you know . The real mourning has not even been able to begin to start because of people really looking to how do i just get me and my family to tomorrow. Joey yeah. And even still firefighters are working to pull ily contain some fires burning on the island. Officials calling it the worst Natural Disaster in hawaiis history. To a fox news alert, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing a Special Counsel to the hunter biden criminal probe. Rachel but republicans and if even some democrats arent happy with who he selected. Will Alexandria Hoff joins us live washington. Reporter good morning. It is an interesting turn of events or at least title, right . Now Special Counsel david weiss and the Attorney General, they both previously maintained weiss did not need Special Counsel powers in pursuing charges against hunter biden. Of course,