Law enforcement. Well wait for them to brief everyone. You mentioned poway. Were been talking about the targeting of places of worship. Do you know, can you say if these were houses of worship, these targets . Reporter those details we dont yet have. We hope to have it more from officials later on. Obviously one thing officials are always worried about in the wake of any incident or copy cat attacks. Its too soon to say what the characteristics of this attack are whether were talking the International Terrorism route, whether were talking domestic terrorism. But again, the fbi having their hands full in california in the span of a week with three incidents . One more for you, josh, and then ill let you go. For all the domestic or Even International terror attacks we cover, im always wondering how many are we unaware of because they were thwarted by Law Enforcement. Can you respond to that . Reporter absolutely. I can tell you i vetted always the concern is what you dont know. You have Law Enforcement officers that are obviously aggressively working to detect threats. There are a number of systems in place that they have conducting investigations involving sources and tips from the public which are always asking the public to call in to provide information. Thats something that they want to do in order to answer the question, what dont they know . Thats always the biggest concern is what is the myth and at least according to what were hearing generally, there was an attack that was thwarted thankfully and well get Additional Details on what this person or persons were planning to do, just how wide of a magnitude this was. Ive got one more because as you were talking we got a bit of new information on the poway synagogue shooting. Weve just learned that fbi officials informed of a threatening social media post five minutes before the poway synagogue attack. An fbi official says the agency was made aware of a post from an individual identifying himself as john earnest. Though through submissions to its online tip website and the tip phone line the fbi was not able to determine the author of the post or the location of his intended attack on time. But five minutes was the heads up they had off this online platform. What does this tell you . It goes back to what we were talking about about having concerned citizens that call in. I was speaking with a Law Enforcement official a little while ago on this very matter. What they describe was the citizens reaching out to the fbis tip line both by telephone and their online portal. They saw this at the synagogue post something that was concerning to them. They flagged that for Law Enforcement, but again, were talking about five minutes time. There wasnt much the fbi could do that in short period of time to fully identify the person or the location. So with that constrained time frame, there wasnt anything they were able to do to stop the shooter. Thats exactly the type of action from the citizens that we were talking about, the Law Enforcement wants them to do when they see something concerning to call in and provide information. You never know what Law Enforcement will be able to do with it. In this case, it was sadly loss of one life and injuries as well. Thats what Law Enforcement is always trying to detell people do. If you see something, say something. Thats what they want you to do. You never know when the information will save lives. Josh, thank you. And the top line that the news that we were just getting and well wait to get more information as theyre going to brief the press. Federal Law Enforcement thwarted an alleged terror plots in the Los Angeles Area according to an official. Well wait for information there. Lets talk politics. Joe biden. Hes kicking off the first full week of his campaign in his home state of pennsylvania. Supporters gathering in pittsburgh ahead of his speech that should begin next hour. Biden is expected to lay out all the reasons hes the right person to help the nations middle class. Before he does that, and way before any potential faceoff in the general election, biden is battling with President Trump, and where else . On twitter. The two men fighting over a coveted endorsement from a Firefighters Union. One that biden received this morning. Cnns jessica dean is live for us in pittsburgh ahead of the big speech. Joe biden got into the race just on thursday. President trump has attacked him nearly every day since. Whats going on today . Reporter yes. Thats right. Good afternoon. I was just looking on twitter. I counted four tweets from the president about joe biden and this endorsement. Certainly it is on the president s mind today, and hes trying to talk a lot about it. This is our White House Team reporting his advisers are telling him not to elevate any one particular candidate, but to show you some of the tweets that came out from the president , one in particular, he said ill never get the support of dues crazy Union Leadership but went onto say the members love trump. President trump putting those out about this endorsement from the Firefighters Union that joe biden received today. Joe biden then responds on twitter. He says im sick of this president bad mouthing unions. Laborers built the middle class in this country, minimum wage, overtime pay, they exist for us use juniors fought for the rights. We need a president who honors them and their work and brooke, its that message there at the bottom. It honors them and their work. Weve heard the former Vice President come back to that. When he was on National Television he talked about connecting with the working class voters. Elevating the middle class by talking about the dignity of work and really trying to connect with those people and making sure that everybody has access to that version of the american dream. So thats what hes going to be talking about here in pittsburgh today. Of course, pittsburgh here in pennsylvania, brooke, a critical state in 16. Going to be a critical state in 2020. And we know President Trump also has a lot of attention on this state as well. Trump winning pennsylvania by less than 1 percentage point. Jessica, thank you in pittsburgh. Lets continue to talk biden. Susan crabtree is with us. Her latest column is called biden uncut could rival trumps reality show. Great to be here. I want to dive into your piece in a second. First, this fight back and forth between trump and biden, and sources tell cnn today its one of the president s political advisers that have warned him. Essentially saying mr. President , please dont start now. Right . They dont want to have him ultimately elevating any of the Top Democrats like biden. Why do you think joe biden totally getting under this president s skin . Well, obviously were seeing a general election already starting here, because the president is very nervous about the strengths that joe biden brings. Its almost like he has some of the same strengths the blue collar appeal, the scrap aniness, the ability to come out fighting. Nobody doubts that about joe biden. I was speaking to his political consultants. They were concerned about his lack of discipline. I wrote this is not really his biggest weakness. This is a strength of joe bidens. You know, its going to be we all know its going to be a knife fight. These two men come out brawling in their 70s. Kind of a strange phenomenon in american politics. Thats something i i mean, thats precisely it could be happening. I want to quote you. You wrote in the era of donald trump, authenticity reigns supreme. What amounted to weakness in bidens previous president ial campaig campaigns could emerge has strengths. How did you mean . Im saying we all are very well versed with joe bidens misstatements. His ways. Hes too handsy with women and even some men. We know that about him, but authenticity is reigning supreme. Thats one of the reasons i believe and others have said that President Trump won his reelection. Certainly Hillary Clinton was not good at authenticity. So here we have joe biden. Thats one of his greatest strengths. Let biden be biden. He has an Incredible Connection with people. You saw it on the view. He talked about his son telling him, hey, before he passed away, i dont want you me to stand in the way of your public service. Come out there and come out fighting. That could have changed. If he had gotten in in 2016, that could have changed the dynamic in the race. Right now im saying people are sick of political correctness. Were seeing that nationwide. He needs to run in the democratic primary. He does need to be sensitive to the race. His video he needs to also remember that his greatest strength is his connection with people. And his ability to come out fighting. You said it. Authenticity reigns supreme. Susan, thank you so much for coming on on your piece. I appreciate it. We are learning the Trump Administration did agree to reimburse north korea. 20 2 2 million. Heres what the man sent to north korea to bring warmbier home. This is what he told cnn this morning. As soon as the north korean side told me that his bill for 2 million would have to be paid, of course, i contacted my boss. Then secretary of state Rex Tillerson to ask him, and he got back to me very quickly thereafter to say yes, go ahead and sign. Was it your understanding that secretary tillerson had the president s approval for that . That was my understanding. I never asked him. But that was my understanding. Otto warmbier was held as a prisoner in north korea for more than a year for taking down a poster. He came back to the u. S. In a coma unresponsive and severely brain damaged and died six days after coming home. And here was what President Trump said friday about paying ransom for him. We did not pay money for our great otto. There was no money paid. There was a fake news report that money was paid. I havent paid money for any hostage. I want to bring in jean. Heres my question pushing this forward. What happens if north korea captures another american and the Trump Administration or just u. S. Administration goes in to negotiate with them and knowing that maybe we never paid the 2 million for otto . Whats the message to north korea . Why should they give that american back . I should point out that this type of demand from north korea is nothing new. Weve had more than a dozen americans detained in north korea over the past decade. Clearly they see the benefit of capturing and holding onto americans to serve as a diplomatic pawn, but now i should say that it has been routine for the North Koreans to issue an invoice for the detainment of these americans. This is not the first time. Its certainly the largest amount i have heard. But it did call to mind when i saw this report a case in 2013 of another american who had been detained for about a month. And he was also issued with a bill for 3,000. Its nothing new, and these bills as far as i know havent been paid. So what i wanted to point out is that there are a number of these invoices that have gone unpaid, and that hasnt stopped the North Koreans from trying to negotiate with the americans, and it will be interesting to see what happens now with the attention around this unpaid invoice. Will it insert it into the negotiations at such a tricky time between the americans and the North Koreans . With the trump walking away most recently from the nuclear talks, et cetera. Let me play sound. This is john bolton. What he said when he was asked about whether or not the Trump Administration paid to get Otto Warmbier back. Reporter did north korea demand money for the release of Otto Warmbier . It appears they did. This occurred before i came to the administration. Thats my understanding, yes. Did the u. S. Official there to get him out of the country, did he sign a document pledging the money in order to get him out . That is what i am told, yes. Basically we signed the document fully intending not to honor it . I dont know the circumstances. I think when people leave government, sometimes their recollection of things that happened inside tend to be a little different than from actually happened, but its very clear to me from my looking into it in the past few days no money was paid. That is clear. Your response to that, jean . Certainly if theres some confirmation that they paid that, that would set a dangerous precedent. It would raise the stake for the allure of detaining americans in north korea. What i would say is that it certainly also raises the question of whether the americans can be trusted to honor an agreement going back to your earlier question. But what this does, really, is draw attention to the case of Otto Warmbier. Thats something we should remember. As we are engaged in this kind of diplomacy with north korea, what the attention to this case does is punkture the illusion of normalcy that kim jongun is trying to create and the president is trying to create. It serves as a reminder this regime routinely detains americans for alleged crimes such as pulling down a poster in a hotel, crimes that do punishments that do not match the alleged crimes. He was kept from his family. Really wasnt given proper diplomatic counsel. And so its a reminder of how americans are treated in north korea. Yes. 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Tell me why is he doing this five years later . Another video in the early consensus is its really him in this video. Its only the second video weve seen of him. The first was in july 2014 when they were announcing the cal vat. Why now . Isis is on the back foot. Its lost all its territory in iraq. They want to say were relevant. Its desperate, saying were relevant and still players here. Very risky move to put out a video like this. It gives the United StatesIntelligence Services perhaps an opportunity to see what the chain of custody was to perhaps get intelligence to find out his location. Theres a reason we havent seen a lot of these videos from Abu Bakr Albaghdadi. Its because of Operational Security calculations. Is the significance i know he references sri lanka which tells me this would have been made in the less couple weeks. Is it the symbolism that hes alive . Thats right. In terms of isis supporters around the world, overen in terms of isis rank and file fighters, theres been some infighting in the group. Theres been some theological disputes. I think he would be keen to say im in charge. Im still running things. Hes also clearly wanting to energize isiss support base worldwide. I think theres a lot of concern in the Counterterrorism Community here in the United States or so in europe, other parts of the world. This could energize the isis supporters. Theres been ongoing concern about isis attacks and attacks with some kind of link to the terrorist group as we saw in sri lanka. One footnote here, there was strong intelligence that came in that the United Nations recently cited that he was injured at a certain point. Ive looked at this video. I dont see any sign of any injuries in th