congressional correspondent aishah hasnie tells us what some lawmakers want to do about that now. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. in a very rare public appearance. the chiefs of the fbi, the cia. nsa and odni and d.e.a. all came together on capitol hill to hand over their annual threat assessment to lawmakers. and it covered a wide variety of topics from the russia war on ukraine to iran s nuclear program, but china, they say, is the most consequential threat to america s national security right now. and lawmakers grilled them on this app. tiktok which even intel officials admit screams national security concerns. it may be the beginning of the end for tiktok as the nation s top intelligence officials testified on capitol hill about the dangers of the chinese-owned app. at a hearing on threats around the world. could they use tiktok to control data on millions of users? yes. could they use it to control the software on millions of devices given the
Dade Phelan is a registered Republican whose been sleeping with the Democrats for years. We finally got rid of Phelan’s predecessor, another rotten RINO. In Phelan’s first term he appointed 13 Democrats as committee chairs. To say grassroots Republicans were incensed is putting it mildly.
you have to govern your territory. they are not governing your territory you are not enforcing your sovereignty. then we are going to do it for you. we are not going to let them do it to our citizens. bret: this is a mix of threats because you have china putting the fentanyl into mexico and cartels using that and moving it across into the u.s. one last thing i would point out about this is huge portion of the mexican elite profits from these cartels, deals with them. and uses american resources, american institutions. many of them have houses here. they have resources here. they have things that can be seized. we haven t done that yet and it s something that i think the government is going to congress and the president should consider in terms of an approach. bret: only 30 seconds left. as you look at the senate floor, you have got the flap over possible overturn the d.c. crime statute, d.c. said they are going to pull it back.
all of that will be looked at. prosecutors will have to make the call. is this homicide times five. is it a hate crime on top of it. does it go federal as well. time will tell. delving further into potential of hate crimes charges. here s the da s response to question that was asked. here it is. there was a previous question about hate crimes. investigation aspect. this will be investigated and is being investigated in that ellen s. i can tell you that the current bias motivated crime statute of colorado provide some elevation. it will not elevate beyond what will likely be charged in this case. which will likely include first degree murder, extreme difference. those types of charges. what you re all class one felony murder charges. so tell me you have this right. this means even if hate was a motive found to be a motive of this there. maybe no hate crime charges per
those were the three questions that i asked repeatedly. and we re still waiting for answers on that. how do you expect them to get around the georgia law that every person concerned in the commission of a crime is party thereto, meaning even if you don t have the gun, even if you don t pull the trigger, if you re part of what turns into a homicide you are just as responsible as everybody else? well, and that s exactly what a good prosecutor would say and what a good prosecutor would argue. and i think we can agree that the arbery family in this case is represented by some very capable attorneys from the cobb county district attorney s office. but at the same time, chris, given your legal background i m sure you appreciate that the parties to the crime statute, particularly the one in georgia, in this situation would require that roddie intentionally helped them commit the crime. and he didn t do that. and that s what the evidence shows. at the time of the shooting, as i ve said man