Pennsylvania . Apparently a lot because the list is long. Thats the conclusion from a Senate Report just out this morning and senators from both sides, republicans and democrats, say the findings in this report are infuriating. Thats where we start today. Im bill hemmer, good morning. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. You picked up a rock and oh gosh. Its not good. Senate Homeland Security Committee releasing its initial report on Security Lapses in butler, pennsylvania. Lawmakers said this, quote, the officials declined to acknowledge individual areas of responsibility for Planning Or Security as having contributed to the failure to prevent the shooting that day. Bill meanwhile the Trump Campaign revealing intelligence officials have briefed the former president of iranian threats to assassinate him. The campaigns call the threats real and specific. Here is Senator Rand Paul earlier today on fox friends. You add that to the domestic terrorists trying to kill President
Would have seen hunter biden given probation in return for guilty pleas on separate charges collapsed back in july. On separate charges collapsed back injuly. Lets go live to our correspondent in washington. What do we know . ,. , we know . These are incredibly serious charges, we know . These are incredibly serious charges, jail we know . These are incredibly serious charges, jail terms serious charges, jail terms potentially up to 25 years, quite unlikely that will be something that will be reflected in reality but the soul relates to a period of time on the 18th Of October back in 2018 and the 18th Of October back in 2018 and the 23rd Of October stop the reason we have the date range is the first two accounts relate what the prosecution say it was hunter biden making false statements that he knew to be false, they allege that he said he was not biggest of narcotics or addicted to drugs at a time he filled out an official form that said he was. The other charge relates to possessing
out security failures and ben collins who covers disinformation, extremism and the internet. and ken, you ve seen that report. you flagged that particularly scary warning in the hearing for us. tell us more. well, chris, on the drone issue, what chris wray was saying, was that authority was, the authority for fbi and the department of homeland security to prohibit drones from flying over special events like the super bowl and their ability to take down those drones with electronic jamming, that will lapse in the law next month unless congress passes a reauthorization and there is no sign that is imminent. so both wray and the dhs secretary mayorkas says this is a huge security threat. wray says events like the super bowl and new years eve at times square and the formula one race in arizona will not be protected from the threat of drones if this law is not passed and he went on to say that, as you played there, that there are instances they re investigating where people try to put bom
an act of war. putin is trying to put that out there as a threat to stop us from helping. putin has a bit of a problem here, too. if he treats this as an act of war and if he attacks the u.s. ore nato ally, then he s pulling us in. and whatever we may do in terms of providing jet fighters or humanitarian aid or stingers and javelins or economic sanctions, putin does not want the full force of the u.s. military and ukraine coming down on him. if he takes that active things and pushes it too far, they don t want that full scale presentation. they re stretched. he doesn t want to walk that line. a lot of things putin has said would be an act of war. as far as the drone issue, if we were providing drones to the ukrainians, that would be one thing. if general mccaffery is talking about us flying drones and operating those drones for primarily targeting purposes,
specifically the drone issue, clearly there have been a lot of concerns raised about civilian deaths of drone strikes over the 20 years the u.s. has been involved in afghanistan. the drone strike is terrible. it s a tragedy. it involves not just up to 10 civilians but seven children in that group of people, so it is deeply problematic as a catastrophe, a human catastrophe. it s also problem aatic for the white house, not just because of the drone program, but it reminds people about the chaos and withdrawal of afghanistan which they hoped to move past and believed the public did not care. we ll see if the public cares here, but it certainly is a problem. then you have the fda issue. it s certainly a problem for the future of events in afghanistan and what the administration was saying, well, we have these over-the-horizon capabilities. we weren t able to get a drone