time was on the fbi s side to the to the extent they just needed a vulnerability. they needed the hostage-taker to get tired, to become agitated, to maybe become vulnerable himself. i talked to him. he let one hostage out, suggesting there was negotiations going on. that was to create an opportunity for the fbi to go in. and their concern is not life or death of the hostage-taker, it s to get the hostages out alive. so that is a success. we don t know if the suspect is alive or dead right now. we ll wait on that. this is how the fbi would have envisioned its best-case scenario to be honest, that this is exactly what you would want. and now figure out if he s alive, is there a motive, is he speaking, was he engaged with anyone else, will it become a criminal or terrorism investigation depending on if he was depending on if others were
the situation for some period of time. they continue to talk the assailant and they were able to get one hostage out, they felt they had some opening for some period of time and then when a vulnerability occurred whether the hostage taker became agitated and got negligent or whatever, you have the team coming in doing exactly what they had to do, getsing the hostages out alive. we don t know the status of the assailant. we ll find out very soon. this is obviously tactically about as good as it gets in a situation that s absolutely horrific for the jewish community, for members of that temple and for the jewish community throughout this