hostage situation in texas, he s continuing to receive updates as the situation develops. the national security team are in touch with federal law enforcement leadership and we are hearing from other members present biden s cabinet and his senior officials. the u.s. ambassador also taking to twitter writing closely monitoring reports on the situation, the community is gathered for shabbat services, praying for an immediate and safe and. a little over an hour ago, the president left a church service here. if he makes any statements, we will let you know as soon as possible. jon: lucas with the president there in delaware, thank you. former d.c. homicide detective joins us once again, ted, we know one of the four hostages has been released on armed and
we have no other reports or indications anybody inside the synagogue is injured. man says he s armed but we haven t seen anything that that really is the case. we will hope that more people are released. jon: the fact that he released one hostage is good news. let s hope for more so they can all go home safely with their families tonight. thank you, keep tabs on the situation. let s go to liz thomaso thomason delaware are present biden s spending the weekend, lucas. good evening, presidents receiving updates every hour from the fbi, we just learned dhs secretary received a briefing as well on the hostage situation, the synagogue outside dallas. jen psaki riding in a tweet a short time ago potus has been reached but the developing
jon: lucas tomlinson and delaware for the president and spending the weekend. thank you. former fbi counterterrorism assistant director terry joins us by phone, what is job one in a situation like this? job one is to find out as much as they can about the individual. once they find out who he is and more what motivates him by interviewing people, that s a big thing the fbi can do, wherever they can follow a trail thicken talk to somebody and knock on their door regardless where they are or time of day and get the information back to the people directly dealing with the individual. it shows you how complicated things are today and always have been in certain ways, you have a loan individual and everything at the beginning of the broadcast about ramifications