Information is probably relatively unlikely. now the whistle-blower might be in a position to point to other individuals who might be able to testify, right, who told this person about what was going on. how wide ranging was it? did they hear anything else? but ultimately, this is going to become essentially a question of political optics. because republicans had been unwilling to defend the president s substantively on what he did, they ve really been focused on the process. so, of course, the process surrounding the formal vote of informal impeachment inquiry and surrounding this whistle-blower complaint. so we re going to see very strong calls from republicans wanting to get the whistle-blower in. not because they want to find out more information about what happened, but because they are going to want to find out potential communications with house democrats, potential political bias. they re essentially going to want to use this as a distractionary tactic to impeach the overall
Started. and as you said, reports of 16 people injured, eight of them shot. we re told that one of them, seriously injured. i m also told that some of the people who have been injured suffered smoke inhalation injuries. so this from this device that this person set off. so that is why some of the people were taken to the hospital. and also, some people just fleeing from the scene. fleeing for their lives in this terrifying moment they got injured, as well. the suspect, all we know, according to police, is that he was wearing a gas mask, and this orange, reflective construction-type vest. obviously, indicating that there was some kind of preempmeditati. and that is why we re seeing this response here from city officials, from the fbi, and the atf. the joint terrorism task force on scene. we don t yet know, john, the motive. whether this is terrorism or something else here. obviously, the fact that the jttf is on scene, that is significant.