Week . Its not. Its only wednesday. Its 4 00 in new york. We have had two days of testimony in the first criminal trial of an american expresident. We have learned so much. We have heard extraordinary details of a conspiracy to interfere in a president ial election. The prosecutions first witness, former National Enquirer ceo david pecker painted a vivid picture of that explicit agreement between himself and the expresident , one of mutual benefit. Negative stories about donald trump are bought and buried and negative stories about trumps rivals were embellished or in some instances fabricated. Stories of women having affairs with trump were hidden. Fake stories with hillary clinton, ted cruz, marco rubio were written up and published. Photos were doctored, like this one, amounting to a phenomenon Andrew Weissmann referred to as ground zero of fake news. David pecker comes back for more tomorrow. Court is quiet today. It resumes today. He takes the stand tomorrow. Likely picking back u
we investigate violence. and any extremist ideology when it turns to violence, we re all over it. so now the fbi has two domestic terror investigations where ideology has turned violent. how does the fbi handle a mass shooter s manifesto like in el paso, in gilroy, when it echos the president s ideology? well, i think to be clear, when the fbi or when the intelligence community see a threat or gain intelligence or information of a trend that is imminent, by the time that happens and they learn about it, frankly, it s too late. the fbi are very good at responding. they do great investigative work. they have great analysts and intervene when necessary. they re the best in the world. however, what we re seeing with this is a lot needs to be done in the prevention space, and, frankly, that has been atrophied, it has been neglected under this administration and the offices and government
we, the fbi, don t investigate ideology no matter how repugnant. we investigate violence. and any extremist ideology when it turns to violence, we re all over it. so now the fbi has two domestic terror investigations where ideology has turned violent. how does the fbi handle a mass shooter s manifesto like in el paso, in gilroy, when it echos the president s ideology? well, i think to be clear, when the fbi or when the intelligence community see a threat or gain intelligence or information of a trend that is imminent, by the time that happens and they learn about it, frankly, it s too late. the fbi are very good at responding. they do great investigative work. they have great analysts and intervene when necessary. they re the best in the world. however, what we re seeing with this is a lot needs to be done in the prevention space, and, frankly, that has been atrophied, it has been neglected under this administration and the offices and government entities that focus on this type