Here s what she told jim acosta who delights in battering republicans. did you send a text asking the president to declare martial law? you know, i don t recall that being in my text messages why even break up martial law? your problem is you re just one of the liars, and people hate it. howard: so on the screen now we see what the actual text was from the congresswomanwoman. she says she talked to her gop colleagues. she spelled it like a man s name, i don t know on these things. so the press says she s not owning up to her own words on text. well, i read the text and you just read it there, she want wasn t advocating for that, she s saying she has constituents asking for that. it would have been a horrific decision, that would have been totally wrong, but i think she s actually got a fairly good defense. and, quite frankly, i have been highly critical of her and some
joins us now live, congressman king, the would be suicide bomber is actually a double agent. what can you tell us about it and about him? i m in a position, i really can t tell you very much at all. i ve been briefed on this and as far as i know this has not been in any way declassified the cia. this could interfire with operations overseas. i really cannot comment on any of those details. i know it s out there, i know it s being reported and i also was had a briefing this afternoon with top officials and there s a really great concern that this got out. this is my understanding that a major investigation is going to be launched because of this. are there any new details that you can say? i don t believe so, anderson. i late to do this to you, i mean yet i did say to you that i was told and i could say yesterday that the bomber, the alleged bomber was no longer of any concern to us and now i guess a different interpretation can be put on that and everyone was reading in
extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. the new york times reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect. even in a patdown. undoubtedly could have brought down a plane according to a senior american official. the congressman peter king of new york is the chairman of the committee and again, there s a lot that cannot be discussed so we re leaving it up to the experts to tell us what they can. congressman king, the would be bomber is a double agent. what can you tell us about him? i can t tell you very much at all. i have been briefed on this and this is not declassified by the cia or the administration. it s really to me unfortunate that this has gotten out because this could interfere with operations overseas. i m sorry to do this i can t comment on any of the details. i know what s out there. i know it s being reported. i also was at a briefing this afternoon with top officials. the
according to the new york times but also the information that helped the cia carry out a drone strike against the top al qaeda operative. now, we don t have the name or nationality of the double agent and this of course is a highly sensitive situation. so we want to be careful about what we say, but some extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. the new york times reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect. even in a patdown. undoubtedly could have brought down a plane according to a senior american official. the congressman peter king of new york is the chairman of the committee and again, there s a lot that cannot be discussed so we re leaving it up to the experts to tell us what they can. congressman king, the would be bomber is a double agent. what can you tell us about him? i can t tell you very much at all. i have been briefed on this and this is not declassified by the cia o