the fbi director. he sat right there in that -- the witness chair and testified about the evidence they obtained, the law they applied, and the decision-making process they employed. he described how, quote, an all star team, unquote, of career fbi investigators came to the unanimous conclusion and how it wasn't even close. but republicans did not cliek the answers director comey gave. so demanded copies of the fbi internal investigative files. again, in sharp break from past precedent, the fbi director agreed to share documents from the investigation in an effort to put this question to rest. but again, that was not enough for the republicans. so they demanded the public release of these documents. yet again, director comey broke from precedent, released the fbi's internal investigative memo, and the notes from the interview with secretary clinton. let me say the obvious here. no matter what director comey does, it will never be enough for the republicans. they are demanding that he bring criminal cha

but he was by now more marginalized than ever at the fbi. and so in july of 2001, when that memo from the phoenix office pleading for investigations of flight schools made its way to headquarters, it was not passed on to o'neill or mawn in new york. nor was the struggle that august of the minnesota office to investigate the alleged 20th hijacker, zacarias moussaoui. the leaders of the most sophisticated office in the fbi, the office that under o'neill had been dealing with these matters for six years, apparently were out of the loop. >> john had heard the alarm bells too, yet he felt that he was frozen out, that he was not in a capacity to really do anything about it anymore because of his relationship with the fbi. so it was a source of real anguish for him. >> narrator: 13 months after that briefcase incident, with the investigation still open, a well-placed leak to a newspaper made sure his government career was over. >> the new york timeis now starting to ask questions about that incident, both at the headquarters level and at the new yo

obviously the fbi didn't. this is just one more in this list of things that make this case highly unusual i yield back >> the director is permitted to respond if he chooses to do so. >> no i don't think so. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. director call me, the fbi is tasked with a very serious responsibility. you are on the frontline trying to prevent terrorist attacks and prevent corruption. as i told your agent on a recent the visit to your field office, i am grateful to you and your agents, all of the men and women of the fbi for your dedication to and commitment to the pursuit of justice. we are most grateful. now one critical responsibility the fbi is to investigate when american citizens violate federal laws involving improper contact with foreign governments director call me, if an american national goes outside government channels to negotiate with a foreign government on behalf of the united states, that that is a very serious crime, one

next, a hearing on the fbi's handling of the investigation into hillary clinton's email and fbi director james comey's direction not to file charges against the secretary of state, the director testifies behind the jew -- judiciary committee. [inaudible conversations] >> the judiciary committee will come to order. without objection the chair authorized a recess of the committee at any time, we welcome everyone to this morning at hearing on oversight of the federal bureau of investigation. i will take a few minutes to recognize chief counsel of the subcommittee on crime, terrorism and homeland security and investigation. moving back to arizona, we are very sad to see her go. during her time in washington she worked for representative john chadit as chief counsel of the house republican policy. 2006, she came to work for the house judiciary committee and in 2008 became chief counsel of the crime subcommittee. caroline has had an enormous impact on the reform of our criminal and national security laws. few people in washington have done as much for the safety of our communities which caroli

that is the fbi i know. the one that went and saved the girl in north carolina. concerns me when you have five immunity agreements and no prosecution. when you're allowing witnesses who have been to be lawyers or targets to sit in on interview. that is not the fbi that i used to work with. i've been really care of's fault to not criticize you. did someone corrupt him. no i just disagree with you.hels it looks to me and ask him things were done differently that i don't recall being done when i used to work with them.e fbi y this is the fbi that you know and love. it was in my pros in the right way. >> thank you director comey for your extraordinary service to our country and please convey to the professionals mye gratitude for their service to the people of this country and particularly i want to acknowledge the extraordinary prompt and effective response resp after the recent bombings in new jersey in new york. many of us had expressed concerns about the growing incidence incidents of gun violence. five peop

the fbi did. they're a full team -- >> that's where we got this information. >> my point is the fbi determined after a year's worth of evaluation and investigation, they evaluated the fact that there is no reason to proceed further with any other legal activities. they made their evaluation about it. here's the point that's most poernt and i've heard this say on the air. >> you're not denying it was improper. you're -- >> i'm kind of old-fashioned that way. i leave it to the professionals to do the investigations versus the political pundits. >> they're wondering whether they should elect her, not indict her. they have a different bar. they want to know something if she did something while maybe not illegal, was inappropriate, like telling the server people to delete all the e-mails while she was under subpoena. >> let's be clear by the way. i heard on this show, i've heard this on many networks throughout the country, the argument that she deliberately hid or deleted 15,000 e-mails or the fbi fou

>> no. >> fbi? >> yes. >> so the answer is you placed restrictions so you're not going to give the unclassified documents to this committee. >> so we've given committee access to all the documents through -- >> that's not the question. that's a great answer to a question i didn't ask. are you willing to give the unclassified documents to this committee? >> all i can do is tell you i'll take it back. >> let me ask you another question because you said it was systematic. i went to the classified room. and there's two big binders there. one binder had some documents. the second binder that we got from the fbi had more documents than the first binder and yet they were supposed to be identical. would you say that was -- >> i would like to address this in a classified setting, if i could. >> was that an oversight? >> i think the details are important of what the differences are. >> but we just asked for a second copy. so would that not be haphazard? because when we went page for page, they didn't match up

the fbi traditionally record interviews. so this is a summary the agents put together and sign off on it for headquarters. one of the criticisms coming into the release of these documents is that the fbi a little bit who questioned mrs. clinton never pressed her on this issue of intent, why the server was set up in the first place and how she felt this was consistent with maintaining federal records and also the handling of classified information. and based on the 302, this criticism is very valid. she talks about how it's convenient but there seems to be no followup from the agents as to why she thought this to be the case and how this was in any way going to protect classified information. the other main headline reading this document is that on critical points, mrs. clinton seems to have forgotten or simply recall for agents what the specific training was for classified information. she tells the agents that she can't remember when she got her security clearance and whether it was carried over from her time in the senate,

>> that is not a role for the fbi. even though i happen to be a lawyer, were not lawyers, were investigators. that's a question investigators. that's a question for the legal part of the department of justice. >> okay. why did ms. mills request immunity? >> was she hiding something are afraid something would incriminate her that was on her laptop? >> i do not know. i'm sure that is a conversation she and her lawyer had and then her lawyer had with department i just do not know. >> okay. there was an op-ed by professor jonathan that appeared in the media that says there were a lot of good cases scuttled by granting immunity and there is lots of immunity that was granted here. doesn't concern you as an investigator that your peace in the justice department decided to become an immunity producing machine for many people who would have been very key witnesses should there have been a prosecution? >> i don't think of it that way. it doesn't strike me that there is a lot of immunity issued in this case. i know it's a complic

on the fbi report. july 2014, at -- at the request of cheryl mills, remotely transferring all hillary clinton andils to cheryl mills having atops are later bleach bit attached of them. report, page 15, during the summer of 2014, cheryl mills is giving a head -- given a heads up by the state department that there is a letter coming requesting all hillary clinton e-mails. jump forward to december. general mills requests the network change the retention policy on her account. what happened right before? what prompted this change? december 2, chairman of benghazi committee since a later -- a letter to david kendall that says we just found out about this other account. the other account that three clinton has, we would like any e-mails related to the benghazi situation from that account. of course right after that, they change the policy and platte river network is instructed to delete anything after 60 days. to the amazing month, the one the chairman cited, march 2015. they haveimes reports this one e-mail

that's when they called the bomb squad and the fbi. now we are told as they pointed out this area is secure. as we know, this is the second explosion or second device that has been found here in the state of new jersey in the last 48 hours. very important to point out, john, there has been no connection between the two incidents made. >> officials are on the scene investigating. you can bet they are looking for possible connections. >>> also breaking overnight. police and fbi conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle of interest in the manhattan bombing. this video appears to show one man was seen in the vicinity of the chelsea neighborhood. one bomb went off and one did not. many developments this morning. we have jessica schneider with more and there are five people in custody. not charged with anything. >> that is all a result of the traffic stop that happened at 8:45 on sunday night. the way it went down in brooklyn. the fbi and nypd working together to conduct a traffic stop for a vehicle of interest. now there are not a lot of detail

bill: fbi under fire. the head of the fbi james comey in the hearing right now. we are learning brand-new details about the investigation into hillary clinton's server. james comey answering questions in the hill and this is what happened just moments ago. >> you were granting, handing out like candy according to some immunity, did you or to your knowledge department of justice confer with chairman chaffetz, smith or any other chairmen who had ongoing subpoenas or investigations? >> not to my knowledge. >> isn't it double standard this when you granted immunity you took them out of the reach for prosecutions for crimes committed relate today destruction of documents or withholding or other crimes pursuant to congressional subpoenas? >> i don't think anybody was given transactional immunity. >> oh, really? we have not allow today make immunities public but i am going to make one of them public. i read them. you gave them immunity from destruction to both of the attorneys. bill: republican congressman from california. brad, how are you and good morning. >> i'm good

were you interviewed by the fbi? >> on the advice of counsel, i respectfully decline to answer and assert my fifth amendment constitutional privilege. >> you can't answer the question about whether or not you were interviewed by the fbi? >> on the advice of counsel, i respectfully decline. >> mr. cummings. >> again, as a member of the bar for 40 years, i'm not going to participate in this. i just think when we bring witnesses here and berate them when we could do it in executive session, or whatever, i think it would be unethical for me to do that, so i have nothing. >> given that the witness has indicated he does not intend to answer any questions out of respect for his constitutional rights, we will now excuse mr. thornton from the table. we will recess for two minutes while the clerk is able to reset the table. committee stands in recess. >> the committee will come to order. as we last left it, there are some serious questions based on the e-mails about -- here you have some of the most vulnerable secrets in all t

the fbi doesn't do that. i mean, he politicized the fbi and then releasing this so-called interview, which we could talk about on 3:00 in the afternoon on labor day, that's what -- that's not what the fbi does. fbi doesn't do stuff like that. that's crazy. >> to be clear, he answers to loretta lynch, right, the attorney general, that's his boss. >> he answers to it, but there comes a point in time where you say no. you say no, you stand up. if they want to try to fire you, they fire you, or else you resign, but you don't do things like this. >> somebody clearly said to him don't put it on loretta lynch, she's -- if you put it on loretta lynch, you have to take the fall. and the fall was, we're not recommending charges. >> yeah, well, i just don't know how he could say that, i don't know how he could go along with it, say there was no intent. when you put a server in your basement and, therefore, you don't have to deal with the federal records act for years with thousands of documents, i mean, what's more inte

pagliano or the fbi for that. i -- >> were you ever told or did you ever suspect classified information was being e-mailed to and from the secretary? >> no. >> nobody ever brought that up with you or expressed a concern? >> no. >> interesting. do you think that common practices cyber hygiene was to be used in the development of these servers? >> i'm not wholly familiar with what common practices are, but i can say that i believe some common practices were likely used. >> and who were you using for guidance on what was good digital system hygiene, mr. pagliano? >> and apple on the original device. >> now, you said apple a few times. is this like you went into the help desk at the mall, like -- >> we had an agreement with apple's business service program at the time that inspected to use, set up the system and installed it. >> mr. chairman, i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman. now we'll go to the gentleman from alabama, mr. palmer, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ms. abedin and ms. hanley indicated

i do want to get your take a little bit on these e-mail notes from the fbi between the fbi and hillary clinton. as an economist and as something 70 helping donald trump what do you make up today's jobs report what does it show about the economy. it is not terrible news but we had been in the one to 2% rot in the economy now. we had been officially going at only 1%. we should be going up much faster much faster than that. when you look at these polls it shows 30% is jobs and the economy. the headline number but nobodye. the reason is we are not counting millions of people who dropped out of the workforce. the only working 20 hours a week. real americans don't feel it because even if they have a job even if they have a job they at least got a raise in at least a year okay maybe ten years. that goes back to the late bush years. it has just been. of flat wages. manufacturing jobs were down. those are the kind of black -- backbone middle-class jobs. i was surprised the housing industry seem to be doing pretty well. you put people more there. we are still 1.5 million fewer manufacturing jobs

why are we trying to contradict what the fbi found? and the bottom line is that the fbi based on their reviews, based on the professionals that they have looking at this, they came forward and said -- and director comey actually said it right before this committee, he testified, "we do not find any evidence of evil intent and intent to obstruct justice." this is the head of the fbi relying on a complete investigation of his personnel on this issue. he also said -- and i'm quoting him again -- "we did not find evidence to indicate that they did anything to try to erase or conceal anything of any sort. so the fbi has already made their determination. so by my one question to you, mr. cooper, in all of your work and your understanding, your experience with all of this, did you see anything that contradicts the conclusion of the fbi professionals and director comey who testified before this congress he saw no criminal activity, he saw no abuse of justice. did you see anything to contradict his conclusion? >> the facts to my knowledge, no.

this is his fbi. if they actually go after her and indict her, they're effectively indicting themselves, are they not, chris? >> well, with loretta lynch as the attorney general,. no but that's the point for director comey to really have sort of a fall on one's sword moment. you know, if he's built the case and goes to the attorney general and she says, no, i will not impanel a grand jury, then she has two choices, right? he either does the right thing and resigns or makes an issue of it, or he goes along and plays along. and in this case director comey disgraced himself. he's complicit in this cover-up. trish: let me ask you about another story that you guys just broke, and that's huma abedin -- >> right. trish -- was working to try and secure some diplomatic passports for some clinton foundation members. you guys discovered this via your foia request, and you got some e-mails that suggested this, in fact, was something that huma was trying to do. you can't do that, but i'll let you explain why. in o

about a dozen page and this is what the fbi calls the summary of an interview, the fbi does not traditionally record the introduce it is si summary. and i am halfway through the 302 and what you conclude here, on the critical conditions of intent, whether she understood how classified information was handled she answered that she could not remember or she could be not recall and i want to give you a couple of xchs right here. she's asked when she first got security claerance and carried it from the senate to the state department. clinton could not when she first received security clearance and if it was carried from the senate to the state department. and then she said clinton being not recall briefing or training with the release of federal records or handling of classified information. clinton recalled to be the crown jewels of the intelligence community. she could not recall specific briefing on how to handle information associated with special access programs and that is a big problem and i will tell you why, in 2009, within days of becoming secretary of state she signed two nondisclosure

the fbi let all these sleeping dogs lie, all the fbi notes. instead of saying x lied or y lied or x and y's testimony, actually their recollections were completely -- sandalson and mills recalled it completely opposite. they let sleeping dogs lie. they left it out there. where is the laptop? why didn't the fbi make the most modest of efforts. go ahead, david, you're holding the notes. >> knowing your intense interest in the e-mails. >> i swear to god it's not my intense interest. it should be anybody who is a lawyer's interest how shabbily the fbi ran this. >> my only point, i did try to look at the material released over the weekend. it does back up jim comey's basic summary, the headline we had a few months ago, this was grossly sloppy management of the records, procedures surrounding the records. that's what comey said in some of the material. comey went on to say he did not find evidence of violation of law that prosecutors could take to court. that's still, joe, what i felt looking for details. there's some moments taking a blackberry you

why is the fbi, why would the fbi suppress the, those investigations? and what role can the families, or are the families playing? >> you asked several questions, if i don't answer all of them ask -- i think the, the reason that the fbi is doing it is one, it's not doing it on its own of the pattern of behavior from the fbi, cia, the state department, the justice department, the treasury department, has all been consistent. i think the message has gone out from the white house that they do not want any information from saudi arabia to be released. there was interesting an important book written several years ago, by phil, was with the "new york times," shinik. the investigation to 9/11. he pointed out number of times, when information about the saudis role as as aggressively suppress, this is not unique to the fbi venture. >> same way for the mic. >> sorry. and, do you believe that you know, mentioned coming out from the white house, did it start with the bush white house and then it continued to the obama white house? >> then the questions before, have

the fbi noting she was recovering from a concussion and blood clot at the time. clinton said she relied on her aides to use their judgment when e-mailing her and could not recall anyone raising concerns about information sent to her private account. she also said she did not know a "c" marking on a document meant it was classified and even asked interviewing agents for classification. some of the classified e-mails that caused the most trouble for clinton discussed the cia's covert drone program which should never be discussed on any unclassified e-mail systems and the report indicated the drone strike did not give her cause for concern regarding classification. >> welcome to all of you. >> one of the things that mrs. clinton seemed inconclusive about was her motivation. she told the fbi she used her personal server for convenience and not to evade freedom of information laws. >>> loretta lynch followed the fbi's recommendation and passed on prosecuting clinton who eventually admitted using a private e-mail server was a mistake. >> i would certainly not do that a

i was taken into another room with the deputy director of the fbi, a young female fbi agent, nd a middle-aged lawyer from the department of justice, and essentially, the message was, we have done this complete investigation. everything that is known is known. you need to get a life. i pointed out what he did not know was that i had actually read two of the investigative reports by their agent which contradicted which they had said publicly and what he had just said to me privately. he said, you don't understand, one, that was not a very good agent. has there been an investigation by the fbi in its history that was as important to the american people as full knowledge of 9/11? and the very fact that they would say that they sent to head an investigation into what i think was an important component of the total picture, someone that they declared to be less than a fully capable person, was itself revelatory. then he proceeded to say, we have other information that puts what you read in context, and you will see that, in fact, what we have said is true. i said, fine, could i see the information

it's called an fbi 302. that's the code the fbi uses to describe interview summaries. you know, it's not standard for the fbi to tape-record an interview. that was true in the clinton case. so there's no transcript. there's just a summary based on the agent's notes. and what's really stunning as you read this document is again and again and again hillary clinton on very key questions says she simply does not recall. she had special briefings for handling special access programs in intelligence. these are some of the government's most closely held secrets. and the other thing that really jumped out at me is this issue of intent. she said she couldn't remember the circumstances under which they set up the clinton e-mail.com account in 2009 but the agents, they never press her on this issue. there's no follow-up in this case. and this really backs up the criticism of republicans on the hill who had read this document that it just seemed they never pressed her hard on the key issues, eric. >> and also there was another document, 47 pages, where kind of details of some of t

the fbi weasels. that's a direct quote. we've got former fbi assistant director critical of comey's decision not to recommend indicting hillary clinton. he's here to react. that's next. still paying for your home when you should be enjoying your retirement? if you've paid offt least 50% of your mortgage and you're 62 or older, a reverse mortgage might be the answer. a government-backed reverse mortgage stops your mortgage payments and gives you steady tax-free income. let the home you've taken care of, take care of you. turn your equity into a comfortable retirement, all while continuing to live in, and own, your home. find out how much you could receive for retirement. lendingtree: when banks compete, you win. . >> you can call us wrong, but don't call us weasels, we are not weasels, we are honest people and did that in this way, whether you agree or disagree with the result. this was done the way you wanted it to be done. liz: the normally stoic fbi director got angry as he rejected claims that the

that's what the fbi calls the summary of an interview. the fbi does not record interviews so in this case that was true and there's no transcript, just a summary of the fbi agent's notes who questionedder , and consistently throughout the interview, hillary clinton says that she simply cannot recall when she got her security clearance. she cannot recall any specific training or briefing for the handling of classified information and cannot recall any specific training for the handling of special access programs, some of the u.s. government's most closely held intelligence programs such as national security nsa tech nick cal programs and human spying. the other thing that jumped out from this 302 summary is the fact that mrs. clinton said she used the account for convenience. but there was absolutely no followup from the agents about what that exactly meant because we now understand that she had multiple devices, multiple servers, yet they don't press her on this issue and this is one of the main criticisms of the republicans who had read

the fbi had all of this. james comey, the fbi director, has been a very respected inspector and prosecutor and person over the years. he said not enough to indict. shouldn't that be the end of it? >> when in doubt, shannon, plead ignorance. hillary clinton has two major allies. she has the department of justice, barack obama's department of justice on her side, and she's got the mainstream media completely in the tank for her. she can't remember a darn thing about those top-secret or classified e-mails, so what does she do? she makes sure she'll never be able to remember anything by scrubbing her illegal server with the bleachbit. >> come on. >> this whole scandal, it's growing and will continue to grow in the coming wakes. it makes watergate look like a parking ticket. >> you wish it were growing. >> this is so out of control right now. >> this is over. this is done. >> the american voters are going to stand -- wait a second, alan -- whether or not you want somebody who is so rife with corruption that she ca

amidst 36,000 of us, a number of fbi agents. if we can get everybody engaged in the city helping keep us safe, this is the way to go. this is the future. >> the pressure cooker. how is it [ inaudible ] in terms of gaining information? not having to have exploded yesterday, quite safe, what did you gain from that pressure cooker and any video that helped you with it? >> bill? >> i want comment specifically on something from the pressure cooker that led us somewhere. any piece of evidence we obtain whether a piece, fragment, something whole, is worthwhile. so i would leave it at that. >> commissioner, was there anything significant about the particular day on saturday that you knew of? >> lisa, that's all part of the investigation. with the motivation, we don't have that yet. this is going to be part, as we go forward here. >> for the -- [ inaudible ] was rahami on a radar of any kind, and do you believe there are any other bombers or bombs that you're actively looking for, or [ inaudible ]. >> bill? >> i don't do -- i don't have

were you interviewed by the fbi? >> on the advise of counsel i respectfully decline to answer and assert my fifth amendment constitutional privilege. >> you can't answer the question about whether or not you were interviewed by the fbi? >> on the advice of counsel, i respectfully decline. >> mr. cummings. >> again, as, a member of the bar for 40 years, i'm not going to participate in this, you know, i just think that when we bring witnesses here and we berate them, when we could do it in executive session or whatever, again, i think it would be unethical for me to do that. so i have nothing. >> given that the witnesses hasn't indicated he does not intend to answer any questions out of respect for his constitutional rights, we will now excuse mr. thornton from the table. bill: that is bill thornton, associated with platte river networks out of denver, colorado. that is the company in charge of operating hillary clinton's server. when it moves out of her home toward new jersey. they will take a break right now, for at

and the fbi will door knock people. traffic stops mean there's a little bit more going on. >> that was going to be my next question. why they haven't released the surveillance video. . so your take is they have got some definite leads on this. do you expect that will happen at some point in the investigation? >> it's possible they'll release it but the reason they're not releasing it is that they don't have to. they don't need to release it right now. and if you get a fingerprint and you run the fingerprint, the driver's license comes up and you don't need to say do you know who this guy is. >> but they have all of these people. you know, the last thing that the mayor said was this was intentional but he didn't call it terrorism. they're still piecing this thing together and they certainly have a lot of counter terrorism information at their disposal to kind of put it across the ts and dot the i's. >> absolutely. and the fact that the fbi and nypd is still working it after they have gotten preliminary information should

fbi "i do not recall" 39 times. could we find out why the feds decided her actions were careless but not criminal? so much for let trump be trump. donald trump now flipping the script after the script of what to say to the black community was leaked. plus a

we know more about the fbi. esb right now -- the fbi is in a position that we need to get data off suspect cell phones. and i think there is a box of expertise and a little bit of laziness that before cell phones you had to collect data manually. you had to go and investigate crimes. now while you did is the cell phone. there's been about 20 years, 15 were the fbi lost a lot of its investigating capabilities. and now there is this lack of expertise and not argue that what the fbi needs is not backdoors. non-access to everything that they need to reengage the investigative techniques that they've lost but are still capable of. i don't think it's gone forever. if you put in legal restrictions on mass surveillance, you would get back this expertise. i don't think all hope is lost yet i think you have to push back on these easy technique to violate so many liberties and force the government back into the older techniques that worked then, work now and will work tomorrow. >> assured i'm not come in the encryption deb

fbi, we had mr. komi -- comey who has an unimpeachable record of vigilance as a prosecutor, who calls them as he sees them, he went to every single thing, every single e-mail and he came to the conclusion that there was no criminal conduct, there is no evidence of that in fact of the secretary's e-mail had been said it is the -- he not even a close call. the e-mail should have been set up, that was a mistake, the secretary has acknowledged, there is a racist to inquire as to what happened but we have done it. and the fbi has done it. a feeling that a little bit of this has to do something with other than e-mail. it may have to do with something that is looming in november. have as of the issues i i listen to the questions of my colleagues is they are asking the witnesses to disprove a negative. my friend from wyoming was asking about the russian and the chinese trying to get into that e-mail. they probably are. they're trying to get into every department we have probably come a tried to get into the

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tonight, the fbi now questioning someone else -- his wife. right here tonight, this new surveillance video showing the suspect walking down a new york street. authorities saying he was about to place those bombs. also, we are now learning about the father. his alert to the fbi, and what he once called his own son. and now, of course, the wife being questioned. was the suspect acting alone? abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross leading us off with new charges, just coming in tonight. >> reporter: federal officials confirm tonight that they had been warned about accused bomber ahmad rahami, seen in this chilling surveillance tape, allegedly about to plant bombs in his suitcase and backpack. father, mohammad rahami, who told reporters outside his home today that he met with the fbi in 2014. >> i called the fbi two years ago. >> and what did you tell them? >> i told them, you got a connection with this guy. >> reporter: but the fbi said today, the father later recanted his allegations, and the son was never questioned by the fbi. >>

tonight, the fbi now questioning someone else -- his wife. right here tonight, this new surveillance video showing the suspect walking down a new york street. authorities saying he was about tola also, we are now learning about the father. his alert to the fbi, and what he once called his own son. and now, of course, the wife being questioned. was the suspect acting alone? abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross leading us off with new charges, just coming in tonight. >> reporter: federal officials confirm tonight that they had been warned about accused this chilling surveillance tape, allegedly about to plant bombs in his suitcase and backpack. the warnings came from his own father, mohammad rahami, who told reporters outside his home today that he met with the fbi in 2014. >> i called the fbi two years ago. >> what did you tell them? >> i told them you got a connection with this guy. >> reporter: but the fbi said today, the father later recanted his allegations, and the son was never questioned by the fbi. >> they found that ther

to the fbi, she seemed to be passing the buck. >> she said it's on me. i apologized, but i think a lot -- >> to the fbi she said i relied on my staff. >> and that could be true because two of the things that came out of these reports and these e-mails, one, that she actually works really, really hard. she's an incredibly busy person and it's conceivable that someone in that position of power could say, you know, you guys handle it and let me focus what i need to focus on so on and so forth. it doesn't need to be the either/or that you presented. >> what's the third option? >> the third option is that she's actually telling the truth because sometimes we try to find a way for things to not be true. >> no, you offered the choice of being ignorant or incompetent. i'm offering the option of her telling the truth. >> you're secretary of state and you don't know classified markings. >> she relied on her staff in a way that she has ultimately taken responsibility for. i think that's the point. >> monica, you've covered this a long time and you're in deep touch

the fbi says -- we have a statement from the fbi they said "in august, 2014, the fbi took a statement based on comments made by his father after a domestic dispute reported to authorities. the fbi conducted internal database reviews, interagency checks and multiple interviews none of which revealed ties to terrorism." i think one of the issues here, brooke, is the question of whether or not the fbi could have done something back in 2014 when this incident occurred. the father was hurt at the time by neighbors to say something to the effect of my son is a terrorist, he was concerned at the time his son was hanging out with criminal elements. he recanted this. he said he didn't mean it, it was heat of the moment the fbi did initial checks but he was in jail, the charges were dropped and the fbi walked away thinking this was a domestic incident that didn't add up to much. then we have the incidents that happened over the week end. >> also quickly over the weekend following up on the wife who we've known from your reporting took off from pakistan just a couple days before the attacks. >>

the fbi did an interview. this really should have triggered something in the family's mind that why is he out behind the chicken restaurant blowing stuff up. and why wasn't any phone call made? this must have been some pretty low grade explosions for nobody to hear them? >> on this front, they are saying that the video was filmed at or in the immediate vicinity of that elizabeth residence. it is not a big place. it was on a family member's phone. is implication is someone else filmed it so someone else knew this was going on. >> right. >> and yet none of this was put together as art pointed out to a guy who -- his father reported him two years oogsz a terrorist. >> another example of see something, say something. so often we hear after an incident is when people say oh i should have reported that but no one seems to do it at the time. and so, you know, again people see something they don't like or family members see this, they should have either contacted local law enforcement or contacted the fbi. >> one of t

>> no. >> no. >> fbi? >> yes. >> so the answer is you placed restrictions so you're not going to give the unclassified documents to this committee. >> so we've given committee access to all the documents through -- >> that's not the question. that's a great answer to a question i didn't ask. are you willing to give the unclassified documents to this committee? >> all i can do is tell you i'll take it back. >> let me ask you another question because you said it was systematic. i went to the classified room. and there's two big binders there. one binder had some documents. the second binder that we got from the fbi had more documents than the first binder and yet they were supposed to be identical. would you say that was -- >> i would like to address this in a classified setting, if i could. >> was that an oversight? >> i think the details are important of what the differences are. >> but we just asked for a second copy. so would that not be haphazard? it does not seem to methodical, because when we went pag

he is now criticizing the fbi. the fbi is enforcing rules that are passed by congress. there are rules and regulations and they're strictly interpreted after congressional laws passed sets the stage for what the fbi can and cannot do. i have seen the flow chart of how it all works, and it's all based on our laws. and i -- i get really upset when a guy that wouldn't know probable cause if he tripped over it is starting to quote statutes that he is responsible for in some part. >> phil, let me ask you, looking forward on this investigation, or looking in the present, right now, the alleged terrorist has, according to what we're being told, not been cooperative. if he had help, is there any sort of expiration date when it comes to the information authorities could get from him? and how are they trying to get information from him? >> first you try to build a rapport. he has a $5 million plus bail. he is not going anywhere. they don't have a problem with time to sit by his bedside and start working on him over days and weeks, probably bringing his family and friends in. he h

what is the fbi looking for. what they're doing right now is they will do a comparative analysis of all the evidence to see all the this evidence is looked to each other. right now with those five individuals no doubt they are growing them. they will find out if there's more individuals involved. there was a real substantial feeling that this is not the act of one terrace. the question has been asked why 23rd street. there is a possibility that they are probing and how they probe is they plant the bomb somewherehey look at the first responders and how many are showing up what type of equipment has is being brought in. >> one thing the fbi is looking at is doing the post blast analysis on the device and not pressure cooker that was also discovered. it did include ten or write it something you can buy at sporting goods stores in the united states is made with a note ammonium nitrate. you can easily put this together. and given the fact that it was a pressure cooker that was found in the second site that goes to tho

the fbi has not reported me. i'm getting fully briefed by the fbi at 12:30 this afternoon, with senator menendez and senator booker. >> reporter: mayor, did he actually live here? >> we know he stayed here. whether this was his full-time address, i don't know at this time. zb >> reporter: have you been told of another location? >> i have not heard about another location. >> reporter: have you heard if he has a son? >> i am not aware of any of the other family members at this time. >> all right. that was just the mayor of elizabeth, new jersey, chris bullwage, the latest information is that ahmad rahami, we got video of this man clearly awake and conscious, but he was awake in the back of the ambulance. look at him being wheeled into the ambulance here. we saw another view, there we go right there, he's awake. he's conscious. he survived whatever the encounter was with police right there. >> let's actually jump down to drew griffin on the scene close to where this all played to it in linden, new jersey. he has a w

tonight, the fbi now questioning someone else -- his wife. right here tonight, this new surveillance video showing the suspect walking down a new york street. authorities saying he was about also, we are now learning about the father. his alert to the fbi, and what he once called his own son. and now, of course, the wife being questioned. was the suspect acting alone? abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross leading us off with new charges, just coming in tonight. >> reporter: federal officials confirm tonight that they had this chilling surveillance tape, allegedly about to plant bombs in his suitcase and backpack. the warnings came from his own father, mohammad rahami, who told reporters outside his home today that he met with the fbi in 2014. >> i called the fbi two years ago. >> what did you tell them? >> i told them you got a connection with this guy. >> reporter: but the fbi said today, the father later recanted his allegations, and the son was never questioned by the fbi. >> they found that there was not enough there to conti