the fbi closed its assessment of mr. santiago after conducting database reviews and interagency checks. there have been reports mr. santiago turned himself in. this is not true. he was a walk-in complaint. this is something that happens at fbi offices around the country every day. there have been concerns raised about why mr. santiago was not placed on a no-fly list. i want to be clear, during our initial investigation, we found no ties to terrorism. he broke no laws when he came into our office, making disjointed comments about mind control. since yesterday in conduction with the anchorage police department and other agencies and our state partners, we have conducted numerous interviews plaintiff santiago's associates, executed several search warrants at multiple locations around the anchorage area. while we are early in the investigation, there's currently no indication mr. santiago was working with any other individuals when he planned and carried out yesterday's attack. i would like to stress that point. our communit

>> i leave that to the fbi. if i were running the fbi, which obviously i'm not, i think anybody involved in the fbi would want to know the facts in this case and what precipitated what mr. comey did and let them make the appropriate judgment. they know what's proper and appropriate for their agency. i don't. i do know it's proper when you believe you have an official, whether it's a congress person, a district attorney, a federal attorney or the director of the fbi who potentially has abused his or her authority, it ought to be looked into. even if the events that were effected by it have transpired and are over with. >> let's talk about a broader issue at play here. russian hacking. that is still ongoing. more news coming out about it every day. there's these allegations out there that have been unverified that donald trump could have been potentially compromised by the russians. there's a lot of back and forth on how seriously any of that should be taken. in your mind, what it the fbi reopening the e-mail inve

and the fbi has to be as nonpartisan as possible for the fbi director to put his hand on the scale of a presidential election is unheard of and why it has to be independent and for doing something that the clinton supporters and campaign always knew was an issue. >> to say there was not justification for the letter is simply not true, it was sworn under oath this investigation was closed. when the anthony weiner laptop was discovered and he started looking into this again, his oath was wrong and inaccurate and he had a duty to update that, so do i update congress as i have to do and meanwhile you think the irs -- was under scrutiny, he had two duties, a very hard position and i go back to when the clinton people were praising comey saying he was an people were saying this is someone we can trust then this happened and their opinion of jim comey changed. i think this investigation will show nothing on either side. this is a good man and i think it's unfortunate. >> jim sciutto add to this whole layer. i look at you and think of russia interference in the presidential election. no offen

lot of people go to the fbi or law enforcement and say they're hearing things, supports isis, the fbi in anchorage responded by sending him to mental facilities. he also served american government in the military. circumstances may have made them believe he probably had psychiatric or mental disorders but as we heard george piro in florida, respected fbi agent, they are working with airng rath to see what they may have failed to determine. but show up at door of fbi office is not enough to do much except try to commit him for clear mental challenges he was having at the time. >> he tells the fbi he's hearing voices, taken for mental health evaluation, voluntarily checks himself in. at what point is he not allowed to travel with weapon or be on no-fly list? >> back up don, really look into the local law enforcement procedure. at least here in state of florida in someone voluntarily or involuntarily commits for a mental health evaluation, there is a procedure in place, that a law enforcement officer, especially if committed at their direction, those weapons in your possession should hav

with other parts of the fbi. ? yeah. >> but also i think the fact there is an investigation sends a small to people in the future that you can't just do stuff like this and have in accountable. this is the one way to have at least some accountability for an event that really helped shape our hess tree more than we would have ever expected. >> reaction continues to pour in to this announcement. we will have to have you back to talk about the book. my apologies about that. the breaking news is of course the news of the day. we are waiting to get some sort of response, we assume we'll get a response from the president-elect to all of this at some juncture. breaking news the justice department investigating the fbi's handling of hillary clinton's e-mail probe ahead of the election. we will go to trump tower and talk to halle jackson for the latest from the president-elect. tech: at safelite, we know how busy your life can be. mom: oh no... tech: this mom didn't have time to worry about a cracked windshield. so she sche

that is what the fbi has said. but as you can see here, it's an allegation that something that the inspector general will be looking into, whether he should have recused himself regardless, wolf. >> and the other allegation that the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs should have recused himself as well. allegations that he improperly disclosed nonpublic information to the clinton campaign and/or should have been recused from participating in certain matters because of what political contributions that this individual may have made to the hillary clinton campaign? was that the assertion? >>assertion was there were communications between the doj employee, the department's assistant attorney general for legislative affairs and john podesta because he was john podesta's former attorney years ago. and some communications came to light where he gave -- one of the e-mails is where he gave podesta a heads-up about a hearing that would involve the clinton emalinvestigation. i don't recall the other communica

fbi. sheriff's department. fbi did a very thorough job at trying to figure out what happened here. we're going to find out what happened. law enforcement will -- you know, is committed to provide information as they're able to. they toent want to do anything that would impact their investigation. >> the airport, i take it, is still shut down? >> yeah. right now, wolf, the airport is shut down. they're sweeping the entire airport. so the terminal where the shooting was is going to take a while. it's a crime scene. it will take a while before it reopens. >> governor rick scott of florida, thank you so much for joining us. good luck. >> thank you, wolf. >> ft. lauderdale airport is, as we said, shut down right now. we want to bring in tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi. is there more that needs to be done? should this individual, santiago, should he have been on a no-fly list, for example? the fbi -- he went to the fbi in alaska a few months ago and said he was hearing voices in his head. they were obviously worried about him. they took somesteps. but he got on a plane

fbi was relying on. throughin paragraph 71 74 of our complaint, that liaisons to the headquarters investigation was providing the mdc with information about all the men. justice alito: you think the fbi , an investigation of something sensitive about terrorism, would necessarily have told people at mdc every bit of information they had connecting people to terrorism? told all the information relevant to the threat the men posed to the institution. also important is what the oig has explained about the meaning of the of-interest designation. being determined by the fbi to to the 9/11st investigation meant only that they were not not of interest. this was not just something happening in new york. the oig quotes the head of the national security unit of the fbi could not the state whether it had interest, that individual was held as of interest. even if there is word being sent out that these men are of interest to the investigation, we have to be careful with them, what the mdc petitioners received was tha

how important a moment is this here in washington and to the future of the fbi? guest: look, i am a law enforcement geek, so i think it is usually important. one of the things that happened in this election is the fbi the game a critical player in the election, and that does not normally happen, so i think one of the things that this investigation is designed to didle is -- was what comey appropriate? was what his director did appropriate? should there be more clear rules we ever getd if into a situation again where the leading candidate for one or both parties are under active fbi investigations? people, frankly, even among law enforcement officials and prosecutors, feel very strongly that this is not the way it should have been done. some people support him, but a lot of people have very serious concerns about what happened. host: before we let you go, we want to go out to chicago and get your advanced word about and evidence that loretta lynch is holding, she calls it a holyark moment for chicago spirit what is going on out there? thet: this is essentially las

the fbi had to rely on a 3rd party. the "new york times" reported that when the fbi first called the dnc staffer to alert them, they thought this was a prank call. they did nothing. when the fbi kept calling, the dnc continued to fail to act and address the problem. so did the democrats who are feigning moral outrage here. if you would have just done your job and fixed the hacking problem back in 2008 and 2009 right in front of your face for years, this never would have happened. with reaction former new york city maria sharapova rudy giuliani. -- mayor rudy giuliani. you deal with this issue on a daily basis. this is a real clear and present danger that we have ignored for over 10 years. am i wrong? >> you're absolutely right. i don't feel like i told you so. 13 years ago, i began warning about hacking with my law firm and my technology and partners black berry. i have been involved for many years trying to warn corporate officials, individuals, government agencies about the hacking that has been going on. the reality

so i contacted the fbi. i met with them and i told them, look, i have an employee who i think it your suspect. the fbi had additional data they were employing to measure suspects. new information which i had not previously possessed. i refer to it as a template. anna did not matchup against that template at all. the fbi told me on the basis of this information, i can eliminate your employee as a suspect and they had a lot of confidence in the validity and used it as a trump card. from the time i left the meeting until the time i took the elevator ride down stairs and found myself on the curb, i knew anna was at work three miles south in the headquarter building. i could just picture her in my mind's eye. that woman was in my building pulling this crap on my watch. placing our entire nation's future at risk. she was going to get the hell out of there. i needed the fbi to be able to make that happen. what i did was said we are going to persuade the fbi that anna was the spy they were looking for. i realized th

this had aroused some concern among people around him so when he went to the fbi office, the fbi called the local authorities and they took him to a local hospital where he checked himself for a mental health evaluation. we don't know what happens after that. we don't know the result of the mental health checks but that's the only significant interaction that law enforcement had with this suspect. he didn't have much of an arrest record over the last few years so the next thing we know is he shows up on this flight in ft. lauderdale. there was some reports from some of the witnesses who had been interviewed by the fbi and by the broward sheriff's office in ft. lauderdale that there might have been some kind of altercation. but apart from that, nothing that really explay by plays the motivation. at this point he did not show on any radar for the fbi as someone who might have been extremist or radicalized but really it does raise some important questions. if this is a man who sought mental health help in alaska, what kind of process is there for that information to be shared perhaps to pr

that number is 1-800-call-fbi and press number one. at this time we will open it up for a few questions. but realize that this is an active investigation. so the information that we can sproi very limited. >> was the gun that was released to him the same gun that was used in the shooting? >> i have not received that information, so i cannot comment positive or negative. >> your department was the one that released that gun? >> there is speculation. i have not received confirmation that it is the same gun. >> and when he went in to the the fbi, was the child left in the car or did he bring the child in? >> the-wi -- it is my understang the child was left in the car. >> and the girlfriend was contacted and she came and picked the child up. >> you can talk about the mental health evaluation, who conducted it and how long he was under supervision? >> at this time we have subpoenaed all the records, but because it's an ongoing investigation, it would be inappropriate to respond to that. >>hado we ow about his travel to south orida, what his

but this is a alert right now, fbi conference. we go there right now to fort lauderdale. >> we have been working most of the day to make sure everybody was obviously safe and secure. once we received that word from our law enforcement partners, we've been in the process of either transporting those individuals, over to port everglades. what we anticipate will be somewhere in the neighborhood of about 10,000 folks over to fort everglades. broward county staff will be there to assist those passengers in either getting them to their destination, assisting with hotel accommodations, providing them food and shelter. through this evening, we are going to continue to work with our law enforcement partners here as we continue to try to get the airport back into an operational status. working with all our airlines, transportation security administration, and others to try to get the fort lauderdale-hollywood international airport back in operation tomorrow morning. the goal will be to have this operational at 0500, 5:00 in the morning. the

. >>> the fbi director has no credibility. >> reporter: fbi director james comey facing renewed scrutiny on both sides of the aisle. >> jim comey is an honorable person who i think made a bad decision. >> when the director of the fbi can't answer those questions it does shake our confidence. >> putin did call me a genius and said i'm the future of the republican party. >> reporter: putin denied claims that trump has compromising on him. >> there is reasonable call to believe that the chicago police department engages in a pattern or practice of abuse and excessive force. >> search was intense. >> this is going to be the happiest day in the world to hold my baby. >> we found an 18-year-old woman with the eye same date of birth but a different name. ♪ >> what a story that is. we're going to bring that to you in a little bit. we do want to wish you a good saturday morning. thank you for sharing your time with us. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. this morning, less than a week to go before president-elect donald trump takes the oath of office in washington. society, immigration a

talked to a reporter at a given time because you subpoenaed the fbi agent's phone records. you don't know what they'll talk about. so they'd have a hard time proving that. you're right it's clear there was something deeply wrong inside the fbi both with comey's behavior and the leaks coming out. honestly it's one of the reasons why going forward the fbi is continuing to probe donald trump over his ties with russia, purported ties with russia, we know that's been reported a number of times and it's hard to have confidence that the fbi after you saw how they leaked time after time about clinton and now that comey is under investigation how they can fairly investigate trump with all this swirling around them. >> matthew miller, thanks for joining us, appreciate it. >>> coming up, republicans stage an overnight offensive to start the repeal of obamacare. will it work? i will ask senator bernie sanders ahead. >> up to 30 million americans will lose their health care with many thousands dying as a result. because you have no health insurance and you can't go to a doctor or a hosp

it turns out the fbi or someone in the fbi or intelligence community who knows what the fbi director has said to donald trump is tired of what the trump staff usually in the person of kellyanne conway tries to get away with. >> we should be concerned that intelligence officials leaked to the press and won't go and tell the president-elect or president of the united states himself now, mr. obama, what the information is. they would rather go tell the press. >> but the report was that the -- the press report was about them -- >> an allegation -- >> about them going to the president. >> and says they never briefed him on it. they appended two payes to the bottom of his -- >> i fwlef said they did brief him on it. >> he has said he is notware of it. >> okay, that concerns me. >> tonight, nbc news has confirmed that fbi director james comey took mr. trump aside and spoke to him one on one about the existence of verification against him and told him the summary of claim was included on an addendum to the top secret report. that is a direct smackdown of kellyanne conway and what she has bee

santiago had arrived at the fbi building asking for help. santiago was having terroristic thoughts and believed he was being influenced by isis. santiago had a loaded magazine on him but had left his firearm in his vehicle, prior to contacting agents. >> the bottom line here, pamela is this is somebody who authorities recognized as having significant mental issues, he was ultimately taken to a hospital for an evaluation that apparently lasted about 72 hours. but then he was let go. he was also allowed to keep a firearm that he actually told authorities that he had. the bottom line here, once again, is that authorities feel like they acted appropriately, that there was really nothing more they could do. that they referred him to mental health officials and then ultimately he was let go. >> let go. hopped on a plane, opened fire in an airport in ft. lauderdale and killed five people. thank you so much dan simon. boris, to you now, you've been at the ft. lauderdale airport since the story broke. what's it like there? >> things are much calmer r

the fbi could say so. but they're not saying anything. and according to david corn's interview with the ex-spy who produced the information, they've had that stuff since this summer. what is going on with our fbi? tonight after saying for weeks that there would be no senate or house investigation of this matter, the senate intelligence committee finally said, yeah, we'll look into this. senate intelligence committee said tonight they now are going to look into russian cyber activity and other measures directed against the united states including in the 2016 presidential election. importantly, they also say they'll look into counterintelligence concerns related to russia and the 2016 election, including any intelligence regarding links between russia and individuals associated with political campaigns. as recently as this morning the republican chair of the intelligence committee said he wouldn't look into any of that. he had no interest in doing an investigation into any of that, particularly into anybody

but they themselves can't do that. >> as a former fbi guy, is this really about getting the fbi reputation -- james comey was criticized by both republicans and democrats depending on the day about getting the reputation back on track. >> that's true, brooke, but one of the issues is not just will the inspector general still be in office next week on january 20th but the scope of this investigation if they go into everything that's mentioned in the memo about what they're going to look at will actually take longer than the fbi's investigation of the e-mail, so you're talking about going back into the way they investigated it, what happened with that, department of justice, did their officials conduct wrong doing, did comey do the wrong thing with the statement on july 5th and interviews and letters to congress, it's actually bigger than the original case. >> gloria, what do you think? gl. >> maybe i should ask our legalist here, but you have jeff sessions if confirmed as attorney general saying he wants to recuse himself with anything regarding hillary clinton's remails ar e-mails he said

it was something the fbi has been handling, the counterintelligence division of the fbi has been investigating claims. again, still unverified. but he felt he was the one that should have handled this information to provide to -- to the president-elect. >> very interesting indeed. all right, evan, thank you very much. >>> let's get more on all of this. democratic senator jack reid of rhode island is joining us. he's a member of the armed services committee. in fact, he's the top democrat on the armed services committee. also a member of the intelligence committee. senator, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >> so the full senate, as you know, all 100 members, they've been briefed behind closed doors about russia, what its role was in hacking computers, interfering in the u.s. presidential election. is there any shadow of a doubt in your mind that vladimir putin himself was behind the hacking? >> no, not at all. in fact, the unclassified report which is public now, it concludes that clearly. what is not publicly released is some of the evidence. and that's to protect sources.

i want to talk to you about the fbi. obviously we rarely hear about the fooi t the fbi when things go well. but with something like this, we ask were there any warning signs. is thereanything that you've learned that would make you say this could have been preventible? >> well, there is always warning behaviors, but the question is who is in a position to see those behaviors. so i understand that he did go to the anchorage fbi office and spoke to what is probably the call of duty agent about hearing voices. but i think what is important is having worked in both the san francisco and fbi field offices, i cannot tell you how many times a day someone will come in and they will want to talk to the fbi about hearing voices or something is very apparent in terms of their mental health issues. so at that point what the fbi did was very appropriate. when we talk about warning behaviors, the warning behaviors are important for the people that this individual is around on a regular basis. or if they're in counseling or some kind o

with the fbi agent aware that he had weapons? the individual did walk into our anchorage office in november will stop he came in and spoke with fbi agents. at that time he clearly stated that he did not intend to harm anyone. however, his erratic behaviour concerned fbi agents that were interviewing him and they contacted local police and turned him over to the local police. he was taken into custody by the local police and transported to a medical facility for a mental health evaluation. we looked at his contacts, we did our inter— agency checks and everything and at that point we closed our assessment. did you guys know he had firearms on him? that question i really don't have the answers for. again, it is very early in this investigation. we are working closely with our anchorage office to try and determine his activities there. i can't really tell you about his weapons. he voluntarily walked into the fbi office in anchorage? yes, he voluntarily walked into the office and was interviewed by agents in that office. a long with

being being determined by the fbi to be of interest mentally they were not not of interest. the oig quotes the security unit who explains that if the fbi cannot state whether or not it had an interest in the individual that individual was held of interest to the 911 it. so even if there is word being sent out that these men are of interest to the investigation, we have to be careful with them, what the petitioners received was designation which meant very little based on policy being applied. and then they received the detailed information that they were encountered by the fbi in context and had violated the immigration law and they might be interested in him. this this is the actual information that was provided that we have made available in the complaint. >> the fbi goes into a rooming house on there is nuclear weapon on the floor. they find it. and they might be another, would they be justified in taking ink custody every single person in that rooming house and looking into it? >> i mean for how long. would you say to them know you can't to it because we don't know there

that's not just fbi offices. other law enforcement agencies, local police departments have this all the time. people walk in, report that, you know, somebody's in their head or doing crazy things. and they try to get them some type of mental health referral. that's not something the fbi can do and lock up. can you imagine the civil rights groups if the fbi said from now on when somebody talks something that we think is crazy we'll lock them up, put them in some kind of facility. it's just not going to happen. >> julia, if it turns out to be mental health issues, you know, there are conflicting rights here. the right of an individual versus the right of security for everybody else. there's only so much families can do to take care of somebody who has severe mental health issues. >> it looks like he did everything lawful. he got his gun and the ammunition were separated, they were checked. if he was in possession of those weapons before the mental illnesses showed themselves he would have been registered to have th

the fbi looked into his pack groun -- background. the fbi determined it was something that should be handled by local authorities. local police took him to a local hospital where he voluntarily checked himself in and underwent a mental health evaluation. and the next it thing we know i went to flosrida and opened fir in that bag and claim. >> do we know when that evaluation was? >> november. he was with local authorities from the fbi taking him there. >> just defining this as an act of terrorism or do authorities know at this point? >> at this point, there's nothing in the investigation at this point indicating terrorism. he wasn't on any law enforcement radar for radicalism. he didn't have anything flagged for further review. so mental health appears to be the main nefocus so far. >> joining me now, boris sanchez. people had just started to be able to leave the airport. is that process still going on? >> reporter: yeah, it's going to be a long process. i'm going to get out of the way so you can see how many more passengers are lined

fbi and other channels, that the fbi is investigating and mr. trump had relationship with the russians. i think it would be painful at best for the fbi. i think debatable decision. the fact it is under questioning of the united states and russian involvement and the fact mr. trump has questioned the fbi must have driven federal officials to say if we don't tell the president-elect this is swirling and he finds out elsewhere, we have a bigger problem. >> i will accept phil mud's characterization it is gossip, yet i still want to ask john cypher, does it nevertheless fit the m.o. of putin that he seems to gather this kind of data on business leaders, for example, that come to moscow? >> this is where i might disagree a little with phil. i think that information is completely invalidated, unvetted information, that the public has no way of finding out whether it is credible or not. however, the fbi and professional investigative intelligence services can look at that information, cross reference it, interview people, find out who sources are, find

." >>> the fbi director has no correct. >> fbi director james comey facing new scrutiny on both sides of the aisle. >> jim comey is an honorable person who i think made a bad decision. >> when the fbi director can't answer those questions it does shake our confidence. >> putin called me a genius. >> now claims he has compromising information on him. >> there is reasonable cause to believe that the chicago police department engages in a pattern or practice of abusive or excessive force. >> the search was intense. >> i've never been as happiest as i've been to hold my baby. >> we found an 18-year-old young woman with the same date of birth, but a different name. ♪ >>> this morning, people across the country are expected to rally in support of immigration and civil rights in washington. immigrants and refugee leaders will gather in support of the #here to stay movement. an executive action that protects dreamers from deportation. plus, civil rights groups will rally at the martin luther king jr. memorial. >>> in the meantime, democrats on the hill, and they're angry and upset with fbi

statements, investigating the fbi. >>> also breaking, a new probe looking at how the fbi and the justice department handled the investigations of hillary clinton's e-mail server. we'll get reaction from hillary clinton's former campaign manager. >>> and obama surprises biden. a very emotional moment over at the white house as the president awards the nation's highest civilian honor to his loyal number two. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. the full united states senate in a closed door briefing this afternoon hearing about the u.s. intelligence report on russian medaling in the presidential election. this comes after james clapper, the director of national intelligence butt out a rare statement rejecting donald trump's attacks on the intelligence community and corroborating cnn's reporting that the classified report provided to president obama and president-elect trump last week included allegations that russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about trump.

investigating the fbi. a bombshell announcement. the justice department watchdog launches a highly unusual inquiry before the election. >>> unprecedented call with the nation's top spy told the president-elect after explosive unverified allegations went public >>> family tragedy. six children perish as fire consumes their home. three other children escape. a mother suffering an unimaginable loss. >>> cheaper alternative after the epi-pen outrage. tonight there's a brand new option. >>> bro-mance surprise. it brought many to tears. >>> inspiring america. it's been named the best new restaurant in the country. wait until you see what's cooking. "nightly news" begins right now. >>> good evening. hoping for a measure of vindication. the hillary clinton campaign is welcoming the surprise news out of washington that the justice department's inspector general will take a deep look into how the fbi handled its investigation of clinton's e-mail server in the height of the campaign. the probe to include the public disclosures made by fbi dire

the fbi says that means $3,000. he then instructs the elected official to go to the men's bathroom saying, he's going to hook you up. that's where the elected official meets owner of central avenue liquors right here. pag paying the elected official money in connection to the sunday sales bill. in court the u.s. attorney says it was sun who caused the fbi to quickly wrap its investigation and raid several locations including the liquor board and area businesses last thursday. they alleged that he was trying to sabotage the case. according to the fbi affidavit, if you had a problem with went to go see sun. if you had an issue that you wanted to be taken care of in the legislature, you went to go see sun. this man is considered the center of this investigation, now being held at home until they're ready for him to come back to court. we are expecting elected officials to be arrested as well. last we heard is it was going to happen before the beginning of the session on wednesday. >>> a disturbing crime in the hallway

trump still have confidence in fbi director, did he ever have confidence in fbi director james comey? >> well, you'll have to ask him about that. it's been subject of some commentary this last week but at the end of the day, i know that whether it's our security at home or abroad, the president elect is going to put the safety and security of the american people first in every discussion. chris: you're not willing to give with confidence at this point? >> well, you would have to ask the president elect. i know they've had conversations and that -- that will -- that'll be a good question for him after january 20th. chris: finally, minute left. central message. central theme that president trump wants to advance in his inaugural address, the message he wants to send to the american people? >> well, i will let him speak for himself on friday. i think the american people will see the same donald trump they saw every day of this campaign, step up to that podium. he's going to speak from his mind, he's going to speak from his heart and he's going to lay out a vision to make america great ag

the fbi handled its probe of hillary clinton's e-mails. it will look at allegations that comey did not follow policies and procedures. some democrats blame comey for clinton's election defeat. >>> and in an emotional ceremony, president obama surprised vice president joe biden with the presidential medal of freedom. it's the nation's highest civilian honor. president obama says biden was the best vice president we had seen. >> i can say i was part of, part of the journey of a remarkable man who did remarkable things for this country. >> the medal was awarded with distinction. only the fourth time that has happened. >>> meanwhile there was a first at the ringling brother's circus. a woman stepped on the floor and shattered the ceiling. david begnaud reports. >> the very first female ring master in our history. >> it's a huge deal. i'm the very first female ring as a matter of fact ter in 146 years. >> the florida native will lead 110 performers with 49 animals, guiding the i'd yauns through high-flying acts and those death-defying stunts. >

don't like to see the fbi in the middle of a political cauldron, so when you look back at james

the fbi asked local police to take him to the hospital for a mental evaluation. santiago voluntarily checked himself in. authorities are now working to determine the motive. and if it's terror-related. they say it's a complex investigation that stems several states. >> we are looking at all avenues. we have not ruled out terrorism. and we will be pursuing every angle to try to determine the motive behind this attack. and any associates, any connections, communication. >> reporter: now, as you mentioned, the investigation is spanning several states. and we do know that yesterday the fbi spoke to santiago's aunt who lives in union city, new jersey. meanwhile, here at the airport, at ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport, one of the challenges for officials will be returning about 20,000 bags and personal items that passengers left behind during the evacuation. christie. >> oh, goodness, rachel crane, thank you so much, we appreciate it. now, there are obviously an awful lot of questions. >> yes, our tom foreman takes a look at the suspected gunman's path.

and the fbi watchdog to investigate behavior they think violated fbi practices in the course of conducting investigations and engaging in public conversation about that? i think that's appropriate. no one's trying to get a do-over in the election. that's not going to happen. nobody says it's going to happen. but when public officials abuse or potentially abuse their authority and their office, that investigation -- there's not a statute of limitations that says when the election is over we're not going to go back and look at the behavior of a prosecutor who was advised not to do this 11 days out, who was criticized by former fbi professionals from both parties for doing so, to look into that. >> for more on all this, i want to bring in stanley pottenger, former civil rights attorney at the department of justice. thank you for coming in in a hurry. i know you had to rush to get here. let's talk about the reaction. we just heard joel benenson. we actually heard from republican congressman jason chaffetz say he supports this investigation. you served at the justice department. first of all, a

. >> number two, we have passing this time on to the fbi, an fbis that been attacked and sometimes rid kpum so when you have a decision to put this fchbl sffrmt find out the other channels that the fbi is investigating information that mr. trump had a relationship with russians. what do you think would happen in that circumstance stance in nch the fact that this is question under it, question and the fact that he questioned the fbi must have different officials to say if woo don't tell him he's the president-elect, he'll got a bigger problem. >> steve: i will accept fill mud's gone. >> he seeks to gather this kind of data on. >> woman pleatly knowing, headquarters have no idea of cross reference it, interview people, find ut pmt p those of us under the thumb of the rgs frpg it sound very real to people who have been there. this is exactly how the russians operate. whether that sell ashs stuff about mr. trump is true or not, i doubt it. but the feel of this is real. this is how the russians operate. the russians -- it been a police state for hundreds of years. they're the best in the wo

chris: you think the fbi messed up? >> i think the fbi will tell you that's not what the fbi wants. obviously they missed this one. chris: as chair of house intelligence, you receive the same classified report on friday. any doubt in your mind that russian president putin directed this attack and that at some point, not originally, at some point it became an effort to stop clinton and help trump? >> so six months ago i publicly came out and said that this was the biggest intelligence failure since 9/11. this has been going on for a long time. we've known that russia is a very sophisticated bad actor in the cyber realm. many members of congress, not just members of the house security have been warning the obama administration about russia's continued cyber-attacks on this country and they did nothing. and so now as you look forward, they lose an election and then it appears like they want to change this narrative into somehow that russia was responsible for hillary clinton losing the election and i don't buy that. chris: and i want to make this very clear, there's no indication despi

from the fbi, atf, u.s. marshals service, and the dea. who participated in joint task force into combat violence. to the department of violence reduction network. now our efforts to work closely with local authorities to fight violence in the number of ways began long before we opened this investigation, and they will continue during and after this investigation. and no one understands that better than zach. under his outstanding leadership, the u.s. attorney's office for the northern district of illinois has worked literally around the clock to tackle gun violence, gang cases, and other serious crimes afflicting this great city. and at the same time that zach has actively partnered with our civil rights division on this pattern and practice of investigation, the prosecutors in his office in 2016 charge the highest number of illegal firearm cases in any year since 2004. so the u.s. attorney's office here and federal investigative agencies have truly ramped up their efforts to help stem the recent rise in violence. but as i have seen first

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they were seized by the fbi and tried by the military. what i would tell senator feinstein and my other colleagues, the law is well settled here that a united states citizen and other wars have been held as enemy combatants when everyday suggests they collaborated with the enemy. under the current law, if you're suspected of being an enemy combatant within a certain period of time, 60 days, i think, the government has to present you to a federal judge and prove by a preponderance of the evidence that you are a member of the organization they claim you to be a member of. are you familiar with that? your habeas rights? >> correct, yes. >> so, as to how long an enemy combatant can be held, traditionally under the law of war, people are taken off the battle field until the war is over, they are no longer a danger. does that make sense to you? >> it does make sense and that is my understanding of the traditional law of war. >> and the law of war is designed to win the war. the laws around the law of war are designed to deal with conflicts. and

the fbi had interviewed the individuals, had done background work on them. ultimately concluded they were not a threat or risk to society and in both cases no other measures were taken. they were not on no fly lists or those rardars there. these individuals are slipping through the cracks later on. >> there is no way you can really tell by one interview with somebody whether or not they -- i don't think putting them on a no fly list is the right thing to do immediately. i think what happens in these particular cases, when this individual came into the fbi office in anchorage, i believe, they got him psychological help. what happens after that, you know, it's very difficult to point the finger at this point in time. there are preliminary investigations that go on. it was determined this person needed psychological help. that's substantiated by his family. >> james comey says he's opened terrorism investigations in all 50 states. that gives you a sense of the work load fbi officials are working with. mr. bill gavin, thank you for joining us, appreciate your in

and the fbi saying today that the ft. lauderdale airport was targeted by santiago acting alone. >> indications are that he came here to carry out this horrific attack. we have not identified any triggers that would have caused this attack. >> now at this hour we understand that santiago is cooperating with authorities. officials don't have a motive yet. though terrorism has not been eliminated. >> we have interviewed all of his family members that we've been able to identify so far. and we will continue to do that. and we have interviewed him. we're looking over all of his social media things like that. it's giving us a picture of the individual. but it's way too early for us to really rule out anything. >> also this hour, we're learning more details about the moments leading up to this shooting. santiago was in fact not on any no-fly list. he did follow tsa rules