JUST IN: Jim Jordan Gets FBI Director To Reveal Information About Drone Used By Trump Shooter

5 months ago

At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

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00:00Director, let me go back to where Mr. Bishop was.

00:02Tell me about the drone.

00:03You acted like you wanted to fill us in on that.

00:05Fill us in.

00:07So we have recovered a drone

00:10that the shooter appears to have used.

00:13It's being exploited and analyzed by the FBI lab.

00:16The drone was recovered in his vehicle.

00:19So at the time of the shooting,

00:21the drone was in his vehicle with the controller.

00:26In addition, our investigation has uncovered-

00:29Do you know what time of day he flew it

00:30and if he flew it on the day of the shot?

00:32Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.

00:33So in addition, it appears that around 3.50 p.m.,

00:39four o'clock in that window, on the day of the shooting,

00:45that the shooter was flying the drone around the area.

00:50Two hours-

00:51About 11 minutes.

00:52I wanna be clear, but when I say the area,

00:53not over the stage and that part of the area itself,

00:58I would say about 200 yards, give or take, away from that.

01:01We think, but we do not know.

01:03So again, this is one of these things that's qualified

01:05because of our ongoing review,

01:07that he was live streaming,

01:09viewing the footage from that, again,

01:12about 11 minutes in around the 3.50, four o'clock p.m. range.

01:16Two hours before he's flying a drone

01:17in the vicinity of the route.

01:19About 200 yards away, yes.

01:20Okay, that's important information.

01:22What about the bombs that we've heard about

01:23in the shooter's car?

01:26So again, the FBI lab is exploiting those explosive devices.

01:33We've recovered three devices, two in his vehicle

01:36and one back in his residence.

01:40Are these what you would call,

01:42your experts would call sophisticated operations?

01:46I mean, I don't know.

01:47That's what I've been told by people

01:48who have some understanding of this area.

01:50Yeah, I think it's, we've seen more sophisticated and less.

01:55I would say these are relatively,

01:56again, keyword relatively crude devices themselves,

02:00but they did have the ability to be detonated remotely.

02:04And so to that point, in addition to the two devices

02:08that we recovered out of his vehicle,

02:11there were receivers for those two explosive devices

02:16with the devices.

02:17And then on the shooter himself,

02:20when he was killed by law enforcement,

02:23he had a transmitter with him.

02:25Now, I do want to add one important point here,

02:27is at the moment, it looks to us, again, ongoing review,

02:31and I can't say that too many times.

02:33At a moment, it looks like because of the on-off position

02:38on the receivers, that if he had tried to detonate

02:44those devices from the roof, it would not have worked.

02:48But that doesn't mean the explosives weren't dangerous.

02:50I'm sure we're gonna get into all these subjects

02:52a little bit later as well.

02:53Tell us what you can about the encrypted platforms

02:55we've heard about.

02:58So one of the things that we're drilling into hard

03:02with the shooter, in an effort to try to learn more

03:06about his state of mind, his motive, his ideology,

03:08his context, everything else,

03:10is to look at all of his devices,

03:12any social media accounts he had, et cetera.

03:15And one of the things we've learned

03:17in finally getting into his phone,

03:20which was also a significant technical challenge

03:23from an encryption perspective,

03:24but in addition, once we got on the phone,

03:26it turned out he was using

03:28some encrypted messaging applications.

03:30And again, the same question relative to the bombs.

03:33Was this pretty sophisticated,

03:35or is this kind of the norm you see with folks

03:37like, you know, similar situation?

03:39How would you describe it?

03:40On this subject, I would say this has unfortunately

03:42now become very commonplace,

03:44and it's a real challenge for not just the FBI,

03:46but state and local law enforcement all over the state.

03:48Tell me exactly the scope of,

03:50does the scope of your investigation

03:53include what I call that critical five minutes

03:55from when the, 609, this is based, I think,

03:58on information you've given the Congress,

04:00609 when the shooter's identified on the roof,

04:02and 614 when President Trump is ultimately escorted off,

04:04and all that happens,

04:05the shots that take place in between there.

04:08Do you have access to the communications

04:09that were going on at the time

04:11in that critical five minutes?

04:13So, our investigation, when you say scope,

04:17our investigation includes that time frame,

04:20although focused, again, on the shooter himself.

04:22I understand, but the shooter's involved in that,

04:24he's obviously involved in that time frame.

04:25Correct, and as part of that,

04:27as part of our focus, our investigation of the shooter

04:30and the attack, of course,

04:33we are interviewing law enforcement from the scene,

04:36because those are some of the most significant witnesses,

04:39and we're obviously getting access to their materials

04:41and that kind of thing,

04:42and the Secret Service has been fully cooperative.

04:44You have access to the communications that exist there?

04:47That exact question, I don't,

04:48as I sit here at the moment,

04:50I don't know the exact answer to that question,

04:52but I know that Secret Service has been cooperative with us.

04:55The Congress would like access

04:56to those communications as well.

04:58I mean, not just that five minutes,

04:59although I think that's the critical time frame.

05:01There's lots of communications

05:02we'd love to have access as well.

05:04I see my time is up,

05:05and they have called votes on the floor.

05:07I think there are about six minutes.

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