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congressional correspondent aishah hasnie tells us what some lawmakers want to do about that now. good evening, aishah. >> bret, good evening to you. in a very rare public appearance. the chiefs of the fbi, the cia. nsa and odni and d.e.a. all came together on capitol hill to hand over their annual threat assessment to lawmakers. and it covered a wide variety of topics from the russia war on ukraine to irans nuclear program, but china, they say, is the most consequential threat to amer...

Dade Phelan is a registered Republican whose been sleeping with the Democrats for years.  We finally got rid of Phelan’s predecessor, another rotten RINO.   In Phelan’s first term he appointed 13 Democrats as committee chairs.  To say grassroots Republicans were incensed is putting it mildly.

You have to govern your territory. they are not governing your territory you are not enforcing your sovereignty. then we are going to do it for you. we are not going to let them do it to our citizens. >> bret: this is a mix of threats because you have china putting the fentanyl into mexico and cartels using that and moving it across into the u.s. >> one last thing i would point out about this is huge portion of the mexican elite profits from these cartels, deals with them. and uses american reso...

All of that will be looked at. prosecutors will have to make the call. is this homicide times five. is it a hate crime on top of it. does it go federal as well. time will tell. >> delving further into potential of hate crimes charges. heres the das response to question that was asked. here it is. >> there was a previous question about hate crimes. investigation aspect. this will be investigated and is being investigated in that ellens. i can tell you that the current bias motivated crime statute...

Those were the three questions that i asked repeatedly. and were still waiting for answers on that. >> how do you expect them to get around the georgia law that every person concerned in the commission of a crime is party thereto, meaning even if you dont have the gun, even if you dont pull the trigger, if youre part of what turns into a homicide you are just as responsible as everybody else? >> well, and thats exactly what a good prosecutor would say and what a good prosecutor would argue. and ...

Every person concerned in the commission of a crime is party thereto, meaning even if you dont have the gun, even if you dont pull the trigger, if youre part of what turns into a homicide you are just as responsible as everybody else? >> well, and thats exactly what a good prosecutor would say and what a good prosecutor would argue. and i think we can agree that the arbery family in this case is represented by some very capable attorneys from the cobb county district attorneys office. but at the...

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