let me ask you this. there is an imminent threat for them to fire these shots. is the bar any lower when it comes to something happening around the capitol and given this time and area of heightened security, what would need to have happened for them to fire these shots since we are told capitol police do not fire, quote, unquote, warning shots? they don t. so you have to look at the environment. there s a heightened sense of a security posture that is maintained throughout washington, d.c., but specifically at high-value targets, the white house or at capitol hill. that comes into play. when you have a rapidly evolving situation when someone is not following lawful orders and they re not listening to commands of law enforcement and they re acting erratically it
erratic avenue, one of the beg avenues and they tried to address this erratic driver and the driver made a u-turn and in the processer inially struck some officers. they caught up to the driver and then in an attempt while they were attempting to arrest, shots were fired and we don t know exactly by whom. this spokesperson did say shots were fired, no one was injured. the suspect is in custody. she made no indication that there was anyone else involved which is important, too. this is one person who hit the police cruiser and she did say one other vehicle and that would make sense with the erratic driving. the shots were fired in the process of the arrest. the capitol police will lead this investigation and big headline here, things are operating pretty much like normal arne the capitol with a few extra barricades and no nexus to terrorism. no nexus to terrorism indicates why we are still
isolated incident that the police are now getting their handles on outside, but not inside the building. as you can see behind me, folks coming in and out and tourists coming in and out and members of congress moving about their day and no threat in the building. it s interesting you said tourists are still coming in and out as far as you can tell, manu? they are, and this is the time of year when you re seeing hoards of tourists coming in for their spring break tours in particular, people coming up in here all day long in these hallways and we re not too far from where the location where that incident actually occurred. so clearly, the police there s no concern from the police in letting folks into the building. it seems perfectly safe right now indoors. manu, we are getting a live look at images right outside of the capitol right now. these are live pictures. you do see a number of police
united states capitol police. this morning at 9:00 capitol police officers observed an erratic and aggressive driver in the vicinity of 100 independence avenue southwest. while attempting to stop the vehicle on independence avenue the driver negotiated a u-turn and fled the scene nearly striking officers and striking at least one other vehicle. a brief pursuit followed until the vehicle was stopped at washington and independence avenues southwest. during the attempt to arrest the suspect shots were fired however no individuals were injured during the arrest. the investigation of this matter is being conducted by the united states capitol police criminal investigations, the investigation is in the preliminary stages and more details will be released as warranted. although preliminary, this incident appears to be criminal in nature with no nexus to terrorism and in addition, the capitol complex remains open to the public except for traffic cuts here on independence
they almost never do anything like that. manu raju on capitol hill with this. manu? real skepticism whether this house committee can come to a bipartisan consensus and rejecting the calls to step aside and some of his colleagues are saying why should we give into democratic pressure and some of the democrats calling to in back on the books and the one that was canceled involving john brennan and james clapper and as well as sally yates. that is not being scheduled yet, but what nunes wants to have is a private briefing with james comey and mike rogers, the nsa director and there s dispute whether they can have a private classified hearing and a private hearing and the senate investigation is moving forward and taking shape and starting to move forward and potentially interview jared kushner the president s son-in-law in the coming weeks and there are negotiations happening to have them come in and talk on the staff level with the staff on