the agent who then shot three shots into richard matt in the head shooting and killing him, poppy. wow. jean casarez reporting for us right outside the prison. thank you. let s talk more about this investigation with patrick johnson, he is a former warden at shi tock what county jail. thank you for being here. good morning. talk about the letter. wow. this letter reportedly sent from richard matt days before his escape to his daughter and we know from jean s reporting that new york state sort of prison policy is you don t screen outgoing mail unless the superintendent thinks this person is a security risk. richard matt killed two people and had escaped from prison before. isn t that a letter that should be read? well unless you have some type of evidence that there s something going on with that person that s going to raise a security question we really cannot screen the mail of outgoing prisoner mail unless we have some reasonable cause to
i spent lots and lots of time with doug and got the sense that this was a man who wouldn t hurt a soul. he had a point to make about campaign finance reform and it s interesting it s been side tracked media ethics question and a security question. this was a guy who did exactly to a tee what he planned. he didn t hurt anybody. he got the media s attention. he sent a message, you know, however short lived it was that i m doing this because we ve got corruption in government because of money and campaigns. it s interesting. he said to you, ben, no sane person would do this. on the other hand, seems like a pretty smart guy to have planned this for years and to have known how to do this. yet, for a smart guy, he maybe perhaps have known that security concerns and that the story would become about campaign finance reform. just an interesting sort of tension in this story because he was trying to make the point of corrupting influence in politics and the moment he landed on the
i spoke with norad yesterday. they said they didn t scramble jets. by the time they heard about it, it already land 3-d on the west lawn. so we do know that there are agencies, along with the faa secret service, dhs, capitol police, they are all monitoring radar 24/7 around the alcohol eyes glued to this specific part of washington, d.c. to make sure no unidentified aircraft are flying through here. so if that s the case, how is it that norad didn t know about it until this gyrocopter landed. so that is the security question that s concerning many lawmakers here today as this man makes his first court appearance. rene marsh, their eyes are glued to the airspace to see aircraft, how did they miss aircraft. big questions. thanks for joining us, rene. rene, thanks so much. also watching this hour, hillary clinton could be facing
at the base of the actual capitol building. i m steps from there. he will make his first court appearance, be before a judge to hear what he s charged with. it s unclear at this point exactly what the charges will be. in addition to criminal charges he could also face civil penalties. we should note, and everyone knows by now, he was not authorized to fly in this airspace. faa has control of this airspace. they say that no one reached out to them to get special permission. so not only is the faa investigating how this happened but we do know today senate homeland security committee is also launching their own investigation. the chairman of that committee saying today that he is very alarmed by what happened here. he s concerned that someone was able to fly over an hour through some of the most restricted airspace. really that is the security question at this hour. how is it that this happened?
speculation. we re left with a personal e-mail. secretary clinton said if she had to do it over again six years ago, i wouldn t have thought they would come up with this caper to make such a huge issue out of personal e-mail that was recorded in realtime which went beyond what the law required. i think she answered the security question. if it is good enough for a former president, it ought to be good enough for a former secretary of state. appreciate your time tonight. let me bring in e.j. dion and geniveve woods. i think the theme of the press conference is just trust