bret: our top story at the bottom of the hour, a 27-year-old immigrant from bangladesh is in custody tonight, accused of excluding a homemade bomb on a new york city subway platform. the suspect was the only person badly hurt. he is expected to recover. this incident brings new attention to one of the trump administration stop issues, a legal administration in general, and chain emigration in particular. he to talk about all of that, michael mccaul. mr. chairman, things were being here. you happened to be in a new york today. i was there this morning. and the nypd picked me up this morning, and told me that a bomb went off at the port authority near times square. bret: so, since that time, what are we learning about this guy and the incident? well, he was in the country seven years. a lawful permanent resident. he came in through chain immigration, he went into bangladesh last september, which i think from an investigative
is when the device detonated. according to the nypd, intentionally. the subway gets extremely crowded in the morning. there were only four people injured. it is pretty much a miracle. only slightly injured. steph? gosh, i mean, if you think about the crisis that was averted today, when you look at the images, for those of you who have been to new york, port authority, times square, two weeks before christmas. mitchell, you created the deep web, the dark net cyber intelligence unit to focus on terrorism threats in new york city. tell us what the unit does. i just look at the images and i m aghast with how lucky we are, of how bad this could have been. you re right, stephanie. i mean, this was, to some degree, luck, that this individual didn t cause mass casualties in the subway. but you know, one of the trends we ve seen in terrorism over the last few years is that individuals don t necessarily need to completely radicalize in person, in a mosque, in a coffee
of cyber units for the new york city police intelligence division. i ll start with mitchell. thank you for the work you do. stephan stephanie, to you, give us the new information. who is this guy? who does he do for a living? what are the police looking for in his house? reporter: we re learning he was a former taxi driver. police are there right now searching his house. obviously, they re going to try to look for whatever he used to make this explosive device. as you ve described it, this is a pretty unsophisticated device, as described by the nypd. it is a pipe bomb that was attached with velcro and zip ties. you don t need to know much really about new york city to know that if this attack had actually gone through the way it was planned, he could have injured or killed a lot of people. 7:20 in the morning. he was walking in a subway alley, basically below where i m standing right now. between times square and here, the port authority bus station
the two people on trial right now, what s their defense strategy and on the flip side, what have the prosecutors been saying? she didn t know it was elicit. she thought it was a legitimate traffic study and that s what the cooperating world trade center at the port authority, that s what he told her and she knew that there was nothing as far as she was concerned. bill said he was manipulated by the guy who has a history of dark arts and political operations in the state of new jersey and he thought it was a legitimate traffic study. they are both claiming they did not know it was retaliation against the mayor for not endorsing christie s reelection. christy is not on trial here. even if they are found not guilty. is there damage done to the governor and his future? . damage to his reputation and
of something. or this could be a called in phoney hoax. you saw over memorial day weekend there was a number of airline hoaxes called in. in new york they have a large number of hoaxes at the port authority. it could also be a diversion. get all the law enforcement forces in one location and attack somewhere else or it could be nothing at all. that s what faces law enforcement and intelligence officials. get all the law enforcement to one location, but you can t overlook anything. bill: no one has said they heard shots fired. was it part after coordinated policy? i can assure you the law