Transcripts For FBC Countdown To The Closing Bell With Liz C

FBC Countdown To The Closing Bell With Liz Claman December 7, 2015

Street address in redlands last weekend, this past weekend. In that search warrant, i want to make it clear because were actually getting a lot of calls about misbehavior. The reality is when the fbi or any other Law Enforcement organization executes a search warrant, we obtain Legal Process that is signed by a federal or a state judge. We then make entry into that, those premises, and we will take the items that can be seized under the scope of that warrant. That is exactly what was done that day. When we leave the residence, we will either hand the keys to the owners, or we will secure the residence if it was breached, as was exactly what the case in this incident. We secured it with screws and wood and left the premises. Once the fbi and our local partners left that, those premises, anything that occurred as far as forced entry or if anyone was allowed into that residence has absolutely nothing to do with us whether they were allowed in by the residents or by the landlord. So i want to make that clear. Thats an important thing for the public to maintain confidence in your Law Enforcement professionals. Secondly, i want to clarify. We briefed you a couple days ago about the pipe bomb components that were taken and some of the pipes and some of the come opponents of pipe bombs that were components of the pipe bombs removed from the house on center street. If you recall, we gave you a number of 12. I dont want to get too technical, because im not an expert on bombs, however, we do have experts that did some removal of all those devices from that house and, ultimately, us appears there are 19 types in that house that we have removed. Some were in a bag. Were not going to unpack them one by one, and they had to remove all these come opponents in these device ands take them out to a range, and then they began to safely extract them from the bag and airily pull them safely pull them apart and, ultimately, submit them into our evidence. So the number has changed from 12 to 19. Now, that is not 19 pipe bombs, let me be clear. That is 19 pipes that could be turned into pipe bombs if all the components are there and present for them to actually be construed that way. Next i want to talk about the radicalization issue. Many of you had concerns or questions, rather, about did the female radicalize the male in this case. The answer is we still do not know, but i will say this as the investigation has progressed, we have learned and believe that both subjects were radicalized and have been for quite some time. Now, how did that happen, the question were trying to get at is how did that happen and by whom and where did that happen. And i will tell you right now we dont know those answers at this point. Next thing i want to along those lines is foreign contacts. We are working with our foreign counterparts to determine as much as we can. Its like any other investigation, but this one is incredibly large. We are attempting to expand that investigation out and build it and build a picture of each person, the timeline and, ultimately, the crimes that they committed. That takes time. We are in day five, and i want everyone to recognize that. But were working with our foreign counterparts, were also working with the fbis legal attach they offices all over the world, and they are assisting in those efforts with our foreign counterparts. The next thing i want to mention thats come up already, yes, we do have evidence that both of these subjects did some target participated in target practice at some ranges within the metro area or within the los angeles area. That target practice in one occasion was done within days of this event. The scope of this investigation i want to discuss very quickly. This investigation is massive in scale. Everyone knows that. We have conducted between, i would say, well over 400 interviews by now of people around this city, and i know some of them have called you and said theyve been investigated interviewed, rather. Thats fine. We thats what we do, and well continue to do as many interviews as mess for this. As necessary for this. Finally, theres been some questions about the total station, the recreation of the crime scene. What we are essentially doing is applying survey technology to the crime scene, and when i talk, when im talking about the crime scene, im talking about the initial crime scene at the irc where all the victims were. Im not talking about the officerinvolved shooting. Yes, we are Still Holding that location because we are continuing to be extremely methodical, and we have actually brought in a Reconstruction Team to apply those tools, those survey tools to ultimately paint that picture of why, of how everything transpired that day. We have transported over we have collected over 320 pieces of evidence in this investigation so far, and we have transported a number of those pieces of evidence to washington, d. C. Primarily to our Fbi Laboratory, to our bomb lab back there, the terrorist explosive device analytical center. The last thing i want to talk to you about very quickly before i open it up for questions, and then im going to introduce some of my counterparts up here to address you as well. We have found evidence of planning, participation, financing. What i will tell you this im sorry. We have found evidence of preplanning. Let me correct that. What i want to say is i want to make sure the public rests assured, again, we are an apolitical organization, and we will get to the bottom of this. And we want to find out everyone who has, who participated in the preplanning if there was anyone else, we dont know everything yet. We want to find out everyone who profited from it, financed it. And im not saying there is anything like that, but we will leave no stone unturned just like ive said in the past. The last thing is we have to remember this is a Human Interest this is a human tragedy. This is truly a tragedy, what occurred. We have brought out office of victims assistance personnel from washington, and this is what they do. Theyre very familiar with this. We are going to at some point, hopefully this week, meet with the family members of the victims, both the decedents victims and the injured victims. And that is a crucial part for us to allow them to ask questions and so that we can address them face to face and talk to them about our full commitment. If they dont want to meet with us, thats their choice, and we understand. If they do want to meet, were there for them. Very, very important. So im going to take a few questions. Not as many as i did the other day, but i will take a few. Yes, maam. [inaudible] tashfeen [inaudible] we do not have any sense who was in control. And i will tell you i want to be Crystal Clear here. We do not see any evidence so far of a plot, outside the continental u. S. Plot. We may find it someday, we may not. We dont know. Right now were looking at these two individuals s and were beginning to focus and build it out from there. [inaudible] im not sure if were done questioning her yet. [inaudible] yes, maam. [inaudible] ive heard those same reports, im aware of them, and we are continuing to work, as i said earlier, with our overseas partners and [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] president obama said there was pardon me . [inaudible] theres im not going to get into that at this point. [inaudible conversations] yes, sir. [inaudible] im unaware of this. What i can tell you is we did not have an open investigation into mr. Farook at this point last night president obama said there was a broader conspiracy here at home. Isnt the president incorrect . No, i wouldnt say hes incorrect. Were still in the investigative phase. Were in day five, remember. Yes, sir. [inaudible] you mentioned that theyd been radicalized more some time, both of them. Do you have any indication years . Months . No, we dont know that. We dont know that. We have some indications of timeline, but we dont have enough for me to speak on it at this point. We believe they both were. Thats the question for us is how and by whom and where were they radicalized. Maybe theres not a by whom. Remember, often times its on the internet. We just dont know, i dont want to speculate. Yes, sir. Do you know anything about the guns [inaudible] what can you tell us about the origin of the guns . Im going to allow the, ask the atf to address that question. All things guns, hold to your questions for atf agent in just a minute. Yes, maam. There have been reports that [inaudible] ive heard those reports. Im not, im not going to confirm that at in this point. Im not aware of the facts of that yet. Yes, sir. Whats the status of enrique mar tez . Be has he been arrested . Has he been charged . Im not prepared to discuss mr. Marquez at this point. Im not going to discuss it. Has he been questioned . I dont know the answer to that. [inaudible] we have not found any evidence of suicide vests yet. Yes, maam. [inaudible] we dont know. Were still building that out. Im going to take one more question. [inaudible conversations] sorry, sorry, yes, maam. [inaudible] video show any of [inaudible] clearly identified . Were still going through what type of video is available. Back to the data exploitation, you bring me to that, there is continued data exploitation that is going on as we speak. And that will continue for some time. That is a painstaking process. That, as ive said in the past, we hope to get towards their intent with some of the data exploitation of the digital media. Could you take one more at this point, at this point im going to introduce atf liz im liz claman, and you are watching the press conference there in San Bernardino, california, and we will listen to what the atf expert has to say. Number one headline, they found 19 pipes that could be made into bombs in that San Bernardino residence. Lets listen in. On this investigation. From what we have we have traced those guns, and what the trace results reveal is that all these firearms were originally purchased from ffls in california from a time period between 2007 and 2012. Ffls a term that we shorten, an abbreviation for federal firearms licensee, commonly a retailer who sells firearms. Farook himself purchased a llama and springfield armory. 9 mm pistols recovered at the scene as well as the savage. 22 caliber rifle that was recovered during the search warrant. We have both the federal documentation and the california documentation to to establish that he actually purchased a firearm. His name and identifying information appears on all that paperwork. Enrique marquez purchased the two assault rifles that youve seen shown on the media. The dpms and smith and wesson. 556 rifles. We have paperwork documenting those purchases as well. Right now our major concern, the fbi, atf and the jttf is determining how those firearms, the rifles in particular, got from marquez to faro to ok and malik. The firearms at present are at the Fbi Laboratory where theyre performing forensic examination on them. After that forensics examination is done, well do a complete and thorough determination, examination and determination of just exactly what these firearms are. Right now im going to turn it over to chief burguan wholl address some other issues pending in the matter. Afternoon, everybody. Im going to talk a little bit about local response and whats going on in the city of San Bernardino as well as the region. Everybody saw what happened in the city of riverside yesterday, what was believed to be an active shooter incident. It brought about a Massive Police response. I think thats indicative of the fact that people are on edge, and people are a little extra cautious which is good. Thats what were asking people to do. The massive response really came as a result of local Law Enforcement has really stepped up their patrols, and theyve stepped up their presence in the region. The city of San Bernardino, weve been on a 12on, 12off tactical alert status since the incident on wednesday. We are going to start letting our guys have some days off and be home with their family, but rest assured we will have increased staffing, a number of additional folks working overtime to provide safety and security to the region. And i think i speak for sheriff mcmahon as well when i say we have really, truly stepped up our efforts. We will be there for people, and at minimum you will see an increased Police Presence in our city and in the immediate region through the Christmas Holiday season, okay . Thank you very much. Future press conferences will be announced by the fbi. Well see you in a bit. Liz and as that News Conference wraps up, there are a couple of major headlines here. Number one, the caddallization, the f radicalization, the fbi is being clear in saying not just the wife, buzz the husband, both were somehow radicalized. They have not found the actual line to that radicalization. They say they will leave, quote, no stone unturned. Theyve already conducted 400 interviews, all kinds of search warrants, and this is certainly a headline as i just mentioned, 19 not 12, 19 pipes that could have been turned into pipe bombs were eventually picked apart by the atf and by the fbi. This is what they are dealing with right now as they continue to look at all the evidence that was gathered from that residence of Tashfeen Malik and syed farook. As we continue to look at exactly what is now developing, it appears that the experts as they look at this are looking for foreign contacts, they are on the case trying to expand and build and connect the dots, but they do know that the suspects went to target practice somewhere in the state of california within days of the attack. Lets bring in guests as we continue to watch a market that is falling about 173 points right now with oil collapsing. Theres no other way to describe that. With me now is foundation for defense of democracys founder and president cliff may on whats been missing from the president ial response along with former Homeland Security adviser for the state of new york, Michael Balboni. Michael basically wrote every single rule on security in the state of new york along with disrupter capital ceo and Fox News Contributor pete snyder on whether Big Tech Companies are doing enough to prevent the support for isis from spreading. Michael, let me start with you. What jumped out at you at this News Conference . They werent going to stop here. They had the capacity both from the ammunition perspective and these number of pipes that they could potentially assemble into pipe boehms. They were going to go somewhere else. They meant to live through this experience, go deep, perhaps, hide in their house, not get caught and then perpetrate something else. Liz they did get caught, though, thanks to local police we stress even now, of course, the fbi doing a bangup job here, taking over the case because it is four be officially a terror investigation. The local police were the ones that got into that shootout with the black suv, and they were able to at least neutralize the two threats at the moment. But thankfully for that, we now find that there are all kinds of issues with these guns, many of which were purchased legally. And the question, of course s what kind of preparations did they do. They went to a shooting range, did people witness that . Was there a pattern . How did they get the two guns in particular bought by that other gentleman . Was it a straw dog purchase . They took them from him . Thats going to be answered only by that individual. Liz cliff may, as you look at the response from the president , last night he addressed america making all kinds of comments and, again, today its the monday morning quarterbacking. Some people are very disappointed with what the president said, others seem to be okay with it. Where do you stand on this . Well, you know, he talks about people becoming radicalized, and he talked in his saturday address about people falling victim to these ideologies as if it were a virus. Radicalization, what we really are talking about is something id call jihaddism, and these are ideologies that are being embraced by a lot of people in a lot of Different Countries and that were fighting around the world liz yeah, you dont just it doesnt just happen to you, it is a choice that you make as to whether you are radicalized. Exactly. Its a choice you make, its an ideology, a belief system you embrace, and its a powerful one. These are young parents. They have a is sixmonthold daughter. They made the decision to leave her as an orphan, marked for life as the daughter of terrorists so they could go and kill infidels, randomly for the most part, on one day. They were joining an army, and they were engaging in a jihad. We need to understand what that means, and we need to have a strategy to fight it in all its many forms, and we dont. All these years after 9 11, all these years after the Islamic Revolution in iran we still have no strategy and no coherent analysis of the problem and the liz its an Electronic Army as well as a physical army, is it not, pete . Because she was the one who went to facebook, made that post saying that she had handed herself over to the idea of isis. That mysteriously, that post was taken down. You know, were hearing all kinds of things as to whether it was really facebook who jumped on the case and said thats got to come down. But right now there are a lot of other organizations and social media sites twitter, namely that seem to be very much a breeding ground for this. Are they in a way responsible at the moment for some of what is spreading here electronically and this pix sallated army . It certainly is a pixlated digital army out there, but i dont think you can put blame at facebook or twitter or any of the platforms out there for what is really human beings behavior. Now, the question is what can technology do to help . Well, they can certainly provide a whole lot more intellectual firepower. I think we all have some serious doubts and complaints about our governments efficiency and effectiveness out there. So from an innovation perspective, theres a lot that technology and Silicon Valley can do to help many this effort. The question is, what are they going to do when it comes to issues of privacy or encryption or givin

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