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hi there, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. before the january 6th select committee ever got off the ground, before it existed, and well before the first signs ever emerged that the justice department was investigating the trump part of the trump coup plot, before even donald trump's second impeachment trial wrapped up. one local prosecutor in georgia decided she would take on donald trump and the unprecedented assault on our democracy in the wake of the 2020 election and she launched a criminal probe into the conduct of the ex-president and his allies in her state. today, about two y...

Christopher Wray reflected on the current threat landscape during a visit to Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service.

Story is being sort of metabolized on both sides of the ideological spectrum. it seems irreconcilable for the fbi, especially an agent that says as opaque a government agency that exists in this country. what do you do about it? >> the fbi has no answer to this because at the heart of it is an allegedly corrupt fbi agent which is not something that they need right now. they're having a very hard time responding to it other than to come out and point out as fbi director christopher wray has said, look, it's our agents who investigated him. ultimately charles mcgonigal was brought down by our ow...

What wray and the attorney general are essentially saying is we're going to sort of nationalize or federalize these investigations. so just think of it as a task force or a tracking effort because so much small stuff and big stuff is going on at this stage. the small hacks, the big hacks we've seen atika loanial and the meat industry. to get a sense what's happening out in the field to focus on crypto currency and other payments that's happening that may disclose cyber attacks and also to compel or demand that the industry itself, critical infrastructure get their act together. and that is bot...

Theory there was some sort of deep state treasonous plot and coup against him. >> the inspector general found that in this particular instance the investigation was opened with appropriate predication and authorization. >> do you have any evidence that the fbi targeted trump campaign unfairly? >> i don't. >> what wray said is at odds with what the president and his defenders increasingly rely upon. alternative facts, also known as lies. wray debunked a different lie with this statement. >> we have no information that indicates that ukraine interfered with the 2016 presidential election. >> des...