El Paso Airspace Closure Mystery, Canadian School Shooting, Bondi Brawls on the Hill： AM Update 2⧸12
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Summary
Law enforcement continues searching Nancy and Annie Guthrie s neighborhood in Tucson and stumble on what may be a key piece of evidence. Federal officials reverse an unprecedented airspace closure over El Paso within hours in an eyebrow-raising move. Canadian authorities identify the suspect in a deadly mass shooting at a school, which follows a familiar pattern. And Attorney General Pam Bondi goes toe-to-toe with Democratic lawmakers in a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing. All that and more coming up in just a moment on Your AM Update.
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It's Thursday, February 12th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
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There's electronic breadcrumbs that would be left.
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Law enforcement continues searching Nancy and Annie Guthrie's neighborhood in Tucson
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and stumble on what may be a key piece of evidence.
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I think you would think that something very, very significant is happening in real time.
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Federal officials reverse an unprecedented airspace closure over El Paso within hours
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Canadian authorities identify the suspect in a deadly mass shooting at a school,
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And Attorney General Pam Bondi goes toe-to-toe with Democratic lawmakers
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Law enforcement officials continuing their search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie
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and finding what might be a key piece of evidence yesterday.
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Since the release of videos and images recovered from a Nest camera
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showing a masked individual outside Nancy's door on the night of her disappearance,
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law enforcement receiving more than 4,000 calls.
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MK True Crime host Phil Holloway, reporting from Tucson,
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says much of yesterday's law enforcement activity
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was focused on searching roadways and foothills just north of Nancy's home.
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In a possible new breakthrough, investigators discovering a black glove on the roadside
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Fox News reporting a second black glove was also discovered.
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The figure captured on Nancy's Nest Cam was wearing what appeared to be a similar pair.
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Investigators spotted recently going door-to-door in Nancy's daughter's Annie's neighborhood again,
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as well, about five miles away from Nancy's home.
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Holloway spoke to some of Annie's neighbors about what the FBI is asking them about.
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They are looking for the neighbors to turn over any relevant information from any electronic devices that they may have,
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but specifically one of the things that I was told they were looking for was a phone.
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And apparently a phone was believed to have been in the possession of the perpetrator,
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the one seen in the photos and videos at Nancy Guthrie's door.
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So if that phone were turned on, that phone would have talked, so to speak,
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with every cell tower between Nancy's home and wherever it went.
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And in addition, it would have talked to every wireless router.
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So there's electronic breadcrumbs that would be left when a phone, if it's turned on, is traveling.
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And so the FBI presumably would be able to trace the route that that phone would have taken
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if it were turned on when the perpetrator left Nancy's house.
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Megan, I'll have much more on this case later today on The Megan Kelly Show.
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And anyone with information is urged to call 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit tips at tips.fbi.gov.
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A dramatic and mysterious announcement of a 10-day shutdown of airspace over El Paso, Texas,
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now raising deeper questions about what really happened after it was quickly reversed.
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The FAA issuing a notice to airmen or NOTAM Tuesday night blocking flights in the airspace over El Paso
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and nearby Santa Teresa, New Mexico, from yesterday through February 21st,
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citing, quote, temporary flight restrictions for special security reasons.
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The sweeping Grand Stop disrupting commercial traffic, rewriting medical evacuation flights,
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El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson describing it as, quote,
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a major and unnecessary disruption, one that has not occurred since 9-11.
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Within hours of issuing the 10-day Grand Stop, the FAA suddenly lifting the order.
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CBS News reporting the closure resulting from a spat between the FAA and the Department of War
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The Pentagon reportedly planning tests of anti-drone military technology near Fort Bliss,
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adjoining the El Paso International Airport, including a high-energy laser.
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But safety coordination meetings with the FAA were still pending.
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According to CBS, the Pentagon felt ready to proceed with testing prior to scheduled safety meetings.
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FAA Administrator Brian Bedford then abruptly closing the airspace without first notifying the White House,
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, pointing to the involvement of the cartels,
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the FAA and Department of War acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion.
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The threat has been neutralized and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region.
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The restrictions have been lifted and normal flights are resuming.
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However, CBS reporting at least one object initially believed to be a foreign drone
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during recent operations turned out to be a party balloon, and it was reportedly shot down.
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questions mounting about whether this was a real security emergency,
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a breakdown in coordination, or maybe something else entirely.
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cartel drone activity along the border is real and it's extensive.
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Yeah, I mean, there's a significant amount of cartel activity when it comes to the use of drones.
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I mean, thousands and thousands of recorded incursions and others.
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And usually, you know, an incursion of the U.S. is just very, very briefly
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because most of their operations are on the Mexican side.
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Or if they are dropping contraband, you know, they will drop it over the border
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and then the drone will retreat very, very quickly.
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This doesn't appear to be the same case, so we'll see what more information comes out.
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But the use of drones by cartels and limited amount of counter drone authority
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that the Department of Homeland Security has as well is kind of an ongoing battle.
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Despite that threat, Wolf tells us cartel drone activity rarely shuts down airspace,
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Historically, you do not see airspace closures because of drone activity.
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Usually, if it is, it's because the Department of War is interdicting
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or there's a significant amount of drones that are coming fairly close to commercial aircraft
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landing or takeoff paths at a commercial airport.
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I mean, normally where you see a lot of these incursions along the border are not in urban areas.
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Or if they are in urban areas, they're in small urban areas, unlike El Paso.
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You know, there are other airports in Del Rio and Brownsville, Rado,
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but he has major questions about the initial 10-day shutdown.
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If there's any type of threat to commercial aviation, they're going to close that airspace.
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And then they're going to figure out what's going on and then try to open it back up,
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I mean, the 10-day closure that the FAA originally put out is highly unusual.
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You know, wherever the president's at, right, for instance,
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or when there's a Super Bowl or when there's a big event.
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I think you would think that something very, very significant is happening in real time.
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And then, of course, the FAA pulls it back and says, OK, it's canceled.
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I think they probably do need to answer some questions to say,
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And what was the coordination with the Department of War?
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And while some have speculated about unidentified aerial phenomena or UAPs,
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the new term for UFOs, Wolf dismisses that as unlikely.
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But I think what's more logical is that either responding to drone incursions by the cartels,
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which we know they use, they use drones very liberally,
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or the fact that the Department of War was testing some type of technology as well.
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I think it's I think that's more plausible given the location.
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Coming up, Canadian authorities confirm the gunman who murdered eight in a remote British Columbia town
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was a young man living as a woman and temper slayer on Capitol Hill.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi battles Democrats over the Epstein files
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A gunman opening fire in Western Canada on Tuesday, killing eight and injuring dozens more
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in one of the deadliest shootings in the country's history.
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This, the latest act of violence in North America to be carried out by a man pretending to live as a woman.
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Police receiving reports of an active shooter at Tumblr Ridge Secondary School located in a rural town in British Columbia
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around 1.20 p.m. local time on Tuesday, arriving at the scene within two minutes, authorities finding six of the victims dead at school
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before discovering the bodies of two more victims at a residence in the remote town, which has just 2,400 residents.
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It remains unclear what time those murders took place.
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The gunman also injuring 25 people, two with, quote, serious or life-threatening injuries, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or RCMP.
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Dwayne McDonald, a deputy commissioner at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia, saying at a Wednesday press conference
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that one of the victims previously believed to have died in transport to the hospital actually remains in critical condition.
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Commissioner McDonald with more details on the victims.
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The deceased victims from the school include an adult female educator, three female students, and two male students between the ages of 13 and 17.
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Two additional victims, an adult female and a male youth, were located deceased in the local residence.
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The New York Times identifying the victims at the residence as the 18-year-old shooter's 39-year-old mother and 11-year-old stepbrother.
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Police finding the suspect dead at the school, which is an enrollment of around 175 students in grades 7 to 12 from a, quote, self-inflicted injury.
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Authorities now coming under fire for what they did and did not say about the suspect in the aftermath of the shooting.
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An initial alert issued about the active shooter at the school Tuesday afternoon, describing the suspect as, quote, female in a dress with brown hair.
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Police Superintendent Ked Floyd later characterizing the shooter in a press briefing as a, quote, gun person,
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fueling speculation that the shooter may have been identifying as transgender.
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On Wednesday, RCMP confirming the speculation, identifying the shooter as a resident of Tumblr Ridge, who was born male and began presenting as a girl around the age of 12.
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At yesterday's press conference, Commissioner McDonald pushing back on claims that authorities were withholding the information about the shooter,
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instead saying the department is simply respecting his identity.
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We identified the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and in social media.
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I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male, who approximately, the information that I have,
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approximately six years ago began to transition to female and identified as female, both socially and publicly.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi on the Hill yesterday, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee for more than five hours,
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in a hearing with more fireworks than a typical Fourth of July.
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Ranking member Jamie Rask and Democrat of Maryland starting off the proceedings with this friendly greeting.
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I asked the chairman to add a few extra rounds of questions today because we each have five hours of questions, not five minutes,
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That's clearly insufficient to give voice to America's victims and survivors and to demand answers about all the corruption and cover-ups that we see at DOJ right now.
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We've got just one round, so we ask you politely but firmly, Madam Attorney General,
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please do not waste one second of our precious time by evading questions, by changing the subject,
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or engaging in personal attacks against members of Congress.
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We saw your performance in the Senate, and we're not going to accept that.
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Democrats focusing largely on the Epstein files, pressing A.G. Bondi on the DOJ's handling of the document rollout,
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which was supposed to be completed by December 19th under the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
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Democratic lawmakers frequently invoking the presence of a group of alleged Epstein victims in attendance,
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berating A.G. Bondi for what they call a lack of accountability for Epstein survivors.
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To promote justice for the people, you've got to listen to the victims, like the women seated behind you today.
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To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand.
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And if you are willing, please raise your hands if you have still not been able to meet with this Department of Justice.
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But I'm going to ask the victims behind you right now, first, can you please stand up?
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And then, can you please raise your hand if you think after everything you've heard today,
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Attorney General Bondi firing back, accusing Democrats of a glaring double standard,
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noting that many of the loudest voices regarding the Epstein files were silent on the issue for years.
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You sit here and you attack the president, and I am not going to have it.
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You know, all they want to do, all the American people need to know this.
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This has been around since the Obama administration.
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This administration released over 3 million pages of documents, over 3 million.
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And Donald Trump signed that law to release all of those documents.
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He is the most transparent president in the nation's history.
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And none of them, none of them, ask Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about Jeffrey Epstein.
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In a rare moment of agreement, Congressman Eric Swalwell of California raising concerns about violent threats against him and his family.
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Bondi pledging to work with the congressmen and all lawmakers who are dealing with threats.
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May through December of 2025, we received messages at my office that said,
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I hope somebody shoots you and your children and your wife in the head.
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And my children, unfortunately, have to do that.
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But we never expected that the Department of Justice would not seek to prosecute and investigate those who are making threats against us.
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I know about several of those personally involving you.
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I'll gladly talk to you after this hearing about your cases.
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But I can tell you some of them are very active.
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And of course, this testy exchange with Congressman Raskin.
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You can let her filibuster all day long, but not on our watch.
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And I told you about that, Attorney General, before you started.
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Yeah, I did tell you because we saw what you did in the Senate.
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I'm Mark Calperin, host of Next Up on the MK Media Podcast Network.
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