00:07:51.160Britain's top domestic security official, Shabana Mahmood, updating lawmakers yesterday.
00:07:57.780On Wednesday, Anne Whittekin was murdered in her home.
00:08:01.680The circumstances of her death are extremely distressing.
00:08:06.540Counterterrorism policing have now taken the lead in the investigation.
00:08:11.060As Lawrence Taylor, the head of National Counterterrorism Policing, has said, and I quote,
00:08:15.440We now have new information and evidence that means counter-terrorism policing is leading the investigation.
00:08:22.500We are pursuing multiple lines of inquiry to establish the motivation for this attack.
00:08:27.960The police now have a suspect in custody, a 28-year-old white British man.
00:08:34.460And I can confirm to the House that this man was not known to Prevent.
00:08:39.240Prevent is a government program aimed at identifying people considered vulnerable to radicalization.
00:08:45.440The Sun obtaining surveillance video appearing to show the suspect leaving his home
00:08:49.480shortly before 8 on Wednesday morning, carrying a long object as he gets into a red car.
00:08:56.120The footage recorded roughly four and a half hours before Whittacombe is believed to have
00:09:00.220been attacked, with the suspect facing a drive of about four hours to reach Whittacombe's home.
00:09:06.680Mahmood now ordering a review of security protections for current and former politicians
00:09:11.860while offering Reform UK leader Nigel Farage a meeting with security officials.
00:09:17.740We spoke with British journalist Dan Wooten, host of Outspoken and close friend of Anne Whittacombe.
00:09:23.360He tells us local police badly damaged public trust by initially dismissing a political motive.
00:09:28.760Well, it's an absolutely shocking situation because for days and days,
00:09:35.500The UK police said that there was no political motivation for the death of Anne Whittakin, who was a friend of mine, that we shouldn't believe that it was a terror attack.
00:09:47.700And then today they were forced into quite a mortifying U-turn, admitting that it is now a terror investigation.
00:09:55.560And that is something that people like me believed was the case for days, that this was a premeditated assassination of a high-profile figure on the right in the United Kingdom.
00:10:10.000And so the police have lost a lot of trust with this investigation, especially amongst friends and political supporters of Ann.
00:10:19.100We asked Wooten why he believes local police were so adamant that there was no political motivation at first.
00:10:25.560It always seems like the British police are now more concerned about so-called community cohesion than actually reporting the truth, because none of this ever made sense.
00:10:37.100Like, Anne lives in Devon. This suspect was hundreds of miles away in South Yorkshire. So he drove half the length of the country with a wooden pole, drove up to the house with this high-profile, legendary right-wing political figure in the UK, brutally killed her by hitting her over the head, I believe, multiple times.
00:11:03.580And we're told that that had no political motivation.
00:11:08.860It has been an absolutely appalling example of the police
00:11:13.020caring more about how people might react to the truth
00:11:17.560than actually trying to uncover the truth.
00:11:20.100Witten says the public still has no clear answers about who carried out the attack,
00:11:24.680why Witticum was targeted, or whether anyone else remains in danger.
00:11:28.660they need to answer what on earth happened in all of that missing time for 48 hours you'd be going
00:11:36.040after the wrong person how can we trust that you now have got the right person and if this is a
00:11:42.800terrorism investigation is there anyone else involved what was motivating the ideology is
00:11:48.080there anyone else at risk you'll remember Anne Whittakin was the immigration spokesperson for
00:11:52.460the leading party in the polls here in the United Kingdom reform UK which is led by Nigel Farage
00:11:58.820Nigel Farage has been arguing for weeks
00:13:21.320But fundamentally, she was someone who I think had a huge, huge political impact.
00:13:27.180There are very few political figures in the United Kingdom outside of maybe Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, who have been as famous as her over the past 50 years.
00:13:39.800Coming up, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly under house arrest
00:13:47.220after Tehran uncovered his alleged role in a secret Israeli plot to return him to power.
00:13:54.080And the Yellowstone visitor, launched into the air by a charging bison,
00:13:58.780now identified as a 65-year-old grandfather and facing a long recovery.
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00:14:59.020New reporting on a shocking plot to return former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
00:15:04.420to power. The New York Times reporting Israel spent years on the failed plan, cultivating the
00:15:10.120former hardline leader as a possible replacement for the Iranian regime, despite Ahmadinejad's
00:15:15.840long history of threatening Israel and denouncing the U.S. American officials reportedly briefed on
00:15:21.400the plan, which called for installing Ahmadinejad after Israeli and American strikes removed Iran's
00:15:27.400top leadership at the start of the war earlier this year. Ahmadinejad, serving as Iran's president
00:15:33.280from 2005 to 2013, becoming one of the most recognizable faces of the country's hardline
00:15:39.740government. He repeatedly threatened Israel, denied the Holocaust, and accelerated Iran's0.83
00:15:45.160uranium enrichment program. His government also violently crushed the nationwide uprising that
00:15:50.940followed his disputed re-election in 2009, while Iran imprisoned and executed political opponents.
00:15:57.200After leaving office, Ahmadinejad gradually beginning to reinvent himself,
00:16:02.880softening his anti-Israel rhetoric and accusing Iranian leadership of widespread corruption.
00:16:09.280Ahmadinejad also appearing to westernize his image, trading his signature oversized
00:16:14.800windbreaker for tailored suits, grooming his beard, and studying English. The makeover
00:16:20.660coinciding with a growing rupture between Ahmadinejad and Iran's ruling establishment.
00:16:25.900His relationship with the government reportedly remaining deeply complicated,
00:16:30.340with Iranian authorities repeatedly blocking him from running for president
00:16:33.860while still allowing him to serve on a powerful council advising the supreme leader.
00:16:39.600Israeli intelligence reportedly viewing that feud as an opening,