The FBI has made an arrest in the case of the January 6th pipe bomb attack at the offices of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee. The suspect has been identified as 30-year-old Brian Cole of Woodridge, Virginia.
00:00:20.000Hey guys, welcome to a special breaking news edition of Triggered.
00:00:25.000It's great to be with you here this afternoon.
00:00:27.000We're going live with FBI Director Kash Patel in just seconds following the announcement of an arrest in the January 6th pipe bombing case.
00:00:44.000We've analyzed the story from every angle while the Biden FBI basically tried to make it all disappear, which always felt a little bit odd.
00:00:51.000I mean, you have pipe bombs in front of the RNC and the DNC.
00:00:54.000It feels like that's a bigger story than anything that could have possibly happened on January 6th and the sham January 6th committee that barely even acknowledged the pipe bomb, which were placed, again, at the RNC and the DNC headquarters.
00:01:09.000That sounds like a real threat to democracy.
00:01:11.000The arrest was made in Northern Virginia earlier this morning.
00:01:14.000The suspect has been identified as 30-year-old Brian Cole of Woodridge, Virginia.
00:01:20.000He's been charged under 18 USC 844, which is use of an explosive device.
00:01:26.000And more details are developing in real time.
00:01:30.000So we're just going to get going and get right into it.
00:01:55.000I just left the Justice Department to make this really momentous denouncement for accountability here and to show the world what this FBI can do.
00:02:13.000So this is the first interview, I guess, since the press conference.
00:02:16.000But, you know, Cash, you know, let's just get right into it because I know you're obviously scrambling a little bit right now also with everything going on.
00:02:23.000What can you tell us about the timeline of this investigation and what led to this arrest and how you conducted this in a much smarter, more serious way than the previous leadership at the FBI?
00:02:37.000Yeah, let me try to take that in reverse.
00:02:38.000So Don, as you know, the weaponization of law enforcement is not just based on offensive operations like Arctic Frost and Russia Gate, which we're also working on, but also on the defensive posture of silence.
00:02:53.000And in this instance, the prior administration had the same exact information that this FBI had access to and chose not to put the resources on target to go out and find this individual, as you said, who wanted to blow up Americans at both the RNC and DHC at the United States Capitol at the heart of our democracy.
00:03:13.000Why they didn't want to do that is a question for them, but it was an intentional failure.
00:03:17.000When Director Bongino, Deputy Director Bongino and I got here, we said, this is a case of high priority because this individual threatened so many American lives and disrupted and caused so much chaos.
00:03:27.000So what we did was we went back to good old-fashioned cop work.
00:03:31.000We said, let's reevaluate every single piece of evidence.
00:03:34.000Don't 3 million lines of evidence were reviewed by the FBI agents and the interagency during the six months, seven month process here.
00:03:42.000We brought in experts from around the country and we also said, hey, we've got capabilities that weren't applied before for whatever reason.
00:03:49.000And Deputy Director Bongino spearheaded this mission and said, we're going to apply them all.
00:03:53.000We are not going to leave any single line of evidence unturned.
00:03:56.000And what happened was, is what happens in any good casework where cops are doing what they're supposed to be doing and FBI agents are doing what they're supposed to be doing.
00:04:04.000We executed search warrants along the way, hit legal process, developed leads, went out and had suspects that we thought were part of it and weren't part of it, as we always do in investigations, and came to this position we are here at today, where this individual who's now alleged to be responsible for the pipe bomber has been definitively shown to be the individual under the charging position of the Department of Justice.
00:04:29.000Yeah, I mean, we've definitely seen that sort of silence about things they don't want to talk about.
00:04:33.000I know we've spoken about this since January 6th, 2020, but I never understood how this could just disappear.
00:04:42.000I mean, two pipe bombs targeting the headquarters of the Republican Party, targeting the headquarters of the Democrat Party.
00:04:48.000I can understand maybe the media ignoring targets on the Republicans because, again, their silence is golden and they only report on that.
00:04:55.000But I mean, that to me is a far greater threat than any of the nonsense, you know, a grandma taking a selfie inside of January 6th, and yet it just disappeared.
00:05:04.000It's almost like that was the backup plan if they didn't get what they wanted out of January 6th, which to me seems like a very clear setup operation.
00:05:15.000Thanks to President Trump's sweeping victory and mandate for accountability across all sectors of law enforcement, especially those that harm Washington, D.C. and our elected leadership and American lives visiting our nation's capital, we just went at it with the same approach that we go after every single case this FBI handles.
00:05:35.000No agent or analyst or staff support will be spared.
00:05:38.000These guys worked literally around the clock for the last six, seven, eight months producing these lines of evidence, finding the leads.
00:05:45.000And you now know based on the publication of the press conference that, yes, there were tips in there that we, clues in there that we keyed in on, like the sneakers, like the height, like the appearance.
00:05:56.000And we refined those images and we also used our brilliant CAS system.
00:06:00.000And what that is, is our cell phone analytic capability to go back and say who was in the area.
00:06:06.000And also, why wasn't this discovered before?
00:06:08.000It's not like we recreated the cell phone data from five years ago.
00:06:36.000We don't base our reporting, our investigations and our arrest based on timelines of baseless reporting.
00:06:43.000We present the evidence with our partners at the Department of Justice for prosecution when we meet the evidentiary threshold that was necessary.
00:07:00.000And we have to go out there and map not just his network, but we also have to go out there on days like today when we hit the house and we hit his place of work.
00:07:08.000We have to go out there and carefully make sure that those houses and buildings are safeguarded so that our workers and our bomb techs and our evidence response team can go in there and collect the necessary evidence for the prosecution that the U.S. Attorney's Office needs.
00:07:22.000So we're developing more and more the suspects in custody.
00:08:06.000We have the technology and the capability to do it.
00:08:08.000And let's go back and work with the investigative team and ask them where the pitfalls were, where the black holes were, where were the road bumps in terms of legal process?
00:08:17.000And why didn't you execute all these search warrants?
00:08:19.000And I don't just mean search warrants of houses.
00:08:21.000We're talking about search warrants to service providers, cell phone companies, online providers, and anything tangentially related to this investigation.
00:08:29.000And the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Department of Justice gave us those search warrants to produce the results necessary for us to put the pieces together to say, not only was this individual there, but he was the one responsible for creating, building, and placing the pipe up.
00:08:45.000That's equally important to an investigation of this magnitude.
00:09:13.000And I imagine, I mean, even still, it's still got to be harder four years after the fact.
00:09:17.000I mean, if you're starting, you know, at moment one, it's going to be a lot easier than four years later because just things get harder to follow.
00:09:25.000You know, there's has been, I've spoken about them on the show a lot, sort of, you know, a lot of, I don't even want to call them conspiracy theories because some of it seemed quite valid in talking with people about it.
00:09:33.000You know, the sort of resolution of the video, the speed of the videos, you know, outside like the RNC or the DNC being incredibly slow, you know, relative to modern day video camera footage.
00:09:45.000It was like they said, this is like from the 1970s.
00:10:38.000And that's what this Washington Field Office did.
00:10:40.000And that's what we're doing on every single case, by the way, that we have.
00:10:43.000And that's what we're doing to de-weaponize the FBI and depoliticize the Department of Justice.
00:10:48.000We are going on offense on every single matter.
00:10:50.000And we're especially going on offense on the matters that the prior administration sat on defense in.
00:10:55.000So, you know, there's been some uncertainty, you know, certainly online.
00:10:59.000So I don't know what's real and what's not.
00:11:00.000Sometimes it's a little hard to follow, but on when these devices were actually planted, does this arrest crystallize the timeline at all in terms of the sequence of events that's sort of been up in the air again, especially online?
00:11:15.000And I don't want to get ahead of the Department of Justice, but you're going to see a crystal clear timeline and picture in the next 24 hours when this individual makes his presentment and first appearance in court and we proceed with the paperwork to his arraignment.
00:11:28.000That's where key pieces of information are going to be made public for the first time because that's where key pieces of information legally must be made public for the first time.
00:11:36.000And we're not going to disrupt that process because that would hurt the integrity of the investigation.
00:11:40.000And most importantly, it would hurt the integrity of the prosecution that's upcoming.
00:11:46.000I certainly don't want to, this person has to be held accountable and there has to be justice.
00:11:51.000But I think that's the general sentiment across so many people.
00:11:55.000Will there ever be a look back on the way perhaps your predecessors or other people in the FBI handled this to question those methods and motives?
00:12:04.000Again, the fact that it disappeared from the news basically the second January 6th happened and was never brought back up again, even in the months following, seems odd.
00:12:14.000And I mean, it seems like something that people would want answers to.
00:12:18.000Will there be a review process on how this was conducted differently?
00:12:21.000How you guys could do this four years later and in eight or nine months actually come up with a suspect versus the prior administration having four years, a more immediate timeline, being able to go right into it, having the immediacy of that, or even the fact that they just didn't care, doesn't that say so much about the weaponization of justice in America today?
00:12:44.000And I think you're going to see it on parallel tracks.
00:12:46.000What you're going to see is as this case presents itself in court, you're going to see where we were able to collect the evidence and make the case against this suspect.
00:12:55.000And then common sense journalism and investigators are going to be able to look at it and say, why did these people do X, Y, and Z four or five years ago?
00:13:01.000That's going to make itself self-apparent.
00:13:03.000But what we're doing at this FBI is also we have replaced this entire leadership cadre.
00:13:07.000We have pushed out a thousand agents into the field.
00:13:10.000There is a reason this FBI has 25,000 violent offenders arrested this year alone.
00:13:16.000There's a reason that this FBI is going to deliver President Trump the lowest murder rate in modern history by double digits.
00:13:22.000There is a reason this FBI is out there crushing fentanyl, destroying narco-traffickers, and making sure the homeland is safe and preventing spies from infiltrating our homeland and our way of life.
00:13:33.000That's what happens when you change leadership from the prior administration, FBI, who wanted to weaponize and politicize law enforcement to us, President Trump and the Attorney General, who want to just deliver law enforcement on every single front.
00:13:56.000You mentioned sort of the general things that are improving.
00:13:59.000Can you get into those stats specifically?
00:14:00.000Because I started seeing some of these numbers online and it's actually incredible.
00:14:03.000I mean, it's really important for people to understand that you guys are actually making a difference these times rather than doing some of the more woke nonsense the FBI seemed to be partaking in for the four years of the Biden administration.
00:14:16.000Well, the pipe bomb case is emblematic of what happened during the prior four years of the Biden administration.
00:14:21.000They let it lay because they prefer to go after senators unlawfully.
00:14:26.000They prefer to go after President Trump unlawfully.
00:14:28.000They put all their resources and leadership cadre into those weaponization efforts.
00:14:32.000We immediately shut that off and jettisoned all those individuals.
00:14:35.000And what happens is these numbers of arrests.
00:14:37.000And the reason that there's so many violent offenders in America is because the Biden administration went on defense and sat in silence.
00:14:46.000And the only places they were on offense was for the weaponization of law enforcement.
00:14:50.000We have four top 10 captures on the FBI's most wanted list this year alone.
00:14:55.000That equals the number of the entirety of the Biden administration.
00:14:58.000That means four of the worst criminal animals on planet Earth were captured by Donald Trump's FBI in nine months.
00:15:06.000On top of that, we have seized enough fentanyl, 100 to kill 127 million Americans.
00:15:28.000And we have also, this may be one of the most proud stats when it comes to protecting our youth, especially online, nihilistic violent extremist networks like 764 praying and mutilizing children and causing them to commit suicide online and things like animal crushing.
00:15:42.000Our arrest in that category is up 590%.
00:15:46.000These numbers are because the mission of this FBI is simply to get after people who are looking to destroy our way of life, harm our children, and destroy our youth.
00:15:56.000And the fact that President Trump came in and gave me one mandate, get out there and deliver accountability for the American people and make sure our neighborhoods are safe.
00:16:03.000These are just some of the numbers we're talking about.
00:16:05.000The murder rate, lowest ever. in modern history and the most violent offender arrest by 110%.
00:16:11.000I mean, people have to take a pause at those numbers.
00:16:13.000Those statistics don't just happen if we did one case.
00:16:17.000We are doing tens of thousands of cases across the country and around the world.
00:16:20.000Our espionage arrests, Dom, those from Iran, Russia, China, and elsewhere looking to spy on us, we've arrested 40% more spies in the United States.
00:16:31.000We're also taking on agro-terrorists who are importing seeds into this country in funguses and pretending to be researchers at places like the University of Michigan and looking to steal our agricultural seed so that they can supplant that and go overseas and take it away from us.
00:16:47.000We are on a full-scale mission to protect the American public, and we're going to finish this December strong.
00:16:53.000We've already operated Operation Summer Heat to historic results, safeguarding cities like Memphis, which was an FBI-led effort to get out there and absolutely crush violent crime.
00:17:02.000And we're never going to stop defending the homeland.
00:17:04.000So these statistics, Don, while we can rattle them off, that is nine months of putting foot to ass and crushing it for the American public.
00:17:12.000By the way, it's actually a really big deal.
00:17:13.000And I sort of do this for a living at this point.
00:17:16.000And I didn't know half of those things.
00:17:19.000I think there's definitely things that people want action on, especially the online cadres.
00:17:26.000But I think, just honestly, in hearing that right now, because God knows I'm one of those people for a lot of these things.
00:17:32.000But in hearing all of those things and not knowing about it, that's actually amazing.
00:17:37.000I think we all probably have to do a better job of highlighting some of those things because that's ultra critical for Americans.
00:17:44.000That doesn't mean we stop wanting some of those other things, but I think we can't let some of the noise of all of that essentially discredit that work.
00:17:51.000Because like I said, I do this every day.
00:18:23.000But those other stats on a day-to-day basis are such a huge deal.
00:18:28.000And again, I don't know that anyone actually knows about it.
00:18:30.000So I think we collectively have to highlight those things because it's easy to sort of say, well, I want this, this, and this, but not know that that's actually going on.
00:18:38.000Again, I do it for a living and I'm shocked that I didn't know it.
00:18:40.000And so, you know, for those who get frustrated online, I think, you know, I may get it, but like, I think you also have to give credit where credit is due on those other things because those stats, not just the numbers, but the improvement in the percentages relative to your predecessors is a really big deal.
00:18:57.000And that doesn't mean we're taking our eye off the ball.
00:18:59.000Look, you're talking to the guy who was a chief investigator for RussiaGate, the ultimate weaponization of our law enforcement in the United States.
00:19:51.000Our partners at the Department of Justice are not standing down and bending the knee.
00:19:55.000You're going to see, in my opinion, more investigative work continue to lead to more prosecutions because in order to end the weaponization of justice, there has to be full accountability, not just with transparency, but also with people being held to justice in a court of law.
00:20:08.000And we're going to continue to do that.
00:20:09.000Look, they built this disease temple over the course of decades.
00:20:14.000And in 10 months, we've already taken a sledgehammer to it.
00:20:30.000But I want the American public to know we keep speaking in court when we can.
00:20:33.000We're going to continue to show up to court.
00:20:35.000And we're going to continue to make people like Comey and Brennan and Clapper and Paige and Strzok and so many others answer for what I believe are their acts of criminal conduct because that's exactly what they did when they weaponized law enforcement, went overseas, borrowed information from some hack in England about Russia, infiltrated our FISA court, lied to a federal officer, and illegally surveilled your father during a presidential candidacy.
00:21:07.000Again, the media is never going to talk about it, but I mean, you know, talk about a threat to democracy.
00:21:13.000Can you talk generally about the process of conducting investigations?
00:21:16.000Again, whether it be the pipe bomb or Arctic Frost or any of these others that are, you know, all crazy, you know, all of this does take time, especially when there's documents literally being found in burn bags in random places hidden inside the FBI headquarters.
00:21:31.000I mean, how shocking is it to know that under Comey Ray, there seemed to be a deliberate effort to hide the truth.
00:21:43.000These people thought that we would never look or find these materials because they had it set for destruction or they put it away in some vault.
00:21:49.000Remember, the Arctic Frost case, where they also targeted not just senators, but staffers, including myself, when I was done being a staffer and on the campaign trail for President Trump, they decided, hey, let's go target him.
00:22:00.000Remember, they put my name in the search warrant, the bogus search warrant for Mar-a-Lago.
00:22:04.000Nobody else's name, mine in that WhatsApp search warrant that the judge signed literally over WhatsApp to unlawfully raid your father's house in South Florida.
00:22:12.000We are the ones uncovering those documents.
00:23:28.000someone who rages online a lot, it's not easy to undo four years of subversion, four years of hiding the files, making things go away, disappearing that trail.
00:23:40.000In the online world in which we all lived prior to getting back into government, it's easy to want that instant gratification.
00:23:48.000It feels great when you get it occasionally.
00:23:50.000But the reality is, especially to do this right, especially in a weaponized lawfare state where you can actually have everything right, but a procedural error can throw it all out.
00:24:01.000You're not going to get everything that you want overnight.
00:24:04.000And I think we all rather have the appropriate result than a hastened answer that then gets thrown out, not because of the merits, but because of procedure.
00:24:34.000The burn bags were found by us months ago, but we weren't allowed to disclose them to the public fully because we wanted to protect the integrity of the investigation.
00:24:58.000This investigation on RussiaGate and the weaponization of government continues to be ongoing.
00:25:04.000We have built two massive teams that have been on it for about six to eight months.
00:25:08.000And it takes about that much time just to serve legal process.
00:25:11.000Just think of it, search warrants take months for service providers to give us the returns, for private sector companies to give us the banking records.
00:25:18.000That stuff takes time because that's just the way it is.
00:25:23.000And the way we are speeding it up is by putting more manpower on it.
00:25:27.000In all of the major investigations you're working on, there's these sort of, you know, these bad actors, including many foreign accounts who are trying to push conspiracy theories.
00:25:35.000We've seen it with the assassination of Charlie Kirk ever since sort of Twitter opened up like the place where these guys are actually posting from.
00:25:42.000And again, some of that may be through a VPN, but I imagine a majority of it isn't.
00:25:49.000How much of that is a distraction just from a law enforcement perspective, but also for the public at large?
00:25:57.000Because I think it creates perhaps unrealistic expectations in terms of timing, speed, results, et cetera.
00:26:05.000Well, the Charlie case is obviously a tragic example of our friend being assassinated and us working with state authorities similarly like in the Jan 6 case, but there with the state prosecutors to make sure that that individual is brought to justice.
00:26:20.000And we have to balance freedom of speech.
00:26:22.000We are not going to trample on people's freedom of speech right in the digital media, in the TV media, or in the online spaces.
00:26:29.000But when they create a lot of undue noise and undue conspiracies, what that does is it causes us to come off mission and respond to those conspiracy theories because they get so loud.
00:26:39.000And what happens is we only have so many people in so many hours in the day.
00:26:43.000And I'd rather put them all on Charlie Kirk's case and all on these cases that we're talking about rather than diffusing some of these conspiracies.
00:27:14.000That doesn't mean that everyone is accurate, but I wanted to see how much harder that makes the job in getting to a result or perhaps opening the door for someone who's actually guilty to get away because of a sentiment that was created and whatever it may be.
00:27:28.000And I'm just sort of curious about that balance because God knows I want the person who actually killed Charlie to face justice more than anyone.
00:27:36.000He was someone I spoke to probably more than anyone over the last decade.
00:27:38.000And so it's just a curious question because there's so much going on.
00:27:41.000It's just, frankly, it's hard to follow.
00:27:44.000And it does take a lot of time and a lot of bandwidth.
00:27:47.000And this FBI, I can only speak to them, is trying to answer every single one of those questions that we possibly can without jeopardizing ongoing investigations.
00:27:56.000That's the job that I agreed to take on for President Trump.
00:27:59.000And I knew it wasn't going to be easy.
00:28:01.000And same with Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
00:28:03.000And we publicize more information than any FBI in the history has done before, not just with congressional documents, but look at what the amount of information we put out online through interviews, through televised interviews, through these types of interviews and great podcasts and shows like yours.
00:28:17.000But we are committed to continuing to put out as much information as we can, but we will always side on the side of protecting the integrity of investigations so we can get to the position we are today with individuals like the pipe bomber.
00:28:30.000Cash, I also wanted to ask, because sort of we touched on it earlier, you know, as it relates to public safety, which is such a big deal for so many Americans, you know, we also see the Trump administration and yourself taking bold and decisive steps to dismantle the drug cartels and the narco-terrorist criminal syndicate like the Maduro regime.
00:28:47.000You know, can you talk about the FBI's role in all of that?
00:28:50.000Because right now, I think the focus is obviously on the military, but I know that the FBI has a pretty big stake in all of this.
00:28:57.000And the designation of these drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations allows us to treat them like al-Qaeda and ISIS.
00:29:03.000And that's what we're doing in places like Mexico and Colombia and elsewhere.
00:29:06.000And we have huge teams out there conducting these seizures, these record seizures, not just of fentanyl, cocaine, meth, and other narcotics that are killing our children and our young Americans.
00:29:16.000And that's what this FBI is all about.
00:29:18.000Record-level results in terms of not just seizures, but dismantling these drug networks.
00:29:23.000Some of the largest victories we've had this year have been arresting drug kinpins and shutting down human trafficking and drug networks because that's how they pour these, unfortunately, these children and these narcotics into our communities.
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00:30:17.000This one, again, was sort of last minute.
00:30:19.000We were supposed to go on like a little while.
00:30:21.000It just sort of got jumbled, but how do you say no to that interview?
00:30:26.000Really big deal to be able to get the first interview of the FBI director after the arrest of the suspect in the January 6th pipe bombing case.
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