A suspect who allegedly planted pipe bombs blocks from the U.S. Capitol on January 5th, 2021, is now in federal custody after a nearly 5 year investigation. Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the DC suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and malicious destruction by means of explosions.
00:00:14.020You know, some haven't forgotten about it.
00:00:16.520Some have. Some have kind of moved on because we've had so many different stories that we have going on here.
00:00:21.080A suspect who allegedly planted pipe-bomb blocks from U.S. Capitol on January 5, 2021, is now federal custody after a nearly five-year investigation.
00:00:31.980Law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital on Thursday video footage released by the FBI showed an unidentified person placing the pipe-bombs near two headquarters more than 16 hours before law enforcement found them.
00:00:46.140The suspect was seen wearing a gray hoodie, Nike Air Max SpeedTurf sneakers, a mask, glasses, and gloves, but the person's identity had long been unknown.
00:00:55.940The initial investigation had shown in under two months, by the end of February 2020, a possible result of credible leads drying up at the time.
00:01:05.820According to a congressional report, authorities discovered the two-pipe bombs near the Republican and Democrat National Committee headquarters
00:01:12.560around the same time that thousands of protesters a few blocks away began to descend on the Capitol over 2020 elections.
00:01:19.560The bombs were described as visible and could have exploded at any time, according to the FBI.
00:01:24.840The suspect arrest comes after a renewed push by the FBI to solve the case, including the release of new video footage and a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible.
00:02:00.860Today's arrest happened because the Trump administration has made this case a priority.
00:02:05.840The total lack of movement on this case in our nation's capital undermined the public trust of our enforcement agencies.
00:02:15.720This cold case languished for four years until Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino came to the FBI.
00:02:24.720The FBI, along with U.S. Attorney Pirro and all of our prosecutors, have worked tirelessly for months sifting through evidence that had been sitting at the FBI with the Biden administration for four long years.
00:02:49.080What clip do you want to show me with the white man?
00:02:51.720Okay, so guys, we talked about this yesterday, Pat, with our friend that was here yesterday.
00:02:56.740Guys, the entire movement of why I think America started waking up is the moment that Jim Acosta was talking crap to the president in 2016.
00:03:06.940And he said, I'm not going to give you any questions.
00:03:10.040And that moment, you'd think CNN would realize, after all the firing, Pat, after losing all the money, Jake Tapper, another guy who acted like he didn't know about Biden's mental decline, writes the book, blaming everybody.
00:03:33.840After nearly five years of investigation, the FBI finally announced that they had arrested a suspect, a suspect accused of planting pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.
00:03:49.260Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the DC suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive...
00:04:08.880Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the DC suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by means of explosions.
00:04:21.180CNN observed local and federal law enforcement outside his home.
00:05:51.000He had 13% of the FBI going after January 6th cases.
00:05:56.040That's 5,000 out of 38,000 people hunting grandmothers, grandfathers, people that weren't even in Washington that day.
00:06:04.000Including over getting over petabytes of information where they help identify people who are wearing winter gear and covered up by the way they walked and their anticipated height.
00:06:13.540So they took that action of people that were on the thing.
00:06:17.260But they had all sorts of street footage.
00:06:19.520And they couldn't find this guy for five years.
00:07:05.780Remember George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, you know, the two networks that took the most heat for calling him a white Hispanic.
00:07:23.720And George Zimmerman was a white Hispanic.
00:07:26.660And CNN, ladies and gentlemen, CNN, Jake Tapper, and NBC took the most hit for using, which one coined it, uncertain, but they both used it to death.