Speaker 1: We're going to start with a story that should make
Speaker 1: every American really angry, a story of the federal government
Speaker 1: not and this includes Republicans living within our means. This
Speaker 1: is the government destroying the future of this country for
Speaker 1: our children and our grandchildren. The United States of America
Speaker 1: has just crossed a number that almost doesn't sound real,
Speaker 1: and most Americans cannot comprehend it. It's a number that
Speaker 1: doesn't even make sense because our minds can understand the
Speaker 1: amount of debt. We're talking about forty trillion dollars now,
Speaker 1: that is roughly the size of America's gross national debt.
Speaker 1: According to the Treasury Department, the total public debt outstanding
Speaker 1: has officially surpassed the forty trillion for the first time
Speaker 1: in history.
Speaker 2: The Wall Street Journal report.
Speaker 1: Today that the milestone has now been not only crossed,
Speaker 1: but it's going to continue to go up. And the
Speaker 1: portion economists generally compare with the economy is around the
Speaker 1: size of the entire US gross domestic product. Now, if
Speaker 1: you think about what that means, America is now carrying
Speaker 1: a debt burden relative to the economy that we haven't
Speaker 1: experienced since the aftermath of World War Two. Except this
Speaker 1: one is enormously different. In nineteen forty six, To put
Speaker 1: this in perspective, America had just finished fighting a global war,
Speaker 1: not on one front, but two fronts. We had mobilized
Speaker 1: millions and millions of Americans, we had built an enormous military,
Speaker 1: We'd manufactured thousands of ships and aircraft, and then we
Speaker 1: did what no other country could do. We defeated the
Speaker 1: Nazis and the Japanese and saved well the free world.
Speaker 1: So today you put that in comparison, well, we haven't
Speaker 1: come out of emerging from a World War three. The
Speaker 1: Congressional Budget Office, however, is saying our spending is even
Speaker 1: worse than then. The Budget Office projects that debt held
Speaker 1: by the public will equal one hundred and one percent
Speaker 1: of GDP in twenty twenty six, meaning more in debt
Speaker 1: than we actually did in our economy.
Speaker 2: That is insane. Now.
Speaker 1: The previous record was about one hundred and six percent
Speaker 1: immediately after World War II, and the Congressional Budget Office
Speaker 1: says we're on track to blow straight through that record
Speaker 1: and reach one hundred and twenty percent of GDP by
Speaker 1: twenty thirty five in just nine years. And here's the
Speaker 1: part that should terrify you as a taxpayer. I don't
Speaker 1: care if you're a Republican or a Democrat or an independent.
Speaker 1: We aren't borrowing the money because America doesn't collect enough
Speaker 1: money to operate a massive government of historical size. We're
Speaker 1: spending extraordinary amounts of money because apparently that's just what
Speaker 1: wash And thought would be fun for them, and kicking
Speaker 1: the can down the road. The Congressional Budget Office expects
Speaker 1: that Washington will spend approximately seven point four trillion dollars
Speaker 1: this year while collecting five point six trillion in revenue.
Speaker 1: Let's just be clear, five point six trillion is more
Speaker 1: than enough to run a government. So that means that
Speaker 1: we have a deficit of one point nine trillion in
Speaker 1: one year alone, almost two trillion dollars. Now, the Republicans
Speaker 1: will be clear, are in charge right now, and many
Speaker 1: Republicans don't seem to care about what's happening now. To
Speaker 1: put it another way, the Wall Street Journal calculated earlier
Speaker 1: this year that for every dollar Washington collects in taxes
Speaker 1: and tariffs, it is spending a dollar and thirty three cents.
Speaker 1: So let's make this more palatable for all of us
Speaker 1: in our minds, imagine you're running your household like this.
Speaker 1: You're making one hundred thousand dollars a year. Then every
Speaker 1: year you spend one hundred and thirty three thousand, what
Speaker 1: do you do to come up with the extra thirty three?
Speaker 1: You borrow the difference. Then next year you do it again,
Speaker 1: and the next year again, and the next year again,
Speaker 1: and then eventually your problem isn't simply what you're buying.
Speaker 1: Your problem then becomes the interest on everything you already bought.
Speaker 1: And that is where America is right now. The interest
Speaker 1: bill may be the most shocking number in this entire story.
Speaker 1: The Congressional Budget Office is now projecting that the federal
Speaker 1: government will spend one trillion on net interest in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six alone to cover what we have borrowed so far. Again,
Speaker 1: a trillion dollars a year our US government needs just
Speaker 1: to cover the interest payments on the money we borrowed now,
Speaker 1: not paying down the debt, not fixing the highways, not
Speaker 1: securing the border, not buying fighter jets, not funding schools,
Speaker 1: not sending so security checks out, just on interest, something
Speaker 1: that doesn't actually help anybody in this country at all,
Speaker 1: unless you're one of the institutions. It's buying up the
Speaker 1: government's debt. Now one trillion dollars essentially for the privilege
Speaker 1: of servicing money Washington is borrowed. Not twenty hell of
Speaker 1: a deal for those that are lending out the money,
Speaker 1: and the CBO also projects annual net interest costs could
Speaker 1: climb to more than two point one trillion by twenty
Speaker 1: thirty six, meaning every year they need two point one
Speaker 1: trillion dollars just to cover the debt. Now, let's break
Speaker 1: one trillion and annual interest down. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: It means that every day our government is having to
Speaker 1: write a check for two point seven four billion dollars
Speaker 1: every day. That means every hour, twenty four hours a day,
Speaker 1: the US government is having to come up with one
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen million dollars just to cover the interest.
Speaker 2: Yeah you heard me right.
Speaker 1: America twenty four to seven is spending one hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen million every hour just to cover our debt. If
Speaker 1: you want to put it into even a more understandable
Speaker 1: way for our minds, how about this. Do you know
Speaker 1: every thirty seconds, every minute how much money we have
Speaker 1: to come up with to cover our debt in the
Speaker 1: United States? Of America and our government right now, one
Speaker 1: point nine million every thirty seconds is how much it
Speaker 1: costs us, the taxpayers, not to run our government just
Speaker 1: to fund the interest on borrowing the money. Now, if
Speaker 1: you want to break it down even more to make
Speaker 1: you even more angry, and again I don't care if
Speaker 1: you're a Democrat Republican, you should be livid right now.
Speaker 1: That means roughly every second, the federal government is having
Speaker 1: to borrow thirty one thousand, seven hundred dollars every second,
Speaker 1: one point nine million every minute, one hundred and fourteen
Speaker 1: million every hour, and two point seven four billion every
Speaker 1: day just to cover our interest. Now, every second you're
Speaker 1: listening to the story, imagine another thirty one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: going out the door just to service the federal debt
Speaker 1: count five seconds one two three four five. You know
Speaker 1: what that costs us in debt just the interest one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight thousand in ten seconds. That's more
Speaker 1: than three hundred and seventeen thousand, and we haven't paid
Speaker 1: off one penny of the principle the amount of money
Speaker 1: we borrowed with any of the money that I just mentioned. Now,
Speaker 1: that is what makes all this so dangerous. Another way
Speaker 1: to understand forty trillion dollars in debt is this way.
Speaker 1: Just take America's roughly three hundred and forty million residents,
Speaker 1: all right, that's where we are with our population, all right,
Speaker 1: And then if you want to take just the interest
Speaker 1: that we owe, that's forty trillion dollars. What would that
Speaker 1: mean for every American if they got a check. The
Speaker 1: national debt works out to roughly one hundred and seventeen
Speaker 1: thousand for every man, woman, and child in America. So
Speaker 1: right now, the national debt is at one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventeen thousand for every man, woman, and child. If we
Speaker 1: just didn't have that debt, we could write a check
Speaker 1: to every single person in this country that is a
Speaker 1: citizen for that amount of money. Now, if you want
Speaker 1: to know how much money we're talking about here, for
Speaker 1: a family of four, the national debt works out too
Speaker 1: roughly four hundred and seventy thousand dollars that you could
Speaker 1: write a check to a family of four to four
Speaker 1: if we just didn't have to pay the debt on
Speaker 1: the forty trillion dollars.
Speaker 2: That we are in debt right now.
Speaker 1: Now, Obviously the government isn't going to mail your family
Speaker 1: a four hundred and seventy thousand dollars invoice tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: But that's the scale of the liability that is being
Speaker 1: carried by this country. You look at taxpayers, because not
Speaker 1: every person pays taxes, then it's a lot worse than
Speaker 1: what I just described. The IRS processed more than one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five million individual income tax returns in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Now, if you simply divide forty trillion
Speaker 1: by those one hundred and sixty five million returns, as
Speaker 1: illustrated on the burden of well where you would be.
Speaker 1: That means that every taxpayer in America would have to
Speaker 1: write a check to get our debt to zero. For
Speaker 1: one one thousandth of a second, you would have to
Speaker 1: write a check for two hundred and forty two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars right now. But immediately you would still owe more
Speaker 1: money because why government is spending about thirty three cents
Speaker 1: more per dollar than we're bringing in. Every dollar they get,
Speaker 1: they spend a dollar thirty three And again that's not
Speaker 1: a literal bill that goes out to you. Married comples,
Speaker 1: by the way, can file jointly. Some federal taxpayers, Well,
Speaker 1: they file individual returns, and federal debt isn't allocated that way,
Speaker 1: but it gives you an idea of the magnitude of
Speaker 1: the problem. One hundred and seventeen thousand is what every
Speaker 1: breathing American would have to write check for to get
Speaker 1: our debt to zero. And a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: pay taxes. That's why skyrockets two hundred and forty two
Speaker 1: thousand per individual income tax return. And Washington, by the way,
Speaker 1: is still adding to the tab. By the end of
Speaker 1: the fiscal year two thousand, for example, America's gross federal
Speaker 1: debt was six point five trillion. You fast forward ten
Speaker 1: years later, it was at thirteen point five trillion. In
Speaker 1: ten years after that, in twenty twenty the number skyrocketed
Speaker 1: to twenty six point nine trillion, and by the end
Speaker 1: of the fiscal year twenty twenty five it was thirty
Speaker 1: seven point four trillion dollars. Well, now we're in August
Speaker 1: and the number is hit forty trillion. That means America's
Speaker 1: debt has increased by more within sevenfold since two thousand
Speaker 1: and according to reporting on the latest numbers, the debt
Speaker 1: increased by roughly three trillion over the past year alone,
Speaker 1: about seven point nine billion each and every day. So
Speaker 1: let that number sink in. We're adding debt at a
Speaker 1: pace of roughly three hundred and twenty nine million an
Speaker 1: hour five point five million a minute, more than ninety one.
Speaker 2: Thousand every second.
Speaker 1: So just to go back and put it in perspective
Speaker 1: in a different way, just during this story alone that
Speaker 1: you've been listening to, the national debt has increased by
Speaker 1: thirty eight million dollars. And there's an important distinction here
Speaker 1: about this. The forty trillion figure is gross federal debt.
Speaker 1: It includes debt held by the public plus money the
Speaker 1: government owes to its own accounts, and according to the
Speaker 1: current figures reported by Reuters, there's approximately thirty two point
Speaker 1: three trillion in public held treasury debt and another roughly
Speaker 1: seven point eight trillion and intra governmental holdings. Economists generally
Speaker 1: focused on the publicly held debt when comparing the debt
Speaker 1: to the GDP, and even by the narrow measurement, we're
Speaker 1: around one hundred percent of the entire US economy. This
Speaker 1: is why I bring up this issue. You can blame COVID,
Speaker 1: you can say it was the trunk tax CODs that
Speaker 1: were the best we've ever seen that somehow puts in
Speaker 1: this situation. I actually think it's none of those things.
Speaker 1: What I do think it is is clearly this our
Speaker 1: government has figured it out that they can spend as
Speaker 1: much money as they want to and no one is
Speaker 1: going to stop them, and that includes both sides of
Speaker 1: the aisle. And what they're doing is destroying this country
Speaker 1: with debt at a level that no one could ever imagine.
Speaker 1: And they're doing it because so many Americans are asleep
Speaker 1: at the will. So many Americans are sitting here and
Speaker 1: have no clue about what I just told you. So
Speaker 1: I hope you'll share wherever you can on social media.
Speaker 1: Our national debt just surpassed forty trillion dollars. Now there's
Speaker 1: a question that we all should be asking about that debt.
Speaker 1: How much of the money Washington spends is simply being stolen,
Speaker 1: wasted and properly paid out, duplicated, or even just mismanaged,
Speaker 1: And what is it costing us as taxpayers? When you
Speaker 1: start digging into the government's own watchdog reports, the numbers, well,
Speaker 1: they're staggering. And we also need to be careful about
Speaker 1: one thing at the very beginning of this. You cannot
Speaker 1: honestly say that fraud, wastes, abuse caused forty trillion to
Speaker 1: national debt. All right, Some of this is just straight
Speaker 1: up government spending. Wars, by the way, they cause debt.
Speaker 1: Many times recessions cause debt. COVID spending absolutely contribute to
Speaker 1: our national debt. And then there's tax and spending decisions
Speaker 1: that contribute, so security and medicare costs and then defense
Speaker 1: spending also con tribute to our national debt. But fraud
Speaker 1: and improper payments and inefficient government have unquestionably added to
Speaker 1: America's fiscal burden, and the government's own numbers suggests the
Speaker 1: scale is enormous. So let's just start with fraud. This
Speaker 1: isn't somebody's political estimate. This comes from the Government Accountability
Speaker 1: Office and investigative arms of Congress. The GOA attempted to
Speaker 1: estimate fraud across the entire federal government and concluded that
Speaker 1: Washington loses somewhere between two hundred and thirty three billion
Speaker 1: and five hundred and twenty one billion every year to
Speaker 1: fraud alone. Now let me repeat that potential federal fraud
Speaker 1: losses two hundred and thirty three billion on the low end,
Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty one billion on the high end
Speaker 1: every single year. Now, the GOA also based that estimate
Speaker 1: on fiscal years twenty eighteen through twenty twenty two, and
Speaker 1: said fraud represents about three to seven percent of the
Speaker 1: average federal obligations during that period. Now, if you want
Speaker 1: to think about that, that would be five hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty one billion. That's approximately one point four to three
Speaker 1: billion lost to fraud every day, or nearly sixty million
Speaker 1: to fraud alone every hour, or one million every minute.
Speaker 1: In this country, we are spending on fraud and abuse.
Speaker 1: Another way of looking at it, every second the US
Speaker 1: government is being bamboozled out of sixteen thousand, five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars every second. That's what someone is stealing from taxpayers.
Speaker 1: Now imagining it happening the next second, and the next second,
Speaker 1: and the next and then twenty four hours later, you're
Speaker 1: in debt so far as a country that you don't
Speaker 1: even know what to do to get out of it. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what we've been doing, folks, And fraud isn't the
Speaker 1: whole problem. Then you've got another section that's costing you
Speaker 1: an egregious amount of money and debt, and that is
Speaker 1: under the category of improper payments. Now, there's an important
Speaker 1: distinction here. Fraud means intentional deception. An improper payment doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean somebody committed a crime. It can simply just
Speaker 1: mean the government paid the wrong person, or paid the
Speaker 1: wrong amount, or couldn't document that a payment was proper
Speaker 1: or made a payment that shouldn't have been made at all.
Speaker 1: But from the taxpayer's perspective, there's still a basic question,
Speaker 1: why is Washington d C. Sending out money that shouldn't
Speaker 1: be going out? Well, I can answer that question. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the GOA says it since the fiscal year two thousand
Speaker 1: and three, federal agencies have report approximately two point six trillion.
Speaker 2: I didn't say billion.
Speaker 1: I said two point six trillion since two thousand and
Speaker 1: three in improper payments. It's not fraud. These are just
Speaker 1: dumb payments two point eight trillion dollars. The GOLA warned
Speaker 1: the actual total could be significantly higher because those estimates
Speaker 1: cover only a subset, they say, of federal programs. Now,
Speaker 1: let's just go back to the fiscal year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Just sixteen federal agencies reported approximately one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: two billion in improper payments across sixty eight programs, and
Speaker 1: roughly seventy five percent of those improper payments, or one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one billion, were concentrated in just five
Speaker 1: program areas. So now understand something else critical. You cannot
Speaker 1: add five hundred and twenty one billion in fraud to
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two billion in improper payments and
Speaker 1: call the result the government's total waste. There is overlap
Speaker 1: because fraudulent payments are a type of improper payment. But
Speaker 1: either way, these numbers demonstrate an enormous problem that's now
Speaker 1: connecting us to the forty trillion dollars our mess that
Speaker 1: we're in our national debt. And if you look at America,
Speaker 1: just imagine if we could eliminate just the low end
Speaker 1: of the goa's estimated annual fraud losses.
Speaker 2: Now the low end they say it is two hundred and.
Speaker 1: Thirty three billion over ten years, ignoring inflation and other changes,
Speaker 1: that would literally mean we would save two point three
Speaker 1: three trillion dollars. At the high end five hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty one billion annually, you're talking about five point two
Speaker 1: trillion over a decade. Now, that doesn't mean eliminating the
Speaker 1: fraud would magically erase the five trillion of existing national debt.
Speaker 1: These numbers cover different years, fraud varies over time, and
Speaker 1: eliminating one hundred percent of fraud is well, I hate
Speaker 1: to say it, but incredibly unrealistic. But what it does
Speaker 1: show you is the scale of the opportunity. Because Washington
Speaker 1: just crossed forty trillion in debt, while its own watchdog
Speaker 1: it says potentially hundreds of billions of dollars are being
Speaker 1: lost to fraud every year in America. And then there's
Speaker 1: a government duplication and waste. The GOA has spent years
Speaker 1: examining federal programs that overlap, duplicate ones, and others operating
Speaker 1: another side indefinitely, and in the goa's most recent report
Speaker 1: from twenty twenty six, they said it is clear that
Speaker 1: this is in of epidemic proportions now seven hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy four billion and financial benefits. That's three quarters of
Speaker 1: a trillion dollars money. That demonstrates something very important. Waste
Speaker 1: reduction isn't theoretical. The government has already proven it can
Speaker 1: find and eliminate massive efficiencies, but The GOO says that
Speaker 1: there are still six hundred and ten remaining recommendations and
Speaker 1: matters for Congress and the agencies to look at and
Speaker 1: implementing all of this could also produce on another one
Speaker 1: hundred billion or more in financial benefits. If you just
Speaker 1: think about that for a second, it's insane. We have
Speaker 1: forty training in debt, we're paying enormous amounts of interest
Speaker 1: on that debt, and our government auditors are effectively saying,
Speaker 1: here are opportunities to save another one hundred billion dollars
Speaker 1: or more. So, why are they not moving forward? Only
Speaker 1: Democrats can answer that question. But one thing's for sure,
Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans are the ones that ran up this bill.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just the Democrats that gave us forty trillion
Speaker 1: dollars in debt. It is obvious that we've got a
Speaker 1: problem in the political world where the people there, well,
Speaker 1: they just want to spind us into oblivion and kick
Speaker 1: the can down the road. There are still many in
Speaker 1: this country that are trying to harm us. The latest
Speaker 1: is coming from the FBI that has now said that yes,
Speaker 1: there was a woman who plotted to bomb the state
Speaker 1: capital of New York, pledging allegiance to ISIS and cheering
Speaker 1: the nine to eleven attacks. The New York woman not
Speaker 1: only plot to bomb the state capitol in Albany, but
Speaker 1: she did so after pledging that allegiance to ISIS. Her name,
Speaker 1: Jessica Bowie, thirty five, from Albany, began strategizing the attack
Speaker 1: in July and planned to place the bomb in a
Speaker 1: door dash food delivery back, taking apparent glee in the
Speaker 1: bloodshed that it would cause. The FEDS wrote in the
Speaker 1: criminal complaint, here's how Fox broke the story as well.
Speaker 3: Thank you We'll breaking moments ago. The FBI says it
Speaker 3: disrupted a potential ISIS inspired terror plot in New York.
Speaker 3: The agency tells Fox they've arrested a thirty five year
Speaker 3: old Albany woman accused of plotting to bomb the state
Speaker 3: capitol and kill lawmakers. According to a criminal complaint, Jessica
Speaker 3: Bowie pledged allegiance to ISIS and allegedly planned to hide
Speaker 3: a bomb inside a door dash bag, hoping to strike
Speaker 3: while state senators were meeting. Governor Kathy Hochel expected to
Speaker 3: speak next hour where we could get more information about
Speaker 3: all of this.
Speaker 1: Now you hear that part of the story, and then
Speaker 1: we found out even more at the press conference. I
Speaker 1: want you to hear part of what they had to
Speaker 1: say about the alleged attacker and how big of a
Speaker 1: deal this really was.
Speaker 4: Spent some time since anything like this has happened, but
Speaker 4: we wanted to announce the rest of Jessica Bowie, aged
Speaker 4: thirty five, of Albany, New York. She's charged with one
Speaker 4: count of eighteen USC. Two three three nine B tempting
Speaker 4: to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign
Speaker 4: terrorist organization, namely the Islamic Republic of Iran sorry Iraq,
Speaker 4: commonly known as ISIS. On Wednesday, August nineteenth, twenty twenty six,
Speaker 4: Bowie was apprehended by law enforcement for her actions attempting
Speaker 4: to provide material support to designated foreign terrorists organizations. Bowie
Speaker 4: had pointed to you had plotted to use an explosive
Speaker 4: device to attack the New York State Capital and the
Speaker 4: New York State Senators. The American people embody in the
Speaker 4: dury spirit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
Speaker 4: values fundamentally opposed by foreign terrorists organizations such as this one,
Speaker 4: and this defendant is accused of supporting as alleged, this
Speaker 4: defendant was radicalized online and spread messages of hate and
Speaker 4: violence against the American people. Under the leadership of President
Speaker 4: Donald J. Trump and Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Department
Speaker 4: of Justice, along with our law enforcement partners here today,
Speaker 4: will continue to use every resource at our disposal to identify, investigate,
Speaker 4: and stop anyone who seeks to engage in terrorist acts.
Speaker 4: The charge against Bowie carries a statutory maximum prison term
Speaker 4: of twin years, a fine of up to two hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty thousand dollars, and a lifetime term of supervised release.
Speaker 4: The charge in the complaint is merely an accusation. The
Speaker 4: defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. The
Speaker 4: allegations in this complaint are deeply disturbing that someone would
Speaker 4: harbor such hatred toward our way of life and seek
Speaker 4: to target the New York State Capital and New York
Speaker 4: State senators. That's an attack on democracy itself and one
Speaker 4: we will not tolerate. Today's announcement will have a chilling
Speaker 4: effect on anyone in this country who is being radicalized
Speaker 4: or considering acts of violence, and on our enemies whose
Speaker 4: governments support death to America. We are vigilant, we are prepared,
Speaker 4: and just as we stop this defendant, we will continue
Speaker 4: to disrupt plots and protect the American people.
Speaker 1: Now, we also found out a lot more about the
Speaker 1: alleged attack, the planning, the radicalization.
Speaker 2: As the FBI said this United.
Speaker 5: States Attorney John Sarcone and thank you all for being
Speaker 5: here today for this very significant announcement. I want to
Speaker 5: sincerely thank our partners from Secret Service, Albany Police Department,
Speaker 5: New York State Police, the Albany County Sheriff's Office in HSI.
Speaker 5: As the first assistant United States Attorney said, Jessica Bowie
Speaker 5: was arrested by FBI Albany's Joint Terrorism Task Force. Has
Speaker 5: been charged by the Northern District of New York with
Speaker 5: attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated
Speaker 5: foreign terrorist organization. In this instance, that foreign terrorist organization
Speaker 5: is isis perhaps one of the most vicious organizations that
Speaker 5: has held bent on murdering Americans, destroying our democracy, and
Speaker 5: disrupting our very own way of life. As alleged in
Speaker 5: the complaint, Miss Bowie swore her allegiance to ISIS through
Speaker 5: multiple audio recordings in both English and Arabic. She clearly
Speaker 5: stated her desire to carry out an attack at the
Speaker 5: New York State Capitol in her own words, as alleged
Speaker 5: in the criminal complaint, she said, quote, I want to
Speaker 5: destroy as much of the building as possible and kill
Speaker 5: the senators while they are meeting. I want them to
Speaker 5: lose a lot of important documents as well. She continued,
Speaker 5: as reference in the complaint, quote, I don't want to
Speaker 5: take this kind of risk and have it kill what
Speaker 5: two or three people? What good is that? The complaint
Speaker 5: alleges that she arranged to have an explosive device made
Speaker 5: out to carry this attack, even purchasing several of the
Speaker 5: required materials herself. She conducted surveillance at the capitol at
Speaker 5: least five times, taking dozens of photos. She requested a
Speaker 5: gun she intended to use on any law enforcement officer
Speaker 5: who tried to stop her. More specifically, according to the complaint,
Speaker 5: she said, quote something powerful but easy enough to conceal,
Speaker 5: so if the cops do get towards me during the operation,
Speaker 5: I can shoot back. As a legend the complaint, When
Speaker 5: she met up with the confidential human source to retrieve
Speaker 5: the materials she asked for, she paid the agreed upon
Speaker 5: price for the gun, and when asked to make a
Speaker 5: donation to the purported bomb maker, she provided another two
Speaker 5: hundred dollars, and I want to be clear, she left
Speaker 5: that meeting with both items. Make no mistake about it.
Speaker 5: Miss Bowie's alleged plot was serious, it was dangerous, and
Speaker 5: thanks to the partnerships on the FBI's Joint Tearism Task Force,
Speaker 5: it was foiled. This investigation started just over a month ago,
Speaker 5: and I'm incredibly proud of the work of our team
Speaker 5: who worked around the clock to accomplish this disruption and
Speaker 5: subsequent arrest. Now we begin the process of working backwards
Speaker 5: to determine what led to her actions. We will continue
Speaker 5: to dedicate every resource to ensure she's held accountable for
Speaker 5: her alleged actions. We are thankful to do it in
Speaker 5: concert with our outstanding partners at the Northern District of
Speaker 5: New York, who have matched our intensity and passion with
Speaker 5: this investigation since its inception. As we stand here today,
Speaker 5: we're just weeks away from commemorating the twenty fifth anniversary
Speaker 5: of the attacks on nine to eleven. This investigation highlights
Speaker 5: the harsh reality that there are still adversaries intent on
Speaker 5: conducting terrorist attacks on American soil. As a legend this complaint,
Speaker 5: Miss bow one of them. You'll see in the court
Speaker 5: documents that she once wrote quote praise be Allah for
Speaker 5: September eleventh. Also in the court documents, she told the
Speaker 5: source that she went from a little girl waving an
Speaker 5: American flag after nine to eleven to now having stickers
Speaker 5: of the fallen towers. Folks, let that sink in again.
Speaker 5: Miss Bowie didn't just want to kill lawmakers. She wanted
Speaker 5: a complete disruption of our government. And after that she
Speaker 5: planned to flee the country and one day come back
Speaker 5: to quote do more, such as New Year's Eve in
Speaker 5: Times Square, even stating she would come back to attack
Speaker 5: the White House and the President, but only after she
Speaker 5: bombed the state Capitol. I'm here with our partners to
Speaker 5: say not on our watch. Let this be a message
Speaker 5: to any individual out there committing considering similar criminal acts.
Speaker 5: This FBI will find you. Under this leadership team, alongside
Speaker 5: our brilliant partners, we're moving more decisively than ever to identify, locate,
Speaker 5: arrest criminals before they can carry out their alleged clots.
Speaker 5: Since the beginning of twenty twenty six, This FBI has
Speaker 5: already prevented over four hundred individuals from carrying out such
Speaker 5: alleged attacks here at home and abroad. This FBI is
Speaker 5: built to crush those threats and defend Americans, and we will.
Speaker 1: There are two simple takeaways from that press conference. Number One,
Speaker 1: we are coming up on the twenty fifth anniversary of
Speaker 1: nine to eleven, and it's very clear that they are
Speaker 1: bad actors tear us out there that want to do
Speaker 1: something on this anniversary. There's also a second takeaway, and
Speaker 1: that is the incredible focus because of the leadership of
Speaker 1: the President United States of America that now are FBI
Speaker 1: is working harder than ever to protect and defend the homeland.
Speaker 1: This is one of the reasons why the President was
Speaker 1: so hell bent on securing our borders to make sure
Speaker 1: that there aren't bad actors that sneak into the country.
Speaker 1: We know with our open borders there were countless hundreds
Speaker 1: of people that were caught that were on the Terraces
Speaker 1: watch list. The worry is also what sleeper sells, what
Speaker 1: bad actors came across the border that are in this
Speaker 1: country right now. So as we approach that anniversary of
Speaker 1: nine to eleven, Let's be clear, there are so people
Speaker 1: in this country and in the world that want to
Speaker 1: harm innocent people that want to redo a nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: that want to kill lawmakers. And this is another reminder
Speaker 1: of why it's so important that we have leaders that
Speaker 1: understand exactly who the bad actors are and how important
Speaker 1: it is for them to get the tools needed to
Speaker 1: our men and women in uniform, our men and women
Speaker 1: in the intelligence industries, the men and women who wear
Speaker 1: a badge to protect and defend, and all of us
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