Todd Blanch

Todd, I want to dial into the frustrations at DHS.

My colleague Bill Malusian reporting about that, about the DHS's rhetoric.

Here's a quote from his reporting saying,

frustration with DHS officials going on television and putting out statements to describe Alex Freddie as a domestic terrorist who was there to inflict maximum damage on federal agents or conduct a massacre even after multiple videos emerged to show that these claims appeared to be inaccurate and

Some of these sources have described DHS's response to the shooting as a case study on how not to do crisis PR.

One said they're so fed up they wish they could retire.

Another says DHS is making the situation worse.

And even another adding DHS is wrong and we are losing this war.

We are losing the base and the narrative.

This is coming to a head, Todd.

I ask you, based on the DOJ's purview, do the actions of Alex Freddie amount to domestic terrorism?

With all due respect, sir, my question is more pointed.

Do you believe your colleagues may have gone farther?

You are an attorney, a DOJ.

18 U.S.

Code 2331 has a legal definition of domestic terrorism.

And it doesn't appear to most of the country that have watched the available video.

And we'll see if there's body cam video.

I'd love to know if that's going to come out, if there was such a thing.

But it does not appear to have met that definition of domestic terrorism.