The FBI's office in Cincinnati, Ohio was put on lockdown after an armed
man who reportedly made threats against the FBI, engaged in a standoff.
In fact, according to reporting, he had fired a nail gun into the FBI building as
he was attempting to break into it.
Luckily, he didn't break into it, but he did exchange fire with authorities.
And as we talk about this story in this moment, and
of course by the time you watch it, the story may have changed,
the authorities still have not managed to get this man in custody.
So here's what we know so far.
The incident began around 9 a.m.
When a man tried to enter the visitor screening facility outside
the FBI Cincinnati field office in the suburb of Kenwood Ohio,
said Todd Lindgren, an agency spokesperson.
Now, he said an alarm was set off and agents responded.
Later, NBC news reported that the suspect, who was armed with
an AR-15-style semi automatic rifle, fired a nail gun into the building.
So just to clarify cuz this might be a little confusing,
he had the AR-15, but the AR-15 wasn't enough, he wanted to
make sure he was properly armed with a nail gun in addition to the AR-15.
Now, the suspect was seen fleeing in a white vehicle when he
fired shots at the authorities.
The man then fled on Interstate 71 which was closed for much of the day,
it has reopened since.
He was spotted about 20 minutes later by a state trooper at a rest area.
The trooper began a chase and came under fire, and
that's according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The emergency management agency in Clinton County, which includes Wilmington's said,
law enforcement officers had traded shots with a man dressed in a gray shirt and
body armor.
They had him cornered in a cornfield eventually, but
now it's unclear why it is that they have failed to get this man in custody.
So there is still an active situation going on as we report this
story to you at this moment.
And to be clear, since he's not in custody, we don't know what his motive is.
We can certainly speculate why the FBI would be targeted by individuals,
especially given the fact that Trump's Mar a Lago residence was
raided by FBI officials earlier this week.
But Cenk, before we get to conservatives weighing in on this matter and
essentially telling the FBI to stop crying about it, wanted to get your thoughts.
>> Yeah, and here's the most amazing part of this story.
So he hides in a cornfield and he's a criminal mastermind.
My God, corn pop is back.
>> My God, Cenk.
>> Okay now, it's a serious story.
It's a serious story.
So let's get serious for a second.
Look, I have a prediction here.
>> He's my boss.
>> [LAUGH] >> Just putting that out there, continue.
>> Okay, well look, so here's a prediction on this story.
The guy's gonna say that he used a nail gun because he just basically kinda wanted
to do a warning shot.
Hey, FBI, you better not mess with us, we're gonna keep holding you accountable.
Hey, I didn't fire a real weapon, he'll say, at the FBI building.
This is my prediction, it hasn't happened yet.
And then they'll say, yeah, but you fired your weapon at the cops and
they'll say yeah, but they were following me.
Okay now, the reason why I'm predicting this is because that's the right wing
freedom of mind.
>> They're always the victim.
>> Yeah, one they're entitled to anything, including going and
firing at FBI officials with a nail gun thinking, you're so
lucky, I'm only using a nail gun.
I guarantee you that that's his frame of mind.
And then, and then he'll say, well, if you're chasing me, I'm not black,
I'm allowed to shoot back, right?
And so that's my guess as to how it's gonna come out.
Is it a coincidence that the FBI building gets targeted after every right wing
lunatic, that means pretty much everyone in right wing media was saying,
FBI targeted Trump and it's there, the Gestapo and
we have to rip their throats out and Steve Bannon said, etc?
Not likely to be a coincidence.
>> Not likely.
So again, it has not been confirmed.
We are responsible people, so we're not gonna say that without a shadow of
a doubt, this was motivated by what happened to Trump earlier in the week.
It is likely, but again, no confirmation because the guy isn't even in custody yet,
which is, can we just real quick acknowledge how insane that is.
>> Acknowledge- >> How incompetent are these authorities?
How do you not have this man in custody?
This happened around nine a.m this morning,
local time in Cincinnati, Ohio, just blows my mind.
Anyway now,
what has the reaction been from right wing influencers like Charlie Kirk?
Well, he just wants to ensure that all of our focus is
on the fact that the FBI consists of bad guys.
But the individual who might be carrying out violence against innocent people,
don't be distracted by that.
Let's watch.
>> Now there's a new report that shows someone is attacking the FBI
building in Cincinnati.
Interstate 171 North is shut down after suspect drove towards Waynesville, Ohio.
Unconfirmed reports say he is now firing at police from a cornfield.
Now, I'm sure this will now be the main focus even though we have said repeatedly
to remain peaceful and stay focused on constructive things that we can do.
They're now going to try to play the victim after they
occupied Donald Trump's home, a military occupation.
>> Bro, what are you talking?
What military occupation?
>> [LAUGH] >> Do you
know what a military occupation is?
His home was raided by FBI agents,
meaning law enforcement, federal law enforcement.
Federal law enforcement is different from the military.
>> [LAUGH] >> Anyway, a little less time taking
whatever it is that you might be taking that's causing your face to twitch.
It's incredibly distracting and obviously it's having an impact on
your ability to think critically about what's going on.
>> Yeah. >> What is that?
What's wrong with your face?
[LAUGH] Fix your face.
>> Get it together.
>> [LAUGH] >> Jesus.
>> Fix your face.
As was said Legendarily a while back.
Okay.
So I have many things to say about this first is I don't know
why the FBI is pretending to be victims and
they're not pretending to be because they were shot at.
Okay.
But now apparently you can shoot at the cops,
although they don't encourage violence, but I mean they're obviously taking it, so
do whatever you want to them.
So anyways, they're not pretending they were shot at,
they pursued the guy etcetera.
Second look guys, here's the thing with the right wing Yeah,
well of course I usually don't say that, but on after watching that, but
you just called it a military occupation.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Homeboy took home classified documents from the White House and
broke laws that he himself by the way that trump himself in 2018.
Made even more harsh.
Okay, mishandling classified documents.
The penalties are more harsh today because in 2018 donald trump is the one who made
them more harsh, but nonetheless, go ahead jake.
Yeah, he can actually get five years in prison for doing what he did,
Of course he wanted.
But look whenever these situations come up, I always think what if the shoe was on
the other foot or what if the twitch was on the other face and how would I react?
Right. So Bernie, I always think about that.
What if they rated Bernie?
So now first of all like the right wing is skeptical of mainstream media and
the establishment, we don't blame them for that.
We talked about that all the time.
Were skeptical of them.
So if Bernie was about to like win a primary and
all of a sudden there busting into his home, I'm a little skeptical about it.
But I would also be curious, wow, they got a judge to sign off and
I wonder what the warrant says.
I wonder what they're going to charge him with.
I wonder and why did Bernie take home classified documents in the White House.
What a curious weird thing to do, right?
Why would you want to hide things for that?
Are classified from the White House.
I would have all of these questions, but that's because I'm not a right winger,
right winger has no questions trump took off documents that are classified.
I love it.
Is there any chance that maybe he did something wrong?
There's no chance.
You always take the secret documents, you always put them in your safe in mar a Lago
so that the national crimes can have another, you can't have really?
Why? Why?
What a weird assumption.
Why do you guys think,
like you're skeptical of media establishment when we get it?
But why do you think the one guy in the country who would never lie is donald
j trump?
That is such a curious choice.
I don't even see this as a republican thing.
Although what I'm about to describe is prominently featured with republican
media and republican voters.
It's not that you're not a republican, it's that you're not a bit for the elite.
Okay.
It's that you understand that it's important to have a justice system that
ensures that no one is above the rule of law and for far too long,
we have dealt with presidents who have committed war crimes.
Presidents have broken all sorts of laws and there's no consequence for them and
donald trump.
I mean, he's gotten away with so much, yes, he's been
under investigation a billion times, but he's got all of his little cronies and
all of his little buddies in the Republican Party providing cover for him.
He's been impeached twice, but he hasn't been convicted in those impeachments
because he's got the republicans providing cover and
refusing to vote to convict him of what he was clearly guilty of doing.
Okay, So let's just let's put all of that aside, Let's also just address
the fact that the right wing consistently talks about how much they want civil war,
How much they want violence, how much they want to go to war, literally over what
the FBI did in, like, literally just doing its job and doing this investigation,
obtaining the warrant through a court order, through a judge's signature, and
then carrying out the raid to get there, the documents that they were looking for.
And here's what charlie Kirk has to say in his ridiculous denials of what we've been
hearing from the right wing over and over again for several years now.
That cannot allow us to keep our eye off the ball of exactly what happened earlier
this week.
This is the main focus now of the media.
The media is now saying, well, do you see how the right is reacting to all of this,
for example, huffingtonpost dot com.
Maga World wants war after FBI raid on trump's mar a Lago, or
how about this other one where they say the right is now calling for
conflict and violence, look, don't fall for any of this.
The reason they are now grasping at these narratives, The reason they're grasping
at these things is they are terribly worried that they made a tragic mistake?
No, I think it has to do with all of the right wingers who have literally called
for war.
Why don't we give you the evidence?
Because, you know, it's easier to look at the evidence than to just say something
with nothing to back it up.
Let's start with steven crowder tomorrow is war, sleep.
Well, wow, that seems pretty straightforward.
Here's another one.
Stephen Bannon, we need to choke down the FBI and choke down the Justice Department.
Here's more Sebastian Gorka, former trump advisor who now hosts a show on Salem
radio, whatever that is said, the FBI's actions were a declaration of war.
Great gateway pundit, a pro trump outlet wrote this means war.
Monica Crowley, a right wing commentator who worked in the trump administration
tweeted this, this is it, this is the hill to die on.
I mean, all she was missing from that tweet was in Cincinnati at
the FBI building.
That's all of them.
They're like, go, go grab your weapons, do something, My God,
somebody grabbed a weapon and did something that were so surprised.
Then the inflammatory rhetoric continues, quote,
I do not think it's beyond this administrative state and their deep state
apparatus to actually try to work on the assassination of president trump insane.
This charge was echoed by former new york city Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik
who said he's worried democrats might try to assassinate Donald trump quote,
I'm going to tell you something, I'm not into conspiracies except I am,
I'm not into government anti government rhetoric, kerik said, this is the first
time in my lifetime that I would say I'm deathly afraid for donald trump.
I would not put assassination behind these people, no evidence indicating, no, not
a shred of proof indicating that there is any attempt to assassinate donald trump,
but who cares, let's just put it out there all sorts of inflammatory rhetoric about
going to war about how we need to protect daddy trump from assassination, even
though there's no evidence that there's anyone even thinking about doing that.
And then Ben Collins you know compiled all of these maggots thuds in,
you know truth social and Q and on forums posting things like lock and
load, are we not in a cold civil war at this point several points ago then cry
out in pain as they strike, they cry out in pain as they strike you and
one other person said they will cry out in authentic pain soon with a nail gun.
So I mean they said lock and load and then a guy locks and
loads and then they pretend to be outraged that he locked and loaded,
You literally called for it and now one more thing here if the if left wing media
host did 10% of this we would be deep platform and and maybe even arrested.
So you're not allowed to talk about violence like that at all unless you're
a right winger and you have magic community from law enforcement, from
the platforms etcetera because all they do is cry and cry and cry so they go to war,
lock and load, grab your weapons, do everything you need to do okay and
we got to go and strike back and it's time right now to go take violent action.
And everyone's like, no, no, they're right wingers, they can say anything.
They like one left wing host says that they're gone okay.
The usual double standard.
And as always, hey, you guys, I know you don't require evidence,
you don't care about facts, but you don't know what's in the warrant.
And part of the reason you don't know what's in the warrant and what he might or
might not have done is because the donald trump is hiding the warrant.
He can show it today.
He's not showing it because it's terrible.
Apparently, apparently, right.
Why do you think he's hiding the documents?
Why do you think he's hiding the warrant?
Because he's the most innocent man alive?
I mean, there's no end to how much of a sucker every dumbass right wing voter is